1944
Our 35th reunion will be part history, part Guinness Book of World Records, by the time most of you read this. Details, some firm, some fuzzy, will appear in the September issue of the Magazine.
Every spring crocus time, robins, frisbies Dartmouth's class officers from all over the country converge on Hanover for talking, exchanging, and socializing, and that means a lot of the same names and numbers from year to year. Familiar shapes and faces this past May 1-3 were President Ezz Hale, Newsletter Editor Merle Hagen, and your friendly secretary. Filling in for Reunion Chairman Tom Miner, who had urgent hula and palm tree business in Hawaii, was Russ Burdge, our reunion music man.
Then, that august group's presence (in May) brought together a melange of Hanover '44s and wives (Dave and Patti Eckels, Clint and Libby Gardner, Harry and Virginia Grieger, Bob and Ann McLaughry. Rod and June Morgan, and your friendly secretary), plus 10 of the 16 matriculated sons and daughters of '44: Curt Richardson, Judy Recke, George Springsteen, and Peter Storfer from the class of 1980; Jim Cohn, Peter Little, and Elizabeth Wang from the class of 1981; Hilda Wang from the class of 1982; and Cathy Barr and Julie Patterson from the class of 1983.
Class Treasurer Bill Craig and Bequest Chairman John Berry couldn't make it because of win-place-and-show duty in Louisville, Kent., but they were in Hanover the week before attending a special trustee dinner honor- ing John Kemeny's ten years as president. Also recognized at that dinner was the Berry family, generous donors to Dartmouth over the years, and the most recent gift of $1 million by be- quest from John's father, Loren M. Berry, who died February 10 at the age of 91. He founded the Yellow Pages in 1910.
Incidentally, thanks to the herculean efforts of Bill Hale, the class of 1944 received another honorable mention in the Class of the Year competition.
In April, Bud and Nancy Pegler migrated north from their dunes in Stuart, Fla., to their old nesting spot in Darien, Conn. And for good reason: the marriage of daughter Christina to Russ H. Hoefer.
Word is in from Chicago that Charlie Fox, president of the executive search firm of Billington, Fox and Ellis Inc., was bumped up to vice chairman by one Gerald J. Bump.
Lawyer Steve Tate's wife Joey wrote: "Oldest daughter Buffy graduates from Connecticut College this year and is in a very competitive painting program for the summer; daughter Bosi is a sophomore at Bowdoin and will be in Munich next year for economics and German; Mike is a junior and a computer whiz at Deerfield; and young Stevie, age ten, is a super hockey player despite partial blindness in one eye."
Our smudged bi-focals caught the name of Dan and Arline Donovan's daughter Mary Ellen '76 in a recent William Safire column. Safire had been taken to task for the use of the words "fathering," "mothering," and "parenting," and he quoted Mary Ellen writing in from Plainfield, N.H.: "I'm writing to request a bit of advisering about a problem I've been having with parenting. There's been all this talkering and seminaring about parenting of late and none about aunting, uncling or siblinging. Do you think my resentment toward parenting could stem from something that happened while I was childing?"
Finally for this round, a couple of Dan Beards of our acquaintance, Fred Cohn of Buf- falo and Fritz Hier of Cornish Flat, showed that they could still stay with the pack by stay- ing with the Ledyard Canoe Club pack on its annual May canoe trip to the sea from Hanover to Old Saybrook, Conn., on the Sound.
Just to confuse the cast of characters, Fred came in from Buffalo to paddle with his son Jim 'Bl, who made the same trip with Fritz two years ago. And Fritz had also made the trip three years ago with his son Fred. Tennis, anyone?
Anyway, it's a splendid voyage of 219 miles, peopled mainly by Dartmouth undergraduates, but with a small share of older crocks who join in the eight to 12 hours a day on the river, with quaint overnight stops in state parks, a couple of prep schools, a marina, and an old Beefalo farm.
That's it. Blessings.
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