1933
As forecast in the October Alumni Magazine, your executive committee met in Bartlett Hall the morning of the disappointing Princeton football game. The attendees at the meeting were Page Worthington, Mannie Sprague, Jud Pierson, and Bob Fox as officers; Jeff Davis, Bill Dewey, Bill Lang, Jack Manchester, Bob Niebling, Horace Shaw, and Bill Teahan as executive committee members; George Drowne as secretary emeritus; and the present class secretary.
There was discussion of '33 finances, with "pats on the back" of Mannie Sprague for the record $256,000 collected for the Alumni Fund. There was also shaking of heads that more members don't pay their class dues and pay them promptly.
The prospects are good for three regional mini-reunions in 1980. The first one will probably be at Quechee again, for the Penn game on September 20. There is then the one at Williamsburg around October 11 already discussed in last month's issue. And the Rugens hope to have their usual open house for the Princeton game in November. More on these reunions later.
Also at the meeting, President PageWorthington appointed a 1933 Awards Committee headed by Sid Stoneman and also consisting of Wes Beattie and Jud Pierson. These three will select candidates annually from our class for special commendation because of their services to the College or to the class. Ten members of our class have received Alumni Council Awards. This a goodly number comparatively, considering our youth, but Page and the committee felt we could go deeper.
Another committee is being appointed to study the whole financial status of '33. This study will be done prior to acting on HarryOsborne's motion, made at the class meeting in June, recommending that the executive committee consider distributing money into the scholarship fund and the memorial book fund.
Jud Pierson, speaking on the bequest program, said that '33 ranks 16th in the dollar amount of trusts in favor of the College. Not bad for babes of the Great Depression — we're cured! Several classmates are also naming Dartmouth in their wills. The class doesn't get credit, but Dartmouth will — a long while hence, we hope.
All of the above-mentioned meeting-attenders went to the game with those of their wives who were hanging around. Page and I were bachelors for the weekend. Jack and Dot Manchester had open house in lieu of tailgating. Later, I saw the Wes Beatties, the Ted Aliens, the Van Collinses, and Whit Kimball. The day was fine; the game not so.
Word has come to me that James E. C. Walker, head of community medicine and health care at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, also co-chairs the Northeast Canadian/American Health Conference. He is urging that a "health hot line" be established by the New England states and the eastern Canadian provinces. This hot line could be used to confirm hospital and medical insurance coverage for visitors to either country who become ill. This is the same "Dr. Jim" who served in the Army during World War II and aboard the hospital ship S. S. Hope in 1964.
Harvey and Louise Hopkins and Helen (Mrs.Jack) Blumenthal live in Heritage Village, Conn. For those not remembering or never briefed, Louise and Helen are sisters. "Hop" writes that they are very well and have been doing a lot of traveling; their latest trip was last spring to the Pacific and the Far East via "Alumni Flights Abroad."
Charles Stege has moved from Wood Dale, 111., to Palatine, in the same state. Sounds like a hop or a skip. Donald Doherty has made a jump from Cromwell, Conn., to Gainesville, Va.
Bob Kay, in Neenah, Wise., is still practicing law, says his wife Tommie. He sets up his own case load and enjoys carrying on in that fashion. They missed reunion, since they were opening up their cottage in Minnesota at the time.
Jack Lamb, a born Down Easter, has retired to Dallas, Tex. Almost his entire business career was with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. He now gives lectures and courses on defensive driving. He has two sons — a university professor and a lawyer — and four grandchildren.
1 received a good letter from Lee Shaw. He says he has been retired for six years from the practice of law and is doing nothing much except sitting on his backside. He might have made it to reunion but his wife Erma has not been too well. Lee is an amateur magician. He used to give "kid shows, with rabbits and stuff," but the kids are so precocious these days he found the rabbits were turning them on. He has shifted to "mental magic" with adults. He finds he has no trouble reading the minds of people our age.
John and Helen Manley have just visited Jan and me at Rossmoor. They're thinking about moving here from N.Y.C. If they can find a house on Hanover Lane (next street over), I will use it as a mail drop for '33 mail. We will avoid the repugnance attached to "Old Nassau Road."
Bless you all!
117A Old Nassau Road Jamesburg, N.J. 08831
