1927

The fourth Fall Reunion of the Class of 1927 was held at the Hotel Rogers, better known to those who have attended these affairs as the "Jolly Roger," in Lebanon, the weekend of October 15. As we gathered on Friday afternoon, the weather was typical of the beautiful fall days that New England produces occasionally, and if the fall foliage was a little past its peak, it was still beautiful to anyone who isn't exposed to its full glory. Most of us drove over to Hanover in time to attend the Dartmouth Night festivities, which were marked by one of the biggest bonfires in history, returning to Lebanon for dinner and then back to the "Jolly Roger" for a late evening of sociability and reminiscence. Saturday morning found most of us up early for a meeting of our Executive Committee, which adjourned in time for us to get over to Hanover for the chicken dinner outside the stadium before the game.

By this time, the sun was shining brightly, and the temperature was more like July than October. As you all know, the game with Holy Cross was a real thriller, and a Dartmouth victory seemed to be in the bag until, with seconds to go, a pass interference penalty was called against Dartmouth, giving Holy Cross the ball on our fourteen-yard line, with something like seventeen seconds to go. A wobbly place kick bounced inside the bar, and there went the game.

Shortly afterward, we gathered in the new Tavern Room at the Inn, for cocktails anddinner, attended by 27 members of theClass, with wives, sons, daughters and guestsmaking a total of sixty. Impromptu entertainment by our more gifted singers, accompanied by various pianists, and finallyby Jack Greener's unique one-piece bandfurnished entertainment after dinner. Theparty finally broke up, with most of us drifting back to the "Jolly Roger" for a fewmore hours of conviviality, and eventuallyto bed. Sunday we awoke to find that ourluck with the weather had run out, as rainand lowering skies had taken over as wesaid good-bye for another year.

All together we counted some 36 classmatesin town during the weekend, and with theirfamilies and guests, our attendance wasabout eighty. These weekends have established themselves as a definite feature of ourClass activities, and those who have attendedwill attest that they are a high spot of theyear.

While the annual report to the Class, issued in the Speak-easy, probably in your hands before you read this, will give you the details of official Class activities over the past year, one action taken by the Executive Committee should have special mention here. The Committee recommended, subject to ratification by the Class, that, in memory of those members of the Class who are no longer with us, we assume sponsorship of a room in Dick Hall's House which is used as a lounge by the students who are confined there. Our sponsorship would include keeping the room supplied with current books, periodicals, and, possibly phonograph records, and anything else that would make it the sort of room boys who could be out of bed would enjoy spending their time in. It was felt that such a memorial would be particularly fitting, because of our close connection with Dick's House, and because it would be a living memorial, used by almost every boy in college at some time or other. Provided the project is approved by the Class, details will be planned by a committee headed by Doane Arnold. Perhaps by the time you are reading this, you will already have been asked to voice your opinion. Our present financial position makes this project feasible, but if it is to be developed to its full potential it will require payment of dues by more members of the Class than are now paying them. It is the sort of thing that can be expanded as the money becomes available.

Steve Osborn is now a vice president of Erwin, Wasey, Ruthrauff and Ryan, in their St. Paul office.

Marty and Louise Heifer were in England during the summer visiting their eldest son, Marc '51, who is doing post graduate work at the University of London in Middle English and Shakespeare, and was farming in a historic section of England near Corfe Castle in Dorset. They also visited the son of their son, Jim's wife in Schwabisch, near Stuttgart, and traveled through Bavaria, the Black Forest, and visited Baden Baden. Jim, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1955, was a senior fellow in 1956 and 1957, attended King's College, University of London in 1957 and 1958, and has been attending Princeton Graduate School since then. His field is Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. The Heifers have six grandchildren, all of whom arrived in the short span of two and a half years.

Curt Wright's daughter, Wickie, was married on September 19 to David S. Foulke, in Chestnut Hill, Penna.

Two regular attendants at the Fall Reunion were kept away by conflicting activities, Hitch Hitchcock was in Europe, on a business trip, in contrast to his sailing vacations in Scandinavian waters in recent years; and Rudy Preuss was attending the annual meeting of Region Two of the Boy Scouts of America in Atlantic City, where he was a delegate of the Nassau County Council.

If you haven't already returned the Class questionnaire, please do so now. We have had a good response, but there are quite a number who have not yet been heard from. If you have mislaid yours, I'll be glad to send you another. Merry Christmas.

