1921
Everett "Phez" Taylor brings us up-to- date on his activities of the year just past. After concluding a second round-the-world trip which found him in Samarkand, Russia, on his birthday, arriving back in Sun Valley, Id., for the end of the spring skiing. The 1970-1971 season started early, but the day after Thanksgiving Phez slipped on the ice and suffered a fracture of a small leg bone which immobilized him for barrel-staving for the rest of the winter. He reported a great party of Republican governors in December, those from the South being quite impressed by four and a half feet of white stuff on the valley floor, and six feet on Mt. Baldy at 10,277 feet elevation. During mid-January they scheduled the annual reunion of the Sun Valley Ski Club, with such Dartmouth stalwarts on hand as Dick Durrance '39, Carl Gray '23, Lee Chilcote '30, Pat Weaver '30, and Phil Puckner '44.
Chan and Lorna Symmes, when not spending time on the Class Reunion uniforms, made their annual pilgrimage to London last fall. This excluded their customary Florida excursion, which has been on their travel calendar for the past eight years. Semi-retired, Chan still spends some time with real estate rentals, and instead of creating divots on the golf course digs holes in his garden, thus being able to brag several months later about his tomato crop.
Guy Wallick has been forced for reasons of health to give up his favorite summer retreat in the High Sierras, thus closing out 36 years of estival enjoyment, in his cabin at Pinecrest. Through the past fall and winter the Wallicks have been enjoying the company of daughter Betsy and her family from Istanbul, Turkey.
Paul Rosenthal is living the life of a country squire since his discharge from the military service in 1945, and has moved into the bucolic environment of New York States's Duchess County. There his main activity is the breeding and raising of Holstein cattle. He thus shares the same interests as Ray Mallary, and bumps into him every year at the Eastern States Fair in West Springfield, which Ray has managed for many years. Paul has been president of the Dutchess County Fair, and is now its treasurer. As an unrelated activity he has also served a ten-year hitch as president of the Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhine-beck, N.Y.
Reg Miner has sent us more news on the Great Golden Get-Together as of the end of January. Intentions to be on hand have come from 219 people, including 97 couples, thirteen stags, seven widows, one sister, one daughter, one granddaughter and one son. He believes that there are a few more who haven't made up their minds as to whether to spend the time or energy which may be involved. A substantial block of rooms have been set aside for the Class at the Hanover Inn, with a few more to be held for 1921 if the older re-uning classes of '06, '11, and '16 do not take them up. Reg suggests that re-uners opt for the Friday Night Glee Club Concert since otherwise they would miss the free show of Max Morath on Saturday night after the Class Dinner. John Sullivan, who has arranged this attraction, would like to have it billed as for the three other reuning classes as well, with the compliments of 1921.
"Doc" Fleming' offers some free advice to those who are either retired, or are about to. "They would do well to cultivate immediately one or more hobbies which do not require the expenditure of much physical energy Those now in their forties or fifties" (classes of 1933 to 1952 take note) -visualize wading their favorite trout streams, hunting quail or deer, or spending endless days on the golf course. They fail to take into account that past age 65 they may not enjoy the physical stamina demanded by these activities, and that they may have to modify their programs to fit their physical capabilities." On the family side Doc reports that son Peter D'51 and Med School '53, is most happy about his recent move from the rat-race of New York City to San Francisco, where he is in surgery with the Kaiser Permanente Hospital at Redwood City.
LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN
On an afternoon in mid-winter several members of the Class who live in the environs of the College met to review the movies that, over the years, had been taken of class reunion activities. Much to the chagrin of our distinguished, adopted classmate Blair Watson, he belatedly informed us that the film had been mislaid, lost or stolen—possibly by jealous members of some neighbor class. If the missing celluloids have not re-appeared by June 12 the showing scheduled for that morning may consist instead of the 1970 Football Season Highlights, which could be more pleasing than watching a bunch of ghosts of the past scurrying by the camera in various stages of maturity and creeping obsolescence.
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