1921

The last class column until next fall! Just back from the annual class officers meeting a most profitable 36 hours of meetings, conversations, discussions, new ideas, and getting acquainted with one of the most dedicated organizations of great people we have ever known.

Reunions: The annual fall gathering of '21ers will be held on the weekend of the Harvard game, Friday and Saturday October 17 and 18. You'll be getting details from Dave Plume and in Bob Burroughs' "Smoker." Most important, though, make a resolution, right now, to come. The same goes, but with even more emphasis, if possible, for the great 60th, set for next June 12-14, 1981. If you haven't yet acquired a 1981 calendar, trot right down to the store and get one and then mark those dates in heavy green ink.

Those present at the class officers meeting in- cluded Harry Chamberlaine, Nelson and Terry Smith, Don and Alice Sawyer, Bob and Martha Burroughs, and your secretary, Charles Gilson, with his girl bride of almost 60 years of marital super-bliss Dorothy Alice Jenks Gilson. Lucy Briggs also added her charm to the gathering. Hopefully, you will be hearing more of, and hopefully from, her in connection with plans for the 60th reunion.

A fine letter from Jerry Cutler added the name of his grandson Carl Cutler to the rapidly-growing "Dartmouth 1921 descendants club" at Denison University. Carl is a senior and will be graduating in the near future.

A delightful letter came in from Chuck Moreau. He has spent a very busy life in the newspaper publishing business. Now that he is retired, in reply to the standard question put to all of us "What do you do with your time now that you are retired?" Chuck noted that he has a great capacity for just doing nothing. He went on to say that he works in his yard, goes to the gym three times a week to jog, and has just finished writing a sociological study of his old hometown of Freehold, N.J. which work is now in the hands of a publisher. On one of his recent visits to the gym, a young fellow asked Chuck how old he was. When Chuck replied that he is 81, the young man said, "No kidding! I'm going home and tell my grand- mother to take up jogging." As we have suggested before, there must be a lot of that old granite of New Hampshire in some of us oc- togenarians.

Dick Hart writes that since his retirement ten years ago, he has noticed that everything keeps going up "everything, that is, except my in- come. Even my golf scores keep escalating. When, as, and if they ever reach 100 I may decide to take up lawn bowling." Anyway, Dick has obviously not lost his sense of humor, and in writing from his Florida home he com- mented that most of the Yankees have gone home, so that makes it official spring is here. Also, somewhat incidentally, Dick's son Charles is an alumnus of Denison of the class of 1960.

You all probably remember "Red" Kerlin. He died in 1958, and the other day we had a fine letter from his widow, Rowene. Her letter is on some Hilton Hotel of Singapore stationery, she having recently returned from her seventh trip around the world. She suggested that "Red" would have been horrified at "the influx of females into his beloved school." Then she wrote that she has two more trips in the offing, then she will hang up her passport and settle down with her cats and needlepoint, in case her golf handicap rises too high for her pride. It is always good to hear from Dartmouth '2l wives, and this is one of our first comments direct from the ladies bless 'em.

Tracy Higgins reports that a while back he had a rather bad time with what he now describes as a "mild cardiac arrest." So he was hustled off to the hospital for the installation of a temporary pacemaker. He says that he has been fine since getting back home, even though he doesn't feel very peppy.

That's it for now. We'll get this off to the MAGAZINE in a bit of a hurry, hoping it will make the June issue. Then we, Dorothy and I, will start packing a couple of bags for the fulfillment of a life-time yearning, to cruise the North Cape of Norway.

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