1927

By the time this column reaches you. Fall Reunion will have come and gone and Tom Gillespie may have already informed you of the events of that weekend. In any case, thoughts are now turning to our 45th Reunion celebration in June and Chairman Paul Hannah has named the following Reunion Committee: Dr. Thomas J. Anglem, Bennett D. Bell, Royal I. Blanchard, Roger M. Bury, Mrs. Robert D. Funkhouser, Thomas V. Gillespie, Donald F. McCall, Kenneth M. Murray, Norman F. Page, Melvin H. Partridge, Joseph M. Russakoff, W. Gordon Smith, James B. Willing, and your scribe.

Regional Chairmen are: Charles P. Baker, Jr., 13 Wintergreen Hill, Painesville, Ohio 44077; Dr. Charles A. Carroll, 1006 Akin Avenue, Fort Collins, Colo. 80521; Francis L. Coulter, 536 Midvale Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024; Carroll F. Daley, Boot Pond Road, Plymouth, Mass. 02360; Charles A. Gibson, 300 Woodland Way, Greenville, S. C. 29607; Oren C. Herwitz, 110 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. 10017; George Howell, 69 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. 60602; Earl E. Krogstad, 8317 Yale Drive, Tyler, Texas 75701; Samuel H. Martin, 640 Pacific Building, Portland, Ore. 97204; Bruce McKennan, 140 Northridge Lane, Wood-side, Calif. 94061; Frell M. Owl, Piney Grove Camp, Cherokee, N. C. 28719; and Roy A. Wesselmann, 1000 South Orlando Avenue, Maitland, Fla. 32751. You will be hearing from the man in your region, but if he can help you in any way to make your plans to be on hand for the great event, don't hesitate to call on him.

One especially attractive feature of the plans for the 45th is the opportunity they offer to meet old friends from '28 and '29 who will join us for one or more events. So if you haven't already done so, get out that calendar and draw a big green circle around June 11-13.

At the time this went to press, Rog and Marion Bury, after covering some 60 ports and 2,200 miles through the Aegean and alone ' the coast of Turkey, were just starting home in time for Fall Reunion.

When the Eastern Band of Cherokees met in July in tribal council for the first time in the 20th century, the first order of business was to elect a chairman. The man chosen to preside was Frell Owl '27, a Cherokee who returned to the reservation in 1962 after a 33-year career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

It was a solemn occasion which demanded a chairman of stature who enjoyed the confidence of the tribe. The issue which brought the Eastern Cherokees together on Yellow Hill in Cherokee, N. C., was an important and emotional one: whether to settle for $1,855,254 their claim against the U. S. Government for compensation for the confiscation of Cherokee lands in the Great Smokie Mountains more than a century ago when the major portion of the tribe was removed to Oklahoma. Some members— who prevailed in the final vote—wanted to settle for the offer; some opted to go to court seeking more; a few would "rather say that. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky still belong to us."

Rog Brasnan wrote, back in September, "I retired from my insurance agency at the end of 1971 after 44 years. I still retain an office of my own in a new office building in the waterfront area of Newport just to have a place to go. Saw Dartmouth and Yale scrimmage last Saturday with Ed Baker and wife Ruth. Yale looks big and powerful. We can expect trouble."

And Nick Carter reported: "Had a bomb scare on our flight from Phoenix in May. Resultant return and hasty planning caused my wife to wrench her knees badly. So our traveling has been confined to short trips around N. E. this summer. Attended reunion at Andover Academy where our class set a record by contributing $100,000. Sorry, the old ticker won't stand the excitement of football and Fall Reunion. Will return to Scottsdale in November. Doane Arnold, Lowell Wormley, and I would certainly like to welcome more '27ers to Dartmouth luncheons in Phoenix."

We have to admit that on some days in winter Arizona does look pretty inviting to us snowbound New Englanders, but there are other days, when the sky is a cloudless blue, when the snow is fresh and sparkling white and the evergreens greener than ever, that we wouldn't swap for anything on earth. So we think we'll stick around a while and take our chances.

See you in Hanover in June....

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