1957

Summertime. Here on Cape Cod that means the beach and baseball by the beach. Wood bats and real grass. The Cape Cod Baseball League is the premier summer league for college-level players. This summer Tim Grant'os will play for the Bourne Braves and stay at our house. If he puts up good numbers, he will impress the ever-present major league scouts.

We heard from Bill Gallagher in Bangor, Maine. He is still working four days a week as a dermatologist, but takes time off to travel. Bill has taken an interest in Waldo Pierce, an American artist, a native of Bangor and a buddy of Ernest Hemingway. Bill collects Pierce paintings and has traveled to Italy to give a paper to the Hemingway Society. He hopes to write a book on the Pierce/Hemingway intertwining lives.

"Return to the Source": The theme of our 25th and recent 45th. Some, like Clark Griffiths and Mike Smith, never left the source. Rob Dubois and Dave Orr are in Hanover (which has a large township area). Joe Stevenson will be retiring shortly and will be fulltime in Norwich. Bob Holland and Dave Cook are in New London just to the south. Other mates have summer property within 30 miles of Hanover. If you want water frontage, it is pricey, but there are a great many lakes.

Where to lease or buy? Start with McLaughry, the largest realtor in the Upper Valley. Their telephone is (603) 643-6400 or try their Web site at www.mclaughry.com.This site has all kinds of references, including—when you click on "rentals"—a Dartmouth site that lists rental properties. The two other big rental locations are Quechee Lakes in Vermont and Eastman in New Hampshire.

A couple of footnotes on that wonderful mini-reunion in Costa Rica hosted by AlEscalante and Ana. The attendees chipped in and bought the hosts a Dartmouth Hitchcock chair, which was delivered to them at their off-season home in Mississippi. Also we heard from Bob Baehr in scenic Grimstad, Norway, who rather wanted the newsletter to have a pullout centerfold with swimsuit photos. Hey, Bob, how about hosting a minireunion in Norway, perhaps combined with a Dartmouth continuing education trip?

Give a rouse for Clark Griffiths, who produced a breakthrough in newsletter distribution. You can now get the newsletter faster and in color on your computer. Many of us are already receiving it that way. If you want to join them, send an e-mail to 57-listserv@listserv.dartmouth.edu, and in the body of the message (not the header), enter the following text (minus quotation marks): "subscribe 57-letter." To work, the message must originate at the address to be subscribed.

Let's have a big turnout for Homecoming 2003. The dates are October 24-26. If you haven't already made your arrangements, do it now.

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