1925

It's a bit difficult to make news out of no news; so your column this month is necessarily brief.

Perhaps the most important event occurred in September when Charlie Moore called a dinner meeting at the Parker House in Boston to discuss preliminary plans for our 40th Reunion next June. Present were Adie, Esther, and Lang Spring, Jean and Joe Leavitt, Emily and Herb Talbot, Ellie and Frank Wallis, Bill Sleigh, and yours truly. No momentous decisions were reached, but as soon as definite plans are formulated you will be hearing from either Charlie, who's reunion chairman, or Herb, who has agreed to assume responsibility for publicity. Incidentally, the dates you should mark on your calendar are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, June 14, 15, and 16, 1965. Announced informally at the meeting was the resignation of Joe Leavitt from M. T. Bird & Co. to assume the job of business manager for Lewellyn White's Bryant and Stratton School.

Observed at the opening football game at Durham were Dot and Larry Leavltt, Connieand Lane Goss, Gertie and Ford Whelden and Roxanne and Eddie Griffin.

The In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue reports on the loss of two classmates, Irving Burns and Sol Whittemore, We regret having to report also the loss of wives by Link Price (Louise), Bob Sharp (Marie), and George Newman (Frances), to each of whom the deepest sympathy is extended on behalf of all classmates.

Many address changes have been reported — probably too many to record here. So the buck is hereby passed on to The Roundup editor, who it is certain will be happy to use the material.

Postscript - The foregoing was handed personally with apologies for its brevity to the editor at Hanover the day of the Boston University football game. During the visit it was learned that the class was well represented at the Alumni College session last summer. Attending were: Hilda and Bob Hardy, Corinne and Frank Kennedy, Maryand Terry McGaughan, and Bobbie andLewellyn White.

During these visits to Hanover it is interesting to get some insight into the views and problems of undergraduates. The evening before the game your correspondent spent a little time with a couple of freshmen in Wheeler Hall. (The climb to the fourth floor was not as strenuous as expected!) Their enthusiasm for Dartmouth and all that it stands for clearly reflected a thorough indoctrination into the college. An acute problem at the moment was how to transport a few dates from Plymouth to Hanover the day of the Princeton game. In a weak moment it was agreed to get them here, but no promise to get them back.

A brief conference with Ford Whelden uncovered disappointing progress in obtaining the return of questionnaires to MartyHuberth for the fortieth reunion biographical compilation. This is an extremely important project and everyone who has failed to do so is urged to act without further delay.

Brad Kingman, as secretary of the Dartmouth Club of the Seacoast Region at Rochester. N. H., was in Hanover together with his wife, Eleanor, to attend the annual meeting of club officers.

At the game, won handily by the Indians in non-topcoat weather, Kay McKennan reported that Bob was off hunting woodcock and partridge. Dot and Larry Leavitt showed up, of course (nine rows higher in the stands but not quite so near to the 50-yard line). "I like to hunt," said Larry on learning of Bob's absence, "but not enough to miss a football game." The absence of other classmates leads one to wonder if most of us have reached the age when the incentive to follow the fortunes of Bob Blackman's teams has waned. To your secretary the game itself is not only exciting regardless of the outcome, but it serves as a fulcrum around which exists the opportunity to enjoy the inevitable thrills of being back in Hanover again.

Secretary, 225 Wyman St. Waltham 54, Mass.

Treasurer, RR. 1, Box 134, Chester, N. J.