1909

SEVENTIETH REUNION

The Big Event of All Time: Nine of eleven living graduates of the class of 1909 were in Hanover for their 70th reunion, June 8-10, capturing the percentage attendance loving cup at the Saturday afternoon annual meeting of the Alumni Association.

There were 31 or 32 who shared the festivities, including spouses, widows, sons and daughters, cousins, nieces, and friends. The large majority of the younger people came to escort the '09ers —who accepted the escorting with some frustration and a good deal of pleasure! The accompanying picture will attest to the truth of what I write. Classmates who attended were Albert Bates, Reginald Colley, Francis Bird, James Hitchcock, Bertrand French, Harold Clark, Hollis Bartlett, Stanley Leighton, and Arthur Graves. They came from New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont. There were three wives: Molly Colley, Harriet Clark, and Carol Leighton, and four widows: Mrs. Curtis Sheldon, Mrs. Norman Catharin, Mrs. Wilbur Bull, and Mrs. Charles Parker, former wife of Jim Greenbaum.

The College treated us lavishly, giving us headquarters and most meals at the Inn, escort service at all times, music by the Dartmouth Aires and Woodswind on Saturday night, a Glee Club concert (Paul Zeller's last appearance before retiring), a message by the president, and of course the commencement exercises with our class leading the parade! Was it a first for 70th reunions? If so, we hope that classes that succeed us will be "bigger and better" as the years go by.

Grace Weinz, wife of A. Gordon Weinz, died on May 26 after a long illness. They would have been married 65 years on June 3. Our concern and sympathy to Gordon.

At the business meeting of the class, PlumLeighton moved that the present officers serve another "five or ten years"!

Good weather and good fellowship prevailed at 1909's 70th reunion, attended by nine of the eleven living members of the class.

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