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Bob Herrick, who was our class secretary for years, advises that he is quite active in Rotary and church. He has reason to come East as his daughter Melissa Burman, who graduated from Smith and took master’s in museum management and education from Michigan and Harvard, works at Syracuse University, where her husband has a chair in the economics department. Bob is his usual chipper self though the past year has been tough with a series of back, disc and throat injuries topped off by being debarked in Guatemala from a cruise due to heart irregularities. Back in California he was monitored by a threeweek continuous EKG with four leads into a chip, which broadcast to a cell phone, which sent reports to the doctor’s office. Remarkable; completely mobile; just keep the cell phone within 10 feet and replace the leads daily.

It’s nice to see interest in the Dartmouth legacy transcend generations. Bob Pilsbury’s niece Andi Jenny—who with her husband, Chris ’77, has children in classes ’10, ’12 and soon to be ’14—sent me an article from The Boston Globe covering the death of Bob’s remarkable mother, Frances Pilsbury, after a full life of 108 years. Andi advised that Bob’s father, Elmer, was class of ’19 and courted his wife on the piano with “Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider,” which Bob rendered at the funeral reception. Bob has been a musician all his life and the piano player for nearly 40 years for the Bostonbased New Black Eagle Jazz Band.

DAM advised class secretaries that obituaries would no longer be printed in the magazine in order “to realize significant savings in printing and handling costs.” Bob Herrick continues to write up the obituaries, which may be found with the rest of the magazine at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com. Dick Dahl will cover these as appropriate in his newsletters. Contact alumni records at (603) 646-2253 to report an alumnus death.

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