1944
Classmates, wives, women, and children in numbers out-distancing 100 assembled in Hanover October 13-14 to watch us out-mud Yale 10-3. And, of course, to consume the odd beer and deviled egg.
It was a splendid weekend. A notable converging Friday evening at the Chalet Motor Lodge in White River, with Hap and MaryBush offering their room for initial greetings and grogs. Then peanuts and first-rate chow at a nearby restaurant.
Saturday morning's executive committee meeting and tailgating were, for all practical purposes, held under water. It rained and rained. But neither business nor spirits were washed out. Committee moguls pondered weighty matters and approved a new class project the redecoration of the DOC House and then sloshed to Memorial Field. After the win, we admired the new decor, and ourselves, at that very same DOC House.
It was concluded that we would kick leaves again October 26-27 in 1979, the Cornell game, and October 17-18, 1980, when Harvard next comes punting up the Connecticut River. It was further decided that Dick Mayberry, our Xerox man in Rochester, N.Y., would be the new class head agent, gently urging us all to pony-up at appropriate times in the months ahead. And Vinnie Gustafson, new husband of TommyDonnelly, was unanimously elected to honorary class membership, thus enhancing our august body handsomely.
Other meetings in Hanover this fall added names to our little notebook. A Campaign for Dartmouth convocation brought Ezz Hale right back out of the Rochester woods October 27-28; and our club officers from near and far made the muster November 3-4: Bill and HopeFead (academic affairs officer, Tri-County, N.J.), Jack and Vinnie Jenness (enrollment liaison officer, Long Island), Betty and KarlMusser (she is the new president of the Dartmouth Women's Club of Boston), and AI andJean Winkler (public information officer, Southeastern Connecticut).
(Seen in the corner that same weekend, thinly disguised behind tinted glasses and a purple mustache, was Jack Haffenreffer. If you can believe him, he said he just happened to be in town on business and was meeting his wife at the White River bus station. He said further his old roomie John Rexford has been up from Concord recently surveying some of the Haffenreffer land in Etna).
There were solo shots, too, of course. Bruceand Puss Thomson took the great circle route north from Lynchburg both to see Dartmouth vs BU and son Tommy '75 and wife Kathy, he at Tuck, she working in a bank. Jack andEleanor Stephenson trekked in from Columbus, Ohio, to truck with daughter Cathy, also at Tuck, and to attend Tuck's Smaller Business Association meeting. And Dick and ProcOstberg came bearing cheese, bread, wine, and axes to help us chop wood and walk the south forty.
Be kind to your paperboy this Christmas, especially now that Homer Bogart has been elected president and chief executive officer of Perkins-Goodwin Co., Inc., pulp and paper. That announce- ment came out of NYC Rockefeller Plaza headquarters November 2 and read "effective immediate- ly." While Boge has an apartment in New York and spends more than half his time in the big city, he will continue to live in Northbrook, 111., and operate out of the North field office. Boge told me that P-G will soon be fe-opening the Franconia Paper Company ill Lincoln, N.H., and that, happily, will bring him and Skai back to Hanover even more frequently.
Regardless of your politics, you have to cheer the news that George Ives, down there in D.C., has just been named to another three years on the National Mediation Board. His first three appointments were made by Republicans, the last by a Democrat.
Can't help but feel that John Tyler, out there by Youngstown, Ohio, has his head screwed on right. Man says he's going to retire next July. "I've been with the same company, The American Welding & Manufacturing Co., for 30 years," he says, "secretary, director, and legal counsel. Jeanne and I will stay put, but travel and enjoy." The Tylers love golf and skeet and they winter in Florida and St. Croix.
In September 1977, Ted and Marjorie Munro left Wellesley for Marion, Mass., where they could be nearer golf and the water. Built their own house and headed for the nearest country club. Ted is president of Munro Wool, his own firm. Son Peter is in New Zealand learning, of all things, the wool business; Doug is in the Coast Guard; and Cynthia is a high school junior.
Unhappy word that Dave McGuire died of a heart attack last March in Providence, R.I. Our sympathy to his wife and two children.
That's it. Happy Holidays. And Blessings.
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