1950

Some dates: August 6, my birthday (you forgot...again); September 14-15-meetings of officers of all the classes; September 21-23—50 th reunion of Tuck '51; September 28-30 50th reunion of DMS '51; September 28-30—class of'50 mini-reunion and executive committee meeting; April 21-25,2002—class mini-reunion in San Diego. Be sure to note that the upcoming, first-of-its-kind, not-to-bemissed, West Coast mini-reunion next spring will be from Sunday, April 21, through Wednesday, April 25, and not from Saturday, as I previously reported. (Did I finally get that right, Tom?).

Ben Shaver sent on to me a copy of a letter from Dave Hitchcock, who is a member of the John Sloan Dickey Centers board of visitors, and Daves letter, in part, reported on the $270,000 plus our class contributed at our 50th reunion time. For the fall term they are seeking to enlist Mary Robinson as the first John Sloan Dickey Center Class of 1950 Senior Foreign Affairs Fellow (whew). Ms. Robinson is a former president of Ireland and currently is high commissioner for human rights with the United Nations.

Starting this issues randomly selected minibio is Ed Hale, who wrote in our 50th reunion book, "Being autobiographic is being dull," and then proceeded to prove himself dead wrong. He worked as a political reporter, did a stint as a state civil servant and then he and his wife, Bobby, bought the weekly Lake Placid (New York) News. Along the way they raised three daughters, and Ed was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and also earned a Ph.D.

Though semi-retired, Bob Misey still practices law in Milwaukee, where he grew up and where he and Catherine raised two kids. They've recently bought a condo in Delray Beach, Florida, and also plan to do more traveling. Bob has been very active in local and Wisconsin libraries and their support groups, and his physical fitness activities include rowing, swimming and tennis. His one regret about Dartmouth years is that he spent only three years in Hanover, graduating with the class of' 49 instead of ours.

Still living in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he grew up, Don Ayres is retired after a career of selling and as a general agent in the insurance business. He and Betsy also have a lakefront house in New London, New Hampshire, from which they get to Hanover often for football games. They travel in both the United States and Europe, still ski and golf, and are active in Worcester cultural and civic affairs.

A future issue of this Dartmouth AlumniMagazine is going to feature, through the eyes of alumni and others, the sense of place that contributes to making Dartmouth so unique for many of us. I'd like to weave a column around that theme. So, please give me an e-mail squirt, you guys and gals, about a place on the campus or in Hanover that triggers some special emotion, good or bad, for you.

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