1936
A newspaper clipping from John Sawyer brings back memories of Carnival while we were in Hanover. It announced the engagement of Ernest Martin Hopkins' granddaughter, the daughter of Ann Hopkins, queen of the 1936 Carnival. She is a student at Williams which prompts me to wonder if a Dartmouth student could be queen of the Williams Winter Carnival now?
The regular spring meeting of the Executive Committee will be held in Hanover about 4:30 P.m. May 5 when the Class Officers meetings have been concluded. The meeting place will be announced later and all classmates are welcome to attend. We will gather about 6 p.m. at the Outing Club for cocktails and a dutch treat dinner afterwards. The fall informal reunion, which will be the weekend of the Penn game October .12 and 13, will be held again at the Stone End Lodge at Sunapee. For reservations send $l0 per person deposit to Ray Builter or me. Any overflow will be accommodated nearby.
As you read this some of our classmates will be preparing to fly off to Portugal with Bill Wyman on the first '36 "Reunion in Portugal." If you are still interested it might be worth a phone call to Bill to see if anyone dropped out at the last minute—(617-369-1811).
We have all been concerned about and some involved in the controversies which have been caused by the issues of coeducation, year-round operation, and the "Native American" problem. I think it's fair to say that the College has lost the support of some of its Alumni and the Fund has suffered as well. As a Class we seem to have survived pretty well if the number of members who pay dues is any indication. In 1962 dues were $6, 64% of the living graduates and 36% of the non-graduates or a total of 59% paid dues. In 1972 dues were $13, 66% of living graduates and 28% of non-graduates or a total of 61% paid dues. This amounted to 351 members in 1962 and 336 in 1972. In neither case do the figures include those who are lost or "not interested" in the College. I might add that the extra $5 in dues voted at Reunion in 1971 have not been committed for Indians or any other purpose as yet in view of the present situation in Hanover.
We seem to have an increasing number of retirees including Dick Wakefield. He has left Boeing and he and Grace are building a home on Deception Pass, Anacortes, Wash. None of their three children, Jay, Beverly, or Alice are married as yet. Ed and Jane Shapiro are in Bay Harbour Island, Fla.; where he works at breaking 90 on the golf course. He also "feels useful" as a vice president and trustee of Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center of Miami Beach. Bob and Kay Howland also are in Florida but only in winter. They continue to spend the rest of the time back in Edison, N.J., where Bob was in the flexible metal hose business. Their son Bill Tuck '65 has three children while daughter Betsy is not married.
Al and Betty Langlois live in Wausau, Wis.; where Al retired from the travel agency field and now keeps busy writing a column "Outdoor Tips" for a local newspaper and also syndicates it to several other papers. He sounds like a candidate for this job. They have two children, Peter, a TV newsman, and Annette. Horace "Huffy"Huffman, who retired as chairman of the board of Huffman Manufacturing Co. last year, has an office in downtown Dayton, 0., where he is involved in numerous civic activities. Their family is scattered with one son in California; another in Istanbul, Turkey; a third in the Peace Corps in West Africa; and a daughter at Pine Manor Jr. College. Huff and Jane managed to cover all bases last year with a visit from the California contingent, a visit to the family in Turkey, and met their Peace Corpsman in the Canary Islands in June. I'm sure they must also have visited at Pine Manor although they don't say so.
Dan Schwartz doesnt say anything about his family except that he and Josephine live in the Bronx where he is Assistant Director of the Montefiore Hospital. He has taken up painting which he enjoys and still plays tennis daily. Clarence and Germaine Mark still live in Evanston, Ill., where he is a vice president of James Kittlemans & Associates, a management consulting firm. Their family includes a banker, an Airforce captain, a housewife, a "beautiful nun," and seven grandchildren. As Clarence says "what more can we ask for?"
Dr. Roger Watson lives in Washington and is a senior advisor for the Board of Veteran's Appeals. One daughter is business manager of the Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse while the younger is a senior at Harvard. His only comment as to "What's new?" was "Gracious living." Washington sounds interesting for a single man. A final word concerning this year's Alumni Fund. Many of your Classmates work hard to make the fund drive a success and this year we are exerting extra effort to make our Class totals more comparable to classes in the same general age grouping. You can help ease the work load and improve our performance by sending in your contribution early and sending a little more than you have in the past. I'm sure Frank Curtis and all his assistant agents will thank you.
Secretary, 174 Turtleback Rd. New Canaan, Conn. 06840
Class Agent, 10 Stoneybrook Road Nashua, N.H. 03060
