1937

The College recently sent a mailing to all alumni for up-to-date information toward the publishing of a new directory - every ten years. This brought us a flush of address changes most which seemed like corrections but some produced intrigue. Dave Herrmann for instance. A year ago, shortly after he underwent cancer surgery, the cost-cutting squeeze that hit the book industry eliminated his executive vice presidency at Praeger Publishing and left him unemployed. He and Diana quit New York City to follow up his hobby of antiques, mainly American pressed glass and decoys. He and Diana (a novelist-painter) opened an antique shop called "Bird in Hand" specializing in early Americana in Bridgehampton, N.Y., where they already had a vacation home. They seeded it with material they had been collecting for 30 years and began to expand. Diana continues painting which she sells, and her writing too. Eye to Eye, the latest of her five novels, was published last year by Harper and Row. So it's a whole new life for them and we wish them well.

Bill Coe retired three years ago. We had a Cortland, N.Y., address recently changed to Dryden. He and Fern actually live in Virgil (no post office) so all three addresses are the same place. As Bill aptly puts it, "Indian not lost, wigwam lost." They get mail at R.D. 3, Cortland, known as Coe Farms Inc. The farm is an active 85/100 head Holstein dairy factory run by his son Alan. Bill has many executive titles which all end up under the heading of cheap labor which means general farm work but only because he enjoys it and works when he wants to. They are heading for Florida then to Sao Paulo, Brazil, to visit the Bryants, then back home about mid-March. They sold their vacation home on Lake George and we assume his beloved Star boat too. Married daughter Betsy (can't read her last name) is finishing R.N. training at Mary Hitchcock, lives on the Lyme Road, has a daughter in elementary school in Hanover, and sometimes sings at Tullulah's, the now locally famous restaurant at Eastman (Stearns and Milne and Jud Smith please note). Son John '62 is in Concord as executive director of the New Hampshire Commission on the Arts. Bill and Fern are planning on Reunion and he offers his help to Ben Doran if he can use him - 607-753-6123.

Bill Dwyer continues as president of Massachusetts Community Colleges with 30,000 full-time students and 45,000 in continuing education, which means night and summer schools. He married Kathy Parker about two years ago and they spend Christmas vacation skiing in Red Wing, Minn., her home grounds. They relax on his 35-foot yawl crusing the local coast out of York, Me. He had contact with the son of Elsom Eldridge who was working at Harvard and they chatted about Dad but I got no news. Bill has kept in touch through the years with Norm Anderson's sister. Who of us in '37 could ever forget Norm?

Lynn and Dana Prescott have finally stabilized at 4180 Rincon Circle, Palo Alto, Calif., except that Lynn is perpetually remodeling the house. Dana spends any available time away from Beckman Instruments following his love of tennis, squash, and golf. Every one of the kids were home for Christmas at which time they had a giant house-warming including Kitty and Art Hislop among the guests.

Newsclips and quickies. Dr. Ken Stearns represented Dartmouth at the inaugural of Leon Bostein as president of Bard College in Annadale-on-Hudson, N.Y., last October. George Skinner retired from New England Telephone last August, moving from Wellesley to Centerville, Mass. (That is on Cape Cod to all you western cowboys). Glendora Putnam's new title is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in Washington, D.C., the first woman of her race to occupy this position with HUD.

So far we have several early acceptances to attend reunion June 12-16 1977, Coes, Bryants, Whitey Fullers, Aylwards, and Mayos. Fran Fenn reports the advanced gift committee has already received excellent support as well as several large commitments. Ben Doran's reunion committee is pretty well all formed and beginning to get to work. Now all we have to do is figure out a way to get everybody within 30,000 miles of Hanover to start making plans to come. It might well be our biggest yet. Let's hear if you can think that far ahead.

'35 class agent Jack Au Werter visitedSwanee Dawson '35 (r) at the latter's SeaIsland, Ga., palm-surrounded Home.

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