1959

Jim Mueller writes from Brussels that he looks forward to hosting the rest of us next spring at our mini-reunion there. It will be fun and relaxing, a great time, and enable all who come to take optional extension trips very economically—in groups or singly. Details are coming but now is the time to make the decision that this will be one of your 2005 vacation trips!

Norrie Nims, wintering with Sue in New Mexico, writes of life in the Copper River country of Alaska, planting their garden about the time of our 45 th reunion, rototilling up Clovis points and stone tools in the yard and catching salmon in his fish wheel. Here's a classmate whose Arctic seminar work was more than just part of a liberal education! Norrie, his father and two sons, all veterans, attended the christening of the World War II memorial in Washington.

Jack Lampe teaches government and philosophy at Southwest Texas Junior College in Uvalde, about 90 miles west of San Antonio, along with wife Carolyn, who teaches Spanish there. He continues to very much enjoy it and hopes for a close presidential election that will generate interest among his students.

Another professor classmate, Jon Mandaville, is in Portland, Oregon,where he was head of the Middle Eastern studies department at the State University for many years, as Doug Adams heard during the "Our Day" luncheon out there last spring. Kent Skibbie was at the table, too. He and wife Mary, reports Doug, owned and ran a farm in southern Oregon several years ago before moving to Portland. Howard Mickelson and Kurt Wehbring rounded out the lunch table.

Living on Puget Sound and looking out at Mt. Rainier, Andy Hommeyer also continues to work, in his case as an investment consultant. However, now with a junior associate, Andy is taking more time off, much of it skiing in the West every winter. Both sons graduated from Dartmouth, both played varsity baseball and were captains in their senior year, both married Dartmouth women and both belonged to the same fraternity!

Another honor has come to Class Poet Laureate Doug Wheeler. In Lisbon last April, Portugal's president bestowed the Order of Merit, Grand Officer Rank, recognizing Doug's work advancing Portuguese studies in America.

Bob Filderman, having "packed it in after working all those years on Wall Street" is now painting, playing lots of tennis and generally enjoying life in San Diego.

Sadly, Ruddy LaRusso's obituary appears in this issue. Lest we forget: The last time Dartmouth won the Ivy League Basketball Championship was way back in 1959—in a one-game playoff against Princeton on a last- second shot by Ruddy.

I hope everyone reading this calls, e-mails or writes to me with news of self or others for future Alumni Magazine columns. Let me know what's up.

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