1932

One of the rewards of being class secretary is to hear from old friends who somehow haven't checked in for quite some time. In this instance the time lapse has been 42 years: My old buddy Frank Peart of Keene, N.H., who attended Randolf Field as a Flying Cadet with me in 1934 has sent me some photographs of our flying days - the only ones I will have - and says, "Only the ocean can represent how much water has gone over the dam since these photographs were taken in 1934 - one wonderful moment in our lives, for sure!" Now, that was nice, Frank, and I hope we will meet again soon. Frank and I became good friends at Randolf although we had not known each other too well in college even though we shared a birth of the same day, same month, and same year! To keep in step together we both busted out and went our separate ways and we haven't seen each other since that time.

From both Morry Hubbard and Gordon MacKenzie I've got news of retirement activities. Morry is retired from Merrill Lynch and Gordon from Litton Industries, and both are keeping busy with civic activities and golf. Gordon recently moved from California to make his home at 18 Rebellion Road, Charleston, S.C. He writes, "Thus far we are enjoying Charleston very much. It is becoming more of a tourist attraction every day. The theatrical talent that comes to Charleston amazes me. The other night we saw Milton Berle, who was excellent, and the previous week Fred Waring. I guess this is the 'has beens' stop!"

Eddie Toothaker has exchanged letters with me and sent in some news of his activities in Green Valley, Ariz., along with a fine photograph of himself riding in a golf cart. Eddie says, "I find myself at this point completely relaxed and enjoying the fruits of a very busy, demanding but rewarding life. I have enjoyed a very modest success with 38 consecutive years in the steel business. My success, I feel, has been measured by the degree of health and happiness I have achieved through my family and friendship in the saga of a decade of rapid growth and changes of the seven western states of the U.S.A." We certainly look forward to seeing Eddie at some future reunion in Hanover.

There was a fine photograph of Bill Morton in the January 11 "Big Green Sports News" which many of us receive from the College. Bill was attending a National Football Foundation dinner in N.Y. during which Pat Sullivan '77 received the NFF scholar-athlete award. Another good football player, Bill Brister, passed through Miami early in January in time to hear Coach Jake Crouthamel speak to our Ft. Lauderdale Dartmouth Club. Bill was returning from a government assignment in Honduras, where he has been an advisor for the lumber industry in that country.

Red Tucker has written in indicating his disappointment about missing our 45th and mini reunions last year. He did have his own mini in La Jolla last June with Ginny and CharlieDoerr, as well as several other '32ers. Red is apparently still fully active with his banking and investments company in Oklahoma City. He sees Howie Sargeant frequently in N.Y. City, as we did last December at a luncheon along with Howdie Pierpont and Ed Marks.

Joe Boldt, our former class secretary who keeps telling me that I don't need any help from him in my literary endeavors - a compliment and an over statement of facts - writes that he has heard from Cal Fisher in Lake City, Colo. Presumably retired, Cal has been the only doctor in Lake City since he moved there from Denver. Cal writes, "The governor appointed me county judge. So now I sew a guy up at night and send him to jail the next morning!" Joe is busy writing his Outward Bound book as well as making a survey of this same movement in the colleges. On this latter project Joe received a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation.

I've never known a doctor to retire, but if you want to know what a retiree doctor does, listen to Irv Kramer: "As is so often the case, retirement has been hectic. I spend two days a week at our local hospital, which is affiliated with Cornell Medical School and N.Y. Hospital on a research project in cardiology. Another day, I go into N.Y. City and record for Recordings for the Blind! At present I'm working for another blind organization for which I do recordings at home in my leisure (?) moments. I am also working on a textbook in Psychiatry." To all this I say, when I started six months ago to write about our classmates I knew that I would find a wonderful reservoir of strength and character in their lives, and Irv's letter reassures me that I had the right signature to these class notes

Your humble servant

Secretary, 911 North Northlake Drive Hollywood, Fla. 33020

Treasurer, Half Mile Road, Darien, Conn. 06820