1977

April is ending, and the class of 2005 will be set in the next few days. To date I've heard from three proud fathers looking forward to writing a hefty tuition check later in the summer. Gary Schillhammer's son and the daughters of Jeff Lyon and Bob Connolly all will begin their own Dartmouth experiences in the fall.

Jeff Lyon's daughter Kate looks forward to rowing for the crew team when she arrives in Hanover in September. Jeff describes himself as "semi-retired in Hyannisport, working part-time managing my real estate and other investments from a home office. Jennifer and I spend part of the year in Key West. Hope to raise that to a full six months within a few years. We get up to Hanover a few times each summer, as my kids have attended various Dartmouth basketball and running camps. I recommend all the summer sports camps there, as a good way to give the kids a taste of Dartmouth. Occasionally see Jeff Sollows and his young kids around the youth hockey and soccer programs, as he is now back living on the Cape."

Quick takes from Max Anderson in New York: My actress wife, Jacqueline, was on NBC's Ed in March; she is in North Carolina for part of April shooting a film alongside Teri Hatcher called The Chester Story. It's meant to take place in New Hampshire! Our 5-year-old lad Chase is flourishing, and I am in my third year as the Whitney Museums director. Have a look at www.whitney.org for some of our antics. I gave a talk at the Hood in April in connection with an exhibit we've sent to Hanover. Recently saw Mark Ruben and brood on a trip west from California, and Howard Lay '76, who is on the art history faculty at the University of Michigan. Looking forward to the reunion!"

In March I had the chance to visit with Mike Carter and Scott Axford '78 in Hanover during Club Officers Weekend. Mike is staying very busy these days, improving Washington, D.C.'s public works and organizing alumni seminars for the Washington alumni club. Mike will be back in Hanover for the Horizons program during the first weekend of May instead of returning to his native Louisville for the Kentucky Derby.

Two days before we arrived for the Club Officers Weekend, the campus had received 2 feet of fresh snow, creating a wonderful landscape I hadn't experienced for nearly 25 years. The weekend had several highlights. Friday evenings opening dinner was held at the new McLane Lodge at the Skiway, a spacious post and-beam structure with a immense stone fireplace. Eight more inches of snow fell that evening, creating an even more cheery atmosphere, as long as you didn't mind hiking several hundred yards to the bus. It will look a lot different at our reunion a year from now. My first visit to the new Berry addition to Baker later that evening was punctuated by another event reminiscent of 1974: A fly-by by several streakers.

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