1934

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all from June and George. Let us all count our blessings. Perry Gilbert, our great director of the Mote Marine Laboratory of Sarasota, has resigned after "11 years of leading the private research facility from relative obscurity to prominent status in the scientific world," according to newspaper clippings from Sarasota and Ithaca, N.Y. The latter write-up is because Perry is also retiring from his professorship of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University. Perry's studies of sharks brought him worldwide acclaim. He pursued 42 years of studying sharks from South Africa to the South Pacific. (I do have it on good authority that he did not write "Jaws".) Best wishes, Perry, and I know your interest will not stop with your retirement, but do try to take it a bit easy!

John Anderson made the news again as president of the University School Alumni Association in Cleveland. He sent me the news releases of their commencement, at which John presided. A highlight was the introduction of his second officially adopted fight song. He had written the first in 1970 and now it is the official marching song of Case Western Reserve University. The new song, "U.S. Fight Song," was played by a band on the field and later that night by the "Seven Guys and a Doll" Dixieland band. Such hidden talents you have, John! Congratulations, and I hope Bill Wilson and his committee read this so you can sing it at the 45th with Jack Gilbert playing the accompaniment.

Dave Hawes put on a one-man show at Skowhegan High School in April. He gave a comic lecture and illustrated talk on the humor of Charles Farrar Browne, the 19th-century humorist whose stage name was Artemus Ward. Dave has taught at Indiana University for the past 20 years and was a student of American humorists. This really was a homecoming for Dave, since he grew up in Skowhegan and taught high school for a period of time after graduation from Dartmouth. Guess the prodigal son returned, Dave. Nice going.

Isaac Sulzbacher was one of eight field representatives of National Life of Vermont who won membership in the 1978 President's Club as the firm's outstanding agents nationwide. This also won him attendance at a five-day educational conference at the Southampton Princess Hotel in Bermuda.

Bill Rench also was one of the eight and likewise won the trip to Bermuda. Bill is associated with the general agent in St. Louis, and Isaac with the agency in Jacksonville, Fla. Congratulations to you both for jobs well done.

By the time you read this, Frank Heath, our genial pres, will have had a meeting of the Class of 1934 resources committee and the executive committee to discuss the 45th reunion and other matters pending. It was held on the weekend of the Yale game, and unfortunately for me, I was unable to attend, since June and I were touring the Greek Islands. I'm sure that results of the session will be sent to all of us as we plan to invade Hanover next June.

Buzz Hartman called me to find out the exact dates for the reunion, as he and his wife plan to spend some time in the East and then wind up at Hanover for the big event.

Saw Tom and Jean Hicks at a brunch recently, and they had been with Bob Terhune in Michigan in the summer. Bob is getting along fine, they reported, and also said that Ethelyn Hedges was visiting nearby so they all had a good chat session. Ethelyn had written me that she and Dottie Morton are planning to be at reunion. And Jill Fogarty is planning to drive out with us, and we are hoping MidgeLindstrom will let us pick her up as we go through Cleveland. I think it is just great that our women want to attend. Bill Scherman's newsletter of September 4 mentions that BootsJacobson, Edie Smith, and Marge Copp have been appointed to a new committee - '34 Widow's Committee - and I know they would love to have any of the women contact them about the reunion.

See you at Santa Claus time!

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