1930
Hanover turned on some really good weather for Class Officers' weekend, a welcome relief from the cold wet days we had been having along the Eastern seaboard. There was a full program of events, with a series of messages designed to whip up the old spirit, and indeed they always do. To the extent that we "met" as a class group, all our discussions bore upon plans for the reunion this fall during the weekend of the historic first Hanover appearance of Princeton's football team, and for our 35th in June 1965. But let Ed Butterworth go into the details in the exhortatory releases he will be getting out during the summer. After a Saturday afternoon round of golf at the Hanover Country Club, he and Elizabeth entertained the 1930 group for cocktails at the Inn, more persons than you might expect on such a weekend, to wit: Harry and Barbara Condon, Art and Marty Browning,Charlie Ranch, Charlie and Larry Widmayer, Bob and Louise Keene, Al and LuciaDickerson, Ben and Louise Benson, Miltand Grace Shultz, and Wally and LouiseBlakey. The Shultzes and Blakeys will be back in Hanover in June for the graduations of Barry Schultz and John Blakey. Milt's second son is finishing his sophomore year.
I think the only local classmates missing from the scene were Ed Jeremiah, who had taken the freshman baseball team to Burlington, and Bill Putnam, but I did have a chat with Bill's dad who is secretary of the class of 1905, very chipper for his years, and still teaching Latin and Greek, in one of the new colleges near Montclair, N. J., the name of which escapes me for the moment.
Our group was concerned that afternoon for Dick Barnard had relayed to us a bare report that Wally Wasmer had been badly injured in an automobile accident earlier in the week, and while it later proved to be true there had been doubt for two or three days that he would survive, it is good to be able to report that despite some very severe injuries, Wally is on the mend and convalescing at home for the four or five months before he is able to resume work.
Had we also known that Horace "Al"Allyn had succumbed to a heart attack that afternoon it would have been an extremely sober gathering. Al was a fine friend, and he will be missed particularly by the New York group as he was a most faithful attendant at all class dinners, and nearly all football games.
To turn to some good news, Fran Horn, our most degreed classmate has received another honorary degree, this time from the University of New Hampshire. Were we to list them all after his full name, it would require about two and a half lines of this column. An April card from Fran and Billie came from Cairo where they were concluding a three weeks' quickie vacation to Italy, London, Paris, and Brussels. Fran has been under consideration for appointment to a Federal advisory post in Pakistan, but had stated that although he would be interested he could not accept, unless he could obtain a two-year leave of absence from the University of Rhode Island. I do not know how this matter stands at the moment, and there was an indication that no appointment actually would be made for some months.
Bill Fenton is going to Moscow this summer, and it seems to me that it was only two years ago that he and Olive visited there. These trips have to do with the biennial International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in which Bill has participated extensively, and of which he is at present a member of the permament council of the assembly. Bill is going to read a paper, more current in content than would now be his freshman year term paper in European history, a study of the trans-Siberian railroad, on which he says he still has never ridden.
Sam Stayman has been a member of the United States team competing in the World Bridge Olympiad at the Americana in New York. At this writing the United States is in second place among the 20 or more competing nations, but is deemed to be unable to overcome the lead piled up by the British.
March 27, Sue White, daughter of Zeb White '36 was married to Paul Freeman, son of Paul and Lucy Freeman. The young man is graduating from Dear Old this month, and Sue is a Wellesley girl, also having attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts.
Another Wellesley girl, Gretchen Shartle, daughter of Tom and Ruth Shartle was married March 29 in the Shartles' Houston home to Hilbert Sabin Jr., a teacher of art at Dickinson and an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania.
Win Durgin was presented a certificate of appreciation for his work for over twenty years in practically every capacity at the Auburn-Lewiston YMCA. He has been in the general insurance business in Lewiston since graduation, has engaged in many other civic activities, and he and Veronica have three sons, Win Jr., Peter, and Michael.
We have a note that Glenn Bartram is running for a two-year term as a town meeting member, but cannot quite determine from this clipping whether this would be in Lynn where his business is, or in Swampscott where he lives.
Last fall at Baker Field, I sat beside BobMarr whom I hadn't seen for years, and who, having been all over the world for the State Department auditing the conduct of affairs of embassies and legations, seemed to be back in the States for a lengthy period. But now there is a new address for him, still c/o the State Department, Washington, indicating that he is in Buenos Aires; hope to hear further for inclusion in the fall.
An election which surely deserves more attention than the bare announcement we have is that of Buck Steers, elected vicechairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies at its annual meeting in White Sulphur Springs.
Last month's Wah-Hoo-Wah column told of Don Shaskan's election as president of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Since 1949 Don has been Chief, Mental Hygiene Clinic in the VA regional office in San Francisco. The association which he will lead for two years is an organization of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers seeking to unify the efforts of these three services in the therapeutic group process, also publishing an international journal.
Fred and Jean Jaspersen and George andMartha Parkhurst have signed up to attend the first year of Alumni College in August.
Reverting for another paragraph or two to other matters deriving from the Class Officers' meetings - Harry Condon has proved to be an effective class treasurer maintaining one statistic noted in several previous years, that no class between 1923 and 1952 has a higher percentage of dues payers. Good job, well done, Harry. In years of service, Charlie Widmayer is now the dean of editors of Ivy League alumni magazines.
We attended the dedication of the College memorial tablet, placed in the wall of the garden court of Hopkins Center, honoring those who gave their lives for their country in World War II or in the Korean War. Let us pause a moment to remember that the names of four of our classmates appear on this granite tablet, Ralph Hartman, KennethKull, Warren Parish, and George Sarles. President Dickey spoke at the dedication, and Bus Mosbacher '43 responded for the classes of the war years.
Bob and Louise Keene have disposed of their lodge and have built a spanking new home on the other side of the height of land, with a gorgeous view of Mount Ascutney to the south. Bob also built a new studio right there, fully equipped to continue his outstanding work in commercial and advertising photograpy. Their son Bob has become a dentist in Hanover and lives with his family in another home nearby.
On our way home we stopped for a few minutes to see Dick and Gwen Bowlen, who have bought an 18th century farmhouse on top of a big hill in Walpole, N. H. - which they are doing over to their taste, room by room. They have a panoramic view of the New Hampshire and Vermont foothills, including several of the ski slopes.
It seems to me that the appearance of some guest editors in this column next year might do something to whip up greater interest for our 1965 reunion, and this is a suggestion that some of you volunteer - if you don't want to write a whole column, drop me a line about how your progeny are doing, and about your own behavior.
My annual benediction repeated, to those of you who haven't attended to one certain detail: make Art Browning's days easier by your early gift to the Alumni Fund; word of anything in your life of interest to your classmates would be welcome, and to one and all — Have a wonderful summer!
Secretary, 30 Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.
Class Agent, New York Life Ins. Co., 51 Madison Ave. New York 10, N. Y.
