1924
It is not too early to note, in whatever spot you reserve for signaling coming events, that our 45th Reunion dates are June 15-17, 1970, Monday through Wednesday. This sequence follows immediately after Commencement Sunday, June 14. Dana Bent, Reunion Chairman, is already at work to make the occasion the best ever. As everyone knows by now, the holding of our 45th in 1970, instead of the proper anniversary year of 1969, is not because the class officers forgot about it until it was too late to bring it off in time; nor is it because they thought the predictable position of the stars look better for June 1970; nor is it because the class treasurer needed one more year's earnings in the class bank account to pay for stamps to cover mailed announcements. The truth is that the year's delay results from a scheme hatched out of the mathematical genius of Robin Robinson, way back in the' 1950s, designed to bring together reuning classes who were together as undergraduates. The only reunions which fall without fail in the proper year are the 25th and 50th. So those of you who feel a certain indecorum about calling your 46th reunion "the 45th" need only to wait for 1974 to recover your balance.
Actually June 1970 as well as June 1969 will be in the mainstream of the College's Bicentennial celebrations. With a certain Latin abandon, these celebrations will extend over a period of a year and a half. The New England conscience can take comfort from the historical record for what might otherwise be thought a levity too prolonged. The fact is that though the College's Charter was granted in December 1769, the institution did not actually begin operating until 1770 was more than half over.
Dana Bent reports that he has already received from classmates several suggestions relating to the upcoming reunion. He labels most of them as "good suggestions." It is to be assumed that he would be glad to receive more.
Ken Foley, who has long been president of Dartmouth Printing Company in Hanover, recently announced the merger of his company with the Computer Environment Corporation headed by Daniel J. McCarthy, Dartmouth 1954, thus enabling the two companies to take advantage of the growing relationship between printing and computers. While the McCarthy company will be the parent corporation the management of each will remain with the respective firms. Ken will serve as Chairman of the Board of his company, founded over 100 years ago and operated by him for the past 30 years as one of the largest printing establishments in northern New England. Computer Environment Corporation is a subsidiary of Time Share Corporation established in Hanover in 1966. Let it be known that Hanover is in the conglomerate mode!
Greenough Abbe writes that though he has long resided within twenty minutes of the Harvard Stadium, what with the automobile traffic problems he has avoided football games for forty years. Last fall he broke this run, not because traffic had improved but because he had an opportunity to go by boat from Watertown. While "lazy and retired," to use his own description, he congratulates himself on having an energetic wife (who works six days a week in the family business) and daughter (who is about to complete her first year at the Harvard Business School). Greenough reports the acquisition of a microwave stove which bakes a potato in six minutes. It is demonstrated to all visitors, he says, but the latter are falling off since baked potatoes have been substituted for martinis.
Judging from the pictorial side of a postcard from Frank Tonis he has recently been in Milan, Italy, and admired a 1912 Piet Mondrian painting from the artist's intelligible period.
Cleve Poole and his wife Claire are enjoying new leisures, more reading, trips to England. "Life gets broader," Cleve observes philosophically and contentedly.
Frank Montross, responding to a birthday card from Phil Van Huyck, says "you sound as though you might also be 65, although you always seemed a lot younger." Phil has been stepping lightly and humming a tune ever since. We all tend to roll a long distance on a little push these days.
Roland Gibson continues to show his collection of modern Japanese art in many localities. It was on exhibit at the Hopkins Center a few years ago, and most recently at Colby Junior College.
When this column appears Chinee andMargaret Allen will be on their way home from Korea, the long way around, to arrive in Hanover in late June. It can't be too soon for this substitute editor whose tenure has appeared too short to justify the usual exhortations and browbeatings for news and more news from slothful classmates. As his time runs out so seemingly do his carefully husbanded reserves of Class news items.
Acting Secretary, Church St., Norwich, Vt. 05055
Class Agent, 5 Deerhill Drive, Ho-Ho-Kus, N. J. 07423
