1937
Summer, such as it was around these eastern parts, has up and went and gone. The best we can say for it is our six-year drought is broken and without using the sprinkler once we've had to mow the lawn twice a week. We are sorry to report the loss of our classmate, George Gibson; details appear in the obituary section of this or a subsequent issue.
To get back to where we left off in June, family Bankart attended Dick's graduation from Tuck School, now working for Armour & Company in Chicago. 1937 was well represented with beaming parents in Hanover. At Tuck were Betty and Bob Koury with young Bob slated for the Marine Corps. Dad continues to prosper as a lawyer in Atlantic City and a return engagement in Hanover for son Don '70. Marian and BozBosworth appeared outwardly casual as they watched young Boz walk off with top honors awarded at the luncheon in Thayer Hall. All the more credit to this outstanding son for achieving such status with a wife and two babies aboard. To all the student wives Tuck awards a special diploma called PHT, which translates "Putting Hubby Thru" as most work for the College or around town to help on expenses, and the majority of these students are married.
In the Thayer School area Ellie and JohnDetlefsen watched son George pick up his B.E. and he's coming back for his M.E. this year. George is already a computer expert and we must say he was the only one who could explain to this wooly lughead how the new GE computer in Hanover can print 900 lines a minute.
In the B.A. division Martha and MortBerkowitz were there for son Hugh Freund and next year return (D.V.) for son John. Younger Tim is scheduled for Milton Academy. As you all read in the Mint Bag, Sherry and Al Bryant have been transferred to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where Al is taking over a chemical plant complex recently acquired by his Columbian Carbon Company, and since Al had just written of this from Brazil we were astounded to see all the Bryants there for son Tim's graduation. The marvels of the jet age! Tim's the one, originally '65, who left for the service, married the most delectable little German dish you ever saw, and returned to finish school. They settled in Chicago but we understand are being transferred East already.
Trying to find classmates around overflowing-with-people Hanover was a challenge. We did track down Betty and JimHumphrey at 2 a.m. since they were registered with college accommodations in Lord Hall. He has not changed one iota in thirty years except for a few hairs and we could have picked him out of a crowd on sight. Caught them in their bathrobes about to retire but the occasion called for "one for the road" and chitchat with Betty being most wide awake of us three. Young Jim is heading for Columbia this fall.
Others with graduating sons we missed as they had rooms out of town. Augie Paeschke (son Tuck) was at Norwich Inn. JerryGolenbock and Bob McCoy, no signs. Only others were Lee and Russ Stearns who joined the '37 contingent at the commencement luncheon in Leverone Field House. We managed a phone call to John Milne whose Jeff is heading for Rutgers for a two-year course in city planning.
We must point out a nostalgic note. Kay and I were in North Mass. An alphabetic list of inhabitants was posted on the wall. Here's an excerpt - Bankart '67 (nephew); Coggeshall '68, Collins '70, Donaldson '67, Mayer '68, Nichols '69, Prescott '69, Sherwin '70, Specht '70. Familiar? We also noted some bright undergrad had already devised a method of short-stopping coins in the return slot of the new pay phone, rather ingenious but we figured it out and got our dime back. Along with all the above, the weather was great and "editorial we" arose at 6 a.m. Sunday to wander around a familiar ghost town with 500 squirrels, 50 dogs, with the sun sending down early shafts of light through the giant elms into the ground mist, and all the woody New Hampshire smells were there. It was the smug feeling of reflecting on a long-time investment that keeps working for you.
Last year we requested a photograph of the "new" Bill Dipson which his associate, John Osborne, finally corralled. They arranged to have him pose as a "before and after" by matching up an old photo. John says "a lot of credit goes to Bill for his voluntary efforts and while his waist has diminished his theatre operations have expanded. He's president and head of a chain of forty theatres extending from New York State down through Pennsylvania and Ohio into West Virginia with HQ in Batavia."
We certainly owe a standing ovation to Fred Asher for his tireless efforts on the Alumni Fund and his assistant agents as well. The final results from our Class show $37,000 (coincidence?), an increase of 25%; 365 contributors, an increase of 11%; av- erage gift $101, an increase of $12; and 56 classmates reactivated for a total of $3915!
We managed to get in one weekend trip to Cape Cod this summer dropping in to see Milton Marsh again at his Port O Call gift shop in Harwichport. His son has just completed freshman year in Hanover and business has been good in spite of weather. We went farther down the Cape to Chatham to see John Gore who now runs the Ben Franklin store there. He worked ten years with Woolworth then switched to a home office job with the above that saw him traveling 50/60,000 miles a year. The future looked like more of same so when this store became available John scraped up some cash and bought the franchise. He has a lovely new home in an exclusive development and drives to work in five minutes. He looked pleased, relaxed, and just about the same physically.
If this magazine does not arrive too late and you're near Hanover on the Penn football weekend October 13/14 don't forget our class fall reunion. Headquarters are the Maple Leaf Motel south of White River and it looks like the attendance as of now will be 30/40 people.
Bill Dipson '37, before and after
Secretary, 10 Colby Rd. Wellesley, Mass. 02181
Treasurer, 11 East 74th St., New York, N. Y. 10021
Bequest Chairman,
