1938

The Amazing Class of '38 still is ... and Feisty too ... but, as is only right and proper, and in keeping with their advancing years, more and more of its members report their retirement.

A particularly good letter in that vein came to me the other day from Marty King. He writes, in part, as follows: "I retired March 1, 1978, after 32 years with G. E. Now I am a volunteer, half days, five days a week, at Alcoholism Services of Cleveland. I teach the principles of AA to suffering alcoholics and do other work at the agency. It is interesting and rewarding." Marty goes on to say that his wife Jane is a part-time worker at Case-Western Reserve Medical School and is a leader in many civic groups. The Kings' five children are fine and working, all but one in the Cleveland area.

Concerning classmates, Marty reports that Fred Hollingworth called at Christmas. Fred is fine and not as yet retired. Bob Eckel and his wife Doris are close friends of the Kings. They have three sons, two of them doctors, and the other doing scientific work at the University of Wisconsin. And Sandy and Jenot Mills "keep in touch ... are fine . . . and doing a bit of traveling."

The '3B secretary suspects that he uses the word "heart-warming" to excess, but it seems to him that that adjective applies well to Marty's letter. Thanks very much, Marty, and all best wishes to you and yours.

I received another good letter, as did, I believe, all of us, over the signature of our head agent, Dick Holt, reporting on the Class's achievements in our 40th reunion giving campaign. $312,579 from 345 contributors is a plenty impressive, record, and Dick and his helpers deserve high marks and high praise. This record is further evidence that '38 is indeed still amazing and feisty, as noted above. It's also a tough act to follow, in a non-reunion year, but the Campaign For Dartmouth is still on, and 38's importance to the campaign, and to Dartmouth, continues to be vital.

At the end of the listing of our 345 classmates who contributed last year are the names of some of the '38ers who aren't around any more, in whose memories gifts were made. Remembering in this way friends from more than 40 years ago whom we maybe hadn't seen for a long time and now won't again is comforting evidence of a longstanding friendship, over and above the loyalty to Dartmouth that Alumni Fund contributions demonstrate. Perhaps more of us than have given memorial gifts in the past - possibly even some who didn't contribute at all last year - may want to continue or to begin to commemorate old friendships this way in the future.

An obituary of Charlie Tesreau appears elsewhere in this or a later issue of THE MAGAZINE. The deep sympathy of Charlie's classmates is offered to his mother, of Hanover.

I'm in receipt of a clipping from The DailyHampshire Gazette of Northampton, Mass., which conveys the news that Paul Thorpe has been appointed to the Amherst Redevelopment Authority. The news story identifies Paul as a longtime resident of Amherst, recently retired from American Bosch Division of AMBAC Industries, and notes that he is a member and former trustee of South Congregational Church and a former member of the Amherst Highway Safety Club and Town Meeting.

I'd be longer-and-stronger - these notes, that is, would be - had I not been run into last week, followed by three days in the hospital with a resultant concussion. I'm all right, or will be, but my good little Fiat has had it completely. A pity.

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