1957

Homecoming on October 1315 is our next event. We are expecting a large '57 gathering as a warm up to our 50th next June. Dartmouth football is improving under Buddy Teevens and the game is Holy Cross. Mini-reunion chair Bob Marchant has information (rtmarchant@aol.com).

Plans for our 50th are proceeding on schedule. There will be a mailer to all '57s in late September with a reply card and a Balsams Resort flyer. The same card and Balsams information will appear in the '57 newsletter. We will need an accurate count of the number coming by December. After the first of the year a registration envelope will be sent out from Hanover. In March a housing mailer will offer dorm rooms at $42 per night per person, a real bargain if you know rates in the Upper Valley.

Our 50th reunion Web site can be found at www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/57. The Balsams Resort in Dixville, New Hampshire, is at www.thebalsams.com. You might want to add both to your favorite places.

Tom Schwarz has now received over a hundred essays and photos for our '57 50th book. If yours isn't one of them, your classmates would like to hear about you. Don't let this be hard. Write about a memory from undergraduate days, a vacation trip you took, a conversation with a grandchild, a summary of your career, a political issue, any or all of these, in 500 words. Now do it! Send it to Tom at 315 East 68th St. (2K), New York, NY 10021 or toms@schwarzexecutivesearch.com.

Recently I received a current listing of Bartlett Tower Society members. Our class has a respectable 30 members. Let's try for 50 for the 50th. The amount is not large ($1,000) and can be done in your will. Joe Stevenson would appreciate your call: (802) 649-1547.

Former New York Times reporter Chris Wren spoke on journalistic ethics before some 250 people at the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth.

Rod Hinkle is a frequent contributor to the class listserv and here for all of you is a recent and very special entry. "When I retired to Falmouth, Massachusetts, it didn't take long to recognize that for nine months of the year this town is dominated by retirees (read older people). I also discovered that because Falmouth is the elbow of the Cape, you have two choices for scenic water vistas—a bay (Buzzards) and a sound (Nantucket). I also discovered that older people who are smart enough to associate walking with health maintenance spend a good amount of time walking the beaches and bikeways that border the bay and the sound. And this is the biggest discovery of all: Many of the partnered oldsters hold hands when they walk. In other words, these lifelong learners have reverted to what they should have learned in kindergarten—holding hands with someone you like is nice."

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