1955

Greetings from Americas heartland! This is my first column as class secretary. Gratitude to Bob Perkins for assisting during a fast-track learning curve and transition. Bob has served our class with great distinction as both head agent and secretary. We wish him all the very best as he meets new challenges in his important health issues.

My First Responder Award for earliest news item goes to Ken Lundstrom for his detailed report on that peripatetic lunch bunch down in the Carolinas. The regional group convened in Statesville, North Carolina, where Jon and Mary Anderson arranged fine hospitality at their club. Other travelers included Ken, Ed and Coyla Barry, Dave Conlon, Tom and Sharon McGreevey, Paul Merriken and Shirley Tenney, and Dave and Betsy. Miller. Paul and Shirley shared photos from the spring Chilean '55 mini. Then business highlights focused on Paul's strong pitch for the DCF, while Ken recapped two class $2,850 donations sent to the Hood and to DCAC athletic sponsor programs from the voluntary checkoffs on our annual dues. The class fund at the Hood now stands at $8,520.

Jim Nelsen writes that he hosted another "golf buddies" week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the 18th consecutive year. That's an incredible record for the '55 foursome, which in-cluded Web Wilde, Peter Teal and John Dell Isola. We await further word on who won the most bets. A special highlight of their golfing togetherness was watching the play at the U.S. Senior Open in nearby Kohler, Wisconsin. If you watched the TV coverage, Jim pointed out that they were the athletic ones standing next to the cute young ladies.

In other news, John Dinan reports that he had lunch with Pete and Anne Henderson on a spring visit to Hanover, where they had the opportunity to see the Inuit exhibition at the Hood. John says, "There was good data on how they are handling global warning, and this had special interest since much of the exhibit material was donated by Corey Ford's estate." I received John's note just as he and Marguerite were departing for France, where they expected to visit Lourdes.

Jere Daniell has been busy since his finetutoring at the Chile mini. He and Jack Noon '6B have completed a book titled Dartmouth's SecondCollege Grant: A History. Jere wrote the text, while Jack created the illustrations and sidebars. The book reveals how the College received authorization for the grant as a full township on Maine's border with Canada in 1807. The book helps commemorate the 200 th anniversary of this grant. Jere added, "Writing helps keep me out of retirement trouble. Elena and I have visited the township each of the 38 years of our marriage."

Sadly, I must report recent classmate deaths: John Elkas, M.D., died on April 10 and Dana "Red" Hennigar died on May 25. W.H. Holden "Jumbo" Bibbs died in 1997—he was a kicker on our freshman football team and a '55 graduate of Franklin & Marshall College.

Take care.