January/February, 2002.
The countdown is starting; the 35th Reunion will be October 17-20, 2002.  
Bruce Pacht is the Reunion Chairman.  Make your reservations to join us.

Williams College has awarded a fellowship for study at the Francis Christopher 
Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences to Robert Bell (the 
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English).  Bob's project is titled 
"James Joyce's Ulysses in Hypermedia."  After completing his doctorate at 
Harvard, Bob joined the Williams English Department in 1972.  A full professor 
since 1983,  he was awarded the national Robert Foster Cherry Award for 
Great Teachers in 1998. His fields of expertise are 18th Century British 
literature and James Joyce.
  
In 1988 Ralph Alan Cohen and colleagues started a professional touring company
called the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express.  The touring company has expanded
considerably, opening an indoor Elizabethan theater, the Blackfriars Playhouse,
in Staunton, VA.  The playhouse is home to the Shenandoah Shakespeare Education
Center.  Ralph is professor of English at James Madison University and Executive
Director of Shenandoah Shakespeare.  He was one of the first recipients of 
Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award.  In 1998, Georgetown University conferred
on him an honorary degree for Doctor of Human Letters for his work.

Bill Bogardus passed on some news.  In August, the Class of 1967 has three 
classmates who played with their sons in the National Father-Son Tennis Doubles 
Championship (Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, MA).  They were Charlie and 
Justin Hoeveler (Charlie and his oldest son Charles, Jr., were national champions 
three times), Bill and Ian White, and Curt and Charles Anderson.  Bill's
daughter, Rachel Bogardus '98 was married in September to Jon Drew '98, stepson 
of George Berry '66.  Rachel and Jon met on their freshman trip in September 1994.   

Have not heard of the loss of any classmates from the September 11 tragedy.  With 
much regret, do have obituaries to report.  Malcolm Vernon Beard, Jr. of 
Auburndale, MA died in July.  Mickey was an economics major and skilled athlete, 
he played football, baseball, and ski patrol. In 1965 his 79-yard pass to Bill 
Calhoun clinched Dartmouth's win over Princeton,  an undefeated season, Ivy 
championship, and Lambert Trophy. He quarterbacked the Ivy co-champion team and 
was named All-Ivy and All-East in 1966.  He was All-Ivy shortstop in baseball 
in 1967.  A member of Green Key, Sphinx, and Beta Theta Pi, Mickey received 
the Watson Trophy as the outstanding Dartmouth athlete.  He earned an MBA 
from Tuck ('68) and C.L.A. in 1973.  

John Eugene Kirklin of Cortlandt Manner, NY died in April, 2000. A history major, 
John competed in cross country and track.  He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa 
Cum Laude, won the Class of 1859 history prize, with highest distinction in 
History, and went on to Harvard Law School.  In 1970 John graduated from law 
school, married, and worked with Legal Aid Society of NYC.  He was Director of 
Litigation of the Civil Appeals Division, and later headed up the pro bono 
work for Sullivan and Cromwell in NYC.  In private practice, he specialized in 
civil rights, discrimination, and ERISA law with a special emphasis on 
statutory attorney's fees.  He was involved in a number of civil rights cases 
before the U.S. Supreme Court including the landmark statutory attorney's fees
case Blum vs. Stenson.  He co-authored the civil rights litigation work 
"Section 1983 litigation: claims, defenses, and fees."  John is survived by 
his two children Christopher and Katherine of Larchmont, NY; an adopted 
daughter Alexis of NYC; his parents Dr. and Mrs John W. Kirklin, his brother 
Dr. James Kirklin of Birmingham, AL; sister Helen of Gainesville, FL, and former 
wife Judy of Larchmont, NY.  Sincerest sympathies to the families at their loses.
 
 Dave Mangelsdorff (3410 Turtle Village Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78230-3918) 
e-mail to dmangels@txdirect.net  210-344-0942.