1927

Your scribe is having the privilege—and pleasure—of writing these notes from Hanover, looking out over the Campus from the Inn, and at this moment hearing Baker Library chime four o'clock. The sky is a brilliant blue; there's a brisk northwest wind coming out of Vermont; and Dart- mouth Row, whitest of all white buildings, has never seemed more resplendant. Winter is clearly on its way out, and in spite of a chill in the air and some lingering piles of snow, spring is definitely on its way in. Praise be!

On March 29 Rog and Marion Bury took off from New York for Cannes where they will pick up their boat, "Passage Maker," and set out to cover the Mediterranean. Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, the Adriatic, Corfu, Greece itself, and the Aegean Islands are all on their itinerary, and it sounds like a wonderful summer ahead for them. Sam and Alice Wormser will join the Burys at Cannes and crew for them as far as Sardinia, but we haven't heard yet where the Wormsers go from here ....

Back in February George Provost wrote Rog saying, "Last week in Delray Beach joined Sykes Hardy, Bob Stevens, and Carleton Blunt '26 in foursome at Country Club of Florida. We are all still fairly young through 15 holes—not bad at 19."

Ros Guyot reports that he enjoys collecting good California table wines, doing some reading, gardening, traveling, and sailing, and engaged in much photography. Regarding girl-watching he simply comments, "I'm not dead yet." As for elbow-bending, "Excellent exercise."

All too modestly, Frell Owl admits only to fishing, reading, working, and do-it- yourselfing, but recently published reports seem to indicate that "working" includes some pretty important activities.

Coggy Broer says he is reading a little, elbow-bending a little, and traveling not enough, but he triple-checked working and added, "I'm afraid this is still it."

A too-brief note added to Jack Delmarle's information that he is playing some golf and doing some elbow-bending says, "A new wife on March 16, 1971," and a lot of us would like more details on that bit of news, Jack.

Jim Forgie allows as how he golfs, fishes, gardens, and elbow-bends, but somewhat plaintively adds about girl- watching, "How does one escape it?" And on the other hand, Mort Cavis, in Bristol, N. H., says about the same occupation, "Dearly love to, but none to watch." Which sounds like a mild slander on Bristol. But Mort fishes "on rainy days," likes to photograph local fall foliage, indulges in elbow-bending "in waking hours only," and reads "when not doing any of the others."

Dr. John Machen reports that he enjoys reading and collecting books, and, still working, hopes for at least five more years in pediatrics.

Al McClure retired some two years ago from New England Tel. and Tel. He's now doing some traveling, "a very little" gardening, and some do-it-yourselfing around the house and yard. He also bowls in winter and pleads "guilty" to occasional elbow-bending, but he lists golf as his "#1 Hobby."

And finally for this month, JordanPulver checks in with reading, travel, and gardening as his major occupations these days, all of which sounds nice and peaceful, doesn't it?

By the time these notes see the light of day in print, the Alumni Fund campaign will be in full stride. As Sam Wormser has pointed out, it is more important than ever that each of us squeeze a bit wherever we can and contribute as much as we can so that 1927 may be able to hold its own in the Green Derby and prove to the College and the world what a worthy Class it is. Here, where the magic of Dartmouth grips one strongest, one wonders how one can ever adequately express the gratitude one feels for all that the College has meant to us in one way or another, but a generous gift to the 1971 Alumni Fund would at least be a token of that gratitude until some better means of expressing it comes along. So let's dig deep.

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