1931

Thanks to Bob Baumrucker and Jim Lyall we have a fine pair for openers.

Bob writes: "Gerry Raab, ski team coach our sophomore and junior years, and his wife were in port in San Francisco aboard the S. S.Canberra bound around the world. At 76, Gerry has hardly changed in any way. Thoughtfully he phoned me, and we drive down to Santa Cruz to see Charley Proctor '28 and had a fine reunion. Gerry and Charley's meeting, after 48 years, was really quite emotional."

Jim writes: "The new home which I helped my son Jim '70 to build in Brownsville, Vt., at the foot of Mt. Ascutney, has proven to be quite an attraction for '31ers. Last fall George andAnne Conklin dropped in. As a fellow architect, George was interested in some of the new design features which Jim had incorporated in the home. Ed Langenbach, who lives only two miles away, has also been a visitor.

"Fritz Hier '44, public relations director of the College and executive director of the Horizons program, came over for cocktails and dinner while Harriett and I were there. Fritz lives in Cornish, N.H., just eight miles away. Son Jim and his family are rapidly getting to know more of our classmates than I do."

Jim '31 also furnished excerpts from a letter he had received from Ed Langenbach: "My vacation home is in West Windsor, about four miles from Brownsville. Our old stone farmhouse is known locally as 'The Auger Hole.' Our place is closed because we are about to leave for a two-week vacation skiing at Chamonix and Val d'Isere. As I am still very busily practicing law in Boston, my weekends before and after our trip have been and will be spent in the office playing catch-up. However, some weekend in the near future, you, your son, and wives will be invited to visit."

Ed and Peggy Brummer and their Wood-bound Inn received some fine publicity in a feature article in the Boston Sunday Globe of January 29.

This just in from Ralph Maynard in Taipei. "Hope you and the Wendells got shoveled out and are okay. My wife went to Norway for a visit January 13 and is due back February 27, so she will miss most of the winter. I shoveled out last week in time to leave for Taipei on business, but am going back the 19th. No relief here from cold and rain. Otherwise all fine."

Relayed by our man in Hanover —

Don Crane: "Have just returned from Highlands, N.C., elevation 4,100 feet. We go there every October for the autumn foliage. It is very much like New Hampshire. Just plain lovely!! Crisp, cold, sunny days, even one snowy day. Log fire and a drink to Eleazar every night.

"Now back to the ocean and surf fishing. Blue fish and red bass very plentiful this time of year. My yacht insurance business, really a hobby, is almost too good. Encroaches on my fishing. It's fun, to, though I gave up golf, even though out-house is on the eighth fairway."

Doug Wilson: "I, too, attended my 50th high school reunion, Central High School, Washington, D.C. It was a lot of fun, as it turned out, and some of us could still recognize each other. Rod Hatcher was there. He was our class president.

"I spent about a month in Cambridge work- ing on the Emerson edition, of which I'm the textual editor, in The Houghton Library at Harvard. Haven't seen any '31 people since reunion."

Sid Rubin: "My wife Henny had two major operations in the last six months. She is now recuperating from the last one. So various planned trips were called off."

Ed Studwell from Amelia Island, Fla.: "Come see us where it is green and warm."

Larry Tucker: "We are in the process of completing gory details of a move, after 40 years, from Cincinnati, that chilly place in Ohio, to Venice in sunny and superheated Florida. Still have 30 boxes to go, and ran completely out of room a week ago! We'll manage!"

Jack Warwick: "All you wonderful retired '31ers have my deepest respect, admiration, and envy. But it's not all that bad to have to keep working. I don't think I could stop if my circumstances did permit it, which they don't."

Bill White: "Shirley and I were up for the Princeton game and stayed at the Howard Johnson's in Springfield, Vt. We now have to close up our cottage on Frye Island, Sebago, Me., and head for Sanibel, Fla., for the winter. We probably will see a lot of Phil Holden there."

Marty Zinn: "Sorry to advise that 1977 has been a year of keeping up our health and enjoying life where possible in the interim. We now have four grandchildren to give us added interest. Not much traveling other than to go see or have relatives visit here."

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Ellie and John French '30 and President Kemeny (right) made an elegant trio inFebruary at the grand dinner which opened the Campaign for Dartmouth in New York.

When Si Leach '31 received an honoraryLL.D. degree from the University of Winnipeglast fall, he had lots of family support.

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