1950

San Diego ho! It's time to give some serious thought to getting to San Diego in April of next year. Plans are shaping up for the West Coast mini-reunion, and you'll be hearing a lot about it in the coming months. The dates are April 18-22, 2002, a Thursday through Sunday.

The '50 executive committee held its regular winter meeting in Hanover on February 10, with president Bob Mcllwain presiding and 13 members present. Key topics for discussion: passing the campus tree program to the class of 2000, class goal of $180,000 for this years Alumni Fund, use by the Dickey Foundation of the $200,000 we contributed and the San Diego mini.

You may recall that in the last issue of this magazine I started to include a short bio of several classmates. Selected strictly at random from our 50th reunion book, these are to be classmates whose names seldom, if ever, have appeared in this column. This months starts with Smiley Chambers. He lives in Indianapolis and has worked at General Motors, the Indianapolis Starand News, the state Department of Revenue, a savings and loan company and at some selling. An interest in ecology and the environment, generated by a freshman-year botany course, has led to membership in the Indiana Nature Club, the National Wildlife Federation, the Carter Center and other conservation and charitable organizations. Smiley is also a member of a American-English cultural society and a local dramatic group.

Harry Foster, a retired librarian and college professor, resides in Crownsville, Maryland, when he and Liliane are not traveling in the United States or Europe; they spend a lot of time in his wife's native Alsace. After Dartmouth he got his masters degree from Columbia's School of Library Science and spent most of his career at Anne Arundel Community College near Annapolis. Harry has been active in several reading/education foundations as well as the Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation.

After earning his Ph.D. in food science at the University of Illinois (where he met his wife, Lois), Cliff Spotholz went to work at General Foods. He worked there until 1983, mostly in the New York area, in research and new product development. Then he taught nutrition and food science at New York Medical College for eight years. Since 1995 Cliff and Lois have lived in Jefferson, New Hampshire, and have a house in Falmouth, Maine. He enjoys gardening and is involved in church work, especially at a Lake Winnepesaukee camping and conference center.

In this issue of DAM look for Dick McSorley's ad for the beautiful painting of Baker Library done by his wife, Edie. Reminders: the 50th Reunion for the Tuck School class of 1951 will be held this fall, on September 21-23; the '50 class fall mini-reunion in Hanover will be September 28-30; and next year's West Coast mini in San Diego is April 18-28.

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