1951
Secretary, 3632 Warren St., N.W. Washington, D. C.
Class Agent, R.F.D., Indian Spring Rd., Concord, Mass.
THE BIG TENTH! June 16, 17, 18 '51 Out!
Remember Sam Sparhawk? How long has it been since you've seen Bob Hopkins and Ted Eberle? Didn't you know Andy Timmerman and Hank Sanders? Reid Perkins and Mike Harris? Like to hear about the wide foreign travels of Bill Merkle, the new law school teaching post of Dick Pugh? Want to see Al Karcher in action again?
Well, they and many others are all planning to be at the keg under that tent in the nook of Woodward, Smith and Ripley only a little more than a month hence. Ol' JackSutton, who served up those curves in the baseball game the day before our graduation, is coming all the way up from Winston-Salem, N. C. Charlie Breed plans to come in from the far northwest, and Jim Danaher maps his trek all the way from Los Angeles. These are just a few of the crowd that have registered already. You'll also be seeing Park Sickler and Don Snell, Ben Sykes, Phips vonHeimburg, Jim Rogers, Jack Gannon, Al Mori, Dick Dutton... and many more. Through the mails you've been hearing from Ralph Watkins about the full and inviting plans worked out by reunion chairman, BobLeavitt, and committee. So make your plans, and we'll see you there.
Somebody sent us a long story from the Hartford (Conn.) Courant about Bill andJill Foster of Wethersfield. It seems that they were in the running for a trip to England as representatives of the Hartford People to People Council, and while we haven't heard whether they won, it's still good to catch up on a classmate most of us haven't seen since he left Dartmouth for the Air Force during the Korean conflict.
When home on one of his first leaves, Bill met Jill, a pretty English girl visiting in Wethersfield, and started something that ended with wedding bells in London in 1952, after Bill had been assigned to duty in Britain. Now they're back, living in a big white Colonial home in Wethersfield with two attractive children, Alan, seven, and Carol, three. The Air Force is behind him, and Bill is one of those legions of Hartford insurance men. Also up to his neck in com- munity affairs, he's active in church, Boy Scouts, PTA, and the Wethersfield players.
Another fellow we haven't heard of in a while is Bob Williams, who has turned up this spring teaching chemistry at Mt. Holyoke. Since finishing Dartmouth, Bob got his Ph.D. from lowa State and did post-doctoral work at the University of California.
And we now have another politician on our rolls, for it seems that Dave Batchelder was elected to the school board this spring at the annual town meeting of Stowe, Vt. Do you get a discount on ski lift tickets, Dave? (Ask him in June - he'll be at reunion.)
John Gambling, who prospereth with his Musical Clock" daily program on WOR, is moving to a nine-room Georgian home with three acres, on Manhasset Bay in Plandome, Long Island. John, by the way, is another fellow we'll be seeing in the reunion tent.
Jim Balderston has been appointed manager of commercial engineering for a new division which consolidates all transistor manufacture and marketing operations for the Sprague Electric Co. Since the new division is to be based in Concord, N. H., presume this means the Balderstons can have the promotion without moving from their present home up in the lovely country around Contoocook, N. H., so they'll have a short drive to Hanover in June.
That seems to be the crop of news for this month - tidings of classmates are sometimes a bit hard to come by with our members spread around the country the way we are. But you'll get plenty of scuttlebutt first hand in that reunion tent next month, and we urge you to make it a point to be there. You'll see Dick Reed, Jim Bovaird, JoeWelch, Hank Nachman ... and many, many more.
'51 Out!
