1933
1 have just received from the College a helpful little volume listing all alumni officers, together with their addresses and titles. From this, I learned that Robert S. Turner and William G. Raoul are active in their local Dartmouth clubs. Both are job development officers, helping younger graduates get started in business or helping undergraduates find jobs during the quarters they are not in Hanover. Bob is in St. Louis and Bill is in Chattanooga, where he has the added duty of being secretary of that club.
Bob wrote that he and his wife Genevieve, are in good health and busy. He enjoys bringing employer and employee together and frequently receives happy reports from both parties. The treasurer of that St. Louis Club is Gretchen S. Wetzel '77. He says she is an excellent treasurer, so presumably collects dues from her husband, also a Dartmouth graduate. Bob and Genevieve hope to attend the reunion at Quechee this fall.
Writing of clubs reminds me that the Tri-County Dartmouth Club here in New Jersey runs an all-day seminar every year, usually on the first Saturday in February. It is held in the Woodrow Wilson Hall on the Princeton campus. Two Dartmouth professors are "loaned" to us for the day to conduct it. There's a lunch at the Faculty Club between sessions and a farewell cocktail party at the close. Half the proceeds go to the club's scholarship aid program. About 140 have been attending the last few years, coming from near and far, even Philadelphia, making it the largest Dartmouth-sponsored seminar outside of Hanover. This could be a thought for other clubs located near a cooperating college.
George Drowne said that he, Hank McKee, Pierre Grace, and Pierre's brother, Ed Grace '38, recently got together for golf at the Dunes Country Club on Sanibel Island, Fla. George said that "the water holes and traps were troublesome, but it was fun." Guess who was high man! There's a golf course in Florida with a resident alligator in its water hole. The players propitiate him with marshmallows. Back to George the files and records he kept when he was your secretary have been a tremendous help to me.
Mel Katz has completed plans for the Ouechee reunion on the weekend of the New Hampshire game, September 26-28. When you receive Bob Fox's April newsletter, you will learn all the details and receive application and reservation forms. Actually, you may have gotten those before you read this such are publication dates. Mel and Ruth have been skiing on the North Country's man-made snow this winter and attended all of the home hockey games. They are now off on a six-week trip to Australia, New Zealand, and Samoa as guests of a company Mel has represented for 22 years. Athletes that they are, Ruth and Mel are going to golf, fish, and snorkel. Can't even remember when I last snorkeled!
Just had a bulletin from the College that Jud Pierson has been named to chair the Hanover region in the Campaign for Dartmouth. I think this is late news. You should see his cellar! Onethird for Campaign for Dartmouth; one-third for '33 bequests; one-third for the Red Cross.
I, or someone, goofed on the picture of Weldon Brown's retirement party in the January/February issue of the Magazine. Weldon is the tall guy, second from the left; Miller Wachs, his brother-in-law, is third from the left.
I am saddened to report the death of GusBabson. An obituary will appear in this or the next issue. The sympathy of the class goes to his wife Katharine and his six children.
Ben Burch '32 recently produced this vintage shot of himself and two classmates, taken in the spring of 1929 in front of the Psi U house. Flanking Burch, center, are Eddie Toothaker wearing the latest in knickers, and Johnnie Sheldon, sporting class numerals won in tennis. Class secretary Whip Walser reveals that Ben and Johnnie still play "a good game of tennis" and Eddie plays "excellent golf."
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