1956

You'll be reading this a couple months before the Homecoming Weekend of October 17-19. As a class we are all included in the Friends of Dartmouth Football, and Coach Teevens has invited us to stop by the new Floren Varsity House on the east side of the stadium and see the great quarters now provided the athletes and coaching staff. There's always a friends tent where you're welcome to enjoy refreshments before the game as well. Sam Fry and Les Reid will be full of stories from the Seattle sojourn minireunion only a few weeks earlier in September that provided a host of activities in that great city, including a two-hour behind-the-scenes "tour of Starbucks.

For that matter, John Chapman can regale us all with a recounting in words and pictures of his recent trip to France, Spain and Italy. His slide show of Spain that was shared with those of us still plugged into the listserv was gorgeous. The visit to Monte Cassino, the Benedictine monastery built in 530 and destroyed by allied bombers in WWII, was particularly moving to him and generated a good bit of conversation online. While we're talking about travel, press Roger Schumacher and any of the nine who accompanied him to Norway in this spring about their plans to visit Morocco for two weeks this coming February. Sixteen classmates, spouses and partners will be making the trip. For the adventuresome who want as well to contribute to the communities they visit, Dartmouth alumni travel and continuing education office offers trips such as the recently concluded OTO Ranch Restoration Project in Gardiner, Montana, just north of Yellowstone Park, that restored a landmark site of the Register of Historic Places.

Tex Fridlund spent three days with Art Zich in June after returning from a visit with his daughter in Australia. You probably saw the pictures in a recent Wha-Hoo-Whisper. While wobbling a bit from "basketball knees" Tex is "looking great—and as funny as ever."

Our hat's off to Elliott Weinstein for his reports to each of us about life on the Alumni Council. He has worked hard to represent us fairly and report to us regularly. Clem Malin for his part earned an honorary doctorate this past May from the University of Bridgeport and gave the commencement address to boot. A wha-hoo-wha should go to Paul Handverger for the article he crafted for his children and shared with his friends online about India's tectonic plate pushing against Asia's plate and creating China's recent earthquakes. Go online and ask for a copy, copath@cableone. net. It's great!

Sad news reported Gene White's death in early June. His obituary and that of Roger Joy are included later in this issue.

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