1933
'33 has turned out in record numbers to support the Big Green on three successive glorious New England Saturdays. In the class section at the Brown game we saw Virginia and Whit Kimball, Dorrie andGeorge Drowne, Harriet and Dumps Mc-Carthy, and Ed Knapp and I am sure there were others in the stands we did not see. Ed was on hand not only to see the football game but to see his son, Dave '68, who is on the varsity soccer team.
Princeton was a big weekend! Your executive committee met for breakfast at the Inn to hear reports of all officers who were present and to talk with Cliff Jordan of the Alumni Fund office about the possibility of the class participating in the "Class Challenge Program" about which you will be hearing more from Wes and Ed if we are selected as one of the classes to take part. Those attending this meeting were Wes Beattie. George Drowne. George Farrand, Hal Henchey, Ed Knapp. John Meek, and Jud Pietson. Ed's report on the last Alumni Fund seemed to indicate that the class is finally coming to grips with its responsibilities toward the College and that perhaps in the not too distant future, we will carry our weight and participate in the degree to which we are capable.
Our "reunion" dinner at the Norwich Inn was a great success and was attended by the following: Sue and Bill Dewey, Joan and Ed Foley, Jack Robinson. Babe and Bob Fox, Billy and Al Beekman, Virginia and Whit Kimbali, Jim Walker, Janet and Bill Hitchcock, Helen and Bob Ellis Monique and Randy Valensi, Bud King, Hobie Van-Duesen. Dottie and Jack Manchester, Mary and Karl Jean and John Meek, Dorrie and George Drowne. Jan and Wes Beattie, Ginney and Jud Pierson, Marian and Hal Henchey, Polly and George Farrand, Virginia and Hank McKee, Elizabeth and Bill McCombs. And in the middle of our festivities there arrived from Athens the following radiogram - "Thinking of you today while enjoying Acropolis view hope we won - signed Ruth and Mel Katz." Thanks, Ruth and Mel, for thinking of us and we did win and we did miss you both! There were others from the class who attended the game and not the dinner but keeping track of them all was impossible as we were not allotted reserved seats due to the great demand for tickets. I saw some of the following and heard about others but I can't guarantee that there weren't others in attendance. Louise and Harv Hopkins, Helen and Jack Blumenthal, Laura and Jack Masten, Louise and Byron McCoy, Alice and Ev Shineman, Elizabeth and Fuller Ripley, Dorrie Drowne, Dot and Howie Nichols, and Marjorie and Carl Shineman. If I missed anyone, I'm sorry. Those of us who attended the dinner sent a card to Lynn Shollenherger who was recently stricken with polio.
At the most exciting Harvard game, Isaw these '33'ers: Babe and Bob Fox, Janand Wes Beattie, Carol and Sam Gass, Miriam and Sid Stoneman, Alice and Jack Robinson, Dot and Howie Nichols, Muggs andDon D'Arcy, Mary and Rollie Stevens, Eleanor and Henry Hardy, Dolly and ArchLade, Elizabeth and Clif Johnson, Jean andSam Black, Virginia and Whit Kimball,Pauline and Hal Hackett, Jeannette andAl Terry, and Bill Dewey. Here again I probably missed some because the DCACsure has a funny way of allocating seats in a so-called "class section" which seems to mean somewhere in the stadium and often a long ways apart. But these three games gave me an opportunity to see fellows I hadn't seen for a long time and some that I hadn't seen since graduation.
It's traditional that the Dartmouth team practice Friday before the Harvard game at the high school of one of the players from the Boston area. This year this practice was held at Concord High where JohnDonovan is principal and from which his two sons John Jr. '66 and Bill '69 graduated. Bill has seen service replacing Paul Klungness '67 who has been injury-ridden this season and has done a fine job. More will be heard from him in the next two years I'm sure.
One sad note: Jack Robinson told me of Walt Libbey's death. Jack had lunched with him just two days before his fatal heart attack. And Arch Lade told me of the death of Dick Bradshaw's wife, Barbara. I have written to Elizabeth Libbey and Dick expressing the sympathy of the class.
You probably noted in the November issue of the MAGAZINE that five '33 sons are in the class of '70. Of particular note James Gass is the second son of Carol and Sam in college - Richard is in the class of '68. And I would say that the Carl Shine- mans' twin sons, Paul and Jeffrey, are the only twins from the class to attend Dartmouth.
At the quarterback luncheon last week, I sat with Jack Manchester and we were talking of the number of '33ers in Hanover and vicinity and agreed that probably no other class could equal our numbers. We could name nine - Dewey, Drowne, Ingram, Mc-Carthy, Manchester, Meek, Pierson, and Theriault. And we would welcome more!
The autumn issue of "Massachusetts Audubon" contained a feature article "Ospreys of Westport" written by Jo and Gil Fernandez with wonderful close-up photos. Jo and Gil are well-known experts on these birds and lecture frequently about them. Most recently they spoke before the Westport Historical Society. And speaking of Jack Manchester as I was a minute ago, our local gazette, the "Valley News," did a feature article on his business the other day. Jack was with Gulf until 1943 when he had an opportunity to take over their station which many of you have seen and patronized on Main Street in Hanover. He also has the local Avis agency. Jack is most active in civic affairs. He served in the 1965 New Hampshire legislature and was a member of the 1964 Constitutional Convention. He is a director of the Dartmouth National Bank and a member of the Hanover School Board. Dottie and Jack have three children - Martha, who married Jack Wright's son Jack Jr. They are the parents of the Manchesters' first grandson and live in Boston. Son John is a First Lieutenant with the 101st Airborne in Viet Nam and daughter Ellen is a senior at Skidmore. And they never miss a hockey game as you can well imagine.
A semi-correction on Bud Madden's son Bill. He did attend the University of Chile but now is working on his M B.A. at Columbia. In "Modern Men of Science" recently published by McGraw-Hill LorinRiggs's career as a psychologist and specialist in the field of vision is given in great detail. A short quote - "Riggs developed objective methods for the study of human vision and investigated the electroretinogram generated by the visual cells of an eye stimulated by light. For his achievements in this field he was awarded the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 1957."
Harry Osborne presided at the dedication of a new gym on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Bonnie Brae Farm for Boys. Harry follows in the footsteps of his dad who founded this unique farm for underprivileged. Warren Braley has been nominated to succeed himself on the board of directors of Agway, Inc. Warren operates a thousand-acre dairy farm on which he maintains a herd of 160 milking cows and 140 young stock. See you in January.
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