The 75th birthday extravaganza in Seattle was not good, it was fabulous. Some 56 of us along with 52 wives and friends from 26 states and one Canadian province gathered for Space Needle views, garden tours, ferry boat rides, museum crawls, sumptuous dinners and a picnic at Mort Kondracke’s Xanadu on the Puget Sound. Tom Grow and his committee arranged every departure from our hotel on time, every venue ready for our arrival and every attraction a winner. One intrepid attender arrived by railroad train direct from Albany, New York, with friend, rested and ready to recreate. 


I hesitate to fill the page with the names of all the attendees, but suffice it to say they ranged from A to V. Here are some seldom heard from, mostly, in this column from the left coast and environs inclusive of the following: Jay Baker and Kathleen Ritz, Ed Berkowitz, Dave Bond and Diane, Doug Bryant and Helen, Art Coburn, Hap Dunning and Carolyn Geiger, Dick Foley and Massy Safai, Haley Fromholtz, the above-mentioned Tom Grow and Lynn, Dave Harrison and Judy, Bruce Hasenkamp and Inta, Dave Horn, Howard Jelinek and Judith, Dick Levy and Sue, Joe McHugh and Brenda, Jim Reinhardt and Kathie, and Gary Vandeweghe and Barbara. 


Don’t miss the next one of these get-togethers. We are fewer in number too quickly.


To that point, we lost Gary Stass on June 28 and Allen Stowe on August 5 this year. 


Allen and your correspondent went back to second grade in Bronxville, New York. He was known also as “Tuff,” a diminutive of Tuffy, which was derived from a birth photo of him with a bandage on his nose due to a tough delivery. After wreaking havoc at our youthful dancing school, he went to Kent, Dartmouth, Tuck and UVA Law School and served as our second class president. He was “a man in full” and as loyal a ’60 as ever did exist. Fun to be with, a doer and a delight. Dr. Johnson claimed that nature abhors a vacuum, but the Grand Designer who made us all will be hard pressed to fill the space in which he dwelt. As Catullus wrote at the end of a poem on the death of his brother, “Atque in perpetuum, frater ave atque vale.”


Class meeting and Homecoming, featuring the Dartmouth vs. Yale football game, are arriving on October 12 this year. All are welcome to peep at the leaves, watch the bonfire, attend the meeting and reacquaint until dinner at Hopkins Center’s newly renovated Alumni Hall.


—John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., 14, Rutland, VT 05701; jmm00033@comcast.net