1947's Fifteenth Reunion

After 15 years as Class Secretary, JessChadwell ha? asked to be relieved of the thankless but ever present task. The Executive Committee accepted his resignation with a great deal of regret, and proceeded to search and search and search for someone to act as even a passable substitute. Although we went on the wagon the following day, it was too late for Herpicide. (Suicide might be more in keeping.) It is, therefore, our painful duty to take up where Jess left off. The entire class owes him a debt of gratitude for the time and devotion which he lent to the job.

On to the Fabulous Fifteenth - George and Helen Dalphin - George sprouted a beard which makes him the image of the fellow in the Quinine ads - were in charge of details and weather in Hanover and Fairlee, Vt. The temperature during the entire weekend was in the seventies with nary a cloud in the sky except a ten minute shower Friday night which George called to get the tent in proper atmosphere for activity.

And activity there was thanks to Dick andLuci Menin (Program Chairman) with a special midnight (Friday) cook-out with hamburgers, hot dogs, etc., just to be sure the group could continue after the Sea Breezes which greeted each arrival. Saturday morning arrived with breakfast in the tent and the complaint from the stayers that the beer was shut off at 2:30 A.M. Those with rooms fronting on the tent complained because it hadn't been shut off sooner, so the day was born.

From our class meeting and picture everyone wandered over to the Inn for buffet lunch. Since the Inn only had one serving table for 200 people there was quite a long and unnecessary wait but several of our sharper classmates, including Julie and Joann Sayer (Julie was the genius behind those publicity releases) fell into a small tavern at the Inn to await the time when the line for lunch resembled less the old Navy days and more the way the Inn should have operated.

Nevertheless, after a satisfactory lunch everyone headed out to Lake Morey for sports, relaxation, swimming, beer, and the most obnoxious looking but delicious tasting gin punch imaginable. According to our magnificent reunion Treasurer, Al and BevGasner, who brought in the finances without going into the hole, Tanzi ran out of the proper juices for the punch s.o they took whatever was on hand, including pineapple-grape, orange-lemon, and assorted others.

Highlights of the afternoon's fun and frolic: There was a great deal of canoeing and boating going on and when four stalwarts were seen to have capsized in mid-lake there was momentary panic until it was determined that they had paid the reunion tax, class dues, and contributed to this year's alumni fund, so they were left to bring in the boat on their own.

The other event concerned Fritz Alexander who claimed that the beautiful 30-foot yacht in which he was riding had been flown in from his private mooring on the Hudson. (Turned out, of course, that this was but one of the many "extras" supplied by the Lake Morey Inn for our enjoyment.)

The dinner, steak, etc., was served in the large dining room and during coffee and desssrt. Professor Al Foley gave a humorous but Dartmouth-oriented talk, which was appreciated by everyone except those in the back of the room who could not hear because of another Lake Morey "extra" - 150 extra guests who came in and were served during the speech.

Norm and Helen Fink, who chairmanned the reunion so ably, accepted the few mishaps with equanimity (on the surface but a strong desire toward mayhem underneath, however, since everything else ran smoothly they have been forgiven Innkeepers' errors, over which they had no advance warning or control anyway.

Dorothy Gray, Limited was kind enough to provide samples of "Secret of the Sea" moisturizing cream for all the ladies with each jar individually wrapped in white paper with green ribbon by the gals on the reunion committee. (And if you don't think wrapping a hundred plus gifts isn't a chore, figure out the time at eight gifts wrapped per hour.) Doug Burch, Ad Manager of P. Lorillard, was also kind enough to supply four-packs of Kent Cigarettes for each of us at the reunion plus cartons and lighters for raffle prizes. Many thanks to Doug and all the others who contributed enough prizes to give our '47 class treasury a much needed lift. (By the way, have you sent Joe Kurey your fin for '62 class dues?)

From Lake Morey, back to the tent for our seven piece band, dancing, raffles, midnight sandwiches and beer that finally ran out at 12:08 Sunday afternoon. Bloody Marys served for goodby toasts on Sunday morning to go along with all the excuses on why husbands stayed up later than the wives.

As each re-uner packed the alpine straw hats with real, smokable pipe attached, which Bob and Abby Kirsch imported from Italy, it was apparent that the Fabulous Fifteenth had drawn to a close and now everyone could go back to work to recover.

There is not room to list all the re-uners, but Hugh Chapin has promised to include it in the next issue of the Squaw-ker, along with many of the anecdotes such as AlGraves' 10-year-old telling everyone in the tent Sunday morning that "Daddy didn't come to bed last night." Or, Ralph Warburton plaintively saying to Rosemary the same morning, "Of course I couldn't come to bed - Jiggs asked me to police the tent and I had to cooperate, didn't I?"

A few words are necessary on the class meeting which produced the quorum upon which to conduct business. Minutes of the meeting will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Squaw-ker.

Tom Leggat, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, presented nominees for the Executive Committee which was duly published in the Squaw-ker and in the class notes of the June ALUMNI MAGAZINE which all members of the class received prior to leaving for the reunion. Anyone in the class may also file a slate, if such is done three months prior to the meeting so that this too may be published in the class notes of the MAGAZINE. There were no other nomi-nations, so the following men were elected to the Executive Committee to serve for five years or until the next class meeting: Al Bildner, Jess Chadwell, Hugh Chapin, George Dalphin, Norm Fink, John Fuller, Townes Harris, Joe Kurey, Bob Snedaker, Ralph Warburton, Bill Wood.

The Executive Committee then met and elected Al Bildner, Chairman; Joe Kurey, Treasurer; Townes Harris, Class Agent; Hugh Chapin, Newsletter Editor, and the new Secretary. Or to put it easily, no change except to replace Jess as Secretary. The Executive Committee also discussed and will act on increasing the size of the committee to thirty members in order to insure countrywide representation for everyone in the class.

CLASS SECRETARY