1937

Sure am proud of you guys. Devoid of news, we wrote personal letters to seven of you with address changes, which usually denotes at least mild activity. Mirabile dictu! Six replies!

Ginny and Walt Heer, Continental Country Club, Box 110, Wildwood, Fla. 32785, write, "Our Florida house is permanent, driver's license and all. 1 work in Columbus, Ohio, one week a month in winter, two weeks a month summers. We are in central Florida about 50 miles northwest of Orlando in a golf course complex with live oak trees and varied climate. We are busy with golf, tennis, bridge, yardwork, etc., and a little business. It is less crowded here than on the beaches, but unfortunately we are growing. We bought an Air Streamer to see the USA and perhaps Alaska by taking two- or three-month trips each year starting in 1980. We will save Canada and Maine for the next reunion in Hanover."

Maddy and Bob Crawford, 1351 White Heron Lane, Vero Beach, Fla. 32960, say, "After renting here for five years we built a home, moving in early 1978. We are new Florida homesteaders and will spend most of the year here, with a junket north in August or September. Spent Christmas in Westwood, Mass., with daughter Lynn and her husband Ed Lord. We enjoy life here with golf and many local activities. Lots of Dartmouth here, but my last class contacts were Ben Doran in 1977 and finding myself seated next to Al Bryant at a Sao Paulo luncheon a year or two before."

Kay and Bob Crabb, 63 Colonia Miramonte, Scottsdale, Ariz. 85253, write, "Our move here followed early retirement end of January. I'm back in the consulting business (commercial real estate investment) that 1 left to join the corporate world with Dayton-Hudson in 1956. For the next few months my primary client is Dayton-Hudson. After that I have a lot of options to look at. During the summer, I'll be based in Minnesota at our cabin 190 miles north of Minneapolis; the rest I'll spend here with a lot of time out for travel and relaxation."

Fran and Emery Patterson have moved to PC-798 Ocean Reef Club, Key Largo, Fla. 33037. Pat gave us a condensed version of his life since Dartmouth. From 1939 to 1947, he sold for American Airlines in Boston, with time out for Navy flying in the war. He then joined the National Blank Book Company in Chicago, associated with Brew Towne '36. From 1964 to retirement in 1978 he was in Columbus, Ohio, covering five states for S. E. & M. Vernon Company. In 1973 he retired from the naval reserve after 24 years. This helps (but not much) with the Homestead Air Force base commissary as well as Otis (USCG) in Falmouth, Mass., as they hope to come north annually to Craigville on Cape Cod.

Phyllis and Hep Randolph now live at 2400 S. Ocean Drive, 824-C, Fort Pierce, Fla. 33450. We have been asked occasionally through the years about news of Hep. What little we had came from other sources, nothing direct. Seems like retirement melted him a bit. We have a most complimentary response, but it indicates he has always been and wants to be a private person.

Thanks to you all. You have made my month!

Alby Chester tells us he has bought land in New Seabury on Cape Cod, where he has rented in recent years. He will be building a permanent home there and looking to sell his longtime Lexington place in about two years.

Tom McIntyre's new book The Fear Brokers will be on book store shelves in May with a planned launching reception May 9 at the Parker House in Boston. He has joined the Boston law firm of Sullivan & Worcester as counsel and will be working out of their Washington, D.C., office.

Katie and Sec will be on a three-week trip to the coast and to Hawaii April 27 to May 17. Art Sloggett responded to our inquiry saying we ought to spend as little time as possible around Honolulu, as it is just another big city; so we plan to take the four-island tour. He said Helen and Don McKinlay come often and only touch down there before heading for the outer islands.

Gib Reynolds, now a retired fixture on the Cape, finally bought a boat-, a 16-foot Alcort Sunbird sloop, the dream of his life. (How about that, Mr. Cortlandt Heyniger?)

This being the last month of the Alumni Fund drive, we urge any procrastinators to remember the deadline is June 30.

Four 1937 grins were flashed for the camera last fall when Charles Collis '37 announced his now legendary $5-million-dollar gift to the Campaign for Dartmouth.Grinners are, from left, Monk Amon, Collis himself, Fran Fenn, and Don McKinlay.

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