The late General Robert J. Dixon was honored in November 2.005 when the Air Force personnel center at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas was named Dixon Hall. Kelly Dixon, Bobs widow, unveiled a plaque on Building 499, where he was memorialized as the Air Forces highest-ranking personnel officer. He guided the Air Force through the difficult closing years of the Vietnam War.
Gerrit Collier and his wife, Caryl, took resi- dence in Hanover five years ago. Their son John '72 is a professor at Thayer School and their next- door neighbors are Quint and Vida Deming. Small world, isn't it? Gerry spent his career in the propperty and casualty reinsurance business with Reinsurance Corp.of New York, where he became vice president in charge of the company's international activities. Prior to that he spent several years with United Aircraft Corp. as a field representative in the United States and then in India and Burma.
Bob Miner answered the phone from Concord, cord, New Hampshire. He graduated from Harvard Dental School in 1943 and then followed up with 45 years of general dentistry in Boston and Hancock. Bob has a pacemaker implanted in his chest and that requires him to stay close to the Concord Cardiac Hospital. Another New Englander is Fred Montfort, who moved to Thompson, Connecticut, south of Worcester. Fred and his son shared a law firm for many years in Garden City Long Island. Tom Little field in Lenox, Massachusetts, is looking forward to our 65th reunion, providing he can hitch a ride to Hanover with Ab Combes, Toms vision being faulty for driving. Happily, Toms eye problem does not affect his latest hobby of painting abstract pastels.
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