1938

When ex-president of the Class Squee Ellis added a biographical line for our 25th Reunion Book in the early sixties, it read, "Third child in 1960 when I should be a grandpa!" He could hardly have anticipated then that the late-winter '79 Big Green Sports News would carry an item captioned "Women's Hockey" which noted, "Goalie Janice Ellis . . . recorded three shutouts in one week to highlight the season." Congratulations, Janice! Congratulations, Squee!

A late January issue of the New London, Conn., Day carried a story on Tel Mook, who was to speak on "Christianity in India" at the Mystic Congregational Church. Tel's biographical data as reported in the article included mention of his study after Dartmouth at Cambridge and Yale Law School, from which he received his law degree. The article continued, "A member of the bar in Washington, D.C., and lowa, he was graduated from Chicago Theological Seminary in 1955. He was a missionary in India from 1958 to 1960, when he became Southern Asia secretary for the United Church of Christ Board of World Ministries. The Rev. Mr. Mook also is executive secretary of the department of Southern Asia of the Division of Overseas Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and general secretary of the Division of World Mission of the United Church board."

While flying the friendly skies of TWA (sorry, United), Carl von Pechmann was scanning that airline's customers' magazine, Ambassador, and was delighted to find an article entitled "The Humanizing of the Executive Mind," a description of Gil Tanis' Dartmouth Institute, the College's continuing education summer program which Gil has directed so ably for so many years. It is good for the program and its director to receive nation-wide recognition and publicity.

It was a great pleasure to receive a card from Ray Ammarell's wife Bobbie, postmarked Jacksonville, and featuring pictures of surfers. Bobbie said it was cool for surfing but good for golf and beach-walking. The arrival of Ray and young Ray was imminent. The same welcome correspondent sent me a couple of snaps of our reunion, which I relayed to "Pace Setter" editor Dan Marshall, but I guess they were too late for his last edition. Dan did, however, include a pretty impressive roster of '38 Florida residents - 41 of them. That must be at least ten per cent of our extant classmates.

With the most gratefully acknowledged exceptions of Bobbie's and Carl's communiques noted above, it could be observed that our '38 classmates are not only amazing - they are also amazingly uncommunicative, as far as correspondence with me, their-your-our secretary is concerned. I feel like the aging and acerbic James Forsyte of the saga of the same name, who complained, "Nobody tells me anything." Even in our early mid-sixties, significant things still occasionally happen to us. Please advise me when they do; your classmates are interested.

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