1938

If there are pleasanter places and ways to pass a fall weekend than seeing friends and watching Dartmouth win and seeing friends again, I can’t think of any, or many; and it’s a pleasure to think back to those occasions afterwards, too.

There weren’t too many ’38ers at the Princeton game opening the season back in September, but among those I remember (if omission of names is “the unpardonable sin,” as Carl Von Pechmann suggests. I’m sinful) are The Baron himself and Ellie, Gil and, FranTanis, and Herb and Emily Harries.

Cornell weekend drew many more, and they were all rewarded with a) a winning game, though it was a little closer than we might have wished; b) weather that could have been better Saturday but could have been a lot worse (and it was perfect going Friday and returning Sunday over the Kancamaugus highway); and c) a very great deal of very good fellowship, much of it kindness of the Tanises, continuingly the host- and-hostess-with-the-mostegs.

President Tom McGrath had scheduled a meeting of our class executive committee in Crosby Hall for that Saturday morning, and he was pleased with a substantial turnout. Those present included Phil Leach, Robb Kelley, TheBaron, Johnny Scotford, Dick Holt, ClarkBarrett, Gus Southworth, Bob Manegold, SquesEllis, Paul Urion, Bob Reno, Wright Mallory,Bob Hallock, Bob Emlen, Gil Tanis, and DawkDawkins. Discussion centered on plans for our 40th. An alliterative adjective wasn’t con- sidered, but I still like feisty, though the younger-in-heart may opt for frolicsome. In any case, the dates, June 12-15, are set, and they will be less than six months away as you read this. Please circle those dates on those new 1978 calendars you get for Christmas, and plan to be there, as reunion chairman Bob Reeve so per- suasively put it in his opening pitch. There are, after all, lots of reunions, but ’3B has only one 40th. It’s going to be great, and the more of us who are in attendance, the greater it will be.

At the meeting treasurer Southworth noted our present and prospective financial position and expressed gratification with the volume of dues payers, including a number of our classmates’ widows. A continuation of the Class’s $ 1,000-per-year contribution to Baker Library was voted; and correlation of reunion- year giving with the impending five-year capital gift campaign was discussed.

Before and/or after the game, most if not all of the above-named worthies and most of their wives appeared at the Tanises’. Others who were there included Ray and Bobbie Ammarell, Alex and Libby Jones, Jack and Millie Lutz, George and Jean Kingsbury, and Charley and JeanHitchcock. At the game, the Briggses sat beside Dick and Laurie Tisdale, and I’m sure there were other classmates there too.

Bill and Betty Lyle, who usually attend home games, didn’t this time, but they’d stopped in to see us at home earlier in the fall, and Bill had mentioned they’d probably be going to see their son play for Vermont Academy, as is only right and proper.

Dartmouth Night and a monumental bonfire were both heart- and body-warming. After a walk around town and campus Saturday mor- ning, Lutz and Ammarell philosophized that they didn’t think that things were really much changed. In the sense that Dartmouth is still Dartmouth, and Dartmouth is still great, I think they are right.

The Sunday Magazine section of the Baltimore Sun carried a story some time ago on financial columnist, commentator, and consul- tant Julie Westheimer’s hobby of saving newspapers reporting dramatic and sensational events. Julie’s collection covers more than 50 years, from Lindbergh’s flight in May 1927, through World War II and the first landing on the moon, to the present. 1-2,000 newspaper' pages and 50 years of memories Julie has.

In September, The New York Times carried a review of new editions of books of poetry and essays by Bill Bronk, entitled My FatherPhotographed With Friends, The Meantime,Finding Losses, Light and Dark, and The NewWorld. The review is by poet, critic, and teacher Michael Heller.

In addition to those games in Hanover this fall referred to above and others, we also played Yale in New Haven, and that was great, and Harvard in Boston, and that was too'bad. At the Bowl, according to a usually reliable source, were Bob and Cos Emlen, Bud Walls, JohnAdams, Gil Tanis, John Merrill, Ray Am-marrell, Bev Smith, Dick Holt, and the VonPechmans. My informant adds (as in “E&OE,” for “errors and omissions excepted”), “There were, I assume, other classmates in the stands, but I didn’t see them.”

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