1930

The theme for our annual Woodstock meeting in September was "1930 Up" for the 50th, our Glorious Golden Gathering. DickBowlen has assumed the chair for this June 6-8 event. Backed by an eager committee of 22 men and four women, he intends to break the attendance record of 154 classmates claimed by 1929 this year. Overall attendance at Woodstock was 105. A 1930 class award was presented to BillFenton, renowned anthropologist and authority on the Iroquois Indians, with a citation by WinStone. Also, John French provided a synopsis of the Condon-French exploration of China this past summer.

Fifty years ago, the names in the news were Al Marsters and Albie Booth (12-16), with the former forced to withdraw before the end of the football season because of fractured vertebrae. In October 1929, AT&T was still quoted at 247 and New York Central at 215. An educational authority stated that "the American college fraternity has become an obstruction in the higher educational machinery in the country." A $60,000 hockey rink, which relied on nature to make ice, was dedicated. Ruth Etting was belting out "Love Me Or Leave Me." The Harvard game intercollegiate ball at the Copley featured Vincent Lopez and his Casa Lopez orchestra. The D was recommending that "Delta Alpha take its place among the limbo of forgotten traditions." And so it goes.

Ted Martin of Lexington devoted some 35 years to teaching shopwork, science, photography, and skiing at Shady Hill School in Cambridge. He transferred to Harvard as a junior and diplomatically regrets that he was unable to spend four years at each college. Harriet and Dave Latham have moved to Hillsboro, N.H. Dave is a trustee of Lowell General Hospital and, with his son-in-law, is. Co-owner of the Depot Street Tavern in Hillsboro. Fred Hooper, whose wife Eleanor died last year, writes that "for the next few years I will be traveling the United States in my camper motor home with my Norwegian elkhound Brutus and will attend the 50th reunion in June."

Marge and George Covell were at Woodstock and reported that they have bought a mobile home in Port St. Lucie but will continue to spend summers on Mason's Island in Mystic, Conn. George Geiger, president of Yosemite Title Company in Sonora, Calif., writes: "Unlike a great many of my classmates, I am still working. The work habit is so ingrained, it seems difficult to shed. Yosemite Title Company is still expanding, but I am finding ways to be less involved in its day-by-day activities. Mirabile dictu, I taught a course in the local community college, with, I feel, less than complete distinction. I have served stints as president of the Tuolumne County Chamber of .Commerce and of the Columbia City Hotel in Columbia State Park. Like the nation, I am running out of gas, and feel less and less inclined to get involved in extra-curricular affairs."

Ed Conklin is doing volunteer work at Scottsdale Community Hospital and reports that he has "completed a one-year course at Scottsdale Community College in equine management and horsemanship. Made the dean's list with a 3.6 average." Kel Clow retired from the Army in 1965 but is still active as a technical writer for Synoptic Systems Corporation of San Francisco. Harold Bruce of Winchester, grandfather of six, finds it amusing that his two English granddaughters have American passports. Katherine's principal interest is family genealogy and Harold shares in her research.

We expect the above-named classmates, as well as a couple hundred more, to join our Glorious Golden Gathering, June 6-8, 1980.

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