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Dan Pollick is another of our novelists. His "compelling" story,Agency:lnside theWorld of Advertising, is published by Writers Club Press (see iUniverse.com) where Bob Porters TheMoscow Contrivance was published. One "agency director from New York" says that Dan "is to advertising what Grisham is to law."

Tony Williamson wrote, after reading Chris Wren's The Cat Who Covered the World, "It is all too rare to encounter a person who is able to appreciate the importance of history in the onrush of current events." Chris has always been able "to step back from the moment and elucidate the long-term significance of what is happening here and now."

Bob Shirley, known to some as "Meats" and to others as "Doctor Bob," is enthusiastic about two healthy books by "a really sweet neighbor," Kilmer S. McCully: The Homocysteine Revolution and The Heart Revolution.

Enough about books, for now, except for a comment from a non-classmate: "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." Thanks, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE).

Chris Weber's widow, Joan, has written to other class widows, encouraging them to join in our activities. Within a week Joan had heard from Carolyn Wade and Carol Sprott, who like the idea of getting together at our reunion in 2002. Hearty thanks to Joan for her initiative, and a warm welcome to all who would like to join us, whether or not you have personal memories of Hanover itself.

Please send in community-service reports!

Bob Adelizzi shared with listserv members some memories of his four years in the Marines. He played on the Quantico football team (whose trainer was Bill Cosby), met Tommi and in San Diego "successfully defended so many drill instructors accused of maltreatment...that I began to think I was Perry Mason and eventually became a lawyer."

Dick Duncan turned the other way—but let him tell it: His destroyer tried to bang on the hull of a Soviet destroyer on the bottom off Norway; they patrolled "just a few hundred yards off Haiti for a week to protect Papa Doc Duvalier from a Castro invasion"; as officer of the deck he had to turn suddenly to avoid a collision "and watched the captain go flying from his chair and across the bridge, while all the breakfast dishes crashed to the deck in the galley below. The CO forgave me; the cooks did not." Oh, yes—about turning the other way: "I realized," Dick wrote, "that life was too rich and varied to spend in an office. I tore up my application to law school and signed on for journalism."

Randy Airess destroyer was in the same squadron as Dicks, but was not the ship that threatened the collision. Randy had to decode the top-secret message that ordered his ship to stand by off Venezuela in case (then) Vice President Nixon needed help escaping the protestors. Nixon left by air, and Randy decided (for other reasons) that he would go to law school.

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