1935
The biggest 35th reunion in Dartmouth history! That's the word from Hanover as reservations keep pouring in from around the globe—literally! Well over 300 should be on hand, as the class convenes June 14- 15-16. If you haven't confirmed your plans, there's still time. But do it today, before you forget. With the kids grown, there are no more excuses. Besides, with all of us approaching 60, it's high time you got back to Hanover, while we're all in good health!
As a class, we're shooting for records in several categories. Record attendance! Record percentage, hopefully! Record financial support! Yank Price, our hard-working Class Agent, has sent out a clarion call to make this THE year! We're shooting for a record reunion gift, a sum never achieved by any reuning class in history. So think big; we need to double the size of our average gift.
Dick Halvorsen, who has been hibernating under 15 feet of snow in Ottawa this winter, has finished one book and is in the throes of two more. "Flying north to Thule, then west to the Yukon for my next book: on the Arctic. Also have a novel cliffhanging. Waiting to make sure of market trends, because it isn't dirty."
Dick's most recent publication is entitled "Fighters of World War II." In researching it, he ran into some interesting coincidences. Among those he talked to were Colonel Friedrich Koerner, the German ace who shot him down, and the German air attache in Ottawa. The latter, it turned out, was in the bomber squadron that attacked Alexandria while Dick was defending it. Despite his prolific pen, Dick is about to lose his family literary honors. "My wife, Norah, a bright Briton from Brighton, never sold a story before we were married, five years ago. Now, she sells about fifty a year. Funny, my son, a senior at Ohio State, can't even write a short note!" Common complaint, Dick!
I guess I'm just plain envious, but safaris seem to be an "in" form of vacation. EdMitchell writes from Paris that Margaretand Don Radash, popped in on them after returning from "a great safari." A week later, when a business trip took me to London, I learned that Mary-Stuart andBen Harriman had just returned from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika with raves about fabulous scenery, spectacular herds of wild animals, leopards so close you could almost touch them, etc.
The Harrimans live 30-miles from London in a charming, 500-year-old, thatchedroof "cottage" that dates back to the time of Henry VI, but has every modern convenience. Margaret and Bo Fleming joined us for the day, and amid copious scotches and thick steaks all vowed solemnly to make reunion in June. Bo, incidentally, is now a consultant to the chemical and petroleum industries, after retiring from Esso Europe.
Bob Naramore, never at a loss for quick repartee, acknowledges my recent nagging request for news with this gem. "My first marriage was such a disaster that the divorce was handled by the Red Cross. They goofed it up; so Corinne and I still are snoring together!"
Quite a bit of news from Florida this month. Art Allyn, erstwhile owner of the Chicago White Sox, writes: "Have retired from baseball with much relief—to the fans and myself! Now permanently located in Sarasota, and serving as director of the Allyn Museum of Entomology." DukeMills is manager of the Better Business Department of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce, haying retired from 21 years of active service in the Air Force. He is located just 15 miles from the new Disneyworld development, and sees nothing but boom ahead for Orlando. Duke and Dawn are counting on reunion and Duke writes "Hope my good buddies WoodyCurtis, Johnny Williams, and Rey Moulton will be there!" Don't disappoint the Duke, guys!
Jane and Earl Arthurs vacationed in Florida, and enroute home looked up Swanee Dawson at Sea Island, Ga. "I hadn't seen Swanee since graduation. He retired from the Foreign Service last year, and is living at Sea Island now year round. A lovely home, a beautiful German bride—and happy as a clam!"
Of his own family, Earl reports. "Both daughters are married, and we look forward to our third grandchild in May. Bachelor son David is a trust officer. All living here in Charlotte." In recent years, Earl has diversified his insurance business, and specializes in tax-deductible pension, profit-sharing and insurance programs for closely-held corporations.
Joe Sholkin writes that "George Goodman has returned from West Palm Beach to 'snowville.' Also bumped into Doc Heller, '35's only professor in Hanover on his way to read one of his famous papers to the Med School." Dick Schneider also reports seeing Morry while back in Hanover as visiting professor of neurosurgery at the Med School. Dick gave a paper on "Rotational Movements Secondary to Frontotemporal Lesion in Monkey and Man," which only goes to prove you have got to be a darn sight smarter than most of us to be a brain surgeon!
Incidentally, Dick returned to Hanover for Freshman Fathers' Week-end a few weeks later as "proxy father" for the son of one of his former associates at the University of Michigan Med School, and "ran into Charlie Gow, briefly. He has a fine boy in the freshman class, and I know must be very proud of him. Hope to make reunion, but a trip to Prague may prevent it."
Speaking of Dartmouth undergraduate sons, Tom Kroner's boy, Mitch, has just finished a winter internship in Jersey City, under the Tucker foundation, and is back on campus. Bob Kugler's son, John '72, is taking a term at the University of California, at San Diego, and then plans to spend his entire senior year as an exchange student at Wellesley! Lowell Haas' musician son, Fred, played with the New York Camerata Trio, in their winter concert in Spaulding auditorium.
Harry Reynolds writes that Harris Jr., has been accepted in next fall's freshman class. Harry himself has taken up residence in Stowe, Vt., and after 30 years as a lawyer in Boston, is "apprenticing" for six months, with hopes of being admitted to the Vermont Bar in May. Those Vermonters always were a clannish group!
Sam Milesky proudly writes that he will be joining the ranks of us grandparents shortly. "Daughter Joan, still teaching Wisconsin handicapped, is expecting our first grandchild in July. Our youngest daughter, Barb, is married now, and she and her husband (recently returned from Vietnam) are both at the University of Wisconsin."
Speaking of grandchildren, Fran Chase is expecting a bumper spring drop, "four now, and if you ask me in the spring, it should be three more." I'm still at the local co-operative bank in West Newton, Mass., but if I can stick it out a few more years, I can retire and go fishing."
I have just learned from the College that Bill Harloe was killed in Gramercy Park last December, by two hoodlums who stabbed him six times while robbing him. Bill and Marion had just returned from an early-evening dinner, and Bill was walking back to the apartment after parking his car when the attack took place. Further details will be found in the "In Memoriam" section of this or a subsequent issue.
BRIEFS: Sandy Parsons elected to the Board of Trustees of Marvelwood School in Cornwall, Conn. Len Bryant named president of Natvar Corporation in Woodbridge, N. J. Walt Holmes was the only one of eight candidates to pass the Civil Service examination for accounting in Bridgeport, Conn. Uncle Reg Bankart is retiring from Madison Avenue, after 19 years with Compton Advertising and eight with SSC & B, where he most recently headed international operations.
George Price, Head Agent for the Class of 1935, was awarded the 1970 Joshua A. Davis Trophy at the annual New York alumni dinner on March 24, in recognition of the greatest dollar improvement by a class in last year's campaign. The Class of 1935 went from $49,429 to $59,468 for a gain of $10,039 in a single year. The prize-winning performance was achieved by Price in his first year as Head Agent. The award made to 1935 was established in 1964 in memory of the late Joshua A. Davis '27, who was chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.
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