1937

There is no point now in stirring the embers of the political campaign except to say that a number of classmates found themselves playing more or less active roles, and we came across at least two pictures of '37 stalwarts heading committees of Independents for Johnson.

Bill Falion, returning from a business trip to California, found himself in Denver early one morning, and tried to call Don MeKinlay at home. It was 7:30 a.m., and Bill felt a little apologetic about calling at that time. Don's boy answered. Was Mr. McKinlay at home? Certainly not, he was at work. Bill reports a reunion last August with BillStorck, up from Texas with his wife and children to visit a sister in Connecticut.

Jim Otis, by the way, received a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, last August.

Ev White, a program analyst with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, is living in Silver Spring, Md. Dick Moore, guidance counsellor in the high school at Milford, N. H., reports that Don Bauer is teaching and working on a novel.

Pat Patterson writes from Columbus, Ohio: "We just moved Labor Day. Resigned after 17 years from National Blank Book Co. Now representative for S. E. and M. Vernon Co., New York City, loose leaf manufacturers."

A note from Fran Fenn comments on the Bequest and Estate Planning program that he is developing. Classmates should have individual letters from Fran before this is in print. It strikes us as an effective, necessary and relatively painless way to help the college.

An alert class secretary would have gone to that Princeton game with a notebook in his hand, and picked up enough gossip to fill this column for months. What notes we did take on the back of a program have long since disappeared. We remember the magnificent luncheon in the field house, with Beardsleys, Fenns, Will Browns, Timbers, Bob Heneage ... and some regrets that we did not arrange in advance for a special '37 table. Then the game itself. Princeton kicks, Princeton touchdowns, glimpses of people like Sheldon Wagner, Pete McLane, Carl Noyes, Win Taft, Art Munkenbeck, Phil Robertson, Don Otis, and there must have been many, many more....

The Class of 1937 had quite a part in the historic Connecticut legislative reapportionment case, "Butterworth v. Dempsey," heard before the U. S. District Court in that state. Oliver Butterworth was one of the ten named plaintiffs, who won the case, and the majority decision for the three-judge court was written by Bill Timbers, now chief judge of the Court, as reported last month. The decision was later upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. Another Dartmouth principal was Meade Alcorn '30, chief counsel for the Pinney intervenors (the Republican Party), who lost the case.

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