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Part of my research for the Dartmouth ski project involved a call to classmate Sel Hannah, a member of the ski team. He and his wife, Susan, live in Rochester, New Hampshire. His father, Sel ’35, was an Olympic skier and a well-known ski area designer and consultant. Sel trained in engineering and did several projects with his father and subsequently worked for a firm in New Jersey designing ski lifts. In 1985 he moved on to loss control and prevention inspections for ski areas. He is now semi-retired and enjoys playing golf and skiing in between consulting jobs. His sister Joan, also an Olympian, lives in the family home in Franconia.

Continuing the theme of ski team members, those of us attending CarniVail in March had the pleasure of hearing Dick Durrance and his brother speak about growing up with their father, Olympian Dick Durrance ’39. Dick ’65 has combined his career as a photographer with inspirational speaking around the theme of using one’s “creative vision” to help us face challenges. He and his wife, Sue, live in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Also among the crew at Vail were Chuck Lobitz and his wife, Gretchen. They are both practicing clinical psychology in Denver. Chuck was kind enough to send me a copy of his book, Skiing Out of Your Mind: The Psychology of Peak Performance. The principles of relaxation, awareness and imaging that he and his coauthors present are applicable to many of life’s pursuits in addition to skiing.

Fellow team member Deane Mosher continues to enjoy his research work at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison. In his free time he enjoys cross-country skiing and gardening. He reports this recollection from his ski team days: “An anecdote that I think only I appreciate: Dick Breen ’62 skating away from the U.S. FIS and biathlon teams in the first leg of the Hanover Relays in 1962, nearly 20 years before the skate technique was widely recognized. The starting area across from the ski jump had thawed and frozen the previous day, making it possible for Dick to leave the tracks, skating, and be 50 yards ahead when the tracks converged and went down into a ravine. The national team members reeled him in, of course, but the sight of Dick disappearing with them in desperate pursuit was quite spectacular.”

Skier Dave Beattie has been living in Eliot, Maine, for the last 23 years. After ROTC at Dartmouth he spent 20 years in the Navy Submarine Corps. He worked as a quality manager for Lawrence Pumps for 17 years before retiring this past December. He has a son living nearby in South Berwick, Maine, and a daughter in Brooklyn, New York.

Please mark your calendars for the following events: the West Coast mini-reunion September 11-13; the Hanover mini-reunion October 23-25; and our 45th reunion on June 14-17, 2010.

Have a good summer and keep those cards and letters coming.

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