1954

Scoring 100 percent on their '54 international travel arrangements, Don Berlin and John Fenn once again organized a successful journey to foreign landsthis time to Spain and Morocco. Happy "boat people" just back from their wonderful trip included Jean and Bob Adnopoz, Barbara and Don Berlin, Carol and Rip Coffin, Martha and Jay Davis, Kit and Bob Dean, Natalie and John Fenn, Judy and Mort Galper, Anne and Rick Hartman, Liz and Tom Kelsey, Rosemary and Dave Mandelbaum, Crista and Dave Martin, Rosemarie and Bill Murane, Patti and Bob Osmond, Jane and Dick Page, Carol and Harry Robinson and Kay and Tom Tyler.

Sonja and I have just returned from a 10-day trip to the glorious Southwest, visiting with Rosemary and Dave Mandelbaum in their beautiful winter rental at the Boulders in Carefree, Arizona. Next door neighbors Peg and Jerry Barton had cut short their winter stay so we missed seeing them, but enjoyed a delightful dinner with Judy and Rich Lederer after cocktails at their nearby magnificent home. Also had cocktails with Sarah and Charlie Breed '51, whom many of us recall leading his swing band at a number of our reunion tents. After a visit to the stunning Red Rocks of Sedona and stops at the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam we completed our trip with a visit to Las Vegas to see my resident sister and to enjoy lunch with fit-looking Phyllis and Hugh Roberts.

According to the Occom Newsletter, "Dick I Pearl had an environmental epiphany: In 1968 he moved into a new home in Bedford, New York. Shortly thereafter came news that the state planned to run an interstate highway through town. Pearl and his new neighbors sued the state. They lost, but 40 years later Pearl's passion has borne fruit for Dartmouth in the form of a $2.5 million gift endowing the Richard and Jane Pearl Professorship in Environmental Studies."

Many of us remember professor Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, famed teacher and social philosopher. Norman Fiering '56, professor emeritus at Brown University, has spearheaded the development of the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund to underwrite translations of the professors work. Visit www.argobooks.org/about.html.

Reminder to all classmates: If you haven't already contributed to this year's Dartmouth College Fund you have until June 30 to help the class of 1954 achieve its best participation year ever! Whatever the amount, we need to count you as a contributor.

Regret to report the recent deaths of three classmates: Robert William Higbee (February 6 of heart failure), Stuart Jonathan Bugbee Jr. (March 23 of a massive heart attack) and Robert 0. Collins (April 11 of cancer). The class sends its condolences to the families.

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