1937

Your secretary usually depends upon reports from football weekends as a good source of information for this column. So I looked forward to attending the Brown and Yale games as a sure fire way of getting a stock of news items to keep this column alive. The Brown game? Except for the fact that the Big Green won in a walkaway, my luck was as bad as the weather. It poured all during the game, and I didn't see a soul from the Class of '37. A few weeks later I took my daughter Betsy to the Yale game. We drove up with Bob and Emily Turner,Bill and Mary Falion, and Fred and MildredBunce. This turned out to be a beautiful, warm day, ideal for a picnic in the parking lot by the bowl. Long before game time, we wandered up to the big tent which all wearers of the green had been invited to use as a central meeting place. And the only '37er in the tent was Charlie Blaisdell. And Charlie had no news of any kind to relay to me.

Other people have much more success at "seeing people" than I do. For example, Mort and Marjory Berkowitz were among the many at the Princeton game. I have a concise report from him as to people he saw during the game, which goes something like this:

"Wes and Ruth La Cour with their son and daughter; Anton Maggio; Sam and Becky Dillon up from Maryland with their children, reporting on the opening of a new inn under their management in Hagerstown, Md.; the Sheldon Wagners with their son who just completed the freshman varsity football season as center; the Carl Rays with daughters Bonnie and Phyllis; Paul Olsen; all among the many, many more watching a great Dartmouth victory on one of the most beautiful Saturdays in Princeton-Dartmouth history."

My faithful Boston reporter, Bib Bankart, writes thusly:

Thought I might have more dope for you than I do by waiting till after the HD game but I can't say I'm too proud of the accumulation.

Biggest thing - our son Dick who went to Huntington School here in Boston last year was accepted at Colby which was his first choice and is doing okay as a freshman this year. Kay and I went up about a month ago for parents' weekend and had a two-fold marvelous time. Seems we got into a box on reservations and rushed off a note to Ronnie Brown who saved the day for us by insisting we stay with them overnight. He and Hatsy have a large house for just the two of them but seem to spend 7/9s of their time living in a fixed-up studio-bar-kitchen-horse stall-TV room with 15-foot picture-door windows overlooking a lovely patio. Heat provided by old-style kitchen range with oil - this room in the rear of their big barn out behind the house. Most living done here - sleeping only in the house. "We drove up very early Saturday A.M., registered at the school, checked in at the Browns, back to a roast beef lunch and football game on the college, thence to a college reception, then Brownie's for few hoots, Jefferson Restaurant for dinner for our family, then back there for the evening. They were wonderful to us and we all had a terrific time. Saw Otis Mudge, Dartmouth Deke '39, whose son rooms next to my boy. It's a beautiful school and Dick is pleased as punch. I might add it was the first time I'd seen a co-ed operation such as cheer leaderesses, and the one who spent most of the game about eight feet in front of our section exhorting us to greater hoarseness would have had the Dartmouth student body's 100% vote for Carnival Queen. Imagine an old goat like me losing my voice!

Family Bankart minus one (son) plus one (mother) grabbed our usual rush seats for the DH game in section 13 low. Except for the final quarter all seats were low as far as we were concerned. Only familiar face there, right behind us Dr. Crawf and Ilene Hinman. Had received a call from a local gent named Rankin '27 who was entertaining Ben Doran for the weekend inquiring about any '37 functions which there were none, but I treaded over to ,that section between halves to look him up without any luck. That section 4-6 was a complete tangle of arms, legs, green, jostles, and I'm sure many '47 but all I managed to talk with was Carl Noyes with a view of Dex Smith and a fast wave at Dick Cooper. Carl said Mutt Ray was "down there somewhere" and then I had to get back as the kick-off was imminent.

Although we started for the cage where Dartmouth was supposed to gather after the game it was too mobbed and no place for a 78-year-old enthusiastic mother.

And the above, Mr. Alan O'Bryant, is all I can muster upster for you, sir.

Reunion keeps cropping up in my correspondence. To date Don McKinlay has had over eighty replies to his questionnaire about our own Hanover Holiday program, and over 60% of the returns have indicated probable attendance. And a late count from Bob Turner on the cards sent out by Art Ruggles is as follows: 94 definitely expect to come to reunion, 26 expect they cannot make it, and 33 at this point are questionable.

We had a delightful dinner in New York last week at the new Dartmouth Club at the Hotel Commodore. Dave Camerer chairmanned the affair, Bill Coe gave us a report on reunion plans to date, and we all had a fine time. Bob McCoy's wife, Liz, was unanimously elected Women's Chairman for Reunion, so we are certain that the ladies' department will be well organized. I must say that with all the preliminary organization that Bill Coe and his committee have already accomplished promise us a real bang-up time next June. All present at the dinner last week indicated they will be on hand. Perhaps you might like to know who was on hand, so here is the list:

Bill and Fern Coe, Bob and Emily Turner, Bill and Betty Dixon, Al and Sherry Bryant, Ben and Barbara Cardozo, Roily and Sherry Bialla, Lanny and Jamie Moore, Bob and Liz McCoy, Charlie Blaisdell, Herman E. Anstatt Jr., Halsey and Sally Bullen, Wayne Ballantyne, Mai Merritt, Frank Robin, Tom and Anne Jacobs, Vin Turecamo, Dave and Muriel Camerer, Bill and Winnie Ashe, Carl and Ruth Ray, Bob Woodruff, Mort and Marjory Berkowitz, Don Miller.

Just a few quick news items. Russ Tompkins has been appointed employee relations manager of Mobil Oil Company's Marketing Department. Sid Lansburgh, president of the Raleigh Haberdasher recently received the Washington (D. C.) Advertising Club's Plaque of Distinction, honoring Sid and his company on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the well-known Washington apparel firm. Dick Rush, president of his own investment company, recently hit the syndicated columns of the financial pages with a review of his new book entitled "Art as an Investment" (Prentice-Hall). And this does it for tonight.

Secretary, 25 Old Stamford Rd. New Canaan, Conn.

Trtasurer, 17 High St., Greenfield, Mass.