1927
Notes and holiday messages from New England, Florida, California, and waystations make your scribe's monthly stint an easy and pleasant one - and how long has it been since you have reported to the Class via above Connecticut address?
Those of you not in New England should know that the New York '27ers have undertaken a well-organized campaign, directed by Bob Stevens and Don O'Hara, inviting the Boston '27ers to attend the Boston Alumni Dinner on January 22. We trust that large numbers accept and I will have, therefore, much to report to you next time.
From Phil Thompson comes a newsy note and the accompanying picture of four handsome, tanned '27ers taken in the prune groves of San Jose, each with a jug of prune juice. Occasion: A Thompson barbecue. Phil is in the investment business, happily, he says; is only one hour out from San Francisco; and extends a cordial invitation to '27ers passing through.
Don Megathlin, Bob Stevens, and MikeChoukas have a project going of binding into four volumes the issues of The Dartmouth during our days in Hanover. These are the copies Don saved while in Hanover and the only complete record the Class is aware of.
Make a note on your new 1964 calendar that Paul Revere O'Connell reports that by overwhelming vote the Class has selected the Princeton game weekend, October 9 and 10, for our next Fall Reunion and has confirmed reservations for rooms at Lake Morey Inn.
Have a nice letter from Art Lyman reporting that he is convalescing nicely from the coronary he had on the way to Fall Reunion. He speaks with great appreciation of the treatment he and Marge received from Mary and Win Rodormer and from Barbie and Bill Morton '2B. Natch Corregan visited him; he received calls from Bob Long and Howie Mullin. We all wish Art a speedy and complete recovery.
Al Byrne has retired from the Air Force after 33 years. He's now living at 27 Longwood Drive, Shalimar, Fla. He attended the Army game with his son Don, who will graduate from the Naval Academy next June. His other son Robert is a lieutenant j.g. with the Navy attached to the Pacific Fleet. Al, unwilling to sit and vegetate in the Florida sun, has taken eight teachers' courses with the University of Florida, has been certified, and is now teaching World History at the Choctaw Hatchee High School in Shalimar. Congratulations!
Vic Duplin made the Princeton game with Laurie, daughter Marjorie, and son-in-law Wendell Inhoffer, Princeton '5B, who was a Princeton left tackle for three years, and as a consolation showed Vic and his wife the '57 game football - Princeton 6, Dart- mouth 3 - and also the Big Green's quarterback's shirt! By way of statistics, the Duplins also saw their new grandson for the first time and report the grand total of thirteen. Looks like the competition is getting furious-er. Art Keleher says: "Have eight grandchildren, ages one to ten. I am very much in the grandfather race." Five is quite a lead to overcome. Art further reports on his work with dropouts for the New York Board of Education - getting them jobs, counseling them, making follow up calls, and in general what a source of satisfaction his work is.
Lee Greenebaum says he will try to get to Boston for the January dinner to make up for his failure to reach Hanover for the Fall Reunion "if I can get time off from my winter moonlighting job of assistant manager, Hertz, Palm Beach." Don't you envy these guys who can hire themselves and then assign themselves to Palm Beach.
Christmas greetings, a newsy note, and full details from Gladys and Frell Owl and their new Piney Grove Camp at Cherokee, N. C. The campground opened in June with 35 campsites, has expanded to 50 for the '64 season, and Frell says they had campers from 36 states and several foreign coun- tries. Sounds like a busy retirement life and from all the data, a delightful place not only for campers but for motorists to visit since it's on the border of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
Late report - checked on Sam Wormser who has been in the hospital for a few repairs. He is back on his feet, sounds very much like himself, and will be back on the job the first and on to Boston with us the twenty-second of January.
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