1945

Here is one more reprise on the Ernest Hemingway centennial of lastyear, courtesy of the Hemingway Society's newsletter. The Ritz Hotel reenacted the author's "liberation" of the Ritz bar on August 25,1944. A WWII jeep with two MPs and a man resembling Hemingway rolled up to the hotel on August 25, 1999. The passenger was Jack Hemingway; the MPs were Ritz staff. They and hotel guests drank dry martinis in honor of the author, who, according to legend, ordered dry martinis for all in the hotel in 1944. Jack is quoted as saying that he went to Paris bars with his father while growing up, "but I drank soft drinks like lemonade, and I didn't do much talking. I listened to my father and his friends."

Evan Council's major new work, Deus LoVolt! A Chronicle of the Crusades, was published on May first. Deus lo volt means God wills it, the battle cry of the crusaders. Evan ga'thered all the material for this volume which he refers to as a book about the Crusades rather than a "historical novel" from some 6,000 pages of medieval documents researched in 30 libraries. "I wanted," says Evan, "to describe those preposterous expeditions with all their crazed humanity,

not as a novelist, but as a secretary transcribing ancient chronicles." Prepublication press reviews commend his historical scholar ship, as was exhibited in his 1984 Son of theMorning Star, the account of Custer's final battle at Little Big Horn. Just a few weeks ago we local '45s were talking about that book at our class lunch, and we look forward to Deus Lo Voltl

Here are some more of our still professionally active classmates. Bob Steiner in Washington, D.C., is busy writing articles in the economics, law and marketing fields. Fred Campbell in Colorado Springs continues academic research and writing, along with work for Rocky Mountain National Park and the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. John Ormond in New Orleans is legal counsel for the Teamster's Union.

Among the so-called retirees, Peg and Harry Hampton, our leading Elder- hostelers, already this year have been to the Peabody Institute in Baltimore (music) and the Barnes Institute in Philadelphia (art); and by the time you read this, they will have returned from a month in Italy, two programs back-to-back in Florence and Siena. Hank and Luciana Dutcher travel seasonally between Canandaigua, N.Y., and their new home in Port Charlotte, Fla., on a canal 20 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico. Scott Parrot reports on lunching with Will Martin and EdKohn. Scott enclosed an aerial photo of Hanover that Ed took recently from his Bonanza. Ed hopes to pay a ground visit for Reunion. This is the last column of my five-year term as your secretary. I am grate- ful for all the Class Notes that you have sent me, and for every bit of readership that they have generated. Remember, there's still a faith to be kept. Through academic and social change, and yes, even leadership on the campus, Eleazar still surveys the whole scene from atop Baker tower. Farewell, until Reunion, that is.

-Don Sisson, P.O. Box 1317, New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-6749 (phone); (603) 526-4292 (fax); donald.m.sisson.4s@alum.dartmouth.org

'4s#Pssth June 12-14