1938
Fayerweather ... Monday, June 12 ... '38 out!
The countdown for camaraderie is at hand. Reunion chairman Bob Reeve and his committee - Johnny Johnson, Gene Waggaman,Howie Casler, Jim Chandler, Jack Graham, EdPerrin, John Tower, The Baron, and Ed White - have planned and worked diligently to evolve a program for the pleasure and enjoyment of all. In Bob's most recent note to me he said, "Tell every one to join us. I just know they'll have a ball." Be there!
Bob also reported that a special attraction has been added to the reunion program. CharlieWyckoff, whose photographic activities with a scientific group investigating the Loch Ness monster have received considerable publicity in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and elsewhere, has agreed to present a program on that fascinating subject.
Maine is a good place to be, in all seasons. We received „a lot less snow here than did Boston or Providence or New York in last winter's storms. But a person doesn't want to become too provincial. So, building up to the reunion safari to Hanover in June, Anne and I ventured as far as the New York area during Easter week. In Westchester we had the great pleasure of having cocktails with Jack and BettyRussell. Jack was just back from Switzerland and about to take off for Israel. Those were business trips. His and Betty's junket to Hanover in early mid-June will be strictly pleasure. We also much enjoyed a visit with Ray and Bobbie Ammarell at their very handsome home in Chappaqua. Ray and Bobbie will also be in Hanover June 12-15.
Almost every month our numbers become less, and the reporting of each diminution is inevitably sad. Alexander A. Sapiel died last December 7, and word of Murray Levinsohn's death in September 1975 only recently came to the attention of the Alumni Records Office.
We've all received "The Bulletin," reporting among other things the big Dartmouth gathering in New York in February. For any one who loves Dartmouth it must have been a heartwarming occasion. It seems to me that John Dickey's words are particularly moving. He said, in part,
"I come tonight to witness that continuity of commitment that gives Dartmouth institutional life. There are many great enterprises that the human being has learned to use. But it is only a true institution that is built and lives and serves its purposes through a continuity of commitment. It is this continuity which defends the College's purpose and its cause, the liberation of both mind and spirit.
"And let us remember one thing as individuals, not as a large, wonderful group. Dartmouth's purpose is forever a part of you; you individually, you personally, are literally the transmitting genes of the College's purpose. This continuity of commitment is the special heritage in which our love of the College is rooted."
If what Dartmouth means to each of us is worth preserving - and I think it is - Dartmouth deserves our support. Alumni Fund giving and especially, for us this year, 40th reunion giving - is a very clear way to demonstrate this support and this commitment.
As this is being written, in early April, there are still patches of snow in Damariscotta. I bet there's still a lot of it along the north side of the gym; sometimes there used still to be some there Green Key weekend. Many conditions like that don't change much over the years; other things, like us, do. However, by our own admission, we've always been Amazing ... for jour Fortieth, we're Feisty. Amazing and Feisty, let's as many of us as possibly can, be in Hanover June 12-15. '38 out!
An early reunion the fifth? - of '39ers on the Inn corner: left to right,Bob McLeod, the late Moose Wyman, Louis Oldershaw, Hank Bogg, and Ed Wakelin.
Box 187 Damariscotta, Me. 05453
