1928
For the first time, a son and a grandson of '28ers matriculated in the same class at Dartmouth! Ed and Dora Flanders' son John '83 chose to room in Richardson where his father lived for four years. Ollie and Dolly Andrus' grandson Bruce '83 is the son of Wayne Andrus '57 and lives in Middle Fayerweather.
The '28 mini-reunion in the fall started 23 years ago at the Norwich Inn and attracts more people every year. Attendance last year was 48 and this year the total was 56. The weekend was September 21-22, with Dartmouth losing to Princeton on the opening game.
For the past 14 or more years, Herb and MimiSensenig have invited all '28ers and their guests at the fall reunion to their home in Norwich on Friday evening. This year, 33 arrived after dinner, enjoyed the good fellowship, and had a chance to look at the album of 50th reunion pictures.
Incidentally, Jerry Warner did a bang-up job in collecting and arranging the 100 color pictures which he and seven other classmates took. The album contains an individual alphabetical index and an index listing the subjects and location of each picture. If you want copies of pictures of a particular person or group, write me, and Jerry will have copies made. Jerry hopes that any of you who have reunion pictures available will send them in.
Present at the weekend were: Howie Bush, Ollie Andrus, Ford Blickley, Cal Billings, George Davis, Lane Dwinell, George Emery, Craig Haines, Art Kneerim, Bill Lary, Jack Kenerson, Bill Marx, Bill Morton, Maury Makepeace, Mac MacEachran, Lary Martin, Park Estabrook, Wes Patience, John Phillips, Curly Prosser, Barney Norton, Ed Flanders, Red Sanborn, Bert Stern, Herb Sensenig, Joe Tidd, Wes Wood, and Os Skinner, plus wives, five guests, and the aforementioned freshmen.
All of the class officers and seven members of the executive committee met for almost two hours Friday afternoon at the Hanover Inn to go over class affairs. The Dartmouth-Harvard game on October 18, 1980, was selected as the focal point of our next mini-reunion and a block of rooms was reserved at the Norwich Inn. Class Agent Art Kneerim was praised for the fine showing (a $15,000 increase over last year) that he and his team of assistants turned in.
Jerry and Rella Warner were in Idaho the latter part of September for the arrival of another grandchild and missed the minireunion. But Jerry had shipped the album of reunion pictures to reunion head Herb Sensenig.
Our expert on China, Roy Myers, started his annual lecture tour of the country in late September in Boise, Idaho. His topic is "The People's Republic of China as I Saw It" and his agent has booked him until mid-April, with only brief rests in Florida (November), in New York City (December), and in California (February).
Roy spent a month on his own traveling all around China in 1975 and in 1979 spent two months there lecturing in and on English to teachers gathered at Kaifeng Teachers University. He said: "The university went all out to present me with 100 teachers of English from different universities and colleges all over China. I lectured for two hours every morning and on Tuesday afternoons to 400 teachers from high schools plus my morning group, who wouldn't miss a beat. You have no idea how avid they are to learn, how hard they work. University students are up at five, do exercises, have a pre-breakfast study hour, attend as many classes as possible six days a week, and have extended sports programs and evening study periods. They treated me like a VIP and it was hard to return to the ordinary world when I went on my way around the world to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, India (six places — in New Delhi it was 107 degrees), and then Paris."
A recent picture in the Valley News of Lebanon, N.H., showed Curly and Laura Sadler and two other couples being honored by members of the Norwich, Vt., Grange for their community service.
John and Ludmilla Turkevich's daughter, Marina Turkevich Nauman, has written a scholarly book on Nabokov's early works titled "Blue Evenings in Berlin." She is an assistant professor of Russian at Douglass College of Rutgers, where Ludmilla chairs the Russian Department.
We have recently discovered that the executive editor of the Cape Codder, Jack Ullman, has a host of admirers who have enjoyed his work for years; one of them says, "His writing is always delightful, wild imagination, with humorous touches from way off."
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