1927
A beautiful Hanover October weekend was the reward for the faithful this year and a just one if you remember the rain of last year's Penn game. The reunion started early for the Burys. Rolling along the Merritt Parkway early Friday morning, we saw a familiar face, and proceeded to flag down Don and Betty McCall. Agreed to meet for lunch — Don knew a nice old inn — so tailgated each other to the beautiful little town of Walpole, N. H., but no nice old inn - torn down seven years ago! So lunched in Bellows Falls and on to Hanover where the gang was gathering. Duke Coulter emceed an informal dinner for a small group of us at the Green Lantern that night. Marsh McGough flew from Pittsburgh to Boston and via a Greenebaum Hertz car on to Hanover. Will Shaw on hand without wife, with what was a somewhat outmoded (to the rest of we '27ers) excuse for Mrs. Shaw's absence - baby sitter problems. Yes, that's right; they have a couple of eightend ten-year-olds of their own. Doesn't seem too realistic to try to get a "youngest child" derby going to join our "most grandchildren" one, does it? The question was asked Ding Heap at dinner as to Rusty's whereabouts. Before he could answer, JackGreener came up with: "Back in the motel. Rusty decided to have a bath and set his hair." Rusty is a short-haired Golden Lab- rador attending his third '27 fall reunion.
Saturday A.M. we all breakfasted in the Drake Room at the Center and, pushing back the coffee cups, got down to business at 9:30-ish. Some 30 of us with wives as ex officio members spent the balance of the morning on class business. Reports were read but a large number were given in person. Regional Chairmen Lee Loeb, DonQ'Hara, Jack Sheldon, Cug Daley, and running away with the "coming from the longest distance prize," Bruce McKennan from San Francisco. Don O'Hara will have a date soon for the New York dinner. Cug Daley reported that the Boston Alumni Association will celebrate its 100th anniversary January 22 at the Boston Statler and that he will set up a '27 Wheelock tavern room prior to the meeting. Bob Stevens said we could probably get more '27ers from New York than Boston to attend. Paul Hannah thought it would be nice if each New Yorker brought a Boston classmate with him. JackSheldon told us of Art Lyman's illness encountered on the way to Hanover. He was hospitalized in Syracuse. Hope by now he is home recuperating.
Among the vital business transacted was the transfer of the state of Montana from Sam Martin's region to Bruce McKennan's "Far Western" territory. Bruce gets to Montana from time to time and sees Roy Covert and Ralph Miracle. Bruce, the last time he was in Hawaii, also enjoyed a visit with Bill Neilson on the island of Maui, where he is Airport Manager.
Good dinner with 90 classmates and guests in Alumni Hall, Saturday after the game. Dean (Spike) and Mrs. Chamberlin were our guests, and being '27ers from the University of Washington, Bob proposed Spike as an honorary class member of '27. He was duly inducted. Had a group of '27 sons including 3 Bob Tucker boys. Maybe when Bob gets the three of them off his payroll, he will be able to join us for a Hanover meeting. Others were sons of DonO'Hara, Gus Buschmann (what a big tackle), Bob McClure, Ken Meyercord, Paul O'Connell, and Bob Page. More about meeting in the Speak.
More news soon on next year's reunion from Paul Revere O'Connell and his assistant Red Cleveland. But put it on your list. It's getting bigger and better each year.
Real nice note from Nick Carter, Suffield, Conn., where he is keeping busy in his retirement turning a beautiful old New England house that he inherited into a museum. He sends along an interesting brochure on the project and cordially invites '27ers in the area to visit The Burbank-Phelps-Hatheway-Fuller House.
Maximilian Shaw writes the Morning Globe in Boston anent the last summer's submarine tragedy saying "My plain old liberal arts education from Dartmouth College tells me you can't cut holes in the side of a submarine, weld them over with steel plates and expect them to hold up under deep water pressure."
Bob Bliss writes "Have just been appointed to Governor's Commission on Civil Rights. I hope it's not political. Busy running Janesville, Wise., Gazette and AM and FM radio stations."
Cal Voorhis has moved to 264 Hillside Avenue, Palisades Park, N.J. He post cards he is busy as an editor for Prentice-Hall in nearby Englewood Cliffs.
Bob Williamson sends me the bulletin of Friends of Dartmouth Library which thanks Vic Reynolds for presenting the library with a copy of each of the books published by the University of Virginia Press which he heads.
Find I didn't tell you that I had a nice newsy note from Len Dunn, Mesa, Ariz., where he has retired - semi - since he is with a real estate and investment agency. He made a full inspection of possible places, checking out both coasts of Florida, Southern California, Texas, Louisiana, but chose the "Valley of the Sun" and is quite sold on it after some 18 months. Len invites any '27ers who vacation in the area to come by for a drink and a swim in his pool. Nice January idea - eh?
Bed Williams has opened a law office at 4898 El Camino Real in Los Altos, Calif. Pretty name and a pretty area. And what's new with you?
M.C. Duke Coulter (I) and Howie Mullin at '27 reunion dinner at Brown tilt.
Secretary, Orchard Hill Rd. Westport, Conn.
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