1933

Present at the executive committee meeting in Hanover on October 16 were president Bill Dewey, secretary George Drowne, class agent Chet Thomson, bequest chairman Jud Pierson, and executive committee members Wes Beattie, Sam Gass, Rip Ripley, John Scanlon, Hank Smith, and Mannie Sprague. Also, Bill McCarty and Mel Katz.

Among the outstanding developments, as previously reported in the class newsletter, was the unanimous election of Mannie Sprague to succeed Chet Thomson as class agent. Mannie's willingness to accept the position for the next three years while serving also as counselor for congressional affairs to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Elliott Richardson is a great tribute.

We were similarly favored by Bill McCarty's acceptance of the chairmanship of the 45th class reunion in 1979. As a forerunner for this reunion and at the suggestion of the president, the executive committee voted for a special football weekend reunion at Quechee Lakes, Vt., in 1978 on the weekend of September 22-24 - the opening game of the season, against Pennsylvania. No fall reunion is planned in 1977, so as to insure maximum participation in the 1978 affair, which promises to be a gala three-day weekend that no class member or wife will want to miss. We are assured of enjoying separate condominium units and all of the Quechee Lakes facilities - for a fee of $25 per day per couple. Watch for further details about September 1978 and June 1979!

The Saturday night get-together at the Hotel Coolidge after the Harvard game was attended by 40 class members, wives, and guests, who enjoyed dinner and/or drinks. A list of those in attendance was carried in Bob Fox's newsletter. The game was rather disappointing, but the reunion Was indeed a happy occasion.

The Board of Trustees of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover recently honored our class president Bill Dewey upon his retirement from the board after 20 years of devoted service. After his election as a trustee in 1956, Bill served the board as secretary from 1958 to 1963 and as vice president from 1963 to his retirement. He served on various committees of the board throughout his trusteeship, had a key role in the planning study that resulted in the establishment of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Since its inception in 1973, Bill has served on the governing board of the medical center. The board honored Bill upon his retirement with the gift of a special Hitchcock chair.

John Branson of Concord, N.H. has received the New Hampshire Medical Society's highest 1976 honor for distinguished and outstanding community service, the A. H. Robins Award. It was presented at the bicentennial banquet in Whitefield, N.H., on June 12. John has been in the private practice of internal medicine in Concord since 1946.

As president of the New Hampshire chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, Jeff Davis awarded the Distinguished Service Award to the AARP state director for New Hampshire, honoring the volunteers who presented various informational programs on arthritis.

During his year as president of the American Bar Association, Jus Stanley will be the official voice of the Association and its 210,000 members, 93 sections and committees, and staff of 538. He is the 100 th president of the ABA, which was formed in 1878. He is a senior partner in the Chicago law firm of Mayer, Brown and Piatt. (See page 28.)

Word has just been received of the untimely death of Dick Jackson, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy, whose obituary will appear in this or a later issue of the M AGAZINE

The Alumni Records Office has advised of a new address for Mrs. Russell D. Shaver Jr. at 14713 Peachwood Drive, Silver Spring, Md. 20904.

Jean and I wish each of you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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