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D’61 Dam Article – January/February 2018 What a fantastic mini-reunion weekend Maynard Wheeler, on-campus reunion chair, put together for us in Hanover during early October. He gave us perfect weather and kept us busy from dinner on Friday through brunch on Sunday. All classmates who were able to attend the event, which coincided with Homecoming Weekend, experienced a thoroughly enjoyable time. Some of the highlights included interesting presentations by three current students who received grants from our class to help them finance their respective projects, lunch with Dartmouth students, a class meeting led by Don O’Neill which included a presentation by Pete Bleyler about our endowed new class project, the traditional Dartmouth Homecoming Day march and subsequent bonfire, a presentation to our class by the new director of the HOP, the formal presentation by Dave Prewitt of the first Outstanding ’61 Classmate Award to Harris McKee, and, last but not least, a truly remarkable comeback and last minute football victory by Dartmouth over Yale. I don’t usually mention deceased classmates in our class column. However, I must make an exception for Ed Victor, who passed away in June 2017. Ed was one of the world’s top literary agents, having represented such A-list clients as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Pete Townshend, Candice Bergen, U2, and Carl Bernstein. He had been living and working in London, and, in 2016, was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. After his death, the New York Times published not one but two separate large articles about him. John King reported that he was now the chair of the board for Golf Fore Africa, a non-profit foundation which assists in providing clean water to villages in Zambia. The foundation was founded by LPGA Hall of Fame golfer, Betsy King (no relation to John), more than eight years ago and has since improved the lives of the men, women and children of those African villages. John recently returned from his third trip to that country, where he reviewed the work being done by the foundation. --- Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516)446-3977; <[email protected]> .

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