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This is the beginning of an anniversary school year which will culminate in our 35th Reunion next June. You will be hearing a lot about it between now and then. We hope you will plan to be in Hanover for the festivities. This fall we have planned several informal get-to-gethers. The Princeton game will be in Hanover on Oct. 10 and we will gather at Dexter’s Lodge in Sunapee right after game for cocktails and dinner. EdHigbee plans to lead a ’36 demonstration at the Ramada Inn, 1234 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, right after the Harvard game on Oct. 24—dinner and drinks. Send your $7 per person to Ed at 317 East St., Hingham, Mass. 02043. After the Yale game in New Haven on Oct. 31 there will be a ’36 gathering at the Fairfield Motor Inn for cocktails and dinner—the latter $6.75 per. It is situated just off the Connecticut Turnpike exit 22 in Fairfield. Overnight accomodations are available. Incidentally, Phil andLeslie Mclnnis who live just east of the Gym in Hanover on Dana Road have invited all ’36ers who attended the Princeton game to tailgate in their yard just before the game for lunch. Watch TITHE for further details.
The annual Lobster Picnic at the summer home of Tommy and Laura Thomas in West Bath, Me., was a great success. The group gets larger each year and neither the rainy day nor the unbelievable August 1 traffic jam on Rt. 95 through coastal New Hampshire dampened their spirits. Laura cooked 100 lobsters—average weight li pounds and what wasn’t eaten was carried home. Ray and Peg Beitman couldn’t attend because they had planned another event at their new home in Lake Cobbos- seconte. Me.
Bill Foster was vacationing in South Freeport, Me., and joined the group before returning to his home in Trumbull, Conn., to assist his daughter, Jennifer wind up her marriage plans for August 15. Jennifer is the last of the five Fosters to be married. Her bridegroom was Thomas Mosseau of Trum- bull, a graduate of Southern Connecticut College who will be teaching in the New Haven school system this September. On the same Saturday in Auburn, Me., Pete andBarbara Fitzherbert’s daughter, Nancy was wed to Ronald Walker of London, England. The wedding party had an interna- tional mixture of friends and relatives of the young couple from England and New England. They have returned to London where Ron is an engineer and Nancy a hospital technician.
Ed Nilsson of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., travelled far afield this summer to merchan- dise his product. He went to Africa to scout up new markets.
Tom and Jean Parker beat the summer travellers by taking themselves off to the Orient in April. They visited Japan, Hong Kong, and Honolulu and have made maximum use of the Heritage Village golf course in Southbury, Conn., since their return. By now Sam and Jane Morse have returned from their year in Japan at Kobe University where Sam was Megumi Profes- sor for the academic year 1969-70. Sam’s new book was reviewed in the N. Y. Times of July 22. It is entitled, “Wallace Stevens, Life as Poetry,” published by Pegasus Press, a small but important volume about a major American poet.
A writer in another media, Dick Spong, has sent along the news that he has retired after his 20 years with Editorial Research, which supplies features to newspapers throughout the country. Dick is planning to issue his own syndicated column, so watch your local daily for his byline. In the Washington area he has a few Dartmouth contacts. Bill Gibson called recently and wanted to sell him an oil well. HeatUnderhill conveyed the news that his son would be among the entering freshmen in Hanover this fall.
Some news releases from the summer should be noted. Dave Putnam has added another extra-curricular job to his port- folio—member of the corporation, Boston’s Museum of Science. Judge of Probate Thomas B. Coughlin has been endorsed for a third term by the Stratford, Conn., Democratic party. Tom is active in the Stratford Drug Abuse Council. Larry Marx received a citation for distinguished service in human relations at the eleventh annual awards dinner of the Westchester Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. In Los Angeles Cyprus Mines Corp. announced a reorganization with executive vice president Ken Lieber in charge of mining, exploration and technical services. I should also report that I am no longer commuting on the New Haven R.R. into New York, but am a comfortable ten minutes from my office as controller of the University of Bridgeport.
Hope to see you after the Princeton, Yale or Harvard games. Everyone is welcome including your relatives and friends.
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