1927

Disaster struck the class of 1927 the day after Christmas when head class agent Sam Wormser died. He suffered a massive heart attack while skiing at Bromley. He and Allice had been spending the holidays at their vacation home in Dorset, Vt.

For the past ten years Sam had been chairman of our annual Alumni Fund drives, and he had established an outstanding record. The College planned to give him the Alumni Award this spring. He organized and was well over the halfway mark on the campaign for our Fiftieth Year Gift to the Alumni Fund. It behooves all of us to pitch in and carry out the project Sam Wormser so ably began. It would be a fitting memorial and Sam's wish.

Last June Fritz Kortlucke attended the Bicentum Quinquagesimal (250 th) Anniversary of Edinburgh University Medical School as official representative of its American graduates. Only two of his classmates were present, both professors, both knighted. Fritz says the reunion was mostly erudite lectures and demonstrations — exhausting in the hottest weather ever recorded there (warning to Rog Bury).

Plenty of traffic and now and then a lot of smog in Denver reports Glenn Hanneford.

The Hank Orths have sold their home in Wisconsin and moved to St. Simon's Island, Ga., where he and Mary Jane are enjoying a busy retirement.

Treasurer Gus Cummings has shared with us many of the notes that accompanied the $15 class dues checks, including the following:

Bill St. Amant says Hooker Horton, SykesHardy, and Cliff Randall all live in Delray Beach, which is only ten miles from him. Bill is busy swimming daily and playing golf three times a week.

Sid Voice has retired at last, and he and Evlyn are going to try living abroad and traveling for four months this summer. The free use of a chalet in Switzerland for June will prevent their being at the 50th.

Time spent directing a bank and a hospital, plus a few civic affairs, keeps Nat Morey busy when he and Josephine aren't traveling or visiting their daughter at Long Boat Key, Fla. Nat expects his arthritis to loosen up enough for him to play the piano at the 50th reunion, although it now prevents him from swimming or playing golf.

When George Provost married Virginia last April, he acquired four more grandchildren, raising his total to 16. He is finding it difficult to remember more than one birthday a month. George is still active in the Allegheny Club at 3 Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, but he manages to spend the winter months at Delray Beach. He says be sure the name tags at the 50th are large and readable.

"I'm still able to eat three square meals a day and hit the golf ball," reports Jay Willing, our 50th reunion treasurer.

"See you at the 50th," writes Al Welty, who retired from Citibank in 1970. He had sons graduate from Dartmouth in 1956 and 1961.

Al Wellman is back in Naples, Fla., for the winter, but unless the doctors relent, his last year's heart attack will keep them from the 50th.

We will be at the 50th, promise Gene Sullivan,Bob Long, Avery Keenan, Brad Fuller, Dud Bonsal, Dick Mooney, Al House, and Carl Weiss.

At this writing, Curt Wright is probably in South Africa with the Senior U.S. Masters International Track team. They say he came within .3 of a second of a senior dash record. Perhaps he will bring his medals and ribbons to the 50th to show Don McCall.

50 Years Ago

Winter gloom beats retreat as 26 fraternities entertain 531 carnival guests.

Old Venice lives again at gala Carnival Ball. Players score triumph in "Chocolate Soldier." Green cagers stage rally to overcome Harvard 40-29. Hockey sextet defeats Yale 4-3 in 2 overtime periods.

Musical Clubs leave on annual midwinter tour over Washington's birthday. Seniors making that trip were T. A. Girault, H. J. Redman, J. S. Allis, H. A. House, F. E. Brown, R. B. Mather, R. J. Michelini, and R. B. Salinger.

Dartmouth outswims Princeton in close meet 39-23.

Sixteen more seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa, raising the total to 28. They were K. B. Andersen, T. J. Anglem, R. W. Barkelew, W. Burgert, R. B. Fox, O. R. Garfield, E. R. Johnson, B. L. Langworthy, R. L. Long, F. W. Marsh 2nd, K. N. Meyercord, L. W. Moulton, J. H. Munro, A. H. Norris, Jr., F. D. Stubbs, and N. R. Voorhis.

Three groups will climb Mt. Washington. Eighteen men under the leadership of D. B. Bonsal '27 leave for first Pinkham Notch trip by the Carriage Road. The following week a second group will be lead by W. L. Starr '27. In March an all-seniors group led by R. J. Lougee '27 will ascend from the base station side along the railroad track to the summit.

Pablo Casals, cellist, and Harold Bauer, pianist, give joint recital in Webster Hall.

Dartmouth basketball team triumphs over Penn 27-21 in roughly contested game to gain first place in Eastern Intercollegiate League.

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