1961

In another month many of us will be heading towards Hanover to participate in our TENTH reunion. It should be a grand affair judging from the many notices coming from our reunion committee. If you have not already made up your mind to attend, do so now. It has only been five years since our last meeting and ten since graduation, but a great deal has changed in the College, the country, the world, and most likely ourselves. But I wonder how we have changed and how the College is different from what we remember. Equally as important to discover is how we have not changed or adapted to new conditions. One of the reasons I am anxious to attend reunion is to find out what classmates and former professors are thinking and doing: How have they responded to the many changes? It should be an interesting reunion.

Jack Houser wrote a long letter relating some bits and pieces of news and even a few views. Much of his material was gathered at a long and possibly lost weekend at a motel in Florida where the Housers, Janet and John Hagaman,Annie and Guy Cox, and other friends got together for much swimming, sunning, golfing, and laughing. Jack tells us that he lives in Baton Rouge selling for Samuel Moore & Company and finds life to be a most enjoyable experience. He is not sure about all the changes going on at Dartmouth or elsewhere, but he does want to reassure his friends that he is not a Crusader Rabbit. John Hagaman works for Humble Oil in Houston, and Guy Cox is selling group insurance in Miami. A picture of these classmates and their wives attests to one thing on which all of us would agree. Their wives are lovely, indeed.

Perhaps some of you saw the article in The New York Times about Dave Birney. This nice story, the typical Times article about fascinating people in the news, suggests that Dave is thrilling audiences in the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center with his rendition of "the last playboy of the western world." I doubt whether the play is still on, but I suggest that our New York area classmates be on the lookout for plays starring David Birney. Quite likely a visit to see him perform will be most rewarding. Page 12 of the April ALUMNI MAGAZINE also carried a story about Dave.

Mentioning the theater, reminds me of a performance of Macbeth which I saw in Hanover as an undergraduate. Of course Hopkins Center had not been built, and the facilities for theater were atrocious, but this particular performance was memorable. In one of the dueling scenes, the audience was listening to the clang clang of the swords to be rudely interrupted by a terribly realistic thud of sword hitting flesh. The poor victim received a clout and a cut on the head. The stage manager rushed to his aid around the perimeter of the stage, brushed a fire extinguisher, it fell on his head, and knocked him out cold. I am not sure whether * Dave Birney was performing at the time, but it is encouraging to see one from such humble beginnings make it so big.

Ivar Jozus is practicing law in Middletown, Conn., and he, wife Carol, and two daughters live in Old Saybrook. Another Connecticut lawyer, Bill Shure, has recent- ly been named an area staff coordinator for Senator Lowell Weicker. As such, Bill will be available to constituents to aid them in their problems. He will be doing this while continuing to practice law in New Haven.

Jim Mairs is an editor of college textbooks with W. W. Norton Company. Jim, wife Tanya, and two daughters live in New York City and find it a grand place to live. While he agrees that New York is "Fun City," he spends much of the summer renovating an old house on Long Island. Jim and I get together at least once a year at academic meetings, and I expect to see him again this fall. Hopefully, Jim will be at reunion too.

Preparations for reunion are almost complete, so I am told, and the plans sound as if all of us can do whatever we want to do. I am looking forward to chatting with old friends and discovering new friends among classmates whom I did not know while at the College. In addition, Susie and I plan to spend some time just wandering around Hanover and the North Country. We are looking forward to a good time.

Alan Orschel is proceeding with the tasks of the nominating committee. JackReno is doing a grand job in directing the Alumni Fund campaign for the class, and Tom Allen is sending out newsletters apprising us of the doings of our classmates. Denny Denniston is attempting to collect our class dues, and I am sitting at my typewriter devoid of news and notes.

But before I close, let me urge you once again to come to reunion.

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