1951

Think 50th! If you've already signed up for The Big One in June, be assured that you're going to have a lot of great company. It looks like at least 300 classmates, spouses, at al. If you haven't yet decided, please give it another good look. The 50th comes only once, and it's a cardinal event, second only to our Commencement those five decades ago.

As undergraduates, quite a few of us were fortunate to make friendships with faculty members that remained strong for many years after graduation. Almost all of those are in the past, as our old friends have passed on. But Woody Klein still enjoys the fruits of a particularly close acquaintance with sociology prof George Theriault and his wife, Ray. Although the professor died some years ago, Mrs. Theriault is thriving, swimming and playing golf, Woody reported after he and wife Audrey came to Hanover from Connecticut for one of their frequent visits to her. Their dinner at her house included Nita and Mike Choukas, who also have known Ray for many years, since Mike's father, professor Michael Choukas, was also on the sociology faculty. As for Woody, four years of sportswriting on deadline for The Dartmouth and the Associated Press made him the fastest typist the East, and he obviously still has the touch. After retiring from the editorship of the Westport (Connecticut) News three years ago, Woody won a competition to become the writer of the official history of that venerable town. Thirty months later—"30 months of researching and writing, seven days a week," he says—Westport, Connecticut: The Story of a New England Town's Rise to Prominence (400 pages) was ushered in with a gala book-signing last year. So what comes next? Other than continuing to teach a bit of journalism at Fairfield University, Woody says he isn't sure. But my telephone call to ask that question found him at his computer. "I'm sitting here updating my resume," he said. "I'm not sure why, but that's what I'm doing."

Jim Rogers, our retired jurist from Minneapolis, gets to Washington fairly often on bar association business, but we've missed connections the last couple of visits. He tells me by phone that he and Lee are looking forward to a tour of British Columbia in April, followed by one of those Dartmouth-affiliated trips to Ireland in September.

This should be the last appearance of the home address you see below. After living in Washington, D.C., for almost the entire time since 1959, I found myself making more and more round-trip drives to New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Canada for Dartmouth affairs, visiting my granddaughter, skiing and fishing. So I'm having a house built in a development called The Falls, just below Wilder dam, three miles south of Hanover. I should be ensconced there in plenty of time for the big 50th. See you then. '51 OUT!

1672D Beekman Place NW, Washington, DC 20009; (202) 462-6216; loye.miller.51@alum.dartmouth.org

REUNION June 8-10 2001