1937

October should be labeled "Dartmouth Secretary's Grab-it-while-it's-going Month With our class reunion and various football games we find more classmates within arm's reach than any other time of year. So let's start with fall reunion.

As usual it was outstanding, a bit of pre-game dampness and a rather inept Princeton team, but all else fared well for the 30 weekending couples plus additional game attenders who showed up at the Motor Lodge "Club 45" before or after the game.

Among the missing were Ilene and Crawf Hinman due, as per rumor, to an auto accident with Crawf in bad shape. We checked immediately on arrival home and who answered the phone? Crawf, like nothing had happened. Seems they were vacationing at Prince Edward Island over Labor Day. and while passing a truck on a high-crown two-lane road the truck veered out forcing them off the road. They rolled over several times. Ilene was thrown out receiving lacerations but Crawf fractured his 7th cervical vertabra requiring two weeks' hospitalization there and two more in Boston but he's OK. He's back at work in babyland—Lord Hinman sits in the back seat while dutiful wife Cinderella drives the pumpkin back and forth to work. He said they were probably two of the luckiest people alive and he's lost 30 pounds.

Back to reunion. The class meeting was routine except for the report of the Special Projects Committee appointed by FredAsher last year to investigate action of value to the College and the Class. It was voted at the meeting to continue permanently the Memorial Book Program established last year by Dave Camerer wherein we sponsor a book of the library's choice in memory of each of our deceased classmates. The name is recorded in the book and next of kin are appropriately thanked by the College. It was also voted to establish the Class of 1937 Scholarship and Scholar program. This will be supported with an addition of five dollars added separately to our dues notice annually and, of course, deductable. It was voted to have Chairman Fenn's report printed verbatim in the Mint Bag so all classmates will be fully informed of these two actions. The class has already received funds to start it off and a thank you letter from the College indicating how appreciative they are for these two projects.

Ginny and Rog Allen were in Puerto Rico on a banking convention but a report of the weekend should be forthcoming by substitute Park Johnston and Katies Korner. We do want to say here the thanks we all feel for Jean and John Milne's offering their home for the catered class dinner Saturday night. As known by most, the Stearns sold their Hanover home and are still in process of settling and renovating their new (old) place 12 miles south in Plainfield, N. H. The usual crew was supplemented this year by Isabel and AlexMackenzie who made a week of it via the fall foliage route and Marie and AlWhitehill down from Orono, Me., to observe their freshman son whang the big bass drum in the band. We must compliment another young freshman who worked hard as a "heeler" at our Friday gathering supplying ice, set-ups, etc. This was Peter Areson, son of Lois and Bob. Since there's no better drawing card than an off-spring undergraduate we expect to see the Aresons break away to join us next fall.

A few notes. Fred Asher and KaneZelle have formed a new business called Bellwether Development Corporation, essentially a mail-order house now four months old. So far their best seller is live fig trees from Texas but a new machine for testing alcoholics' breath shows promise. The Hal Putnams left early to attend an NAACP convention in Pittsfield and the Judge Martins did likewise so he could be at Suffolk University to accept a fellowship that night.

For the record, at the meeting BillBreitinger and Sid Lansburgh were elected to the executive committee and BozBosworth, in appreciation of all he's done for College and Class was made a permanent ex-officio member of the executive committee.

That tiger of promotion, Jack Devlin, combined business and pleasure as usual. His rapidly expanding national business is called Lawn Ware and primarily they distribute plastic gimickry for the gardener through discount and chain store garden centers. These are eye-catching items like plastic flamingos or little border fences for impulse buyers. He has manufacturers' representatives all over the country on whom he rides herd via the 707 route as well as attending conventions wherever they may be.

Next month we report the D/H and D/Y games but there's still more left from reunion.

Two '37 men ready for the start of theOpening Hunt of the Mission Valley HuntClub, Kansas City, Mo., are Tom Reck,Master, and Hugh Uhlmann, mounted.

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