1957

As mentioned in the last issue, president Dick Perkins is urging us to carry out a plan that was approved at the class meeting last October. All of us who work on charitable projects in our communities will keep track of one week's volunteer effort. We will remember to send to RandyAires a report of what we have done. He and Dick will tally the kinds of projects and number of hours, and will transmit the totals to the Dartmouth Partners in Community Service coordinators as 1957's contribution to the over- all project.

Look for details, including a model form to fill out, on the listserv and in the newsletter. Sendyour report to: Randy Aires, 280 Orchard View Road, Gardners, PA 17324.

The whole project is a wonderful way for us, as representatives of Dartmouth College and of a great class, to demonstrate how deeply we believe in giving back a little to communities that have given immeasurably to us.

Well, it's list time again. So many group gatherings, so much jolly comradeship. As I write, the skiers have had their go, the Floridians are recovering from their party and the Washington, D.C., omniumgatherum- is in the final boarding phase. And there's a catch-up report, thanks to Tom's newsletter, of a "small but significant gather- ing" in Colorado last September. For this round, I have had to leave out the names of spouses, consorts and accompanying acquaintances in order to have room for the names of the many classmates involved.

Monk Bancroft and Marsha risked inviting classmates for a ski weekend at their new full-time retirement home in Mad River. Participants from '57 were Bob Burton,Pete Carothers, Clark Griffiths and DickPerkins.

Dick Canton and Perk pulled together a group in Naples, Fla., including Jack Cramer, Anne Edgerton, Charlie Sellman, Ed Waldron and (maybe) Steve Lampl. Bill Edgerton, Fred Mueller, Bob Vostal and Jon White couldn't make it.

A1 Dessoff has arranged a dinner in April at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. As of the end of March, he was hoping diat Adam Block, Bill Breer, Walt Burgin, Bob Copeland, Bill Fiero, John Lange, Tom Macy, Pete Meleney, Jerry Sachs, Bruce Sloane, Gene Stichman and Andy Turner and their guests would be there. No speeches by heads of state or confidential sources or personalities from the world of entertainment—just a great class party.

Gordon Rippey wrote of the get-together last September at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. The travelers included Dick Bohanon from Oklahoma City, AndyElsbree from Sunriver, Ore., Cinda Ely from Orinda, Calif., and Joel Mitchell from Rye Brook, N.Y. Others there in spirit, Gordon reports, were Mai Robinson (kept home in Ponte Vedra, Fla., by Hurricane Floyd), Bob Sproull, John Plunkett and Jack King.

One last call: Do us all proud, and also help head agent Ned Bixby, by sending even a small gift to the Alumni Fund before the end of June. We're pushing for increased participation as well as total amount.

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