1950

It's only six months until the big San Diego mini-reunion, set for April 21 to 25. If you've not already thought seriously about it, do' so. San Diego is a great town to visit, spring in southern California beats where most of you live and, if you're so inclined, it's a fine place to begin or end up a vacation tour of U.S.A's Southwest. All that's in addition to the first-ever, allclass mini to be held in the West. A word about obituaries. One of the jobs of the class secretary, as many of you know, is to write the class obituaries. The usual procedure for getting them into this magazine is as follows: the College gets word of a classmate's death, Alumni Records sends his file to the Alumni Magazine alumni news editor, she forwards it to me and I write the obit. You can expedite the process by notifying the College, the Alumni Magazine or me when a classmate dies. Also, a copy of an obit from a newspaper is very useful. Furthermore, ifyou will write one for a deceased classmate, it will be much more personal and meaningful. I sincerely believe that his obit in the magazine represents a fitting memorial to a classmate.

This issues series of mini-bios begins with Charles Dewey, who lived in Martinsburg, West Virginia, at the time of our 50 th reunion, but apparently has since moved to Cromwell, Connecticut. Charles is one of our real WWII vets,having having served in Patton's 3rd Army from Normandy into the German homeland. He lived in the Tri-Kap house and claims to have "kept my nose to the grindstone" throughout his Dartmouth years. His career was in the department store business, and Charles retired in 1989. He and Betty have four children and five grandchildren.Curt Kimball lives outside Kansas City, and still works part-time with the printing company he has been with since 1975. Following graduation he worked in sales for a Chicago-based, family company that manufactured pianos and organs until it was sold in 1961. Curt's extended family includes three of his own children and five of his wife, Helens. He has been affiliated for 16 years with the Kansas City Royals, selling season tickets.With NASA in space flight engineering and management for over 30 years, McLean Grant is now retired and lives in Potomac, Maryland, outside of Washington. Mac and Cissy travel a great deal, and they have a place in Vero Beach, Florida, where they "enjoy at least four of the winter months with Dartmouth and other friends." In between, Mac keeps busy with the theater and with work for the prevention of blindness, as well as gardening and tennis.Hope you're en- joying the fall.

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