1930

1930 fielded a full team at the Class Officers Weekend in late April: Meade Alcorn, Charlie Raymond, Harry Condon, Milt Mclnnes, Herb Chase (reunion chair and co-chair of our bequest program), and John French, who is serving as class campaign coordinator. It was a joyful weekend and a chance to discuss class affairs informally. The Woodstock-Yale weekend of October 13-15 is the next scheduled event. There will be an executive committee meeting on Friday afternoon, followed by cocktails at the Frenches'. Meade Alcorn has done a considerable amount of opinion-sampling during the past few months and finds that there is strong support for resuming our Bema luncheon on Saturday. However, it will not be catered this year, and all are urged to bring their own lunches (known as green-bagging). There are good sandwich shops in Woodstock, and Herb Chase will - report later on the availability of luncheon food provided by Hanover groups. He has agreed to arrange for tables, ice, coffee, and seating, if Marge and he return in time from their August trip to Alaska. Dinner at the Woodstock Inn on Saturday night will conclude this informal reunion.

There was discussion of what type of publication we might issue at our 50th in 1980. Present sentiment, based on another Alcorn poll, is for something more modest than the ambitious class book favored at last October's executive committee meeting. Charlie Widmayer will investigate the cost of a class directory embellished with a chronological class history and perhaps some photographic nostalgia.

Mary and Dean Wiggin have been on a world cruise aboard the Sagafjord. Included in their itinerary was a river trip to Kwangchow, thence by air 260 miles northeast to Kweikin, "the most beautiful part of China," where they visited an agricultural commune with 52,000 inhabitants. Dean summed it up: "It is really quite a life. No hunger, no unemployment, no taxes, and no medical costs."

Maybe this is what is known as a Mexican standoff: "Regards from the Keenes and the Lichters sitting in the patio of the Keenes' home in Guanajuato absorbing the sun's rays and concerning themselves ever, so seriously with the plight of you folks in New England."

Hub Christman reports: "Following retirement in 1975 from private practice in Lakewood, Ohio, I continued my one-afternoon-a-week teaching stint at Case Western Reserve Medical School for the next year. We moved here in October 1976, unfortunately found the house not quite suited to the care of my centenarian father, and so moved again last June - the last stop, I hope, before a retirement center, which I hope is still a few years in the future.

Until the past month we'd been pretty thoroughly tied down with Dad, and I haven't seen any Dartmouth '30s, although I did have a couple of phone conversations with Al Leslie and Kels Moore. But a month ago Dad finally departed this vale of tears (aged 102), and we plan to get to Ojai in June and to Hanover in 'BO, God willing. Also hope we can now get in a little traveling, although we love Arizona. I sing in our church choir, sometimes substitute at organ or piano, but so far that has been the extent of my activity here."

At a banquet in New York last month, Charlie Widmayer was specially honored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for his contributions to educational periodicals generally and to this magazine specifically. In the course of putting out 300 issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE - a stack of issues practically as tall as the editor himself - Charlie earned plenty of awards, including the one given annually for best alumni magazine of all.

I hope we will have a better turnout for the Dartmouth-Harvard game than last year. We're counting on Ed Butterworth again to provide tickets for stadium parking. So get in touch with him if you are interested. The parking lot is almost as close to the playing field as our stadium seats.

Set your sights for June 1980.

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