1960

By the time you receive this Class Note you will have had an opportunity to sign up for our 70th birthday party, four glorious days in Boston June 12-15, arranged by Gene Kohn and Dick Foley. If you haven't already done so, please say you're coming to help make a memorable weekend even more memorable. Every single presence will contribute to the occasion.

Many classmates have had wonderful relationships with wives lasting sometimes back into high school. Such was the 47-year marriage of Marty Lower, a former class president, and his wife, Bobbie. They actually started dating in Baldwinsville, New York, when Bobbie was only

Bobbie died from heart failure December 10, saddening all of those who knew her. She leaves Marty, their four daughters and their husbands and 11 grandchildren, as well as her 101year-old father, Robert Dosh, whom she cared for until the end of her own life. Bobbie was like Marty an avid golfer, a member of country clubs in Florida and Massachusetts, where she was president of the Ladies 9-Holers. A graduate of the State University of New York in Albany, she served for 13 years as the administrative assistant of the Dover Church in Dover, Massachusetts, where a memorial service was held in her honor. She loved spending time with family and friends, travel, researching genealogy, curling and playing bridge. She will be missed by many members of the class.

There are so many admirable women in the class. I heard just recently from Axel Grabowsky that his wife, Mary Ford-Grabowsky, has recently published her seventh book, The Way ofMary: Following Her Footsteps Toward God, published by the Paraclete Press. It is for sale widely.

Also, of course, we remember the many widows who cared so lovingly for class members now gone.

Hap Dunning arranged a gala holiday dinner for 20 classmates at the University Club in San Francisco, and Bob Harrach, assisted by Jim Foch's wife, Susan Hanks, took some fine pictures of the festivities. Bob, a physicist now retired from the Lawrence-Livermore Laboratory across the Bay, is enjoying his grandchildren and still pursuing artistic interests that once inspired his teaching a year at Dartmouth.

Also telling about his photography at the dinner was Dick Goodman, a noted traveler who once conducted exotic tours of the South Pacific and recently was in the Ivory Coast, where he took 5,000 pictures for a photo book and consulted with an athletic organization on how to get worldwide recognition. He is also teaching at an inner-city high school in Oakland, California, where, he says, "My mission is to try to awaken three or four students a year to the fact that they can have a much better life than they now do, and that the path there is through education." Sounds a little like the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program in which Bill Gould is so much involved.

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