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Vice president J. Willcox Brown died in Concord, New Hampshire, on August 16, after a long struggle with prostate cancer.

He will be remembered for a lifetime of honorable devotion to great citizenship and especially for heroic efforts to protect our environment. Hewas honored recently as the"New Hampshire Citizen of the Year." He was that all the days of his life.

Wife Natale reports that as she held his hand for the last time she noticed that he still wore a bracelet Sally Smith '05 gave him. Sally was our student helper at our 65th reunion in 2002 and has since won the Clare Booth Luce scholarship for a graduate degree at Thayer School. She is also a serious bicyclist. When she discovered Will Browns medical problem at last year's reunion, she dashed back to her dorm to pick up a Lance Armstrong bracelet to give to him. The Will Brown flame passes to a new generation.

Some of our dwindling numbers are expected to attend the late September reunion in Hanover. Collis, Koop, Putnam, Blaisdell, Doremus, Fenn, Handrahan and, we hope, others. Several College officials have agreed to report to our business meeting on class finances, Alumni Fund and scholarships. More in the next Class Notes.

Our Dr. "Chick" Koop reports on the death of Dr. Seymour Ochsner, "my dissecting partner in comparative anatomy." What a duo of great doctors.

Win Taft also died recently. I remember him fondly from speed-skating days on Occom Pond a long time ago.

President Stan Berenson is not able to respond by e-mail, his son Bill advises me. But we are still hoping that he can be with us at the late September mini-reunion. Bill is in the thick of major activities of the Organization of American States, of which he is the counsel.

More after the reunion.

P.O. Box 3821, Vero Beach, FL32964; haroldputnam@cs.com