1943

This year's informal fall reunion was the best ever ... with almost 70 in attendance by Saturday evening.

The weekend started early (Thursday) with Hud and Lois King and Kelly Coffin arriving ai the Liders in Eastman (N.H.) Since the College has taken over the Motor Lodge for student housing, there is little room at the Inn so Pal Crance (Don was baby sitting in Denver) and Ben and Janet Edmonds joined the Liders, too. At Frank and Margot Hartmanns' place in East man, George and Ellie Munroe laid their heads, while Andy and Clare Caffrey, Tuss and Carol Hand (the melon season was better this year), Eddie and Lorraine O'Brien, Peggy Winters, and Jug and Phyllis O'Connor all rented a house at Eastman. Bob (Popular) and Bunny (more Popular) Clark were at their place in Eastman.

Down in Acworth, Bill and Anne Alexander and Don and Connie Reich stayed with Bob and Susie Gray and daughter Susie Jr.

Back up in Hanover, Jim and Rita Doucette and Bill Maeck stayed with Church and DorothyLeonard. Paul and Ruth Young were at home with guests and collapsed on Monday after having arranged the whole weekend for the Class

The Hanover Inn housed Bob and Joan Barnum, up from N.Y. City; Ray Coningswood and son Robert up from New Jersey; Harry and Marjory Gustafson, up from Connecticut; Fred and Polly Lent in from Chicago; Don and Louise McCorkindale (Don looks great after his recent illness); Bud and Betty Miskell up Falmouth; Bus and Pat Mosbacher (son John is a freshman), Mort and Alese Pechter with son Richard; Ray and Dottie Peterson; and Pfeiffer, together with son Eric.

Down at Wilder, Bob and Joan Ehinger and sons Bob Jr. and Tony found housing, as did Al and Ginny Stevens. Phil and Shirley Jackson camped out in their construction company trailer and John Goode stayed at the Chieftain Motel which he owns and operates. Others staying at unknown places include Charlie and Jane Does, Bob and Pauline Field, Hugh Lena and son Peter, and Warren and Marjorie Taylor. Children not otherwise mentioned Regina Hart-man (who guarded your secretary's whiskey An Sunday while he was seeing his daughter sour Keens Airport and back to Hollins collage in Roanoke) and Michelle and Coleen O'Brien who are in nursing at Mary Hitchcock Hospital.

So much for "who" and "where."

The festivities started officially on Friday everning with cocktails and dinner at Stell Hall (the dining hals at Tuck School, for those of you who are approaching senility). That episode closed somewhere around 11 p.m., but individual parties continued at Hanover, Eastman and Acworth until close to dawn. Dawn didn't help much, so a smaller than usual turnout showed for the class meeting. Due to automobile trouble (believe it or not) your secretary is unable to report on the goings-on at said meeting, but President Hartmann took copious notes which will be reported herein next month and in Herb Marx' Clanging Bells.

Pictures were taken at the Class of 1943 Memorial by Mort Pechter and the Hands subsequently led a contingent to the Inn for Bloody Marys. Bill and Anne Alexander missed that one in favor of a tour of the campus for Anne whose first trip to Hanover it was. Bill left Hanover after freshman year for the Naval Academy and a career in the Navy. They live in Washington (two blocks from the Grays) and were enticed up by them for, we hope, the start of an annual return for fall reunions.

A football game was played in the afternoon between two brothers named Snickenberger. The one who played for Princeton (he wore the number "43") was better and he and his friends won 14-7.

After a couple of hours of recuperation and shopping at such places as the Co-op and Campion's, the Class again foregathered at Stell Hall for drinks, dinner, and dancing to the music of Charlie Breed's combo. This year no one fell down, but Hud King and Bob Clark visited the KKK house, which is a story in itself, according to reliable sources.

While Friday had had glorious weather and Saturday had been overcast, Sunday broke with even more beautiful weather and foliage at its absolute peak. It was in this setting that the Class repaired to Frank and Margot Hartmanns' place in Eastman for a chili brunch. There we saw Brodie Mosenthal for the first time that weekend and encouraged all classmates to jot down data and comments for your class secretary to use in this column. Lois King graciously took it upon herself to act as recorder and a private unexpurgated edition of her notes is available upon written request. As a sample: "Overheard Bud Miskell' and Bodie Mosenthal - Bud asked Bodie what he thought about foreign, affairs; Bodie said, 'Great, if you use another name!' Lois, herself a liberated female, wore a bra on Sunday for 'religious reasons.' Kelley Coffin voted hers was an 'up-lifting religion.' "

Although the Hartmanns were planning to drive back to Long Island on Sunday, they attended a tapering-off party at the Liders on Sunday evening. Also in attendance were the Kings, Coffin (Janie couldn't make Kelly's business trip), Clarks, Youngs, Grays, and Fritz and Nance Geller (who had been unable to make the weekend earlier because of a Boy Scout Jamboree in which Fritz is extremely active.) while Margot Hartmann may make the best child east of Mesa Verde, Colo., Eddie Lider cooks the best steak north of the Mason-Dixon Line (Dottie, who is an even better cook than remarked that she never wanted to see a bottle again).

So ended the weekend and I'm all writ out!!

Secretary, 1001 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036

Treasurer, 2 Barrett Road Hanover, N.H. 03755