1968

Some snail mail and some email, all just (barely) in time. The Financial Times reported Gary Horlick was voted leading international trade lawyer in the world. What can be next after that? Gary and Kathryn live in Washington and have two children John (14) and Jamie (11). ("Eek, teenagers!" quoth Gary). Don Becker was featured in the Belmont Citizen-Herald of Concord, Massachusetts. Acandidate for the Housing Authority, he shared his background with the voters: After Dartmouth, time on a destroyer while in the Navy, then Boston College Law School and later the states division of insurance. He's been in private practice for the last 20 years. Civic experience includes town meeting member for 20 years, bikeway planning for 10 years, and impressively, a member of the kennel and dog noise regulation committee, which drafted a successful bylaw. This last accomplishment ranks with peace in the Balkans; anyone who knows New England town meetings knows what an intractable issue doggie business can be! Jack Noon was featured in an article in the Manchester Union Leader on New Hampshire fishing. Author of two books on the topic, he notes that original fishing techniques used spears, clubs and nets. Atlantic salmon, shad and even sturgeon made it upriver in the Connecticut and the Merrimack in great quantity and in great sizes through the early 1800s. As dams were installed, however, these fish could no longer make it upriver. In the late 1800s rainbow trout and smallmouth bass were introduced, as well as pickerel and yellow perch, and all are thriving. He offered a cautionary note on mercury levels, even of lake fish, and looking into the future, hopes to see restoration of the shad and Atlantic salmon. Star correspondent Gary Hobin continues to keep me (and thus all of you!) posted on his new career as a teacher, at the Army Command and General Staff College. And more recently his paternal pride (and worry) about son Brian, who is the father of three children, (thus, grandpa Gary), but also now an NCO in northern Iraq. Even an old career Army guy like Gary worries. As do we all. Already a year past, the '68 reunion is still in the news...actually, in this years reunion brochure. Among the pictures were Pete Fahey, Gerry Bell and others hoofing it out of the Ravine Lodge; Pete Hofman in another; and a shot from the Bema where Steve Calvert and Bob Reich are in deep conversation (or can't hear each other well due to the boisterous assembly).

Hope you all have a great summer...and keep the news flowing. I get anxious when deadlines near and there is little class chatter.

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