1937
Around our way we could label October as Dartmouth Month. With the class meeting in Hanover plus the D/H and D/Y games we have only one weekend free for house chores.
The Fall Reunion was great as usual. All week previous the New England area was rainy with a hazardous and persistent fog but fortunately this broke up Friday providing two ideally warm days. And, of course, the Princeton game was a banner attraction so the town was filled to capacity.
Our first order of business was the cocktail party at "Club 41" (Room 41 at the Inn Motor Lodge which now appears to be a weekend fixture with Russ Stearns on the scene to arrange). This affair seems to attract a few new faces each year. It was nice to welcome Dr. Dick and BettyWoods from Corpus Christi, Texas, on the first northern visit in years. They took the opportunity of making a swing seeing a daughter in Durham, a son at Case, our gathering, then on to a call on Lake Erie ending in Chicago for a meeting of the American College of Surgeons. Bob andBetty Terwilliger were up from Hartford as weekend guests of Mary and Fran Fenn at their retirement home in Brownsville, Vt. Mona and Don Otis joined us this year as did the Rays, Camerers, and Berkowitz's.
Some 40 to 50 of us moved on to the D.O.C. house for dinner and later to hear Dean Carroll Brewster discuss current doings at the College. This turned into a question and answer period. With the many issues facing this new administration in which we alumni are vitally interested it made a lively meeting.
The bonfire was the largest ever. President Kemeny made the remark he noted the smoke went straight up, this being a good Indian omen for a favorable out-come against Princeton and you know the result.
Our class meeting Saturday morning counted 20 attendees, quite good considering the hour and the night before. Main items were welcoming Chuck Bassett as new agent who will be working jointly with Fran Fenn due to 1971 being our 35th reunion and extra efforts will be needed to make this a big year for the class. CharleyBlaisdell reported all arrangements made for reunion June 14/16 with 1935 and 1936 except for needing help on getting attendance. He has already written letters to a number of classmates in this respect. Our meeting had to break early as President Kemeny had invited all alumni to meet with him in the large Spaulding auditorium. That attendance was large and very enthusiastic for this new president.
A number of people showed up just for the game. We sat with Stella and WhitHideout who looked fine and reported no further incidents since his heart attack in 1957. He's with Humble Oil in Concord, N. H. If you read the last issue of the Mint Bag you know that Betty and Bob Knapp's Birchmont Inn in North Conway burned to the ground last February. Although there were no casualties they lost everything, clothes, possessions, and records. Bob was at the game and we can happily report progress in that they finally sold their property (24 acres) and were dickering for another Inn around the New London area. They had owned Birchmont for thirteen years looking forward to many more in that popular summer/winter area. When they considered re-building you can imagine the prohibitive costs they faced especially in view of the vast sums syndicates have been pouring in there in recent years.
For details covering the fall reunion including the list of those in attendance see the next issue of the Mint Bag. Just one final note. Betty and Giv Reynolds could be considered as charter members of this gathering but Gib called to say he had fallen, dislocating his shoulder and what should he do about cancelling his room. Our answer was one call to Jim Luttrell who snapped it up saying Jean always loves to get back home to Hanover on any pretense.
The next item is the annual Parade to Harvard. We again hosted the Breitingers who in addition to their senior son at Tufts have now added daughter, Marcia, to the New England scene as a freshman at Wheaton. We also had brother Reg and Babs so our one-bathroom house was busy. As per custom we flew the 1937 flag from the lofty perch of a telephone pole at the tailgate parking lot and managed to convene several classmates but we wish more would show. The Amons, Roewers, Bill Browns, and Dana Douglasses made up the nucleus of "regulars" and this year we were honored with the presence , of Senator TomMcIntyre who arrived with an aide. Tom mentioned a number of people he sees around Washington like Sam Dillon, SydLansburgh, and George Mackey once in a while. Last year he got over to San Juan, Porto Rico, and saw his old room mate Hank Lullman who is heavily involved in real estate there. Tom cleared up some of the mystery of a long-missing classmate, Telford Frazier. Tel was around the Boston area for a few years before WW 2 but completely disappeared with no contact since then. He went to Washington and had lunch with Tom recently. He lives in Fort Lauderdale and works as a caddy. We fully expected to see Marj and Art Buggies and called them to make sure. Seems she was in an auto accident a few days prior and although OK she needed rest and rehabilitation. Rug told us he had quit his job with Deerfield and that his boss at Santa Land in Putney, Vt., had had a heart attack and matters were such they would not be coming even though all plans had pointed that way. Everything is fairly nebulous for them at the moment and we await further news.
We sat with Clem and Judge FrankKaufman at the game. This was a surprise. He was in Boston to attend a national judicial meeting thus giving him an opportunity to spend a day or two in Hanover after the game. Close by were Skeeter andArt Tucker, Connie and Stan Berenson and football buff Walt Graf, also a brief hello with Ellie and Charley Pingree on the way out.
With so many active classmates in town for the game every year we would sure like to see more at our tail-gate but even more important at our house following the game. I ate left-over ham for two weeks straight following that weekend and I would prefer it be YOU!
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