1933

Our mini-reunion at Williamsburg was a doozy. Hank Smith (H. P. III) and Helen and their committee of Pete and Jane Hart, Emily(Win) Hobbs, and John Rockwell did a marvelous job of planning and organization. For those of you who have never been to Williamsburg - go! Even without such a committee or a football game to draw you.

The class of '33 was quartered mostly at a motor lodge in a delightful woodland setting, with the private room, where we had our Friday night cocktail and dinner party, a short walk from everyone's accommodation. There were 37 of us there that Friday night. I won't name them all; Bob Fox has more space. Among those you might not have expected to make it, but who did, were Rich and Sue Bradshaw, back from their honeymooning. Rich has opened an office in their home in Richmond, where he does "space planning."

Bob T. and Shirley Cox, on their eastern junketing from California, came back to visit old haunts. Bob entered Dartmouth from Plainfield, N.J., along with about six others of us, when geographical distribution was not so important. Others from California were peripatetic Marty Kerwin and Bud (W.H.) andElizabeth Madden.

Dick and Dorothy Lyon came over from Washington, D.C., where Dick is still very busy practicing real estate law. There is a lot of change and movement in that field in that locale!

Cal and Kitty Milans, Bill and Fraye Page,Larry and Margaret Reeves, Charlie and DorisShafer, and, of course, Page and MargaretWorthington all came over from the Baltimore area. Jack and Dot Manchester and Jean Meek came down from the north country. Much can be said for the geographical distribution of Dartmouth football games, also.

I must confess that Jan and I did not go to the game. We had an oceanfront room at Virginia Beach. That Saturday morning and afternoon, we were swimming in the Atlantic in 85° weather. Sunday night, we visited Gay andMartha Milius in their lovely Virginia Beach home. Gay has just been elected a director of the American Radio Relay League, Roanoke Division, and is responsible for a four-state area. Martha was formerly a legal secretary in Washington and remembers when Nelson Rockefeller, one of her firm's clients, was kindly understanding of her lateness at a conference as a result of morning traffic.

I mentioned, two months ago, that Win Rowe had sent me a packet of volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helens' May eruption. Such packets are being sold in Virginia Beach souvenir shops for $2.79 each!

Last month I was hard-pressed for space and couldn't tell you about Gene Kaplan, who gave me that poignant story on Louis Poitras. Gene has retired as a pediatrician in suburban New York City. He is "pleasantly busy with abstract oil painting, overseeing a brood of five children, busy wife, and two grandchildren." He enjoys boating, fishing, travel, and the theatre, museums, and concerts of the Big A.

Bob Niebling says he and Silla had a sea voyage all planned for Thanksgiving time, out to Indonesia. Sam and Jean Black were going on a similar trip, a month or so later. Both trips were to be aboard the ill-fated Prisendam!

I wish you all a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, a great and healthy '81. To help you with your New Year's resolutions, I give you the following poem. It was written by George P. Shoemaker, '28 class secretary, Williams College. It has been adjusted by me to suit Dartmouth '33. The "ha!" especially, is from me.

The Secretary's Lament

I have no news, this space to fill, Of classmates old or classmates ill. From Democrats, Republicans, or spouses on the pill (ha!), From farmers, lawyers, retirees, from judges on the bench, From golfers, sailors, handymen who wield a wicked wrench. Yes, '33 quiescent is. No letters reach my door, Detailing exploits great or small, as you have done before. So grasp a pen, you lazy ones! Invest in one small stamp, And send me news that's fit to print on your life, shed a lamp. "Please do it now!" That is my plea. Don't put me up a tree. Else find in our ALUMNI MAG no news of '33. Bless you, every one!

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