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Hanover never was lovelier than the weekend of October 1-2-3, when the class convened for our annual fall reunion. It was shirt-sleeve weather by day, and only a slight tang of autumn at night as a harvest moon bathed the campus in its glow. A setting for nostalgia!
The clan gathered Friday evening at Norwich Inn for cocktails, buffet dinner and camaraderie. Nearly 90, including wives, turned out, considerably more than expected in view of our recent June meeting. Bette Russell,, Dud's wife, and daughter took long-distance honors, coming in from Minneapolis. Bill Davidson, Mary Lou and their son Bruce were first-timers, and we learned that Bill makes graphics arts equipment, out on Long Island.
The Injunaires provided the entertainment. Always superb, their performance in the intimate atmosphere of the Ranger Room was a never-to-be forgotten one. As male voices blended in "Dartmouth Undy- ing," one wondered how this most beautiful of Dartmouth melodies would ever be improved by co-education!
Saturday brought the formal class meeting and the election of the Class Executive Committee, an item we forgot about in June. Those elected to serve were Woody Curtis, Al Dodd, Don Richardson, Rudy Pacht, Dave Buxbaum, Don Radasch, Bob Boehm, Al Brush, Bill Chapman, Jack Au Werter, Bobb Chaney, Sax Ziemen and Harry Ferries.
After hearing John Goyette '60, business manager of The Hopkins Center, discuss current needs, the Class voted to support a production of Verde's Requiem Mass as our Memorial Project in 1972. This will be a magnificient production, combining 200 voices from the Dartmouth and Smith Glee Clubs and the Smith and Harvard Choirs, supported by an orchestra of nearly 100 Pieces. George Goodman proposed that we explore the commercial exploitation of this performance, in recordings and tape cassettes, as a fund-raising opportunity for the College, and this will be done.
As our new president, John Wallace, so aPtly phrased it, the Class conducted the usual tribal rituals (committee reports, etc.), amid banter led by the irrepressible Bob Naramore. Doug Ley reported a profit of $1,000 from our June reunion. Yank Price was given a standing ovation for helping us raise a record-breaking $85,000 in the Alumni Fund. We voted to print a new class directory, so if you have moved or expect to move in the near future, please advise the Alumni Records office.
Saturday afternoon, we baked in the sun and watched the varsity beat Holy Cross in a rather ragged game. Frequent errors and generally sloppy play brought groans during the first half. The pace picked up in the final periods, but we have a long way to go if we are to retain our Ivy League crown.
Only news of losing two more classmates this summer marred an otherwise perfect weekend. Bill Lionett, who was assistant treasurer of the Norton Company, lost his long fight against "Lou Gehrig's disease" and died July 20. Hank Topkis died July 31 in Wilmington, Del., but no further details are known at this time.
Our retirement ranks continue to grow. Lowell Haas ended 33 years with United Airlines on October 1. Bob Smith is ending an equally long stint at Time, Inc., at yearend, and will serve on a part-time basis as Executive Director of the Asian Institute of Technology in the U.S.A. Bob and Gert returned from Bangkok, Thailand, in June after spending the past three years working on fund-raising assignments for the Institute. Curt Lamorey has completed some 35 years of foreign duty with Texaco, and settled in at Barre, Vt.
A fine promotion for Yank Price. He moves from Sero of New Haven to the parent company, College Hall Clothes, and will be their chief operating officer. He and Joan will be moving to Chestnut Hill, Pa., just outside Philadelphia. With all the time Yank has devoted to Dartmouth in recent years, one wonders how he found time to do his own job, let alone get promoted!
The class continues its peripatetic ways. Bill Hands flew in from Europe, just in time to make the Holy Cross game. PhelpsLuria and Cathy leave for London and Paris November 11, and then on to Africa with a medical group. Art Bamford missed our June gathering, and found himself in Portugal on business instead. Bea Saunders, Dero's wife, similarly missed the fall reunion with an extended trip to London.
John Howe, whose work for UNESCO formerly took him to the far corners of the world, has been retracing his steps. "Went back to Rio de Janeiro last December, mainly to fix-up and sell a motor cruiser we had left there in mid-'68. Took us 'til July. Then travelled by train, bus, etc. from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to Cochabamba, La Paz, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, Machu Pichu to Lima, where we caught a plane home. We'll be at the family cottage in Orange, Mass., until mid-October. Then in the Boston area, experiencing our first temperate-zone winter in 10 years!"
From Bob Naramore comes word that Jack Doyle is doing sales promotion work for Anaconda's metal hose division. EdRamsey writes from Los Angeles "'after all these years we have moved to the beach—Corona Del Mar, to be exact!' Phyllis Rogers reports the reassuring news that Don is recovering from aortic surgery.
One winter in Maine's rugged clime apparently was enough for Charlie Sewall, our retired Navy captain. He has retreated to Ozona, Florida. A note from Jack Egan says son John is studying for his PhD in aeronautics and astronautics, after which he'll put all this celestial knowledge to work designing and racing earth-bound cars. For openers, he recently bought the Lotus 47 that Philadelphia's Schmidt Brewery raced last year. Jack's daughter Heather recently graduated from Moore College of Art.
ITEMS GLEANED ON THE HANOVER PLAIN: Reg Bankart is serious about painting and is taking not one but two art classes—portraiture and landscapes. Jean and Al Brush's son Bob was married in June and is working for his MBA at Washington University, St. Louis. Bob's twin brother Don is a first lieutenant at Ft. Benning, while Jean and Al's eldest son David is teaching history at Concord College in West Virginia. Bill Fitzhugh proudly distributed copies of The Connecticut Valley Reporter, a paper edited in nearby Lebanon by son John.
Who hijacked the glasses? The handsome Dartmouth reunion glasses (vintage our 30th) were picked up by someone from Don Cameron's home, shortly before Don's death. No one remembers who. Will whoever has them please step forward!
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