1928
As you read this column, you will realize that in less than two months our 50th Reunion will be at hand — June 9-11. Reunion chairman Dynamo Morton reports over 250 classmates, wives, and widows are expected. Mail your reservation now. When will you ever have another opportunity of seeing so many of your fellow classmates? The committee calls it "The Last Hurrah" and occasionally, for variety, "The Fantastic Fiftieth," but whatever it is called, there is something very special about a 50th reunion, particularly if it is yours.
The co-chairs of the reunion program committee, Curley Prosser and Herb Sensenig, mailed you a reunion program along with the above-mentioned reservation form. More details of the various events will be forthcoming in the '28 "Campaigner."
The directory committee, consisting of JohnPhillips and myself, has high hopes of completing the '28 directory and having it in the mail by early April so that you will have time to use it before reunion.
Jack McAvoy, Parker Chick, George Davis, and Bill Morton, winter residents of Naples, attended the Dartmouth alumni dinner in Naples in February at which President Kemeny spoke. Bill said that he and George called on Jack on the houseboat which he and Dee rented for two months. Park and Kitty Chick had the Mortons and the Davises over for cocktails earlier in the busy Naples social season. Bill and George had lunch with Paul Cutler at Sanibel Island.
A card from Nick Carter says he and Clodagh are thawing out at Gustavia on St. Barthelemy, a French island in the Caribbean, and are looking forward to reunion.
A note from my old roommate, CharlieGearhart, says that he and Henrietta were going to Montego Bay so that Henrietta could be treated there at the Fairfield Medical Clinic, which is connected with the Junker Medical Clinic in Bonn, Germany.
Robert L. Clark (we have two "Bob" Clarks) and Polly moved to 238 W. Tampa Ave., Apt. 206, Venice, Fla. 33595, but it took several months to convince the College that they no longer live in Sanbornville, N.H.
Wendell MacEachran is running four com- panies in the hydraulic manufacturing field in and around Manitowac, Wis., and enjoys golf and fishing. Mac is also working hard as a member of the reunion giving committee. His son John is a '76 graduate of the Dartmouth Medical School and associated with that school. He and Esther are looking forward to the 50th.
Johnnie Stewart, retired from Standard Oil of Ohio, says his hobbies are reading and researching Civil War history.
Gayle Leslie writes that the Dartmouth Club in Tucson is very active, with a luncheon the last Friday of each month and with excellent speakers. Gayle and Jim McConnon attend regularly, Hod Carver occasionally. Gayle and Hod were in the same company at Culver Military Academy, graduating in 1924. When I think of golf 1 think of Gayle, who plays golf every day except Sunday, when he and Carmen go to church!
Bill and Jane Ford will be at the 50th and are staying for the post-reunion party at Lake Morey. Their son is a physician near their home in the Pittsburgh area, and their daughter and her family live in Mountainside, N.J.
Ford Blickley, retired professor and director of the Foreign Language Laboratory at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, now lives at 2602 Brinkley Road, Oxon Hill, Md., and keeps busy running the foreign language lab for Prince Georges Community College. He has been a widower for nine years. He is coming to the 50th and staying at Lake Morey after the reunion.
Art Hassell and his new wife, Jess, will be welcomed at the 50th, and we hope they can arrange to stay on at Lake Morey. Art retired from B. Altman & Company in New York, but is still a director and a consultant for that chain of stores.
Think Fiftieth!
Van Dyne Oil Co. Troy, Pa. 16947
