1899

Now that '99's wonderfully enjoyable and well-attended 55th Reunion is an event of the past, we are looking forward to our 60th with pleasant anticipations. Long way off? Mebbe, but the years fly by all too fast, and that event will soon be here.

The Class of '99 has in the past enjoyed a number of post reunions as guests of RodneySanborn at Ossipee and of Ernest Silver and George Clark at Plymouth, the last one attended by about forty members of the class and their families. This year another post reunion at Warren and Helen Kendall's summer home at Kennebunk Beach, Me., was attended by our long-distance reuners, Lute and AnneOakes from Minneapolis, Carolyn Woodward from Seattle, John Ash, daughter Alice Smith and her husband from Corvallis, Ore. The event was highlighted by a lobster dinner at the Cascades, Saco, with Rodney Sanborn and Margaret and Dave Parker and Esther added to the group.

The trip home for John Ash and party was a delightful one - Concord to Montreal, there for a couple of days; air to Winnipeg for a couple of days more; thence to Calgary and Banff, Vancouver; Seattle by boat, and home to Corvallis, Oregon, July 2. (Some different from the trip Jack made for one of his summer vacation jobs, Thayer School days, when he and a friend "worked their way" by rail west and incidentally got locked in a new burglar-proof mail car crossing the desert and almost smothered from the heat.)

Several birthdays were celebrated at Hanover, but we failed to learn that Elizabeth Collar had one at that time but was too modest to let it be known. We'll keep the date in our memory book. Tim Lynch is at Cotuit, Mass., for the summer and until about Thanksgiving time; gets his own breakfasts and then to even up dines all over Cape Cod. Louis Benezet, our Benny, from reuning traveled to Manchester with Dave Parker and Esther, stayed the night, saw a lot of old friends from superintendency days; had an interesting tape-recorded interview over WMUR with his former secretary, now Mrs. D. C. Ayer - "Esther" of the Shopping News Airways. He expected to make Honolulu by June 29, his 47th wedding anniversary. The Oakes had hoped that Benny would stop over to see them in Minneapolis, but he passed them by. K. Beal and May and granddaughter Nancy May from Miami spent summer waiting at Sparhawk Hall, Ogunquit, Me.: she enters University of Miami this fall. Grandson Peter of Melrose, Mass., enlists in the Marines September 2 for eight weeks basic at Parris Island, and son George with wife Amey and son Kenneth from East Point visited Bradford a week in late August.

From reunion George Rounds and wife visited son George Jr. in Jersey, then to New York City with daughter Helen and husband Roy Rowan. Helen had her first baby June 24, Dana Craig Rowan. His father, uncle and grandfather are all Dartmouth grads; so that makes young Dana Rowan quite some Dartmouth baby! Another birth makes HawleyChase and Marjorie great-grandparents, for daughter Marion Berry's son John married Anne Hildreth in 1953 and Elizabeth Anne Berry was born July 13. The Chases visited daughter Janet in July at their summer home, Groton, Long Island.

While Joe Hobbs didn't make reunion he got the highlights of it in July when he saw Ralph Hawkes in Ogunquit. Herb and LauraRogers had a little hard luck getting home from Hanover through car trouble, but they managed finally to get there the same day they started. They had three anniversary dinner parties and at each were served roast beef. So by the time they had had the last they were pretty well beefed up. The Rogers were pretty close to that plane accident at Rockport on July 12, for they saw the two planes whirling round over their heads and thought they were flying all too low for comfort. And then came the crash, in the yard of an acquaintance of theirs, and not too far away.

After terminating her work at Johnson College at Johnson, Vt., last June Lena Joy took a temporary position at the Elizabeth Lund home at Burlington, Vt., and in September goes to Montpelier as house mother at Vermont Junior College. Lena's son, Dr. Robert Joy, has started practice in pediatrics at Danbury, Conn. Her grandson, Bill Plumb, graduated from Cornell in June (his dad is a Cornell grad), and is now in the Navy for three years.

Through the action of the executive committee of the Class the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is being sent to a number of widows of classmates, who have shown their continued interest in the Class and in the College through their attendance at reunion or by contributions to the Alumni Fund. Now this is just for a starter. If you want to know what's going on among '99ers, just send along the news to your secretary.

Secretary, Box 371, Syracuse 10, N. Y.

Treasurer, 11 Park View Drive, Worcester 5, Mass.

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