1925

The 100th anniversary dinner of the Boston alumni association attracted one of the largest groups from the class in years. LloydBrace and Charlie Moore were among the notables at the head table. Ham Thayer and Marjorie arranged their travel schedule between trips to Cape Cod, Florida, Tennessee, and other points to enjoy the program. Johnny Garrod (sans Drue unfortunately), Chet Eaton and Blanche, Jake Penney and Ruth, Bill Sleigh and Betty, Joe Leavitt, HalStevens, Freddie Smith and bride, Anne, Nate Bugbee and Elsye, Jack Harvey and Carol, both of whom we were glad to see for a change, Larry Leavitt and Dot, who made a special trip from Norwich, PeteHaffenreffer, Bunny Levison and Marian, Win Prescott and Margaret, and Bob McCready and Alice helped to fill the seating at three tables. Whitey White and Bobbie, together with Cliff Hill, occupied space in the balcony where they had a bird's-eye view of the overflowing crowd exceeding 1200 persons. Cliff, incidentally, is living temporarily in Cambridge while engaged in a special project for Harvard University, the nature of which could not be gleaned from him.

Don Hunt made his second appearance within a week where your scribe happened to be. The first was at the Dartmouth Club of New York, where in the course of a full evening of pleasant wining and dining it was disclosed with due modesty of course that he was expecting his fifteenth grandchild. On the second occasion he reported having been offered a job by Ed Burns to serve as a crew (seaman, fourth class, according to Don) on a 53-foot craft sailing from Fort Lauderdale to Nassau and around the islands in that area over a two-week period when their northern friends will probably be shoveling snow. Whitey, once again, is succumbing to the lure of Alpine snow. By the time these notes are printed he, together with Bobbie and the two girls, Carol and Terry, will have spent three weeks in Europe with visits to London, Paris, and Amsterdam, and eleven days of skiing at Zermatt, Kutzbuhl, and possibly other areas. It's hoped they'll have better luck finding snow than that which greeted the IX Winter Olympic events at Innsbruck.

Ralph Gaskill, assistant vice president of the National Bank of Detroit, recently was presented with a Diamond Merit Award Key at the Detroit Chapter of the National Office Management Association (NOMA) for his effective service and leadership. During his 20 years of service he was chairman of numerous committees, vice president, president, on the advisory council, and a director of the Detroit Chapter. Ralph is one of the six members of the Detroit Chapter ever to earn such an award. Out of the 18,- 400 NOMA members throughout the United States and Canada, only 215 have earned it.

The engagement of Priscilla Darden, youngest daughter of Ford Whelden and Gertie, to Al Rozycki '61, former star halfback on the football team, was announced recently at a reception held in Alumni Hall of the Hopkins Center. A novel and clever feature of the affair was a projection of the announcement on a screen which appeared in the view of anyone entering the hall. Plans are being made for a July wedding after Priscilla graduates from Wheaton. Al is a junior at the Harvard Medical School.

The Larry Leavitts spent the Christmas holidays in New York visiting with their daughter's family who were leaving shortly thereafter for Nicaragua.

The College issued a special bulletin recently on the serious housing shortage during the Princeton game weekend of October 9-10 with most accommodations available within 10-20 miles of Hanover already engaged. If you plan to attend the meeting of the class executive committee or the football game and will require hotel-motel accommodations, you should act now.

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