1933

It seems that we just put our reunion behind us and got the football season under way, when we hear that plans are afoot for the next of each. Hank Smith tells me that there will be a minireunion, based around the William and Mary football game in Williamsburg, Va., on October 11 and 12, 1980. The reason for this long-in-advance warning is that accomodations will be very tight. When you put together historic Williamsburg (mecca for tourists), a long Columbus Day weekend, and a Big Green football game below the Mason-Dixon line (first in many years), you have crowds. It is not a bit too early to make reservations through our two "honorables" in the area: Henry P. Smith III (Hank) at 3126 Ordway Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20008, or Parker T. Hart (Pete) at 4705 Berkley Terrace, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20007. Also on the committee are John Rockwell, all rested(?) after chairing our 45th reunion and moving from Hanover to Williamsburg, and Emily Hobbs (Win), who also lives down that away.

Hank McKee writes that Tom Mann has been elected vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest Florida. Presumably Tom and Toni are back on Sanibel Island after the summer in their Cape Cod home. Joe and Ruth Searing also live on Sanibel. "Joe is the best yard mari on the island and raises black-eyed peas under the palm trees." A far cry from Brooklyn and the Empire State Building in Manhattan!

Page Worthington, in the manner of presidents everywhere, has been talking to classmates who couldn't make it back to the reunion. He says that Bill Fobes, living in Dellwood, Minn., is devoted to salmon fishing, roaming as far as Iceland to try his luck. He has to be catching some! Bill Raoul, on the heights of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., keeps partially occupied by fund-raising for higher education. Bob Swinehart is extremely busy practicing orthodontistry in Baltimore, and he is also involved in that profession's national Organization. He has a daughter in Toronto who is married to a neurologist and a son who teaches at the Landon School in Washington.

Also from the Baltimore area, Charlie andDoris Shafer could not get to reunion because Doris had to be flat on her back, with a bed-board yet, for that week in June. She is now well enough to play some good golf. Charlie is mostly retired from the wholesale food business. He, too, plays golf and also raises orchids in his greenhouse. How exotic and nice for Doris! They winter in Florida, on John's Island at Vero Beach, and see Charlie True, another snow-bird from North Carolina. What then, orchids?

Ruth Michaelson, widow of Jesse, writes that their daughter Wendy has graduated from Tufts Medical School and is interning at a Boston hospital. As an undergraduate at Tufts University, Wendy majored in chemistry and was Phi Beta Kappa — following in the footsteps of her dad at Dartmouth. He, too, was a doctor of medicine. Their son Cliff graduated from Princeton and is in his third year at N.Y.U. School of Medicine. Wonderful!

In last month's ALUMNI MAGAZINE, you read the obituaries of John W. Fitzgerald and Roswell B. Thorstenberg. Those who attended the memorial services at reunion were aware of this loss. The class has donated books to Baker Library in their memory. Our sympathy goes to Helen Fitzgerald and Beth Thorstenberg.

In Bob Fox's July-August newsletter, he mentioned that Susan, daughter of John Monagan, is entering Dartmouth this fall as a member of the class of '83. So is my niece Kate Rugen, daughter of Dick '42. I would like to hear from you if you have any close relatives in this 50- years-later class.

Your executive committee (and any other '33s around) is having a business meeting in Hanover on September 22 at 9:30 a.m. It may be that we will recess in order to attend the Princeton game that afternoon. I will apprise you of the actions taken at the meeting in the next issue. Now that I have become a journalist, words like "apprise" come easily.

Bless you all!

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