1927
February brings recollections of Winter Carnival, skiing, and snow. And judging from the number of classmates who are Florida bound, we don't enjoy the cold as much as we used to. There will be several mini-reunions of '27s in the south, and if you will write us, we will relay the news in a spring column.
Plans for our 50th were launched at fall reunion, and recently President Ken Murray, RogBury, Don McCall, Tom Gillespie, and Frank Strong gathered to review the progress. The deaths of Stew Schackne and Coggy Broer will require some realignments. Stew had planned to write the history of Dick Hall's House and Coggy was on the committee to raise the class gift.
Frell Owl of Cherokee, N.C., is in the news again. His governor has reappointed him to another four-year term as a member of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina and Asheville. Frell holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Dartmouth. He has been with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 33 years as an administrator and teacher. He has also served on White House and Dartmouth committees on Indian matters.
Treasurer Gus Cummings has passed along some of the comments he has received since the College sent out bills for $10 when our class dues are $15. Bill St. Amant wrote, "I can't see how class dues could be less this year than last. Therefore, here's the $15 and it's worth much more." "How do you keep 1927 so prosperous?" asks Ross Lyons. (The balance September 7, 1973, was $20.15). Ross says his grandchildren keep him busy and he's way behind on his hunting and fishing.
Al Lawrence, in sending in the additional $5 dues, said, "Fall reunion was a great occasion for the oldsters who made it. It is really quite surprising how many of the Class have weathered the years with many aspects of youth. You should see Fred Fellingham! And except for a little gray hair, Charlie Paddock is amazing!"
From Janesville, Wis., Bob Bliss writes that keeping up Dartmouth contacts way out there takes a little more doing. "But Dartmouth is still a basic part of my life. I've ever been grateful and appreciative of what Doc Griggs and History Anderson and the others imparted. I use it every day in every way in editing and managing a newspaper and radio station. That background is priceless."
Dr. Dow Mills reports that he has retired from Mayo Clinic but now works six months a year at the State Mental Hospital. He will be free January to June and expects to spend several months in Arizona (where he can check up on Doane Arnold). He has a daughter in Tempe. Another daughter has moved to Brattleboro which gives him an excuse to make fall reunion.
"The strains of gray in his small, shaggy goatee reflect the years of work and the experiences of travel and time," says the reporter in describing Sheldon S. Voorhis, humanist-in-residence at Roanoke-Chowan Technical Institute. After retiring to Hertford, N.C., following 40 years editing college textbooks and teaching, Cal allowed himself to be lured by the North Carolina Committee for Continuing Education in Humanities to conduct community forums, coordinate the programs, and speak to civic groups.
Despite the fact he fractured his right ankle last year skiing in Colorado, Jack Andrews is ready to tackle the slopes again. And the Sam Wormsers continue to hurry up to their place in Dorset, Vt., weekends to ski. He and Allice hope to spend a week or two in Phoenix visiting Marie and Doane Arnold before the winter's over.
The Class extends its sympathies to Don McCall over the loss of Betty. It's hard to believe she's gone, since she was so vivacious and full of life at fall reunion where she won one of the women's golf prizes.
Mark those dates, June 10-12, 1977, for our 50th.
50 YEARS AGO
President Hopkins, Dean Laycock and Professor Wellman address 1927 Smoker on "Junior Responsibilities." W.C. Cusack presided. The committee arranging the Smoker was R.C. Mix, Chr., R.W. Birch, G.D. Arnold, C.E. Burwell and T.H. Ham.
At Smoker President Hopkins announces gift of health house by Mr. and Mrs. E.K. Hall in memory of their son Dick Hall '27. Class to lay cornerstone in June. House to be adjoining Mary Hitchcock Hospital and designed to provide a home atmosphere for students and will have a housemother.
"The Dancing Princess," a musical production by J.J. Hill and Marshall McClintock, featured at Dartmouth's 16th Winter Carnival. Six hundred gaily costumed couples dance at Ball.
Interfraternity Council appoints committee to have charge of basketball tournament, F.K. Ward, chairman, R.C. Mix and A.M. Welty.
The Dartmouth asks beloved Prof. Henry T. Moore if he liked being president of Skidmore College for girls better than being head of Dartmouth's psychology department. To which he replied, "The best simple answer I can give is the fact that within the last month I have declined an excellent opportunity to return to teaching."
Allen's Drug Store destroyed by fire. Water damaged the adjoining stores of Co-op and The Dartmouth Tailoring Co.
Secretary, 13 Wintergreen Hill Painesville, Ohio 44077
Treasurer, 4 East Gittings Ave. Baltimore, Md. 21212
