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In a post-Christmas note, Dr. John Tower of Anchorage, Alaska, mentioned good early season cross-country skiing for his grandchildren. He also mentioned that a longtime friend, Lowell Thomas Jr. ’45, has given up his 30-year career of flying mountaineers in to high-altitude landing sites on glaciers, including Denali. My wife and I recall with gratitude that while we were traveling in Alaska in the summer of 1983, the Towers generously loaned us a car to enable us to travel around and view the spectacular scenery of the Kenai Peninsula. Jay and Sally Larmon admit to slowing down along with the rest of us but are enjoying their new home in Charlton, Massachusetts. Of their five grandchildren, two are college graduates, two are in college at Bates and Colby and the other is a senior in high school. Bill Hallager spent much of the winter between visits to his daughters in Denver and Southport, North Carolina. One granddaughter is attending Williams and the other will attend Colgate in the fall. We trust that president John Trethaway had a good ski season as an instructor at Mt. Sunapee. Your scribe has been reduced to first-aid room duty on the ski patrol at Catamount in the Berkshires. Head agent Frank Weber and his assistant class agents are working to enable the class to meet our goal for 2009 and to increase the participation. V.P. Joe Hayes is making the arrangements for our annual mini-reunion on October 23-25 at the Norwich Inn, the weekend of Dartmouth Night and the Columbia football game. The sympathy of the class is extended to the families of Roger Dickinson, who died on November 2, and Ashley Gail, who died on November 3.

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