1932

Back to working on our Outward Bound book, we have just returned from a two-week, 1,200-mile swing through New England in Obie II. The trip included a Hanover stopover, where the Dartmouth Outward Bound Center is doing a number of fine, even dramatic things. We enjoyed Dobie andArt Allen's handsome hospitality, and late one day made a northward dash to South Vershire, where Sally and Ben Drew, too, fed and bedded us well. We had missed Carnival weekend by just a few days, thereby missing Ed and MargaretMarks, who were in town as guests of the Dartmouth Horizons program, and a slew of the dedication of the Rupert C. Thompson Arena that took place at the Dartmouth Cornell hockey game.

Art had saved us a copy of the dedication ceremony program. The multi-purpose Thompson Arena is in substantial measure the fruit of work and generosity on the part of members of 1932. When it was found that between $1¼ and $1½ millions additional were needed to be added to the gifts of the late Rupert Thompson '28 and the late Nathaniel Leverone 'O6 in order to complete the complex, Bill Morton took on the task of raising the money. Of the 27 principal donors listed in the dedication program, seven are classmates: Bill Allyn, Bill Kendall, Bill Morton, JimCorbett, Jack Hollern, Morry Hubbard, and BoWentworth. Most of the foregoing were on hand at the dedication, as was Dick Olmsted, who represented the College throughout the planning and building phases. The arena is an exciting place, as we discovered when we went to see the Green play Princeton in hockey. The game itself was comfortably exciting: Dartmouth 10, Princeton 2.

We found the Drews still up there on their Reunion-planning high. Even as he stoked us with his goodly cider-and-bourbon mix, an organically grown concoction we again commend to you, Ben kept cooking up new ideas. Thus we pass along, per his instructions, a late bulletin: All members of the Class and wives are encouraged - nay, requested - to bring along with them (or send ahead) to Reunion some piece of creative work they have done - a painting or etching, a carving or sculpture, a poem or monograph, a piece of weaving or crewel work or woodwork or metalwork, or whatever. Or photographs of family or of retirement home or of anything else that communicates something of interest about you to your classmates. This multi-media gallery will be hung or otherwise exhibited in the registration room of our Reunion headquarters, and the room will be kept locked at those times when someone is not present to safeguard its contents. Obviously, the more who participate, the merrier the show.

"Just another old sinner still trying to plug along," says Al Whitehill writing from Passumpsic, Vt., that the Whitehills hope to make Reunion. "Down to two regular jobs now - call it semi-retired. Try to cut off at 14 hours. . . . Still with Vt. Highway Dept., trying to push 1-91 along over the mountain but many Forces both natural and human are agin us."

Win and Kay Smoyer also hope to make it, from Alhambra, Calif.: "Had dinner and a pleasant evening with Mai and Marie Metcalf. Mai is still teaching economics at Mt. San Antonio College. . . . He's not throwing the javelin 220 feet any more due to troublesome arthritis. His daughter Janice was women's national collegiate tennis champ from Redlands, and has been on the international tennis whirl in recent months."

"Not likely but not impossible," writes Lou Heavenrich from Huntington Woods, Mich. "I retired last February from Gulf and Western. Evalyn and I attended the Alumni College last August, which we enjoyed very much." And from Needham, Harry Rowe: "45th still a big question mark. I retire May 1. After 32 years with Houghton Mifflin Co., I'm not sure what May and June have in store. We're surer of the 50th because we're going to build in Grantham (the Eastman development) 25 minutes from Hanover." The Frank Powers hope to make it: "We've now been retired for three years on Florida's Suncoast and we think it's great." The Chuck Halls - Chuck retired and postcarding from San Francisco - are keeping the Reunion possibility warm.

Whip Walser visited Dick and Marg Cleaves at their villa in Estapona, Spain, in December. He reports it a lovely place, within sight of the Rock of Gibralter, and relays the Cleaveses' invitation to all '32s to visit when in the area. Dick and Marg have hopes of being at Reunion. Whip also sends a clip of a Florida newspaper women's editor column, from which we quote: "Co-starring in the surprise birthday party for Ross Hancock Sunday night was Whip (Adrian)Walser, as a fetching topless waitress. . . . Although Whip isn't especially plump, he seemed to have compete control of pectoral muscles. All he lacked were the tassels." Whip's footnote: "I have won two prizes on board ships during costume parties - I have 'water polo tits'!" We're a talented class.

Reminding you that it's not too late, right up to June 14, to sign on for your last chance to attend Reunion before your 50th!

If you missed Mike Cardozo's letter on Conrad Snow '12 (and the Snow obituary) in the February issue, we urge you to go back and look it up. When they talk about Dartmouth producing leaders, it's guys like Connie Snow they're talking about.

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