1956

This past summer, while many of us were screaming about the high cost of gasoline, Criie Doscher wrote of having moved to a motor scooter. Counseled by Em Houck to be sure to wear a helmet, the physician acknowledged his faithful use of head protection then and while skiing out west or pedaling his bike. Not-as-adventuresome Sam Peterson was prompted to move to the Toyota Prius, which seems to love Connecticut's hills as well as Vermont's mountains. Your secretary's memories of motorcycling across the country reminded Walker Peterson of his long and scenic tour home following our sophomore year. He and Walt Wilcox headed to Montana by way of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was a great trip and a terrific memory! I hope some of you are writing memoirs for your grandchildren because their world and the one in which we grew up seem worlds away from one another.

Thanks to John Chapman's suggestion, a number of us watched a four-minute film that won the first prize in a special category at the 2008 Cannes festival. It's available online at Story of a Sign and demonstrates how recasting a phrase can make all the difference. Look it up. You'll be delighted you did. John also reflected on the wonderfully full life of Gene White, which was written up by the American Alpine Club and appears on its Web site. They were classmates in Denver before coming to Hanover.

This past summer's ILEAD lecture series, Dartmouth's continuing education program for grey heads, brought out Bill Hamilton, Kristin and me, Tiny Strong and Sonja, Dick Kurts and Sally, Len Clark and Lee and Dick Groeneveld and Valerie. It's the fifth largest program of its kind and provided each of us a view of how today's crises can be addressed as opportunities. Also seen around town were Leo McKenna and Christine with a niece from Chicago and Tex Fridlund, who seemed intent on getting to the local CVS.

Homecoming brought the usual loyal- ists back to Hanover for our Friday night light supper, parade and .bonfire, Saturday's class meeting and ball game and dinner. This year it included Dartmouth's student veterans who've been drawn to the College by Jim Wright's invitation. The class is providing fiancial support for their campus organization and some tutoring assistance. They certainly are a dose of reality for those who allow Hanover to be an escape from today's harshness. Jack Crowley, who seems to be everywhere all the time, spent some time this past summer rehearsing fraternity stories with John Koehring in Keene Valley, just south of Lake Placid, New York. While there he also ran into Peter Rosenwald and his family heading into the Lake Placid movie house to see The DarkKnight.

The hard news is that of Ron Post's death in mid-July. An obituary appears later in this issue of the DAM.

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