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It was wonderful to have a bit of Hanover come to Florida so vividly in the form of the Glee Club. The Dartmouth Club of Sarasota sponsored the concert and arranged to have the boys housed in homes of the local alumni. Arrangements were also made with two local co-ed junior colleges to provide dates for the boys and they all had quite a beach party on Siesta Key before the concert. Director Paul Zeller was in good form as always and the boys sure did make the rafters ring and brought back memories. Everybody also enjoyed the fun part of the program given by the Injunaires.
Pick and Mildred Hill came down from St. Petersburg, and Charlie and MargaretStevens and George and Margaret Vincent came in from Siesta Key. We saw also many familiar New England faces from neighboring classes: Walter and Mabel Henshaw '21 from Pittsfield, N. H., who are vacationing on Anna Maria, Emory and Ruth La Pierre '16 from Concord, N. H., now on Longboat Key, Herb and Marge Chase '30 from Belmont, Mass., vacationing on Siesta Key, Bob and Lura Kenyon '07 from Bow, N. H.. who are spending the winter on Anna Maria, and many others.
It was unfortunate that this concert conflicted with the dates of the Pow-Wow on the East Coast, the Glee Club being here on the 26th and in Ft. Lauderdale on the 27th as a finale of the Pow-Wow sponsored by the Class of 'lB. Laddie Meyers chose to go to the East Coast Pow-Wow, being a guest of Charlie and Frances McGoughranin their new home in Ft. Lauderdale. Ed andVery Curtis were at the Pow-Wow also. The next day Laddie went on to Vero Beach where he had luncheon with Hersh and Ellie Chandler and reports that Hersh was looking and feeling fine.
Roy Rubel is still with Cresner, Wood-ward, O'Mara and Ormsbee, Inc. in New York, and although he is of few words he does tell that all goes well with him.
Nate and Mildred Whiteside called on us on their way home from Sanibel Island where they have been vacationing. The next day they stopped in Clearwater to see Laddie who gave them recent news of Nate's brother and sister-in-law George and Ruth Anne Whiteside, Laddie having had dinner with them a few days before on the East Coast.
I hear that Gugga and Josephine Fiske have bought a house in Seminole which is on the West Coast of Florida between St. Petersburg and Clearwater, and that they will be moving down to occupy it in the very near future. The nature of Pick Hill's business is travel and he expects to be taking a trip soon to Japan.
I am wondering if you all saw the picture of our Ralph Roberts in the March ALUMNI MAGAZINE, page 54. He is shown with Harry Gilmore '34, Carl Gray '23, Lee Chilcote '30 and Phex Taylor '21 at the reunion of the Sun Valley Ski Club.
Rachael as well as Sherm Adams have enjoyed the winter of skiing activity on Loon Mountain. A Miami newspaper carried a picture of Sherm who was called on to investigate what seemed to be steam coming out of the rocks on the side of the mountain. He found it came from a hibernating bear and said he would flush it out, come spring. A special "chow down" is quite often served by Rachael out of doors on top of the mountain, with checked tablecloth and all the fixings.
There came a time when Jim Reber had to make a decision - whether to run for reelection for the office of Clerk of Quarter Sessions of Berks County, Pa. Although the experience has been enjoyable and rewarding he did not want to commit himself for another four-year term. He has, however, accepted an invitation from the mayor of Reading, Pa., to become a member of the Reading Redevelopment Authority and although this is not a paying job it is, he says, quite a challenge and gives him something to do. After having lived as a widower for two years he married again a little over a year ago which has brought a new way of living into his life. Another classmate, RodHatch, who had been a widower since 1962, just about the time he retired, has since married again and for him also there is a new way of life.
The Cratherns, Dalrymples, Grosses, Richters, also Abe Weld '2l and others from '21 got together at the China Dragon recently to mth plans for th? '20-'21 summer get-togetner. It was decided there was no place Better suited and equipped for the Summer Frohic affair than the Souhegan Club in New Ipswich where it was held last year. However, 1968 is the bicentennial year of the nearby town of Mason, and August being the month of its activities, the summer picnic will be held in July this year instead of August, exact date to be given later.
Afther returning from her South American cruise, Dorothy Harvey went to Delray, Fla., where she has spent several winters.
Sherry and Elizabeth Baketel stopped over in San Francisco on their way home from Hawaii, to visit a favorite Kimball cousin. Remembering that Elizabeth was a sister of the late Dick Kimball, they looked up the Kimball records and found a couple of books of letters including five very interesting ones written by Kimballs from Hanover. It seems in addition to Dick there were three other Dartmouth members of the Kimball family: Samuel Ayer Kimball 1806, John Wilson Kimball 1807, and John Hazen Kimball 1821, which made Sherry reflect that his own grandson had quite a Dartmouth heritage on both sides of the family if he could get into Dartmouth.
Hanover won't seem the same this summer to us oldtimers. There will be a summer term with about 450-500 enrolled about half of which are - girls. It is, however, "the only purely undergraduate summer term we know of in the United States."
The Alumni College continues to increase in popularity and participation this summer to the extent that the College faces the prospect of scheduling two Alumni College sessions in Hanover as soon, possibly, as 1969. It is a great opportunity to get back to the classroom combined with the social activities that Hanover provides.
Secretary, R.F.D. 1, Center Harbor, N. H. 03226
Class Agent, 90 Iron Mine Dr. Staten Island, N. Y. 10304
