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We've not received word of any of our number dropping out in these past few months, which is very welcome news for a group in its 80s. We had a nice note from Sam Dearborn, who is retired. With wife Ruth, a grad from Mary Hitchcock, they are entering their 62 nd year of marriage. They have four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Sam survived by-pass surgery and cataract surgery this past year.

Barbara Wells advises that since losing Eddie she has moved into Wheelock Terrace, a new "assisted living" facility in Hanover. Doris and Jim Corner attended a luncheon in Delray, which Bob Alpert organized on March 2. Tom Foote, Jack Coulson and Grace Farrington drove down from north Florida; Sam Thurm, Bobby Jacobson and Mert Tarlow came down from Palm Beach and Jupiter; and Pat and Rob DeGraff from Atlantis; Diane and Sam Hird from Parkland; Marilyn and John Finocan from Delray. Shirley and Georgie Hanna were scheduled to drive over from the west coast, hut George came up with a bug and had to back out at the last minute. Bobby hopes for a bigger crowd next year. There has been follow-up talk about considering a mini-reunion in the State of Florida some year soon. I presume this will be taken into advisement at the executive committee meeting on May 18 in Hanover.

We got a Green Card from Charlie Sayward, who advises that he is somewhat out of the loop as a guy who left Dartmouth for other than academic reasons early in his sophomore year. Since the card came from Vero Beach, where we are settled, we gave him a call and had a pleasant conversation. A roommate of Doc Tower and the late Ben Reynolds, he relayed some interesting anecd dotes. Charlie started his business life as a clamdigger earning more than three times the WPA wage, and ended up with 40 years as a purchasing agent for GE. He returns each summer to his roots in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and sounds like it with every word he speaks.

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