1932

Six stalwart classmates stood straight and tall when president of the Dartmouth Club of the Gold Coast "Whip" Walser sounded off with "Thirty-Two Up!" at the annual banquet heid at Pier 66 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on February 15. President and Mrs. Kemeny, Vice President Ad Winship, and Dean of the Medical School Jim Strickler were at the head table with Whip and beamed approval of our class's receiving the recognition for most-of-any-class-in-attendance. Ev Stuhrman, Judge Milt Alpert, AlexChristie, Ted Ellis, Cal Keirstead, and Bob McConnochie made up the winning team, receiving the applause of about 150 of the Dartmouth family. Ev Stuhrman made a big hit by wearing his freshman beanie — now 50 years old! Bless them all.

We have heard from another Dartmouth Club president, George Blaesi of Sun City, Ariz., who is now on his second year heading the Phoenix Club. He reports that in March of this year his club is "joining with Princeton in sponsoring an all-day seminar on genetic engineering, DNA, clones, etc." He indicated his chagrin that he was not in Samoa, where he had spent four years, to welcome us last year when we stopped over for a few days. We are sure that there are many of our classmates who are presently active with Dartmouth clubs, and we would like to hear from them.

We missed seeing Peggy Drake at our minireunion last fall, but we had been alerted that she could not make it because of the wedding plans of her son Bill. We now have received both a photograph and a letter from Peg about this happy event, which she describes as follows: "I missed the mini-reunion too, but bigger things did call. The wedding was lovely. It was religious, romantic, and also moving, especially when they remembered Drakie." She continues, "Very much among the present were Peggie andBo Daniels. In fact, they participated in the ceremony by reading from the Old Testament. Bill is 32, so, as he says, he waited a long time for the right gal." Surely, any son of our old friend and classmate will have inherited some of his keen enjoyment of all things, and we wish this young couple long life and happiness.

Bo Wentworth has sent us news that MorrieHubbard was awarded a prize at the annual dinner of the Baltusrol Golf Club of Springfield, N.J., for his hole-in-one achievements. How 80, who lives in Connecticut, found this out is a mystery — not only to us, but also to Morrie. Congratulations are in order!

We received an interesting letter from Ed Smith in lieu of answering our questionnaire. Ed says in part, "I agree with your thesis about improving communications among diverse people, as witnessed by my sending one daughter to the University of Paris last year and having one at the University of Madrid at the moment. And whatever happens eventually between Israel and the Arabs, the recent get-together was a classic example of putting better communications to work despite the risks involved." Ed continues with interesting news about the revival of water polo in the Ivy League, which recalls some very interesting times we had .together in pursuit of this sport. He concludes with this remark: "Still pushing 2 x 4's and the like, last young one (of four) in college — the one in Spain."

My first hundred questionnaires sent alphabetically up to the middle of the D's has already received about 45 answers — a splendid return, I am told. We think the stamped return envelope helps on this score, and your secretary appreciates your cooperation. The answers are interesting, to say the least, and they run the gamut from A to Z, from hot to cold of possible reactions to our questions. We will now have abundant material for awhile before releasing another mailing.

To select a few morselg out of this bag of plenty, Bob Ackerberg answers my question about his present life style with these immortal words: "Fluctuates from semi-Spartan to semi-Sybaritic (like New Year's Eve), steering middle road between Tom Watson and Gene Sarazen and between Sophia Loren and Whistler's mother."

John Almert to this same question answers, "Making a big project out of doing nothing. Trying to salvage a failing golf game." HankBarber replies, "Good, but not in shape to play water polo."

Larry Collins reports that during the Cornell game at our mini-reunion, he was seated in the middle of the freshman class cheering section instead of with our class. (It must have been because of his recent wedding.) He says everything worked out fine and continues, "They gave several cheers for 1932, and Louise and I gave a couple of cheers for 1981. We had so much fun with the crazy kids that we missed quite a lot of the game. They kept 'passing' people up the stands over our heads, etc. The climax of the whole thing came when, after asking Louise's permission (unbeknownst to me), they lifted me up and 'passed' me up to the top of the east stands. Strangely enough, I did not break in two!"

And Jildo Cappio, making a good recovery from many illnesses, still keeps his sense of humour and writes, "Born April 1, 1912 — probably the youngest in worst condition in the Class." With that spirit we will see you all at our 50th, if not sooner.

Your obedient servant,

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