1930
A nice intra family Christmas gift would be his and hers trips to Hanover for our 45th, June 14-17. At Woodstock in October, Buck Steers outlined the program for this Bicentennial affair, and you can't afford to miss it.
Attendance at one event or another for the Penn game weekend ranged from 100 to 130. At the Saturday Woodstock Inn dinner, 1930 Class Awards were made to Herb Chase and MeadeAlcorn, with citations by Charlie Widmayer and Fred Scribner. Only Milt McInnes has room to list those in attendance, but here is a sampling of news about a few of them. Polly and BrownieBrown had never attended a fall reunion. Brownie works part time in the investment business, but is more fully occupied with civic affairs such as Boy Scouts, church, the Ruritan Club, and Volunteer Fire Department of Suffolk, Va. Lucille and Bill Obrion are now living in Cape Elizabeth, Me., and summer at their cottage in Friendship, a couple of hours from home. Since retiring from BBD&O, Bill represents two publications selling advertising space.
Eleanor and Ote Humphrey journeyed to Berkeley via Amtrak to visit daughter Jane and her husband Chris Adams, returning by Canadian-Pacific to Montreal. They recommend giving the rails a try. Herm Sanders is still enjoying part-time emergency room coverage. He took daughter Nancy to Munich during the summer and visited with Jerry Raab, ski coach during our last two years in Hanover. Eleanorand Blair Wood from Waterloo. Blair retired in August after serving as judge, Tenth Judicial District of lowa for 21 years, a position his father had filled from 1921 to 1941. Parents of four Dartmouth sons, the Woods continue their outdoor interests which include a canoeing camp in Wisconsin and a skiing camp in Colorado. Sylvia and Art Behal were specially cited at the Woodstock dinner - their guest was Arthur B. Jr. Class of '79.
At the executive committee meeting attended by 41 classmates and 15 wives, Ev Low, chairman of our Reunion Giving Program, outlined his plans for raising $200,000 in 1976, and was pleased to announce that pledges have been received for about one third of that objective. Al Ritchie (Liverpool N.Y.) reports that both Dorothy and he have retired, are doing volunteer work and some travelling, that daughter Susan is back from the Peace Corps in Colombia and son David is reference librarian at SUNY at Cortland.
Martha and Nels Ranney are living in Pompano Beach. Nels has joined SCORE which gives him an opportunity to help small businesses in his area of expertise, and at the same time he is winding up (or down) his former business in Cleveland where he was president of Ranney, Brown Distributors, Inc. Frances andDoc Miller (North Palm Beach) cooled off this summer in Kennebunkport. Doc has been retired since 1963. Ed Lynch is a halftime Floridian, St. Petersburg, spending the summer months in Lebanon.
Bob Chittim reports from Sarasota, "I manage to make the Dartmouth luncheons each 2nd and 4th Tuesday, and 1930 always walks off with the numbers honors. Van Derbeck, Shultz,Wiggin, Bianchard and myself are pretty regular, with Bill Truex coming all the way (40 miles) from St. Petersburg quite often. JackFitzpatrick is a regular during the winter and once in awhile we get Herb Chase. Ave Gould has an important golf date every Tuesday afternoon so he is never around, although he usually makes the special functions which we have about four times during the "snow-bird" season.
"I have a daughter getting married in Whittier Calif., in November, so maybe I'll catch up with Karl Rodi and Collie Young, both of whom have met her.
"We've been in Florida for 2½ years and I have yet to go out in a boat or go fishing, the two pastimes which are usually added to golf as Florida recreation. At least I haven't had any snow to shovel, and we have been concerned about lack of water rather than floods. Our big problem is the electrical bills which are astronomical when air-conditioning is used."
At rain-drenched Soldiers' Field were seen Condon, Morrill, Lowery, Jordan, McFarland, Butler, Low, Chase, Kirkman, Ryder, Raube, Fletcher, Leahy, Butterworth, Rauch, Brazil, Liz Doherty, Rich, and Hal Booma. There may have been others unseen. The Lowerys are leaving Marion and expect to settle in Arizona by the end of the year. Foursquare New Englanders, they will be missed.
Bill Fletcher reports that Miles is now an assistant professor at U of NC, Chapel Hill after completing his doctorate studies at Yale. His field is Japanese, all phases.
Please put first things first. Like "The very special reunion for the very special Class of 1930." Happy holidays.
Secretary, 56 Jennys Lane Barrington, R.I. 02806
Treasurer, 6 Emerson Road Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181
