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By the time you read this our 65th reunion will be history. The attendees will have had the time of their lengthy lives, and our only regret is that many classmates were kept at home with health problems.

Hope you enjoyed the piece in the last issue of this magazine on the Ledyard Canoe Club 2001 Trip to the Sea." The "octogenarian" thanked for supplying the doughnuts at Greenfield was our own Art Ruggles. Art's name brings back ancient memories. At the first freeze of Occom Pond around December I, 1933, the first hockey players to join me in a scrimmage were Art, Bib Bankart and Jack Devlin.

The 65th reunion hike on the Appalachian Trail isn't going to materialize. I had a vision of Chick Koop, Charlie Collis, Will Brown and Harold Putnam emerging from the Velvet Rock woods in celebration of the 65 th get-together. Good PR for Dartmouth and the DOC. We decided we were too old to make it happen. Received reunion regrets from Olive Tardiff and Ernie April. Olive and Joe visited me in Florida during a 1991 heart attack, and are surprised that I am still around. So am I! President Jim Wright and wife Susan spoke to our Florida Dartmouth Club recently. Nice folks and stirring message.

Mortimer Berkowitz did a super job on the new class directory.Jane Handrahan has agreed to be custodian of any left-over souvenirs from the June reunion. We'll supply a price list and then first-come, first-served. Good health and long life to us survivors.

P.O. Box 3821, Vero Beach, FL32964; haroldputnam@cs.com