1932

Since we are all either retired or on the verge of it, I am not getting any startling news about changes of jobs or promotions. Future notes from classmates, will I hope, shed some interesting information on changes in their life styles. Following these thoughts, I had a good visit with Katie and Harry Litzenberger last July. Harry, now semi-retired, still does some work with the Denver Convention Development Association. Unfortunately, a last minute change in plans kept Katie and Harry from attending our reunion. Their new residence at Heather Gardens in Denver is a senior type club-town house complex. Although residents must be at least 40 years old and children not less than 18, it is not the usual Florida condominium residence, and Harry and I saw some delightful bikini-clad occupants pass by his town house garden spot built to hold some 4,000, with a beautiful 18 hole golf course, a heated outdoor pool, and a large indoor pool for swimming all year round. There are numerous tennis courts, saunas, card and billiard rooms, an auditorium-theatre, restaurant, and classrooms for sculpturing and woodwork. We have some similar facilities in Florida, but Harry's beats anything I've seen. We would like to hear from other classmates on their new life styles.

I had hopes of visiting Eddie Toothaker, a long-time resident of Denver, but he has moved to Green Valley, Ariz.

Our new Class of 1932 Directory, presented at our 45th reunion, with its geographical listing, came in handy for telephone calls to various classmates while Addie and I were on vacation in some western states following our reunion. I telephoned Alf McLaughlin, now in Bayfield, Ont., while we were in Winnipeg, as well as our only classmate residing in Wyoming, Henry G. Weston. Alf is retired and spends his winters in Tucson, while Hank is still calling home one of the loveliest spots on earth — Jackson Hole — where he is still active in the automobile business. I hope to have some additional news from these two classmates as well as from Charlie Moritz of Denver who is now semi-retired and writing for medical publications. After 44 years without contact it is difficult to open up communications with old classmates. You try, "I am your new '32 class secretary — when are we going to see you back in Hanover for reunions?" The answer is, "I'll try to make the 50th!" And you respond, "It will be great to see you - however, life doesn't go on forever!"

Bob Fendrich was recently tagged by the College to serve on the alumni council representing the middle Atlantic states. He joins two other classmates, Art Allen and Bill Kendall, in this important organization. Art, as usual, is in the center of things Dartmouth and made a very interesting suggestion to the last council meeting for maintaining the present level of male students in Dartmouth and slightly increasing the female ratio by admitting additional students.

We missed seeing Operation Sail-Tall Ships as Addie and I were celebrating the 4th of July trout-fishing in Glacier National Park. We know a number of our sailing classmates viewed this tremendous bicentennial event from ship or shore, and we would like to obtain some reports from them.

Speaking of operations, we are happy to know that Jildo Cappio, Morry Hubbard, and yours truly are now fully recovered from recent cuts and sewings. Incidentally, it was good to read a bit more while recuperating and to catch our distinguished classmate Jim Wakelin's picture in the National Geographic, of which he continues to be a trustee. Jim looks very distinguished on page 226 of the August issue, in case you missed it.

Ed Marks has reciprocated some of my help to him when he was class secretary. He reports that Chuck Owsley has now retired from Youngstown Trust Department, is still engaged in a limited practice of law, and is doing some extensive traveling to Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, and London to "see children." He still has one in college (Beloit), and the rest are scattered as mentioned.

Ev Stuhrman, retired from the CIA in Washington and living in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., is the only classmate that I see frequently, as he attends the monthly luncheons of the Dartmouth Club of the Gold Coast. He was instrumental in electing Whip Walser president of this club last June and I have reciprocated by making him chairman of several committees! Ev is the only surviving member of the original China Clipper Pan American crew that inaugurated flights across the Pacific. During his interesting career with Pan Am just before World War 11, he made Wake Island his headquarters!

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