1927 Fund Contributors

364 Gifts (Participation Index 90) Total Gifts: $50,000.00 (120% of Objective) Class Agent

Anonymous Abbott, William R., Jr. Allen, Charles G., Jr. Allis, Jairus S. H. Amann, M. Frank Andersen, Kenneth B. Andrews, John G., Jr. Anglem, Thomas J. Armstrong, Arthur A. Arnold, Doane Askew, J. Dean Auer, Frederick M. Auer, Hildreth Baker, Charles P., Jr. Baker, H. Edward Ballantyne, Kenneth C. Barde, Bernard L. Bartlett, Charles W. Batchelder, Edgar M. Battin, Leslie B. Bayles, Henry L. Bell, Bennett D. Benson, Dimon W. Benson, Emanuel M. Benson, Harry N. Besse, SethJ. Blanchard, G. Russell Blanchard, Harold E. Blanchard, Royal I. Bliss, Albert C. Bliss, Robert W. Bonsai, Dudley B. Bostwick, Guy B. Braman, Roger P. Brewster, Charles T. Brickett, Gerald S. Broer, Carleton G. Browning, William H. Bruguiere, Francis J. Brush, Merle E. Burgert, Woodward Burnham, Donald C. Burwell, Charles E. L. Bury, Roger M. Buschmann, August Butterfield, Warren Byrne, Albert H. Calcagni, Joseph O. Carey, George E. Carroll, Charles A. Carter, Richard P. Carver, Frederick E. Chabot, Alfred T. Chandler, James K. Chapman, William D. Choate, Rufus Choukas, Michael E. Cleaveland, Stuart W. Cleaves, Marshall L. Clokey, Frank C. Cloran, Francis B. Colby, I. Gordon, Jr. Congdon, Robert D. Cook, Spencer S. Copeland, Henry N. Copeland, Mark A. Corliss, Philip G. Cotton, Merton L. Coulter, Francis L. Crane, William B., Jr. Creamer, Joseph M. Cullen, William W. Cummings, Harry B. Cusack, William C. Daley, Carroll F. Davenport, William H. Davis, Jonathan Davis, Joshua A. Davis, Thurlow W. Dey, Harrison S. Dowe, Neal R. Doyle, Justin J. Draper, John W. Dreher, LeRoy H. Dreyer, Ernst H. Duncan, Laurence I. Dunn, L. Arthur C. Duplin, Victor J., Jr. Elliott, William P. Eno, Lloyd Ensinger, Stuart M. Fall, Robert H., Jr. Fellingham, Frederick C. Field, Charles N. Flannery, Roy L. Fleischer, Charles H. Folkers, Kern E. Ford, Norman C. Fossum, Niels B. Fowler, Edwin H. Fowler, Philip Fox, Richard B. Fox, Richard Bradley Freeman, W. Brownell French, Reginald F. Friede, George W. Fry, S. Edwin Fryberger, Herschel B., Jr. Fryberger, William B. Fuller, Bradley Funkhouser, Robert D. Fuqua, John H. Gardner, Donald W. Gardner, John W. George, Frank E. Gibson, Charles A. Gilbert, Carlton H. Gilboy, Robert C. Gillespie, Thomas V. Gintzler, Joseph H. Girault, Theodore A. Godfrey, Donald F. Gore, Lionel C. Gray, Houston Greenebaum, Leon C. Greener, John H. Griffin, Richard F. Graver, Elbert A., Jr. Gustin, Bertram P. Guyer, Reynolds Guyot, Roscoe E. Hale, Henry F. Hall, Richard D.2 Ham, Thomas H. Hannaford, Glenn L. Hannah, Paul F. Hardin, J. Lawson, Jr. Hardy, Charles L. Harris, Sydney I. Harvey, Rolfe M. Haynes, Charles H.1 Hazelton, Robert C. Head, William B., Jr. Heap, Hargreaves, Jr. Heifer, Martin A. Herwitz, Oren C. Hitchcock, Ethan W. Hodell, George T. Hoge, William S., III Hollands,WilliamG.,Jr. Holleran, John H. Hood, Richard F. Hope, Gordon R. Horton, H. Reginald Hough, John N. House, Albert V., Jr. Howe, Herbert A. Howell, George E. Howes, Roland L. Howland, Winston D. Hunt, Philip B., Jr. Huntley, Charles S. Ingham, Kermit W. Ingham, Van Wie Jacob, Edward H., Jr. Jamieson, William C. Jeannette, Daniel E. Johnson, Edmund R. Jones, Harvey P. Jones, James M. Jones, John F.. Jones, Laurence W. Joslyn, Merritt L. Keleher, Arthur B. Kelly, Joseph N. Kennedy, Thomas G. Ketz, Michael F. Kilmarx, Leslie F. King, William C., Jr. Kinney, Donald M. Knapp, Edwin M. Koerner, Harold E. Koles, George S. Kortlucke, Frederick F. Krogstad, Earl E. LaCoss, Donald A. Lagacy, Alpha O'C. Lawrence, Albert A. Lee, Cebern