1945

The 2002 mini-reunion was a real success with many enthusiastic class-mates, widows and spouses in attendance. One highlight during the Saturday night reception and dinner was the naming of Matt Marshall, manager of the Hanover Inn, as an honorary member of the class of 1945.He and his wife, Elizabeth, Adv'80, got to know some of the people that will now be their classmates and did not seem to regret it. Matt runs a very fine Hanover Inn.

An old note I have from Dave Nutt 44 tells of a younger man approaching him on the golf course, inquiring whether or not Dave knew this man's father, Mo Monahan.The answer was a big affirmative since Dave had lived near Mo and Shirley back in New Jersey. Son Jack lives in that house now and reported that the Monahan family had celebrated Shirley's birthday at her home, now in West Haven, Connecticut.

I received an April 2002 article from National Geographic Adventure starting: "When a parachutist got stranded on the Wyoming spire, it took the country's best climbers to save him." One such was Jack Durrance '41, brother of our classmate, James, and as a Dartmouth undergrad one of the era's premier climbers and the only one to have scaled the tower before.

Frank Aldrich reports on the annual meeting of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN literary awards meeting in Boston, where he again met Angela Hemingway, widow of classmate Jack. She is still living in Sun Valley with undiminished charm and energy.

Ruth and Don Sisson have just moved into Kendal at Hanover, joining Laura and Fred Berthold, Ellen Gluek and Jocelyn and myself. There are several other 45 s on the waiting list for Kendal. If any of you are contemplating moves to such continuing care retirement communities, you should make the decision soon while you still have the energy to down size and move into a new environment. In comparing communities, consider how to pay for all of the available facilities from independent living to assisted living to skilled care to hospital with prescription drugs, nurses and doctors.

Do not forget the mini-mini in Florida in March 2003.

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