Last column provided news about retired Navy flyer and flight instructor Bill Hayden, but the last paragraph was cut due to limited space. Here it is:


Bill fought melanoma last year, is disease free and has volunteered to be a “lab rat” in a clinical study at Duke. Meanwhile son Will ’88, the first legacy from our class, is an engineer building power plants for Bechtel and son Matt runs a satellites simulator lab for Northrop Grumman Space Technologies. “Kit, my wife of 43-plus years, and the three grandchildren are four more of the reasons,” Bill says, “that life is good.”


Ted Thompson is another classmate who just came through a successful bout with melanoma. He’s back playing paddle and regular tennis again. “The moral,” he cautions, “is to protect yourself from the sun, whose damaging effects are cumulative.”


Ted has retired three times. This time it may stick. First he left 30 years in banking in Vermont for a stint in residential real estate renovation and rental. About eight years ago he started working for the College. “To help alleviate Dartmouth’s financial woes,” Ted’s taking voluntary retirement from his position as manager of the Boss Tennis Center and Thompson (no relation, we think) Arena.


Ted and Ann, an expert gardener and creative knitter and spinner, will focus on selling yarn and knitted goods at local farm markets. They’ll also travel the country in their 1962 vintage camper visiting their three children and five grandkids. 


One of Ted’s recent tennis partners was Jeff Futter, a lawyer for Con Ed in N.Y.C. who was in Hanover representing, as an exec committee member and former president, the Dartmouth Club of Long Island at Club Officer’s Weekend. Jeff, wife Susie, daughter Jillian and twin daughters Allison and Claire hit all the high spots—tennis at Boss, snowboarding at the Skiway, skating on Occom, a speech from President Kim, men’s hockey and woman’s basketball. The highlight may have been a chance to catch up with class president Chuck Sherman!


Also in the still working department, George Emlen is music director of Revels, a national organization that produces community and seasonal celebrations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and does a choral composing on the side. “I love getting large numbers of people to sing together,” George explains, “and watching the joy in their faces.” George never heard me at Hums. He and wife Jan enjoy escaping to their home in Blue Hill, Maine.


To Lance Roberts retirement and work have been intertwined over the years. Lance has worked in the financial advisory end of the retirement industry for 35 years, and is now the founder and principal of CIFmarketplace in Columbus, Ohio. It helps service providers and advisors better control costs of retirement plan investments.


Carl Serbell is a Westport, Connecticut-based corporate training professional currently with GE. Carl organized and learned to conduct an orchestra (he could team with George up in Boston). He and Yvonne have one son, John, now in Americorps.


We pass on our sympathies to the families of Peter Dole, Peter Hulings and James Moore, who have passed recently. 


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; lgeiger@aol.com