L. Lee, Kenneth E. Levis, Howard T. Libby, Granville E. Lindenmeyr, Carl E. Loeb, Leon Long, Robert L. Lougee, Richard J.3 Lovegrove, Marshall P. Low, Harold D. Lowell, James B. *Lower, James W. Lund, Arthur C. Lyman, Arthur C. Lyon, Roswell H., Jr. Lyon, Samuel McAnulty, Ralph H. McCall, Donald F. McClure, Alfred B. Mac Donald, Albert G. McGough, Samuel M. McGrath, Hugh A. Machen, John W. McKee, Hiram W. McKennan, Bruce McQuade, John S. Manson, Stanley H. Marks, George VanP. Marston, Edwin L. Martin, Samuel H. Megathlin, Donald E. Merriam, David H., Jr. *Meyercord, Kenneth N. Michelini, Ronald J. Miller, Jeffery V. Milliken, Lyman F. Mills, Stephen D. Milner, Harry B. Minnich, John H. Miracle, Ralph B. Mix, Robert C. Mooney, Richard D. Morey, Nathaniel B. Moss, Lawrence V. V. Moulton, Lloyd W. Mullen, James A. Mullin, Howard J. Munro, John H. Munsey, Everett D. Murdoch, Kenneth V. Murphy, Joseph R. Murray, Kenneth H. Murray, Warren E. Myers, Walter E., Jr. Nichols, Roswell S., Jr. Norris, Arthur H. North, William G. Oakes, John R. O'Connell, Paul R. O'Gara, T. Donald Oliver, Warren D. O'Rourke. T. Nelson1 Orth, Henry W. Osborn, Stephen A. Owl. Frell McD. Paddock, Erwin B. Page, Norman F. Page, Robert W. Partridge, Melvin H. Patten, Hawley Pelton, William M. Pfanner, John A., Jr. Picken, James E. Pierson, Paul R. Pierson, Richard L. Pike, John B. Pownall, Harold C. Prescott, William S. Preuss, M. Rudolph Proudman, Donald W. Provost, George W., Jr. Pruner, A. William Pulsifer, Allen H. Pulver, B. Jordan Purdy, Remington J. Randall, Clifford A. Rankin, Andrew M. Redcay, Edward E. Reynders, John F. Reynolds, Edward C. Rice, G. Clifford Ring, Raymond McC. Rintels, Jonathan B. Ripley, Edward P. Risley, Howard W. Robinson, Nelson Rodormer, E. Winston Roe, John Ross, Michael H. *Rubin, Herbert Russakoff, Joseph M. Russell, Howard I. Russell, Kenneth H. Ruth, Edward D. Ryan, Joseph H. St.Amant,George W., Jr. Salinger, Roger B.4 Satterfield, William J., Jr. Scammon, Lawrence W. Schackne, Stewart Schlossman, David R. Schroedel, Robert E. Schuster, Carl E. Selig, Ernest T., Jr. Senn, Frank R. Sercombe, Hubert D. Shaw, Wilfred E. Sheldon, John P. Slater, Robert H. Slotnik, Moses Smith, Gordon Smith, J. Lynwood Smith, W. Gordon Smith, Warren B. Smith, Willard H. Spinney, William A. Sprague, Willard F. Staubach, Joseph N. Stern, Leonard I. Stevens, Robert N. Stiff, Cary P. Stinchfield, Allan J. Stone, Bradford W. Stowe, Richard E. Strong, Frank P. Swanson, Theodor Swift, Norman G. Tanzi, John S. Thees, John D. Thompson, Fred H. Thompson, J. Arthur Tobey, William R. Tracy, Joseph L. Tracy, Stephen P. Trefethen, J. Waterman Tucker, Robert W., Jr. Turpin, Miles A. Upham, John H. Van Loon, James H. Vietor, Henry T. Vincent, Reginald P. Voice, Sidney P. Voorhis, Nicholas R. Voorhis, Sheldon S. Ward, Frederic K. Ward, William E., Jr. Warner, Douglas C. Weiss, Carl A. Wellman, Albert A. Welty, Alan McK. Wesselmann, Roy A. Weston, Russell G. Wheeler, Thomas B. Whitney. Vernon E. Wilder, Evan A. Williams, Bedford Williams, J. Palmer Williamson, Robert W. Wi'ling, James B. Wilson, John, Jr. Wise, Allan L. Woelfel, George L., Jr. Woelfel, Paul G. Wood, John D. Wormley, Lowell C. Wormser, Samuel Z. Worth, Elmer H. Wright, Curtis, Jr. Yeaton, Kenneth J. Zaro, Nicholas J. Zimmerman, Elmer W.

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Harry B. Cummings'27.

2 Sister, Mrs. LaurenceG. Leavitt.

3 Willard H. Smith '27.

4 Brother, Robert D.Salinger '26.

*Memorial Gift throughCapital Campaign.

Secretary, 29150 West River Rd. Perrysburg, Ohio

Treasurer, Apt. 10C, 3908 N. Charles St. Baltimore 18, Md.