1932

Save them dates - June 14-16, 1976! These of course, are the appointed time of the great Class of 1932's 45th Reunion. That coming event was the chief preoccupation of those of your representatives who made it to the annual Class Officers Weekend in Hanover just completed (weekend of May 2). They included, with wives: Howdy and Dottie Pierpont, Art and Dobbie Allen, Ben and Sally Drew, Ev Hokanson, and your correspondent and Peg. We found Reunion Chairman Drew in a healthy and enthusiastic stage of organization. He had his regional chairmen lineup just about completed, and had signed on Ed Lewis (now retired and living in Cundy's Harbor, Maine) as promotional panjandrum. Coming and in response to many requests: a class directory. On Saturday evening Ben and Sally had us all, along with Ben andDorothy Burch of Norwich, Greydois and Ethel Freeman of Hanover, and John and Rita Richardson of Quechee, Vt., for a great dinner and happening at their South Vershire farm. Among the many pleasures of that evening were two sights we wish we could communicate to you: one the serried rows of Ben's new apple trees looking absolutely splendid, the other the smashing view to the north from the Drew porch, hills beyond hills to the distant imagery of Mts. Moosilauke, Franconia, and Lafayette.

The Class was once more honored in the course of the weekend, this time by the College's naming of Art Allen as Class Bequest Chairman of the Year.

Charlie Mayo was elected a selectman of Provincetown in April, running second in a field of ten. We understand that Charlie will not be going south to his charter boat operation next winter.

Rog Hofheins of Lyme was elected an honorary life member of the National Military Vehicles Collectors Association in April. Many will remember that in 1939 Rog was among the first to perceive that World War II was going to require amphibious vehicles and that he pioneered design and manufacture of the AquaCheetah XAC amphibian car for the Army and the Water Buffalo amphibian for the Navy. With Rog's help, a New Jersey collector is restoring an XAC-3, the last known AquaCheetah.

A full and highly readable account of last summer's small boat trans-Atlantic voyage on which Pete Knight reported in the- fall, this written by Pete's daughter-in-law Kathy, is in the January Sail for your reading pleasure.

As we go to press, '32 has been edged out of first place by '31 in its Green Derby Alumni Fund competition. Second place is still an honorable standing, but it must be noted that this is the work of a relatively small number of contributors - 141 as of May 2 (one in three). In this time when the College desperately needs our help it is useful to recall that others paid half our way in the years 1928-32.

Here's the promised final excerpt from the Maine Sunday Telegram's piece on PeteSawyer, on search and rescue of lost hunters: "Our method is to go out that night, before he has time to wander the next day . . . When we fire a shot, if he'll answer us, it's just like locating a fire from two lookout towers. We have one crew listening at point A and another crew listening at point B, perhaps a mile apart, and if the lost hunter will give us an answer, both crews will hear it. We compare notes and bearings and from there on it's just a matter of intersection . . . The hunter usually insists he's not lost, just that it got dark and he decided to quit. They're never lost, you know. One time, when we had nothing but one bearing to go on, I was on the center and some crews to the left and right of me were searching in case the bearing was inaccurate. Well, after an hour I said, 'Gee, what's the use of turning around? I'm doing all right and I might as well go some more.' In another 15 minutes I came on to him asleep. He'd decided as long as it was dark to quit traveling. That's the right thing to do."

Have a good summer!

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