1932

By the time this appears, Addie and I will be on the Italian ship Galileo Gallilee sailing from Genoa around the world. We shall get off in Perth, Western Australia, after spending 27 days at sea, going through the Suez Canal, and visiting Djibouti and Durban. We will continue by train and plane through Australia, visiting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, where I have some work to do, and come home by way of the West Coast. We should be back in late April or early May.

When the executive committee of our class nominated me as your secretary last June, I warned them that if I didn't get any news for our monthly column, I would bore you with travelogues. Some smart alec suggested at that time, "Whip, that would be better!" To my pleasant surprise, I have had wonderful cooperation from many of you to fill this column and more - for this help, I thank you.

I know that I can depend on the backup team of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in Hanover, with Ms. Shelby Grantham to fill in the column, if necessary, from letters I will be writing during MY trip. I hope to visit a few classmates along the route.

Ginna and Bo Wentworth were in Naples, Fla., recently, where they encountered Sunny and Bill Allyn, as well as Laura and Jack Whitcomb and Eleanor and Joe Byram. Bo has kindly sent me colored photographs of this hearty group of '32ers, which I would like to print in this magazine. Unfortunately, only black-and-white photographs are usable. Please remember this, you camera buffs. (Are people still taking black-and-white photographs?) Bo writes about this reunion, "Everyone was in great form, and all but me live all or much of the year in Naples, generally playing golf, I guess." He continues with news about his present life. "Despite retirement I still move around a lot. Board meetings here at home and abroad are the principal cause of this travel, but Ginna and I, like the sailor who takes his girl out rowing on his day off, travel a lot just for fun and to see old friends at home and abroad." Bo was in five countries in Europe recently, "doing his thing." We are fortunate that we can depend on them to travel to Hanover for all of our reunions.

Bob Reinhardt has answered my appeal for news with an interesting letter about his varied interests in this second year of retirement from his career with General Motors. Like quite a few other classmates, Bob is interested in painting and has started his second year of classes in oil at the local art center of Short Hills, N.J. He gives us all encouragement when he states, "Painting continues to be a fascinating and absorbing activity, and I am both surprised and pleased with my progress in a medium which prior to retirement I had never attempted." Bob is also still using his business talents by serving as chairman of the finance committee of the Girl Scout Council, which serves some 15,000 girls and 3,000 adult volunteers in an area comprising 17 cities and towns. Bob also serves one day a week as a volunteer at his local hospital, is active in his city's historical society, and continues to play a respectable game of golf. Reinhardt's sophomore-year roommate Fred White lives nearby, and they often meet as competitors in golf tournaments.

Hank Barber made a surprise appearance at our monthly Dartmouth luncheon meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, making it possible for our class to continue its stretch of the "mostest" in attendance. Hank is in fine shape, even after a series of operations over the past several years: he showed us some of the old wrestling holds he practiced when he was a professional wrestler shortly after graduation. He agreed to address our club in the future about his experiences wrestling with the likes of Steele, Londos, and other champions of the late 30's. Hank has been retired for ten years now and keeps active with golf and extensive foreign travel. After seeing Hank I was anxious to hear from his old roommate "De" De Stefano, and I wrote to him and received a prompt answer. De retired four years ago from Liberty Mutual, where he spent many years in sales. His career was interrupted for almost five years when he served in the U.S. Infantry durirtg our war. He writes that he "had a chance to see parts of Africa, Italy, France, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland. Not much fun with our infantry division, but interesting." De is one of our remaining bachelor classmates and looks forward to our next reunion - and perhaps a crap game?

Your obedient servant.

Secretary, 911 North Northlake Drive Hollywood, "Fla. 33020

Treasurer, Half Mile Road, Darien, Conn. 06820