1953
We have just returned from a very wonderful weekend in Hanover, the occasion being the annual Alumni Class Officers meeting. Weatherwise, it was one of those rare but beautiful spring weekends which a few years back was known to have upset many ambitious cramming schedules in preparation for finals, instead sending us out to the golf course or tennis courts, or simply a stroll in the country. Now if anything such spring weekends seem to wield even greater power, bringing back a rush of pleasant memories as well as engendering a more acute awareness of the beauty and strength of the College in its New Hampshire setting, and a deeper pride in one's claim as an alumnus of this institution. This, at least, is how such a visit affects this correspondent, and I'm sure it would implant a similar feeling in most of you. It is our hope that a very large percentage of the class and their families will have such an opportunity to experience this feeling at our Fifth Reunion, if not before. The big event is scheduled for June 1957. Under the new combined reunion schedule we return after only four years out, sharing the week with the '51 and '52 classes, and already plans for the big party are being drawn up. Remember, wives and little ones are welcome!
News and Views
Good reports continue to emanate from Hanover on '53 Alumni Fund contributions: let's keep the ball rolling, and send our class over the top. Think before you give; protect and strengthen the College for the day when perhaps your son can reap the advantages of the Dartmouth experience.
News, I'm afraid, has been trickling in at a very slow pace this month. In fact, for the first time we can recall no wedding resumes. However, looking at the imposing list of betrothals, there doesn't seem to be very much danger of '53 approaching the state of a nearly extinct conglomeration of balding bachelors. Yes, our old friend Cupid blew in with the March winds, penetrating among others the bachelor armor of Army Private Bob Core (stationed Pine Bluff, Ark.) and Walt Patton, and remained through April to bag Bill Fry, Howie Clery, Scrib Fauver, and Hap Haggett. The prospective Mrs. Core is Donna Marquardt, a Northwestern senior, plans calling for a late May wedding in Chicago. Walt Patton, now a med student at the U. of Tennessee, and nurse Karli Yowell of Hardy, Ark., intend to tie the nuptial knot on 15 June, while Lt.(jg) Bill Fry USN and his bride, Linda Berglum, a Barnard graduate and resident of Wilton, Conn., will exchange wedding vows later that month. Bill is due for discharge in early June. A second Barnard alumna, this one hailing from New Bedford, Mass., Miss Connie Benjamin, succeeded in bewitching Gillette employee Howie Clery; the wedding is scheduled for September 22. In Boston this past year, Scrib Fauver managed to escape from the Harvard Law School grind sufficiently to romance Ann Babbitt, '53 Holyoke alumna, and the two will become Mr. and Mrs. this summer. Scrib graduates this June, and plans are for the Fauvers to settle in Cleveland where the groom will join the prominent law firm of Goodman-Jones. As yet, no definite date for the big day with Hap Haggett, now in his last year at Harvard Med School, and Nancy Peterson of Watertown, Mass. The prospective Mrs. Haggett is a former Colby Jr. gal.
NEWS IN BRIEF.... One addition to the papoose scoreboard, Jennifer Anne Conn, daughter of Nancy and Dick Conn of New York, born on April 11.... Bob Lonsbury out of the Army and now working for American Brake Shoe Co. in Chicago PeteGrenquist, recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for study at Columbia University this fall.... Tom Blomquist, recently appointed sales engineer for the F. H. Bathke Co. of St. Paul.
That, I fear, is all the news available to me at this time. Certainly with over 700 members in the class, there must be many many more items worthy of mention in this column. How about some of you getting off your fat "duff" and dropping us a brief note; the address: Lt.(jg) E. F. Boyle, USS Brough DE-148, c/o F.P.0., New York, N. Y. Keep up the great work on the Alumni Fund.
Secretary, USS Brough (DE-148) c/o Fleet P. 0., New York, N. Y.
Class Agent, 20 Chapel St., Brookline 46, Mass.
