1936

We are now officially into the 35th Reunion Year. Chairman Norb Hofman has sent out the first inquiry about your plans for attendance and he hopes you will take the time to return the questionnaire to him. Early returns are encouraging for a full house in June. Dr. Doug Robertson of Mount Kisco, N.Y., plans to be on hand. Right now he is very busy with the Mount Kisco Medical Group where his specialty is obstetrics and gynecology. The recent change in the New York State abortion law has swamped his office with requests from ladies in distress all over the country—a mixed blessing. His son, James, graduated from Princeton last June with a B.S. in geological engineering and is now in Antarctica with the University of Wisconsin Polar Research Program. While his daughter, Edythe, obtained her degree from the University of Pennsylvania last June, Jean is in her junior year at that institution and Susan is a freshman at the University of Chicago.

One evening in November I was watching Channel 5 News from New York when suddenly Bob Warren appeared seated behind his piano talking to their roving reporter. Bob had decided to bill the telephone company for all the inconveniences he had to suffer as a New York Telephone Co. customer. He had billed them back for waiting time, no service and crossed wires. I wonder if they paid up.

Jack Smith of Greenwich thoughtfully sent along a clipping from the official organ of the New York State Education Department, "Inside Education" which was a tribute to Dr. Louis Benezet incoming president of the State University at Albany by State Education Commissioner Nyquist. The caption was "Humor is Important" and I quote, "It is one thing to have a keen intellect, which Mr. Benezet surely has. It is quite another to match this with a lambent sense of humor, for you have in your new leader one who understands that while the unexamined life is not wort! living, surely a life without laughter is not worth examining."

Dr. Ed and Margie Hyde of Northfield, Vt., are bragging about their first granddaughter, offspring of their daughter, Cathy, now living in Wisconsin. Their son, Doug, is an attorney working with the poor in the Boston ghetto. The Hydes had a three-week "People to People" tour behind the Iron Curtain last fall and found it to be a tremendous experience talking with the physicians in the Communist countries.

In Quincy, Mass., Al Pactovis is the owner of the Reliable Shoe Co. Maybe he could help me with my AA flat feet. Al and his wife, Edythe, are in rapture about their new granddaughter, Lisa. Their son, Bill, and father of the new doll is a math teacher. The Pactovis hobby is fresh water fishing and if you have a great spot for trout or bass in the area, let him know.

Bill and Jan Munson of Montclair, N. J., had a wedding in August when their only child, Virginia was married to Tom Vultee Jr. Both of the newly weds are students at Susquehanna University. Bill is regional sales development manager for Owens-Illinois Corp.

The exciting Dartmouth football season made rooting for the Big Green a serious matter until the last game was won. Brintand Doris Schorer followed the team to Philadelphia for the Penn game and then dropped in on Kirk and Lea Liggett. Kirk spends his spare time directing local dramatics and has just finished an eight-year project listing his family geneology. His son, Charles, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in December and is now fulfilling his ROTC obligation. The other boys are still in college—Kevin at the University of Michigan majoring in urban planning and Keith in his first year at Penn State.

Dr. Russ Page reports that he is retired and living in Chevy Chase, Md. He isn't really retired, however, since he is teaching medicine part time at the George Washington University Medical School at the Washington Hospital Center on the clinical level. One of his sons, Russell, is following his father at the University of Virginia Medical School after graduating from Harvard. The other son, Stephen, graduated from Dartmouth last June.

Another professed retiree is Niels Nielsen of Danville, Ill. However, he is on the move taking care of real estate and particularly the Holiday Inn at Danville, lust visiting the children keeps him on the go—Peter is at Culver Military Academy and Christine at Garland Junior College in Boston. lane is married to Bob Mahoney while Karen is soon to be married to Captain J. Heyman of the yacht, "Good Hope," of St. Thomas which was chartered last year by Emil Mosbacher '43 and President Dickey.

A November news release by the AP has left me up in the air. It stated that Dave Kiarsis of Trinity College needed 205 yards rushing in the next game with Wesleyan to finish the season with the highest per game average of any player in modern football history—an average of 182.63 yards per game. The all time record of 186.9 is still held by Jim Thorpe. We'll have to let Dave's father, Vic Kiarsis, fill us in on the final statistics.

On Nov. 16 Budd Schulberg was in Hanover to speak in the Spalding Auditorium prior to the screening of his 1957 film, "A Face in the Crowd". In September DickBrierley became the president and chief executive officer of the Stearns & Foster Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dick most recently served as vice-president of Bristol Myers in New York City.

Now that the holidays are over you can start to save for that trip to Hanover in June. Of course, if you can afford Florida, San Juan or Montego Bay this month or next, so much the better.

Secretary, 160 Judson Rd. Fairfield, Conn. 06430

Treasurer, 139 Burbank Rd. Longmeadow, Mass. 01106