1930

We'd like to report to you on the March 22 Florida reunion, but an early March deadline for this column interferes. However, we've asked Milt Schultz to report highlights which will appear in the May column. Meanwhile add Fred Chase, Dunedin, to the Florida list. Via Alumni Records we have recently learned the addresses of Dick Blun, Hotel Embassy, N.Y., and Jack Richard, 19 Melrose St., Boston. Because we have had no recent correspondence from either, it would be good to. receive some word of their present activities.

Ed Frost (Nashville) retired last July and attended a couple of football games in the fall. Since cataract surgery in 1972 curtails his night driving, he wil probably fly north for the Woodstock meeting (October 10-11). Bill Elliott '27, 2 Gracewood Park, Cambridge, writes "The other day while browsing in a secondhand store in Harvard Square, I came upon the 1930 yearbook 'Twenty Five Years in the Wide Wide World.' I felt it should have a better home than H Square so picked it up for a buck. What a bargain! It's in good condition, and I'd be glad to send it to anyone who wants to wallow in a littie nostalgia."

If you want to believe that a prophet does have honor in his own country, take a look at Ed Brazil who settled in Laconia shortly after graduation. Except for three years in the Air Force where he advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel, Ed has been a complete advocate of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, serving as president of the Dartmouth Club, as a bank director, and as president of the Laconia Country Club and the Lakes Region General Hospital for which he was building fund general chairman. The Chamber of Commerce, the Republican State Committee, and several veterans' organizations have also benefited from his participation. Currently, Ed is vice pesident of Kewaydin Shores, a development company which owns several hundred acres of land, two large apartment houses, and the Pheasant Ridge Country Club in Gilford.

Sam Allen, retired partner of West Shore Boat Co. of Culver, Ind., writes under dateline of December 18. "Fresh snow in. Hanover, just as beautiful as ever. Had a very fine chat with John Rand in the DOC office. Then on up the river to Berlin through more fresh snow - each change of scene brought more fond memories. A brief visit with Art Bergeron '29 was followed by the annual Christmas dinner of the Old Hutmen's Association in Boston, with many old timers, including Bill Bragner."

This account of DOC activities plus a few miles of ski touring at the local golf course brings to mind the pleasures and rigors of New England skiing in the early 30s: Skis. Instead of the ash flattops of our Hanover experience, hickory ridgetops were in and a few visionaries were experimenting with steel edges. In those days, short skis were 6' and under. Bindings. The leather, loose-heel type was giving way to Amstutz springs which tended to hold the heel on the ski. (We improvised and economized by using cross sections of a tire tube). Then came cable bindings with a low hitch and Bildstein springs to encourage release in case of a fall. Boots. Bass, what else? Although a few fortunates turned to Oscar Hambro of Boston for custom-mades. Nothing plastic about those. Clothing. Knickers or long baggy trousers. If the latter, sometimes contained with canvas puttees. Altogether too many snowballing types of clothing. " Uphill. Wax applied with a hot iron, a never to be forgotten aroma. Skins for the affluent, canvas creepers for the peasants. Then a rope tow at Woodstock followed by an ingenious use of shovel handles to facilitate hanging on. Places. Tenney Hill, Hells Highway at Moosilaukee, the Thunderbolt at Greylock, Tecumseh at Waterville, Taft at Cannon, and the ultimate, Tuckerman Ravine in the spring via the fire trail and the Little Headwall. And the ultimate putdown - leaving one's skis in the Ravine on Saturday only to find the mountain socked in on Sunday and having to retrieve them via a 3½ hour hike. People. Arnold Lunn, Hannes Schneider, Otto Schniebs, Charlie Proctor, Charlie Dudley, an Dick Durrance.

Checking the 1933 records, Don Hight was 7th in the Hochgebirge-Dartmouth Alumni meet at Warren, and Win Durgin placed 22nd in the Harvard-Dartmouth slalom on the Tuckerman Headwall.

Serving on the Class Organization Committee of the Alumni Council, I attended a February meeting in Hanover with representatives of the Freshman Council, one of whose concerns is class unity under the Dartmouth Plan of year-round operation which guarantees unity only in the freshman year. They are determined to find a solution. While in Hanover, I visited with C.E.W. and Larry. No longer plagued with magazine deadlines, Charlie is still busy with the Hopkins project and hopes to conclude his editing by year end.

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