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This is the time to be planning to attend our somewhat expanded mid-term forty-second and a half fall reunion! (There's got to be a shorter name.) Reg Bankart has told you all about it in the "Tear Bag." We start Friday, September 23 right after lunch with planned events, athletic and intellectual, followed by dinner that night in Alumni Hall. Saturday morning there'll be one of those entertaining class meetings. The Holy Cross football game follows in the afternoon and then dinner at the Outing Club. Head for home on Sunday. If you are at all likely to want to attend you should have returned to GeorgeColton the card which Reg enclosed, in order to be kept on the reservation mailing list. If you didn't, write George today!
Hank and Lou Hawkins are among the '35 regulars at Dartmouth hockey games in Thompson Arena. When last seen, Hank was about to take time out from head-manning the puck at Claremont Savings Bank to leave with Lou for a trip visiting children and grandchildren in Colorado and California.
Newspaper clippings from here and there bring news of classmates. Neil Roberts has been elected chairman of United Banks of Colorado, Inc., in Denver. He continues as chief executive officer. Bill Mathers, senior vice president and general counsel of United Brands, has been elected to the board of directors. And on the extra-curricular side, Bob Boehm will assume the presidency of the Five Towns Community Center on Long Island.
Bill Hands is still traveling a great deal. Unlike us retirees, he gets paid for it. Reports his son has been chosen president of Turbodyne Worthington International with headquarters in Brussels.
Bill Mandigo is serving his second term in the Vermont Senate, and, as chairman of the energy and natural resources committees, is in a fight to curb untreated sewage discharges instead of prohibiting sale of phosphate detergents. Says neoenvironmentalists would rather prohibit something than really clean up effluents and clarify recreational waters. Mel is still raising Morgan horses and breeding cattle.
From snowy Buffalo, Bud Childs has a great plan for the coming of spring and the merry month of May. You'll remember the 1927 Rolls Royce roadster which he had at our reunion. Bud intends to take it over to Windsor Castle in England and for a grand tour on the continent with the Rolls Royce Antique Car Club. With all this fun he still says he wouldn't consider retirement, because he wouldn't know what to do with his time!
Will Kempton calls himself a "just-about-to-retire teacher" in Fort Lauderdale. Noting my home address in Grantham, N.H., he told me his grandfather practiced medicine here 100 years ago. From home and office on one side of the street, whence he prescribed Dr. Kempton's Bitters, he'd dash across the street to his drug store to fill the prescription! Still the same small town, and we love it here.
Chuck Moon has been making the rounds of sunshiny places - Los Angeles and San Diego for the Rose Bowl game and Lima, Rio, an" Caracas for "fun and sun." Chuck is now senior active partner in his law firm, which, together with two new directorships, keeps him busy.
Hard to keep track of the comings and goings of Maury Rapf. Teaching at Dartmouth this spring term, back to Westhampton Beach for the summer, then back to Hanover for more teaching in the fall.
Bill Gahagan writes that he is continuing with the Robert Frost project. He is now honorary curator of the Frost collection in the main San Francisco Library and in the fall will be dedicating a plaza to the poet.
Win Garth in Gainesville, Ga., shivers in the cold weather in the South. His youngest son, in college in Oregon, complains he should have stayed home for better skiing in North Carolina. Win hasn't seen any '35ers lately but wants any who get to Atlanta to call him. Any politicians going his way?
" From up in Franconia, Paulie and Sel Hannah are still farming - beef and vegetables. Sel does some ski area consulting with son Sel '65 specializing on lifts and snow-making. "Hip sort of bothering. Fell too often or maybe it's just the time elapsed." Just maybe!
Tim Reed stuck his head up above the western New York snows in Williamsville long enough to relate he's retiring from 40 years of high school teaching in June. Will work in a store part-time and volunteer at the Episcopal Church Home.
Russ Field, suffering from Parkinson's disease, is back in Child's Nursing Home. Would welcome cards and visitors at 25 Hackett Blvd., Albany, N.Y. 12208.
Phyllis and Hal Ritter are in their eighth year of living inVermont hills after selling the furniture stores. Hal "divides his time between work and hobby, the former to support the latter." Phyllis has become a real estate salesperson. Anyone in '35 for a retirement home, vacation home, investment land, or farm? Call her at Richardson Associates in Bradford!
In his capacity of public info officer of the Dartmouth Club of Springfield, Hal Stanton almost sounds busier than in his educational and business film enterprise. They held a combined Dartmouth Glee Clubs concert in March and then in April the annual book awards banquet for outstanding juniors.
That's it for this month, but do get that check in to make class agent Al Dodd happy!
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