1938

As befits the time of year, a very happy holiday season to all and best wishes for the coming year. Publication dates being what they are, fooball, which must be the major concern of the fall, merges into the Christmas time, and the long winter is ahead.

Brown Weekend in Hanover saw a goodly group, but far below expectation, gathered at the Lake Morey Inn for the first Annual Football Weekend. The "regulars" who spent the whole weekend there included: Dan Bell, Charley Hitchcock, Bob Forgan, Parker Brownell, Baron von Pechmann, Dawkins, and Lew Parker, in all cases with wives, and in some instances with offspring as well. Friday evening was spent informally at dinner, followed by movies of the Princeton disaster of the week before. Saturday evening following the game, the regular group was joined by the Fred Wagners, Mathers, Wolffs, Lutzes, Deerys, Hallocks, Tanises, Ammarells, Boyles, and Karrs. The fact of having as good a base of operations as the Lake Morey Inn seemed to give the occasion a quality of leisure and time to reune not found when it is a case of getting back to a motel, finding some place to eat in an overcrowded Hanover, and then locating classmates whom one wants to see.

While the turnout was much less than that promised in the questionnaires last spring, it seems to be the consensus that much the same sort of thing ought to be repeated next fall for the corresponding game on the schedule with perhaps some minor modifications of arrangements. There will be publicity on this subject at some future date via the Pacesetter. More and more classes are doing this, so arrangements will have to be made well in advance.

As has been the custom in years past, certain undercover agents were appointed to report on personnel seen at various games. This respondent can only report having seen Bud Lynch at the Brown Game and LewParker in New Haven. It is recognized that these reporters have been known to suffer from astigmatism and have, on occasion, found persons in Cambridge or New Haven who were safely and snugly home in Spokane and points south, east, and north of there.

The Harvard Stadium was graced for that delightful exhibition of offensive football by: Hallock, Brownell, Seidenstuecker, Randlett, Brett, Mayo, Deery, Forgan, Parker, and Dr. "Transplant" Merrill. No word as to wives or other appurtenances, as the case may be. The same agent who reported on Harvard also saw Ed Lorenz at the Brown Game. Ed is head of the weather department at M.I.T. and did a particularly good job this year in getting us good conditions for the various Saturdays which appeared important.

As mentioned before, I saw Lew Parker outside the Bowl at the half in New Haven, but my special agent scouted out Mallory, Deery, Walls, Schildgen, Duckworth, Lans, and the omnipresent Seidenstuecker. This was hardly a day for rejoicing, even at that point in the proceedings, but the usual festivities involving the tailgates of the wagons helped to alleviate the pain of the occasion.

To turn to matters not having to do with the gridiron, Telfer Mook, director of the missionary work of the Church of Christ in India and Ceylon, spoke early in October at the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College. All this from the Hanover Gazette, a publication I recommend for its erudition and conservative point of view. Mr. Mook travels extensively in his work, visiting the schools, churches, hospitals, and social service centers associated with the United Church Board for World Ministries, and since 1938 has spent nearly three years in India and Ceylon.

After graduate from Chicago Theological Seminary in 1955 he became minister of the First Congregational Church, Concord, N. H. In 1958 he became India-Ceylon secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, overseas agency of the Congregational Christian Church.

Having just completed some necessary minor remodeling of my humble abode here in Hanover, I can only envy two members of the class who have just completed their "dream houses." Ted Thorne of "Acres of Bliss," reports completion of his, "and now I almost have my bankruptcy papers in order." Bill Clarke, on the other side of the continent in Palo Alto, Calif., hopes he has "the good sense to make this my last one." I suppose that building new dream houses can become somewhat of an addiction, and not a cheap one at that.

Members of the class will be saddened to learn that James B. Wilhelm, son of John W. Wilhelm, was killed recently in an automobile crash near Brattleboro, Vt. We all join in sympathy with the Wilhelms for their grievous loss. Another brother, John survives.

It is always a pleasure to record the doings of members of the class active in general alumni affairs. This year, for example, on the Alumni Council we have Ed Perrin of West Hartford, Conn., and Bob Jones of Towson, Md. Karl Hill is secretary of the Tuck School Association, as he has been for these many years. Secretary of the Sarasota, Fla., alumni club is Jim Bonnyman, while Dick Morse is president of the Honolulu club. The Mystic Valley Dartmouth Club (Mass.) is headed by Royce Randlett; while Rochester's president is Paul Urion. Dick Gilbert heads up the Dayton, Ohio, club.

The National Enrollment Committee includes Bob Hallock in Holden, Mass.; FrankDoane in Northampton. Mass.; Joe Fogarty in Newburgh, N. Y.; Lou Fortuna in Atlanta; Bill McMurtrie in Indianapolis; RossBorneman in Elkhart, Ind.; and Ralph Van Orsdel in Honolulu. All these in addition to the faithful serving full time here in Hanover on the staff of the college.

Again best wishes for the holidays, and drop in if you happen to be in Hanover.

Secretary, 12 Summer St., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, Hunter Lane, Rye, N. Y.