1956

Word has it that Tony Bruscino's bash in Sarasota this past March was even more successful than its predecessor. Thirty-nine of our classmates made it for this famous dinner. Next year s event is planned for the first weekend in April and will be extended to include a weekend of tennis, golf and swimming as well as eating. Moved by his good experience at our 45th, Larry Morse is searching the New England coastline for schooners that could provide classmates and their partners with a three-day or even a sixday cruise in the early fall when the weather is great and the water still warm. The rates he's found suggest a cost of between $350 a person to $900, depending on the length of the cruise and the place of ones cabin. If this whets your appetite for reconnecting as well as travel send him an e-mail at 1666555@aol.com right away.

Our class scholars Lindsay Hirschfield '03 and David Peranteau '04 are doing well. During the fall Lindsay was named a Presidential Scholar and is a research assistant on the geography department's project "Conceptions of the U.S. as Viewed Through Periodicals." David is spending the spring term in Paris on a French Foreign Studies Program in anticipation of a career in the Foreign Service. He serves as the editor-in-chief for World Outlook, an undergraduate journal on international affairs.

All of us can join in the applause for Wilton S. Sogg, who in March was named by the Ohio State Bar Association as the recipient of its first Friend of Legal Education Award, honoring "a judge or practicing attorney who has made an outstanding contribution to legal education." Will has been an adjunct professor at Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law for more than 40 years and has recently focused on teaching lawyering skills in the entrepreneurial and family business setting.

Painfully I have learned of the deaths of two more classmates, Jim Hoshal on March 22 and Ken Thomas on March 29. To their widows, Glenn and Sara, the class extends its sympathy and concern. Obituaries will appear in a future issue of the DAM.

The class e-mail exchange provided Steve Brand a chance to surface again from his home in Corrales, New Mexico, where he served as a village councilor for eight years and a member of the volunteer fire department as an EMT for 10 years. Flint Ranney, who manages our monthly newsletter with grace and wit, was elected overwhelmingly [72 percent of the votes] by the folks of Nantucket to serve on the Steamship Authority financial advisory board for Woods Hole, Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket. Three cheers.

How Dartmouth are you? That's a question to be addressed in a future issue. Let me know what you'd list, with some explanation where needed, as describing the ultimate alumni. I'll see that they get passed on to the editorial staff at the DAM.

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