1935
What a great fall football season this has been for mini-reunions of the Great Class of 1935 in Hanover! True, we won only one of three games on these weekends, but the turnout of old friends was wonderful. Reg Bankart and Dero Saunders and your secretary have thoroughly covered the New Hampshire game weekend. By the time you read this you'll have read of the Harvard and Yale gatherings, too, in the "Tear Bag." The success of these depended largely on the efforts of local classmates organizing dinner parties, parade participation (Al Brush), and pre-game lunches in Leverone (Bob Hage). Based on this year's experience, we should try to make such classsponsored indoor gatherings regular events. It was great to be out of the rain and cold before the Harvard and Yale games!
Your secretary's knowledge of the Harvard weekend events had to be secondhand since Polly and I were participating in another event worthy of note. Son Rick was married to Donna Mullin in Wellesley at exactly the same time. We did see the movie at the "quarterback luncheon" the following Tuesday. Maybe we should have stayed away from the Yale game, too! But then we would have missed the opportunity to be joined here at home in Eastman by some 35 '35ers and wives that night. A special evening made more so by the presence of Trustee Dave Smith and Eleanor.
Many of you know that Bob Smith missed our fall reunion because of a serious bladder cancer operation, but he telephoned his greeting from Vero Beach. The "get well" card we circulated and sent him brought a recent letter of thanks. Bob is doing very well and is still active in an advertising agency owned by Alden Butler '36 He hopes any classmate in the vicinity this winter will let him know.
A news bulletin channeled this way from Hanover reports that Grant Herman was presented the Distinguished Eagle Scout award. Conferred by the National Council of Boy Scouts, this is presented to Eagle Scouts who have distinguished themselves in their professional and public life for over 25 years. A long and impressive citation followed the announcement. Congratulations to Grant!
Also from Hanover came the news of the marriage of Herb Ostrow's son Samuel '67.
Always with an eagle eye for class news, Dick Montgomery spotted a clipping to the effect that Herb Knowles' son Todd has completed the Surface Warfare Officers' Base Course in Newport, R.I. Dick says, "Herb is now fully retired and playing lots of golf."
Don Koehler, now retired from Conde Nast Publications, lives in Cape Coral, Fla. He still does some parttime work as a publisher's rep and enjoys the "best of two worlds."
Jack Au Werter is, as he puts it, "still in harness" in Cleveland. He adds this intriguing comment, however: "I cannot avoid looking carefully at changes in living patterns among classmates." There are sure lots of happy ones to emulate, Jack!
Bili and Linda Harwick have just returned home to Minnesota from an extended trip to the Tetons, Spokane, Reno, Tahoe, Death Valley, and the Grand Canyon. "Gorgeous scenery and weather."
A short note to treasurer Put Kingsbury came with his dues payment from Howie Hinman out there in Oregon. Howie had just been east to celebrate the 95th birthday of his father, John Hinman 'OB, the 9th oldest living Dartmouth alumnus. His mother is also still living at 94! Howie spent five weeks in Alaska this last summer doing some unbelievably good salmon fishing and later spent two weeks in Montana checking the affect on his arthritis of a program of sitting in a radon mine one hour in and two and a half hours out at specific intervals. Lots of us could use something that works!
Fred Raymond was at the William and Mary, game in Williamsburg and saw the Haases, Russells, Saunderses, Dean Couper, and Hall Colton. Ed and Alice Neff had planned to go, but his emergency operation to correct a plumbing difficulty intervened. Luckily this didn't happen on their wonderful trip to Ireland this summer with the National Press Club.
Regretfully, we note the passing of two more good friends and classmates - Dan Kerwin and Jim Higgins.
Phelps Luria has received the condolences of the class on the recent death of his brother Sydney, a Bridgeport physician for 25 years. Phelps was also kind enough to send the New York Times clipping, which some of you may have seen, describing the Exeter-Andover game halftime honoring Bill Clark, Exeter football coach from 1939 to 1956.
Our multi-talented Reg Bankart, the artist, has received some very flattering recognition. We have learned that the prestigious Kent (Conn.) Art Association accepted two of his landscapes for its fall exhibition. Not only that, but he won a $100 prize for an "outstanding oil painting" in a show in which most of the artists are professionals. For once we scooped the "Tear Bag," I think. Congratulations to its editor!
Merry Christmas to all!
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