1968

Mail has been lean of late, so your humble secretary needed to carpe diem, or perhaps the right phrase is "carpe fama" or "carpe rumor." (Latin scholars, please correct if I've misstated.) Anyway, I needed to go get some news, so I hit the phones. Sandy Dunlap retired in 2000, and began to help a nonprofit organization that has become a three-quarter to full-time job, working as CFO for a nurse-family partnership program that now works in 22 states. The program works intensively with first-time, low-income mothers, with community-based nurses visiting the young mothers before the child is born and up to two years after, often with 50 to 60 visits in total. His firm recently hired Line Eldredge's firm Brigham Hill to help recruit a chief development officer for the program. If any reader is interested, call Sandy or Line.

Monroe Denton reported from New York City that he is "alive" (glad he is...he might not have returned my phone call if he wasn't). He celebrated his 60th birthday in a grand manner: going to Venice with 30 friends and staying for a week in a favorite pensione. Monroe was active in the Dartmouth Players and fondly remembers Don Miller, Greg Jones, Rich Hoxie Don Marcus and Dennis Wolshonak. After Dartmouth Monroe got his masters in theater at Oregon and then moved on for a Ph.D. in art history and criticism. He teaches in the School of Visual Arts in New York, collects art and will be curating an exhibition at the modern art museum in Athens, Greece, this fall.

After Dartmouth Sam Hawken went to Georgetown Medical School, and has been an orthopedic surgeon ever since, working in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Six kids have kept him busy: three out of school (in New York City, San Diego and D.C.), two in college (William and Mary and Georgetown) and one sophomore in high school. Modest excitements for Sam and wife Laura these days: a trip to Brazil for the marriage of oldest son to a young woman who works for Google (they're back in New York) and, more recently, shoveling snow together while digging out from the Valentines Day blizzard. A fond memory: one-year residency in Seattle—great town, great restaurants (he recommends Ivers for fresh seafood) and great weather. He reports there are two seasons there—July and August-and then the rest of the year. Sam occasionally sees Steve Luxford and hears about, but has had trouble hooking up with, Admiral John Eisold And finally in closing, my own periodic plug for our 50th reunion gift, endowing the freshman trips—every little (or better, big) bit helps. Send a contribution to the "Class of 1968 Student Orientation Fund." Thanks—and love to get some mail and save carping fama and rumors. Have a good spring.

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