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Thanks to reports from his friend and Pinehurst, North Carolina, neighbor Larry Weltin, we learn that Andy Thomas is recovering nicely from his five-hour August 5 heart valve surgery at Duke University Hospital. First thing he wanted to do in the recovery room was take a “selfie” of himself, Nathalie and daughters Emily and Adrienne—which ICU nurses nixed due to all the equipment surrounding him. By the 10th he was back home “looking strikingly different,” sans 20 pounds of fluids from legs, abdomen and face, “beginning to look like the old Andy.”

Gersh Abraham emailed in mid-August that Sally’s latest MRI shows no tumor growth, that they have “settled into” their new lifestyle at the Mather in Evanston, Illinois, and “may go” to their New Hampshire home in the fall. In which case, those who attend the October 17-19 mini-reunion will have further reports.

“But enough of the organ recital,” as former roomie Lee Wight signs off in his periodic reports from “left Coast” (laguna Woods, California), where he and Jan have lived many years.

“As new kid on the block,” first-year head agent Dick Pew noted that in his class of ’58 team in the 2014 Dartmouth College Fund drive “raised 157 percent of our dollar goal” and achieved 59-percent participation, topping the 58-per- cent target (and the all-classes 43 percent). “We performed exceptionally well!” he congratulated them.

Mel alperin, our gift planning chair, emailed that in “joining the Bartlett Tower Society, size doesn’t matter.” Many folks will less than 10 per- cent of their residual estates to the society, he said—adding it’s the thought that counts most. Contact Laura Alexander in gift planning (603- 646-3799) for details.

Two classmates departed recently. Donald angell of Barrington, Vermont, died July 24. Raised in Bellows Falls, founder of the Angell Pension Group and active in many sports, Don apparently succumbed to cancer. John Cherba of Ramsey, New Jersey, died August 4—perhaps our oldest classmate at 82. Hailing from Stamford, Connecticut, John was a navy veteran (probably Korea), majored in economics, listed “automo- tive” as his career and was a vintage car judge at Connecticut’s Lime Rock race park.

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