1930

Bill Doran called to advise that a combined 1930-1931 get-together will be held at his home, 4300 Ferry Landing, Alexandria, on Friday, April 28. Ed Gruen is the coordinator for his class and Bill hopes that any member of either class living or visiting in the national capitol area will call him with a statement of intention. Known 1930 attendants are Van Leer,Kisevalter, Hatch, Porter, and Brown. Bill also reports that granddaughter Priscilla Bradshaw, who attended Dartmouth, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Cornell.

What's happening in Rhode Island? It snowed a while back. Further, we may be coming to the end of an era, as reported by the Sakonnet.Times: "For 92 years the Sakonnet Point Lighthouse has served as a landmark for both fishermen and townspeople. Now it appears that its demise is near unless its owners can find a way to get the lighthouse repaired and repainted at a reasonable cost. Mr. and Mrs. CarlHaffenreffer purchased the lighthouse from the federal government in 1961 with a high bid of $1,111. Since then they have spent over $5,000 to have it repaired and painted. But the continuing and ever-increasing high cost of adequate maintenance can no longer be absorbed, Mr. Haffenreffer said. The Haffenreffers have offered the lighthouse to many organizations. 'We have exhausted all our ideas as to how this important aid to seafarers can be preserved. If anyone has constructive suggestions, we will be glad to receive them,' Mr. Haffenreffer said. 'lts continuing deterioration and inevitable demise is a source of extreme disappointment,' he added."

With sorrow we report the deaths of Stuart F. Seidl on December 19 and Arthur L. Hayes on December 31. Our sympathy is extended to their families.

Living in Sequim, the garden spot of the Northwest, Mariana and Dick Funkhouser are heavily involved in affairs of the community, yet they found time in the past three years for a motorhome-and-ferry trip to Alaska, a flying hop to Rio, and a cargoliner to Valpariso, topped off by a trip to Hanover last fall.

For 18 years, Sue and George Kearney have operated Anson Newton Ltd., a country store in Morristown, N.J. A retirement-proof venture, George reports that it is a fulltime endeavor for both of them and that they had a very exciting Christmas season.

There has been a number of expressions of disagreement with the decision made by the executive committee last fall to prepare a 50th class record book comparable with our 25th and 40th. Most of these seem to favor an updated directory with some elaboration in the area of class history. Meade Alcorn will be glad to have your opinion.

Carl Jenson writes, "In February, Mary and I went to the Hartford Stage Company's new theatre to see Sigourney Weaver, tall, cool, delightful daughter of Pat Weaver, playing in 'A Flea in Her Ear.' After it we went to dinner and talked about show business, Mary's and my days with Walt Disney in Hollywood and Sigourney's past, present, and future in the 'biz.' She has a great future in stage work and pic- tures. She reported that Pat was in Vail on the slopes, just where a good Dartmouth man should be." A New York Times article brings us up to date on Margot Bottome, former mayor of Caracas and now adviser to Venezuela's delegation to the U.N. Margot founded the Venezuelan-American Center in Caracas, worked for women's suffrage in her country, and describes collecting china from around the world as one of her main enthusiams.

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