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Our classmates Lyman Bacon and Ronald DeNeuf died in 1986, 15 years ago, but their wives keep up with Dartmouth. They were among half a dozen widows I contacted for this Class Notes, a few of all the women who I think of as part of our class.

Jean Bacon built and is the CEO for an Episcopal retirement community of 170 residents that opened in 1995 in Kansas City.

"I had been in geriatric programs before Lyman died," she recalls. "The Episcopal bishop asked me if I would come on his staff and make this happen. I've worked hard at it," And the Bacons' daughter Libby works in management in an Episcopal retirement community in Richmond, Virginia.

Sally DeNeuf is leading "a fairly quiet life," in Du Bois, Pennsylvania, having moved back from their last home in Florida. "I took Ron's death very, very hard," she says. "Other than babysitting the grandchildren, I have a very nice social life, but not very active. I'm somewhat healed."

Bob Posnak died in 1994 and his wife, Diane, sold their business, but it remains a subsidiary, and she's a consultant in executive compensa- tion. The couple's daughter Christie is a freshman at McGill University in Montreal. "I feel I've done pretty well, regained my strength," Diane says. "I was pretty fortunate to have my work."

Alexander Von Summer and Daniel Cilo died in 1997.

Elizabeth von Summer has remarried and moved from Connecticut to Malibu, California, although, she says, "I miss the East and go back every summer." It still shocks her that Alex "got up one morning and went for a ride (on his motorcycle) and never came home," the victim of an accident.

Ilga Cilo says their son Dan is a freshman at Penn State and their daughters Lara and Soma are 16 and 8, at home. "I'm still missing Dan more than people would think after 3 1/2 years, but everything's going pretty good right now....I've chosen not to work. We're getting along with Dans life insurance. Financially, we're stable."

Bob Postel died in 1999, and it was "such a loss to me," says his wife, Joan, an opera singer. She has apartments in Manhattan and the Turks and Caicos islands, and a home in Long Island. "It's a very difficult thing," she says. "You want a significant other in your life, but it's hard when you were married for 30 years. I find myself at a crossroads."

Our treasurer Jay Emery sees to it that every classmate who dies is memorialized by a gift of a book to Baker Library.

The latest honorees and their books are Leonard Schmitz, The Story of Time; Charles Holkins, Plato..., Jay Sigmund, My House: Construction of theIdeal Domestic Universe; Alex Bruscino Jr., AndrewLloyd Webber...; Marshall Tulloch,...Lookingat American Art, 1900-1950; David Lee, The Artist & The Garden; and James Johnson, Pablo Picasso....

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