1937

Bill Roach's June Mint Bag is just arriving as I write these notes, which will reach you in September. Proper time for a wah-hoo-wah for Bill. If there was ever a better class newsletter editor, he has not come to our attention. He makes us proud of our classmates and of the college that produced us.

Typical but notunusual was Art Ruggles. I first saw him when he confronted me in a "shinny" hockey game on the first ice on Occom Pond around December l, 1933. He and Jack Devlin and Bib Bankhart were a cut above my competition in Boston high schools. Artwill be remembered not only for a fine teaching career at Deerfield Academy, but for 36 years as a professional Santa Claus.

President Stan Berenson has written Art's family, mourning his passing and remembering the warm reunion we had with him in Hanover in 2003.

Stan also reminds you-all of our 67th reunion coming up in Hanover October 15 and 16. Good planning requires good advance notices that you will be attending.

Bill's latest Mint Bag reports marvelous hoped-for results from our 65th reunion. We made a special effort to build a good relationship with our scholarship students. We sat Hiliary Plioplys '04 next to Maty Fenn, and Maty has become an enthusiastic mentor. We sat ayoung student from Maine, who was active in the DOC, next to Will Brown, and they have been mutually helpful. Suggestion: We continue and expand this mentor program at the next reunion. My experience convinces me that the old folks benefit from such relationships even more than the young folks.

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