1927
Present at the executive committee meeting in Hanover October 9 were President Ken Murray, Paul Hannah, Chuck Baker, Tom Gillespie, Sam Wormser, Frank Strong, Coggie Broer, Rog Bury, Don McCall, Howie Mullin, Hale Ham, and Jay Willing.
Rog Bury, chairman of the 50th Reunion committee, outlined plans for June 10-12, 1977. It was decided to make our interest in Dick Hall's House the central theme of the occasion, together with a rededication of the new Old Pine. Jay Willing was appointed treasurer and $l,000 appropriated to the Reunion committee. Don McCall is to be in charge of enrollment; registration, Bob Long; food and drink, FrankStrong and Tom Gillespie; Dick's House, HaleHam; Old Pine, Doane Arnold; publicity, HankMurray; 50-year history, Chuck Baker; class gift, Sam Wormser; class address (to be chosen by committee).
Dr. Hale Ham, pinch hitting for the recuperating Larry Scammon, the class liaison officer with Dick Hall's House, gave a very comprehensive report on the activities there, pointing out the change of emphasis that modern medicine is making. Whereas there were 472 hospital admissions to the House in 1973-74, with a daily patient average of eight, there were outpatient services rendered totalling 25,536 visits.
Larry Scammon has been working to increase the Class of 1927 Dick Hall's House Memorial Endowment Fund to $10,000. By letter he announced an impressive recent gift in memory of his predecessor, Vic Reynolds. The executive committee voted to pay the past year's expenses of $361 for magazines, etc., from the class treasury, to add the endowment interest to principal, and to contribute from the class treasury whatever amount was necessary to increase the fund to $10,000. (It has been reported since that the amount necessary is $623.61).
At the class meeting Saturday morning before the Penn game, it was noted that the bills for class dues printed by the college were for $10 whereas they should have read $15, the same as last year. If you have paid $10, please send another $5 to H. B. Cummings, 4 E. Gittings Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 21212. If you haven't paid, please remit $15. Dues were received last year from 222 classmates.
It was voted to hold the fall reunion next year October 15-16 when Harvard will play Dartmouth in Hanover. Frank Strong and TomGillespie agreed to continue as co-chairmen. Their wives can be counted on to handle the job in their usual exemplary manner.
New England's heat and humidity caused Nick and Betty Carter to cut short their visit to New Hampshire last July and August and return to the comfort of their cabin at Sedonia, Arizona, until November. Then it was back to their Phoenix home in the "Valley of the Sun." Nick expects to see Dr. Lowell Wormley and Doane Arnold at the Dartmouth luncheons this winter, Doane being president of the Phoenix club.
Angina caused Sam Martin to cancel a tour to Spain with Ellen that would have ended in Hanover for fall reunion last October. However, after missing two weeks, he was back at his law office, planning on Hanover for June, 1977, and the 50th.
Frank Coulter reports that he and Sonia are still going strong on the West Coast, taking pride in the activities of their children and grandchildren.
Dr. Dow Mills, safely back at his practice in Rochester, Minn., after attending fall reunion and a golf match in which the surgeons carved up the attorneys, says, "As one grows older, these friendships become more meaningful and recall happy days at Hanover 50 years ago."
Curt Wright has managed to take enough time off from his participation in Senior Masters track meets and his law practice to write an analysis of the New Federal Rules of Evidence which is being published in the bar journal. "Professor" Wright was on the faculty of the seminar held in Cherry Hill, N.J., October 18 by the Trial Lawyers of America for the New Jersey and Pennsylvania associations. Since "Hearsay" is his specialty, he should be a regular contributor to this column.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
College hails conquering heroes as 1925 football team returns from Chicago after undefeated season and national championship.
Dartmouth team leads scoring in East and Middlewest with 340 points, second nationally to Washington with 366. Only Dartmouth, Alabama, and Fordham were unbeaten or untied.
Tryon of Colgate nosed out Lane of Dartmouth 103 to 102 as scoring leader. Oberlander of Dartmouth was third with 72 points.
Capt. Nate Parker, tackle, Diehl, guard, and Oberlander, halfback, named on Jess Hawley's All American. Other well known players selected were Oosterbann, end; Grange, quarterback; Wilson, halfback; and Nevers, fullback. Other "All American" teams also mentioned Tully and Sage, ends, and MacPhail, quarterback.
R. B. MacPhail '28 assails policy of Editor-in-Chief Edward J. Duffy of The Dartmouth in saying that Dartmouth students agree with the Harvard Crimson regarding the over-emphasis of football.
December news editors of The Dartmouth were J. B. Harrison, C. A. Randall, T. H. Ham, H. W. Hansen, C. E. Strouse, J. F. O'Leary, C. P. Baker Jr., and W. C. Cusack.
Paul Whiteman and his orchestra give concert at Dartmouth. Whiteman delivers lecture on "The Future of Music" under auspices of The Arts.
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