1937

With great respect for but little knowledge of the products of class newsletter editors we should like to go on record telling the world we have one of the very best. His wit, style, volume, dedication, coverage, and consistency are supreme. The most recent arrival with all the pictures brought to mind it is high time we speak on behalf of the Class how much his frequent Mint Bags are appreciated by us all and have through the years. ROGER G. ALLEN, 41 MAPLEWOOD AVE., HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK 11550 - WE SALUTE YOU! (Now shut up and get back to work, we have a busy season ahead.)

Trying to keep track of classmates in winter is like running a travel bureau. Crawf Ferguson hat his annual golfing trip to Naples, Fla., in January, back home to Boston to make sure New England was drinking enough Victor coffee, then down to Punta Gorda with Lois for a month. Martha and Art Tucker just got home. His brother-in-law has a 39-foot sloop they took from Vero Beach down the inland waterway to Fort Pierce thence down the coast to the Ocean Reef Club at Key Largo and back. Art said he gaped in amazement at the millions of dollars worth of boats and equipment at Key Largo and wondered where the recession went. He and his medical associates are still trying after several years of frustration with zoning laws and legal tangles to get a new medical building erected in Dedham, meanwhile enduring equal frustrations in their present location. Fran and Fred Asher helped California celebrate the potential end of the drought by enjoying only one sunny day while there. One of our neighbors attended a convention in Marco Island in Florida. At our suggestion he looked up Phil Conti, reporting him healthy, tan, and busy.

Bob Sullivan had to take forced retirement from his job as supervisor of medical assistance at Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. Glaucoma has already taken one of his eyes and the other is not far behind but the real problem developed when he fell down a whole flight of stairs in the Boston subway breaking a knee and foot. While recuperating in the hospital he suffered separately a strangulated intestine and a coronary. He is quite house-bound now and calls himself a TV adict. Keep in there, Bob.

We hear Lee and Russ Stearns have sold their home 'down river' and moved back to Hanover somewhere out behind the high school. We await the change of address.

Bill Parrish sends a note. Since late 1973 he has been a senior programmer for the State of Minnesota Tax Department. Their oldest daughter married a young man from Colorado where they are involved in "beef on the hoof" which Bill describes as "certainly a turn for us city folks" but as retirement looms in five years he and Jane are looking in that direction as a possible area. Another daughter in college and a son, 13, at home leaves them grateful that one still remains in the nest.

It's nice to see our Class being represented in the coed department of Hanover these days. Tom Nast's daughter Patti received early decision for the class of 1980, making her the third happy young pretty girl to carry the 1937 second generation banner around the Hanover Plain.

The Dartmouth Educational Association, operating in Massachusetts as a non-profit corporation assisting needy students at Dartmouth, sent us a request for support. Accompanying was a booklet listing by name all contributors and their classes. We showed 44 names for 1937 including seven life memberships. We are now number 45 on the list though only for the $10 one.

Secretary, 10 Colby Road Wellesley, Mass. 02181

Class Agent, 419 Princeton Ave., Metedeconk, N.J. 08723