1932
Through the kindness and perseverance of our own Dick Olmsted, it is possible at this very early date to announce the program for the Fifteenth Reunion of the Class of 1932, to be holden in Hanover on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 20, 21, and 22, 1947.Saturday, June 21, 5:30 P.M.: Cocktail party at the Hanover Inn, at a tentative tax of one dollar per person.
Saturday, June 21, 7:30 P.M.: Class Dinner at the Hanover Inn (or rather in a capacious and splashproof tent on the Inn lawn), at a tentative price of two dollars per person including tip. Saturday, June 21, 7:30 P.M.: Dinner for wives
at the Norwich Inn (indoors) at two dollars for each lady (they having by this date achieved excellent appetites).
Sunday, June 22, at an hour to be announced: Barbecue at Oak Hill, to be put on by the Dartmouth Outing Club at a tentative price of $1.50 per person.
Dick reports that he has got confirmation on all these events, and that the Reunion Weekend Program likewise includes a reception at the President's house on Friday, June so, followed by a dance at the Gym or elsewhere; an Alumni luncheon on Saturday noon, and a production by the Dartmouth Players on Saturday night if anybody can drag himself over there after the Class Dinner. A tent and a piano will also be provided, the whole to be underwritten by individual classmen at a rate of something like two dollars each. Depending on whether or not you will be able to bring Mrs. 1932, you can figure out the probable total tax for the total shindig. The program is being announced thus early so that you can lay your plans for reserving those days on your calendar of activities.
Some months back this column promised a report on the doings of midwesterners. John Sheldon has forwarded the ensuing report on 1932's annual outing at Ed and Jean Eichler's Fin 'n Feather Club. The report emanates from the witty typewriter of John Amos Wright.
Steaks, clay pigeons and beer constituted the main course at Ed and Jean Eichler's annual '32 outing held on Sunday afternoon, September 22, 1946, at the rustic Fin 'n Feather Club. This was the first of such occasions since the war.
Although few of the participants gave Jay Whitehair much competition in breaking the little clay birds, when it came to the delicious cooked-over-an-open-fire steaks, the contest was very close. In fact, if it hadn't been so dark when the finish line of dinner was crossed, a photographic finish surely would have been declared. "Whip" Walser and Ray Brookby were well up in the running.
A pleasant innovation this year thanks to John Sheldon's circulation of announcements was the presence of three of our colleagues from Milwaukee. Under the able guidance of "Ev" Hokanson, as tour conductor, Tommie Wollaeger and Jim Hanan, and their respective better-halfs, drove down Sunday morning. Life these past fourteen years in the city which made the beer which made Milwaukee famous has not slowed these boys up on the baseball diamond. It would be well if you fraters in other parts of the country would bear this in mind in case any of you would like to accept this challenge for a baseball game from the Mid-West, come June 1947, and our Reunion.
In the trap and skeet shooting, congratulations are in order for the ladies as well as the men, for they were ably and well represented by Jean Eichler and Nancy Drew, guest of John Wright. While in the WAVES, Nancy served with or met several of our Dartmouth classihates, namely, Mark Richard, Ed and Hal Smith. Her roommate at Norfolk, inci- dentally, now has the appellation of Mrs. Harold Smith, of Waterbury, Conn.
After the picinic and athletic activities had been wound up on the outside and nightfall arrived, the party was adjourned to Ed and Jean's living room. Here, for the benefit of posterity in general, and Dartmouth '32 in particular Whip Walser's reproduction of his 1932 Old Timers' Day Carpet-bagger's Speech was recorded on a wax disk. It is well for everyone of 1932 to know that Whip's impersonation of a carpet-bagger today, just as in 1932, leaves nothing to be desired. This observation will stand up even when tested alongside of the carpet-bagger's contra-part, none other than Colonel Klaghorn. The members of the party who had adjourned to Ed and Jean's house all had a chance to qualify for the inter-collegiate glee club contest in special renditions of "Men of Dartmouth," "Eleazer Wheelock" and other fitting and appropriate chansons.
Others who enjoyed the numerous activities in the autumn air included Joe Bennett, Dave Kirby, Gene Fitch, Ray Brookby, Jay Whitehair, John Sheldon," Whip Walser and Bob Ackerberg, together with their respective wives.
Other '32 men seen in the vicinity of Chicago during recent months included Steve Harwood (on a business trip from his home in San Francisco), Bud Templin up from Elkhart for a day in the big City, and Alex Christie, who is temporarily stationed here with the W. T. Grant Company.
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