1927

Frank Strong and Tom Gillespie made the October reunion so enjoyable that mini-reunions were planned for the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton games. The new motel Chalet Susse was a welcome sunrise after the Sunset! President Ken Murray presided at the Saturday morning class meeting while Warren "Hank" Murray's picture trip through Spain, Sumeria, Iraq, and Egypt "Hunting Early Man With A Camera" made Saturday night at White River a new adventure.

Golf Chairman Doane Arnold, finding a shortage of carts at Hanover, shifted the Friday tournament to Woodstock. But nothing can daunt our traveling pro and bequest chairman Paul RevereO'Connell who has been riding all over the country playing in senior tournaments.

Tom Gillespie's July and September Speakeasys were brim full of news. (P.S. You are supposed to send some of these choice items to the secretary for use in this column.)

James B. "Jay" Willing, reunion treasurer, finally received a bill from the College for the June charges. He reports we are still solvent. Class Treasurer Harry B. "Gus" Cummings agrees but says that during the last year the printing bills were "horrendous."

Al Macdonald reports from Pinellas Park that two more '27s have favored the west coast of Florida. Col. Charles M. Townsend has forsaken Bethesda for Clearwater while Eugene R. Sullivan left Ft. Lauderdale for Seminole.

Don and Louise Lacoss have moved to Hilton Head Island, S.C., where he plays golf with his former roommate Bill Starr, who also lives there.

George V. Marks spent several weeks touring Florida last winter but is now back in White Plains playing tennis three days a week and golf two days, plus a few other activities.

Although retired from the University of Colorado, Prof. John Hough is going to spend this academic year as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia at Charlotte. Harry Dey is nearby at Staunton, and Rev. F. Everett Abbott has moved to Charlottesville.

Those who admired the "45 Tree" art work on the cover of our reunion book will be pleased to know that W. Gordon Smith had a one man show at the North Shore Musical Theatre the last two weeks in August. Hope Smittie finds time to design a cover for our 50th Reunion book.

N.H. Supreme Court Judge Larry Duncan sends word that C. Raymond Reed, chief pharmacist at Concord Hospital since 1958, retired at the end of June. Ray's mother was the first woman physician to graduate from Tufts School of Medicine and his father owned a pharmacy in Somerville, so Ray came by his interest in pharmacy naturally.

Never a dull moment for Doane and Marie Arnold. Among those who dropped into visit at their Maine summer home were Lyman Milliken and his bride, Ken Ballantyne and Catherine, KayPrescott, Charlie Bartlett and Barbara, Sid Harris and his daughter, Phil Fowler and Madeline. Charlie Bartlett has made a fine recovery from his operation and is back at work part time and well enough to do some sailing on his yacht Gurnet Light.

Ed and Eva Ripley also went to Maine after the June Reunion and spent some time with Charleyand Fran Brewster.

Prof. Mike Choukas and Gertrude are back teaching in Greece after a visit to their home in Rye, New Hampshire.

Veterans of the Cape will enjoy Betty Cusack's new book "Collector's Luck, A Thousand Years at Lewis Bay, Cape Cod." It contains some poems by her late husband Bill Cusack.

When Bob Bliss, publisher of the Janesville (Wis.) Gazette, put on an awards banquet in September for his 110 employees, they used the occasion to stage a birthday celebration for him. He is chairman of the board.

Ross Lyon, whose sleeping picture in the 45th Reunion book belies him being the ex-coffee king, wonders whatever happened to Hanover's watering trough opposite the Inn.

More bad news: James J. Kennedy, New York patent lawyer, died August 23 and Judge J.Edward Knight of Interlaken, N.J., died August 26.

Fifty Years Ago

Dartmouth's surprise football team went unbeaten and unscored on, except for a safety late in the Vermont game, until in the sixth game when they ran into a man named Pfann. Score: Cornell 32, D-7. Dartmouth then won its last three games

During November the New York Philharmonic Orchestra gave a concert in Hanover and the Community Chorus, with the übiquitous Prof. George Frost, staged the Mikado.

For many of us it was our first Thanksgiving away from home.

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