1939
We had a great fall reunion in Hanover. We wish all of you could have joined us. Walt Darby will give complete details in his newsletter. Over 30 couples were with us at one time or another. We sat in the rain in Section 5, Row JJ to witness our resounding victory over Brown. Our Class has come of age, as these were the best seats we've ever had, right beside the press box! One of our brighter ideas was to invite Mike Slive and his bride to our Class Dinner after the game. Mike is the assistant director of athletics (and also in charge of football tickets). We all thought Mike and Liz were distinct additions to our singing around the piano. Bob Kaiser, who organized the whole weekend, played effortlessly for many hours. Did you all know that Evie originally met him at the piano?
It was good to see Bud Hayward, PaulJones, and Jay Diffenbaugh after all these years. Jack Haverfield was there in informal attire, and Robb DeGraff, handsome and sporty as ever. Happy Jack Cumming led the singing while his beautiful new wife, Lillian, tapped out a peppy obbligato. Joining in the singing were Fred Upton, Doc Tower, Mert Tarlow, Dusty Rohde, Cornie Miller, Hugh McLaren, George Hanna, Johnny Haartz, Hank Glovsky, Bob Dickgiesser, Jack Cathcart, and others. Seen at the game were Toby Wing, Johnny Finocan, Dune Farr, Walt Martinson, Jim Corner, and Stan Brown. At least one family got a dividend. Bob Richman was observed Sunday afternoon driving home with "the cutest" antique chair in the back seat. His wife just couldn't resist some Vermonter's sales pitch! Win Naylor amazed us all with his courtly appearance and good humor. BertMacMannis again showed us all how to run an efficient meeting.
Walt Darby reported for the newsletter and Joe Batchelder for the alumni fund. There was general discussion about the search for a new president for the College. Moose Wyman reported in detail on plans for our Thirtieth Reunion, the finest ever, to be Monday, June 16 through Wednesday, June 18, 1969. Circle those dates right now. Moose has lined up a group of real workers, all living nearby, for his committee chairmen. We are able now to disclose just a few of the highlights, like a cocktail party on the Inn Terrace, a banquet at Hanover Inn, a picnic at Bonnie Oaks with bus transportation included, and a champagne brunch the last day. There will be more, much more, but above all will be the Dartmouth fellowship on that beautiful campus that brings out the best in all of us.
After serving more than twenty years as manager of the East Side office of City Trust Co. in Bridgeport, Conn., RalphSperry, a vice president, has become manager of their West Side office. Our WarnerDepuy was the guest speaker at a number of Republican picnics in Pennsylvania during the summer and fall.
Ann Vanderwart became the bride of John Gaul in Oakland, N. J., in August. Kim Ayers is teaching science in Spaulding High School in Rochester, N. H. Bud Andrews has moved to 87 Main Street in, of all places, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. ColinChurchill may now be found at 958 Grove St. in Winnetka, Ill. Foster Clippinger, still one of our few marital holdouts, now has a bachelor apartment at the Imperial House, 11900 Edgewater Drive in Cleveland. BillMartin has found the South to be the land of opportunity and is living at 317 Mayo St. in Tallahassee, Fla. Jim MeKeon is now the manager of the Knickerbocker Club at 807 Fifth Ave. in New York. Jack Schrage hangs up his hat at 1309 Post Oak Park Dr. in Houston, and Larry Vulte, who graced our fall reunion with his lovely wife, has moved again, this time to 2975 Cormorant Rd. in Pebble Beach, Calif. Larry is now a senior pilot with Pan American, the whole world is his oyster, and he flies frequently into Saigon with important passengers.
Gene Weeks has moved to 9325 Gulf Park Dr. in Knoxville, Term., where he retired after 26 years' active duty in the Army. He is working for Standard Knitting Mills there, and anyone having a requirement for several thousand dozen a shirts can let him know. On July 20, only six days after arriving in Korea, Gene's oldest son, Lt. James L. Weeks, was killed in action. Our news is so slanted toward Vietnam that we sometimes overlook the sacrifices of men in Korea, and our sympathy goes to Mildred and Gene. Their oldest daughter, Louise, a Mt. Holyoke junior, sees Hanover frequently. Son John has just entered University of Arizona.
Howie Chivers reported back to Hanover after another summer as director of the Keewaydin Camp on Lake Timagami, Ontario. Howie had two sons of Bob Dickgiesser and two sons of George Selkirk with him at the camp. Your secretary can add that one of the best summers of his life was spent on the long canoe trips at that camp, and we recommend it highly. We worked as a director at the Keewaydin Camp on Lake Dunmore in Vermont all our undergraduate summers and met Dottie at their girls' camp on Lake Willoughby, Vt., so Keewaydin has many memories for us, all of them warm.
Shag Hatch writes from Pollock, S. D., that he is the new music director of the Pollock Independent School there.
Jim Feeiey writes sadly that it has not been a good year for him. After a brief visit in California from his duty station in Germany, it was discovered that his wife Inger had cancer. They were returned to the States and subsequently moved to California, where Inger died July 25. They had been married over 26 years and had been through a great deal together. At the time Jim wrote, he was leaving for Vietnam. Our thoughts and sympathy go to a fine man. He is a brigadier general now, and his address is Commanding General, Force Logistic Command, FPO, San Francisco, Calif.
On October 23 Dave Lilly served as chairman of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Kick-Off Meeting for Dartmouth's Third Century Fund. Other classmates serving as area chairmen are Georgie Hanna in Keene, Hank Glovsky in Beverly, Gardner Ferguson in Lexington, Mass., Ned Bayrd in Rochester, Minn., and Lou Highmark in Indianapolis. Ed Oppenlieim and Al Tishman are on the Major Gifts Committee. We fervently wish them all well.
Of 476 living graduates of our Class, 333 have been mentioned in this column through September. In the alumni fund of 1968, 365 men from our Class contributed $35,055.43 to Dartmouth.
We trust that those of you who have made cracks about Cashiers, N. C., a beautiful but remote spot, may have read the full-page spread about our village on the first page of the travel section of the New York Times on October 6. We hope it encourages more of you to come visit our Carolina mountains. Dot and I will be right here all winter, and we send you our very best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with happiness.
Secretary, Box 38 Cashiers, North Carolina 28717
Treasurer, 666 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 10019
Bequest Chairman, ROBERT L. KAISER
