1927
This is the year most of our Class will reach three score and ten. Seventy-six members will have to wait another year, while nine more were born in 1907. Duke Coulter is dean and the youngest is Burt Harris. Only ten members are old enough to have unlimited earned income and still receive Social Security.
Exercise regularly, suggests Fifty Year Reunion Chairman Rog Bury, and indulge only moderately in food, drink, and sex and you will be able to enjoy the festivities being planned for Hanover in June, 1977.
Ev and Sid Voice are taking one of their granddaughters to Washington, D.C., in April so she can see the space missiles at the Smithsonian while Sid enjoys the cherry blossoms and the new Hirschorn Art Museum. Last summer the Voices visited England, toured southern France, and then spent a week with friends in a turret of a picture book 12th century chateau. Sid is semi-retired, but still a Litho broker (see the classified advertisement in the AlumniMagazine) whose company printed the envelopes with the 100 Tennis Stamp.
Mim and Ben Bell enclosed a three-page letter with their Christmas card from Florida, telling, among other things, about their trip to the South Pacific last spring. The Roger Bury's card had pictures of the "Passagemaker" and some of the Adriatic places it took them.
Sam Wormser, class agent, is back in the harness and has things lined up for another successful Alumni Fund campaign, if everyone helps. He asks that we respond early to ease the pressures on his heart.
Woody Burgert says Sarasota, Fla., is full of 1927's including Doc Harvey, Ben Bell, CarletonGilbert, and many others.
The Episcopal Church is struggling with the question of the ordination of women as priests. The Ecclesiastical Court for the Diocese of Ohio has named Chuck Baker as its legal adviser for the trial this month of the Oberlin priest who invited two of the "Philadelphia Eleven" women to officiate in his church contrary to the admonition of his bishop.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Varsity five names James E. Picken '27 basketball captain for 1925-26 season.
Sophomore class elects William C. Cusack, president; N. M. Horton, vice president; William B. Fryberger, secretary; and Harry B. Cummings, treasurer, for coming year.
Rotary Club starts chapter in Hanover. Dr. John M. Gile elected first president.
Green nine concludes victorious spring trip, winning six of eight games.
Bernard Barde '27 wins New England Amateur welterweight title in Boston, defeating four opponents. The last bout wasn't finished until 3 a.m.
Tony Sarg marionettes perform TreasureIsland in Webster.
1927 resolves against holding Picture Fight.
Bernard Barde wins National Welterweight Championship at A.A.U. boxing tournament.
Robert Frost speaks in 103 Dartmouth, giving an informal talk and reading some of his poems.
New York City alumni give dinner for fathers of all members of the Class of 1927.
Palaeopitus rules freshmen must wear their caps. 1927 says it will not enforce the rule. 1925 and 1926 members support cap tradition and form vigilance committee to see that freshmen comply.
College lets contract for new home for its president. Generous Tuck donation makes construction possible.
Signs of spring. College to hold first Hum of season with each class on opposing sides of campus. Sophomores to sing from steps of Webster Hall under direction of C. A. Randall.
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