1934
Florida has won the toss to be the subject of this month's lead paragraph. Florida now houses 51 of our classmates — more than any other state but Massachusetts and New York (numbers one and two respectively). Only one of us came from Florida, so the state didn't have much to start on, and it lost what start it had pretty early, because Kenneth Silcock of Orlando left college during freshman year. Clearly, the name of the game is retirement, because all but half a handful of our 51 are in Florida for that purpose. They're about evenly divided between the east and west coasts, with two inland at Gainesville. The most popular area is Sarasota, which claims nine. One thing that started me thinking about Florida was having just missed a call from Mac Collins, one of the Sarasota fellows, en route from his Siesta Key establishment to Montreal, home city of Mary's family. If we'd connected, I might have asked him about the other eight, who are Pret Belknap, John Lashar, Perry Gilbert (the most noted Sarasotan of them all), Dick Renshaw, Jim Dunn, Sid Bernstein, Bill Stein, and Laurie Herman, of nearby Treasure Island.
Through Class Treasurer Ed Brown comes a note from Van Thorne, reporting that he joined the retirement parade in 1978, departing from General Motors Acceptance Corporation, where he had been in charge of advertising and public relations for many years. "Although we are longtime Florida visitors," Van had written, "for the present we prefer to stay near New York, my native city and always Irene's American home, where she is a volunteer language teacher at the U.N. Daughter Lorri lives in Houston with her husband and four children. Daughter Betsy lives in Darien with her husband Wayne Sloper and one child. Both girls finished college before Dartmouth admitted women, so we did not produce a Dartmouth student. But we came close to it because son-in-law Wayne is Dartmouth '63."
There are two deaths to report, those of Bill Stowe and Al Kahn, both covered in detail, of course, elsewhere in the MAGAZINE. We are diminished by the loss of these two fine men.
The class executive committee, at the recent mini-reunion in Hanover, ruled that all future fall reunions will be on the first football weekend, at either the Penn or the Princeton game. The one exception will be in 1984, when we'll wait for the Yale game in mid-October to get a little wider spread from the big 50th in June.
If you have your 1934 class directory (winter 1979) at your elbow as you read these notes, here are some up-datings you may wish to enter. Henry Allen: to the P.O. box number in Hartland, Wise., add the house address 6197 Shore Acres. Charlie Armes: from Haverton, Pa., to 25 Eagle Wing Lane, Brewster, Mass. Herm Chase: from New Hampton, N.H., to 172 Ferris Avenue, Rumford, R.I.
Class Secretary Emeritus George Cogswell: still in Wilmette, has moved from "the big house" on Pawnee Road to Apartment 4-E, 1500 Sheridan Road. Enlightenment on this came in a letter from Cogs, which said, "June and I sold our house and moved into a condo right on Lake Michigan. Getting out of the house we had lived in for 21 years was quite a task — there had to be a lot of eliminating." Right, Cogs — as you used to say, "join the club." It's a painful process at best.
Also, Al Cory: from Belleview Boulevard, Belleair, Fla., to 100 Bluffview Drive, Belleair Bluffs (that's what the card says — honest, I didn't make it up!). Don Crowther: from West Hartford to P.O. Box 216, 47 Middle Beach Road, Madison, Conn, (if we are correct in drawing a parallel with Moe and Lois Frankel, a move to Madison could have a lot to do with retirement). Joe Dolben: now at 15 Lakeview Road, Winchester, Mass.
For Jim Dunn: an address change within Sarasota, to 1589 Carrolwood Drive. For RogerFosdick: a move from Colorado Springs to Aspen Ridge, Star Route, Florissant, Colo. Paul Magnuson's address: still in West Falmouth, Mass., also reads "Chapoquoit Islands." Horace (Ace) Miller: directory-listed in Englewood, Fla., now gets his mail at Fairway Drive, Eastman, P.O. Box 270, Grantham, N.H. (maybe Ace has the best of two worlds?).
Gene Orsenigo: longtime resident of Chappaqua, N.Y., has moved to Heritage Hills, 198- B, Somers, a popular and respected northern Westchester condominium. Aram Sarajian: from West Englewood, N.J., to 2306 Hooper Avenue, Bricktown, N.J. Herb Steyn: still in Vero Beach, Fla., but he has changed his address to 300 Harbor Drive.
Art Leonard's recent Alumni Award elicited the question from several interested readers of whether there have been other 1934 recipients of the award. I thought I remembered it accurately but asked the College to check it for me anyway. The list of those so honored is: Bill Scherman (1967), Marty Dwyer (1972), Ernie Barcella (1974), Roald Morton (1975), Stan Smoyer (1976), and Art Leonard (1979).
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