1935
As this is written, some sixty classmates and their wives (a total contingent of nearly 125) are converging on Hanover for our annual "informal" reunion, and a chance to watch the varsity tackle Holy Cross in one of the top Ivy League games of the year. It promises to be the biggest and best fall reunion yet. One highlight will be the beginning of plans for our "official" 35th reunion, which will coincide with Dartmouth's Bicentennial celebration. We'll have a full report for you next month.
At the rate classmates are commuting to Europe, I am beginning to feel like a country hick. Our latest visitors abroad are Rocky Rockwell and Al Cline. Rocky writes: "Went to Switzerland this summer, and again climbed the Alps. Did a spectacular traverse of two peaks next to the Matterhorn. Tried the Matterhorn, but bad weather sent us down. My daughter, Sandy, received an M.A. from Harvard in June and will get married in November. My son, Win, is a sophomore at Dartmouth." I can only conclude that Rocky must be in far better shape than certain pot-bellied, bald-headed contemporaries whom I occasionally see. The mere thought of climbing a sand dune, let alone the Matterhorn, is a frightening experience these days!
Al and Gena Cline also took in Switzerland, during their three-week tour. "Eight countries in three weeks was too much for me," Al writes. "The rapid change of time zones from California to Europe knocked me out, and I was in the third country, Switzerland, before I recovered. Liked Switzerland and the British Isles best. Gena liked everything except a crummy 'Paris by Night' tour. In England, we met her cousin, Ellen Clarke, with whom she had been corresponding for 38 years but had never met before."
Ed and Peggy Mitchell will have to include England in their future travel plans. Their daughter, Sandy, is marrying a young English lawyer in late October, and will live in London. Ed writes: "We shall miss her, but hope to get over for a visit now and again. In London, she and her husband will be seeing a lot of Curt Lamorey, I'm sure."
Another world traveler these days is SyMillstein, whose beat is the Orient. Sy is in the import business principally Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong • and makes the Far Eastern circuit twice a year. This has caused him to miss every reunion to date, but he and Ren are registered to attend our fall get-together and catch up with classmates he hasn't seen since graduation. Sy asks: "Did you ask for those qualified for the hole-in-one club? Does it count if it's in Kobe, Japan, 1965. Rokko Golf Club, 160 yards, Par 3? After all balls and holes are the same size and a yard is a yard." Before we enter it officially in the records, Sy, I think you should take a delegation to Kobe to verify the facts —at your expense naturally!
I'm afraid I'm going to have to develop ESP. Some of the replies to my postcards come back with no name, and no address. Does anyone care to come forward and identify himself as the author of.. ."I retired 12/31/66, after 28 years under Civil Service. Golfing, fishing, boating, gardening and travel have kept my wife and me busy. Daughter Kitty (Vanderbilt '66) is doing graduate work at Vanderbilt now."
Ralph Lazarus continues to accept new responsibilities in the financial life of the College. He'll be a member of the National Committee for the Third Century Fund. After directing last year's record-breaking Alumni Fund campaign, Ralph is not one to rest on his laurels!
From Bobb Chaney, a brief report on Stan Benson: "Last evening, Stan Benson, my old roommate who is now Eastern Sales Manager for Ocean Spray Cranberries, dropped in on us. He was in Toronto, making sure the fall crop moves out to Canadian housewives without a hitch."
Ty Carlisle claims no great excitement to report, but adds this in a newsy note: "Am still with Carlish-Allen Company, a department store chain in Northeastern Ohio. We're collecting sons and sons-in-law as fast as possible. Clare and I have two remarkable grandchildren. Our son, Ren, Dartmouth '65 is getting married September 30 to Peggy Benes of Cleveland. Our baby, Vicky, enters Trinity University in San Antonio this fall."
A postcard from Ed Offiutt, lost in the mailbag since last April, reports news on several '3sers which I hope is still fairly current: "Am doubly busy at work filling, though not well, four posts in the Public Health Service, because of the difficulties of recruiting into government. Dean Couper also with PHS, called to say he had seen Hugh Wolff and Al Bonniwell at the Dartmouth Computer meeting. Al, who has retired from military, apparently is reschooling for a new career."
Another item that reaches us belatedly is a rather harrowing adventure for GeorgeHoke, his youngest son, Jerry, and two companions. They were bound in a small cabin cruiser from Grand Portage, Minn, (up near the Canadian border) across to Isle Royale in Lake Superior. About 15 miles out, a heavy fog enveloped them, and then the trouble really started. "The wind shifted to the Northwest and blew up a gale. Our binnacle went out. With only enough gas for 50 miles, we faced two frightening possibilities. If we missed Rock of Ages on the south, we would run into the center of Lake Superior and run out of gas. If we missed the harbor on the north, we could be thrown up on Isle Royale's 200-foot-high rock slides. With only a little West German deer hunter's compass to guide us, our luck held out and we hit Washington Harbor dead on the nose."
Quite an adventure, George, but it's the kind of navigating we would expect from any '3ser. After all, many of us found our way home to safe port as undergraduates, while navigating in heavy seas in a some- what foggy condition.
That's all 'til next month!
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