1934
In a recent column it was noted that the Dartmouth 1934 population of Florida had increased in these 49 years since matriculation from one to fifty-one. Now let's look at California. In the fall of 1930, six of us came to Hanover from California - quite a few considering that it took not several hours but several days to make the trip. Those six were Stu Brown (Santa Monica), Dana Redington (Pasadena), Miles Beach Riley (Altadena), and : Dave Bradley, Jerry Fries, and Maury O'Connor (Los Angeles). All six, it is to be noted,: were from southern California; there was no one from the Bay Area, or, for that matter, from anywhere north of Ventura Boulevard.
Of those originals, only Bradley and O'Conto a present score of 41, therefore, didn't get much of a lift from the natives. Furthermore, unlike Florida, California hasn't had retirement as the main reason for its Dartmouth '34 population growth. Only half a handful of newcomers can be credited to retirement. GailRaphael and Ed Moore are the only ones who come quickly to mind. Most of the others have been there a long time as part of the work force. I know that for a fact about Bill Knibbs . . . and Bill Eldridge . . . and Bill Adams . . . and BriceBanks . . . and Fred Rinaldo . . . and John Poole . . . because I used to see them when I lived out there way back in the forties. What about the rest of the 41? More intensive research than my capabilities permit at the moment is needed to say who is retired and who is still mining his claim. I think Tom Cass is retired in Montecito, Mike Menchel in Rancho La Costa, and CarlVail in Rancho Santa Fe, but maybe only because those place names have a leisurely ring to them. Correspondence is cordially invited from them and from other Californians to help clear up anything that may have been muddied in the above telling.
New York's 1934 contingent had a fine holiday luncheon in December, bringing together 21 of us in perhaps the biggest get-together we've ever had outside of Hanover. It was reported fully and promptly in Bill Scherman's newsletter. Why, then, do we talk about it again some months later? Partly because these class notes are for a wider audience than the readership of the newsletter, and we're pleased to have our non-'34 readers know about the good things that happen to us. And partly to review again the change in the Manhattan luncheon pattern. A luncheon every month had been going on for years (I wonder whether any other class can say that) but had diminished, by dint of retirement and other attrition, to a mere handful of surviving stalwarts. The pattern of an occasional well-publicized gathering can be expected, it is felt, not only to increase the total raw numbers but also to produce classmates (like Karl Weber and Bill Craig in December) who haven't been seen in a long time.
Mac Collins wrote that, inspired by the review in these notes of the number of'34s in or near Sarasota, he has undertaken to organize a '34 luncheon there. (At the right time of year, such a gathering might outdo New York!) BillDaniells had phoned Mac to say that he lives on Casey Key, which can be reached by boat from the Collins home. Mac had had dinner and bridge with Art and Gerri Grimes at their new penthouse condominium in St. Petersburg. Art, too, had written me to report that he now lives in Florida full time rather than every other six months. He is still with Diners Club and in charge of the west coast of Florida. With characteristic west Floridian chauvinism, he pointed out that everyone between St. Pete and Sarasota is within an hour's drive. "Hope you can get down," he added, to which I replied, "Amen, Arthur, I hope so, too. It's unlikely but not impossible."
Flash: The marriage, on January 7, of BabeShea, now of Madison, Conn., and Anne Hollis Millar. Some of us have met the charming new Mrs. Shea, in the company of Babe, on various occasions during the past months.
A misinterpretation on my part of material from the Alumni Records Office led me to report Herm Chase's recent address change backward. Herm pointed out that it should have been from Rumford, R. I., to New Hampton, N.H., not the opposite. Herm retired from Brown University in June 1978, and is now the Robert P. Brown professor of biology emeritus. He is maintaining a small office-laboratory at the university, but his home is now in New Hampton.
The Job Lewis Smith Award for 1979 was presented by the American Academy of Pediatricians to Al Yankauer, professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
The Smith Award is named for a pioneer in the delivery of care to the underprivileged, a field in which Al has made an enormous contribution. His career in medicine, with specialization in pediatrics, has included service with the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. He has been editor of the American Journal of PublicHealth since 1975. He is author of 133 publications on public health topics and provider of an incredibly wide variety of services in community health.
Short takes. Joe Swensson was re-elected constable in Manchester, Conn. Help me figure the next one out. Wrote Bill Ramsey: "Now back in practice of law full time except for time spent as a member of the Nebraska state board of education. Otherwise in relaxed re- tirement." Gene Orsenigo: "Was planning full retirement in July 1979, but guess I got cold feet. Instead, am working in the Big Apple three days a week and living in my new condo, Heritage Hills, Somers, N.Y., nine months of the year, spending the other three in Vero Beach, Fla."
Under sunny Mediterranean skies last October, these three members of the class of'33 rode donkeys up the Santorini steps on Alumni College Abroad's tour of Greeceand the Aegean Sea. From left to right are Sam Gass, Bob Niebling, and Sam Black.
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