1937

Glance up. See the dates? Only five more months to the Nineteenthirtyseventennial!

A few months ago we made a plea for all to send back the postcards enclosed with a "Mint Bag" for latest information in the coming class directory. Big rush, then a dribble. To date we have 171 in hand, a long way from the 500+ we want. There will be one more mailing of cards enclosed in either a "Mint Bag" or a reunion letter. If you failed the first time, please be on the lookout. A not-too-surprising number returned now say retired!

Big news from the Bankarts! After several generations of trying, we are grandparents. Never thought it would happen. Younger Navy lieutenant son Bill (and Joyce) produced a boychild, so the Bib and Katie line has a strong chance of survival. They are at Miramar in San Diego, where he flys and instructs in F-14 jets.

Christmas brought welcome cards and news from many of you. Lynn and Dana Prescott's letter had a picture of their beautiful family, all grown and mostly married. Lynn endlessly remodels the house while Dana works with Beckman Instruments. She recently lost her father, we regret to report. Reunion remains on the doubtful list. Maybe a bit of pressure from Crawf Hinman and others might liven up their planning. Fess and Cal Eldred off for two weeks in London, then in March to Sun City, Ariz., taking an apartment for a week as a trial run at retiring there. Main interest, of course, is that closest friends, Esther and Fred Mayo, are already retired there. All four are coming to reunion.

Santa Rug-bug retired January 26 with plans to work the red suit-white beard routine only 100 days this year. From now on they will see and be seen at football games, long denied them by his demanding job. From their ringside seats in Washington, D.C., Meg and Bob Aylward's letter is fascinatingly newsy about job, family, and environment. He is in his ninth year with COSERV and now can say (after various years abroad) they have lived there longer than any other place. Meg attended the Democratic convention as a delegate. Bob left mid-January on a four-week survey through Africa. Son Michael spent his winter quarter away from Dartmouth last year as an intern in the office of Senator Tom McIntyre. The Aylwards look forward hopefully to retiring permanently to their place in New Lebanon in 1981.

Another great newsletter from Sherry and AlBryant looking forward to reunion. Congratulations to Al for being made president of COPEBRAS and to Sherry for the same for the Sao Paulo Woman's Club. Misfortune dogs them around. Last year Al's plant sustained a three-million-dollar loss from a terrible flood when the rain-swollen "serra" gave way out behind leaving mud, carbon black, and uprooted trees all one giant mess. During Bicentennial, Fern and Bill Coe came for a visit, then later, on a return visit Stateside, they all drove to North Carolina, where the Bryants bought a charming home in Whispering Pines, near Pinehurst. That got the Coes thinking about selling their spacious farm in Courtland, New York, with the same thing in mind. The Bryants will rent out the new purchase until they claim it on retirement, but no mention of when was made.

Rachel and Fred Laughton's letter says he is still trying to establish contact with an employer with his structural engineering background. Since that nuclear plant was finished in New Jersey a year ago, Fred has been looking. She continues working for the Bechtel Power Corporation.

Cards from the distaff side. Cel Barrett — all's well; Jane Handrahan — Equitable Life moved their headquarters; and Jane Brown (whose world-wide travels extend the imagination) — now home awaiting number ten grandchild. Still hopes for reunion.

Many thanks to other card senders: Barbi and Dana Douglass (two grandchildren expected), Carolyn and Carl Erdman, Jean and BillBreitinger, Betty and Chuck Bassett, Janet and Tom Nast, Bosworths, Aliens, Falions, BobRosses, Frank Robin (fattest robin ever on the card), Betty and Gib Reynolds, Mary and FranFenn, and Myrtle and Tom McIntyre. Tom adds "40th, let's go over the top!" That's the spirit, Tom. Now, about those directory cards.

Anyone remembering Charley Cooke, who was with us freshman year, please watch the obit section.

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Treasurer, 14 Burling Ave. White Plains, N.Y. 10605