1928
Bill Marx has accepted the invitation of the class executive committee to serve as head class agent. He has been an able sub-agent and is familiar with the responsibilities. Curly Prosser had asked to be relieved of this job after four years of dedicated service, but he has agreed to co-chair our 55th reunion with John Phillips. Curly and Allene spent a well deserved vacation in Switzerland in August. The Prossers and Herb and Mimi Sensenig attended the inauguration of new Dartmouth President David McLaughlin '54 on June 28.
We hope there will have been a good turnout at the annual mini-reunion at the Norwich Inn September 18-19, the weekend of the Princeton game. President George Davis will have presided at a meeting of the officers and executive committee Friday afternoon in Hanover.
Wes Smith has recovered and is home in Hollywood, Fla., with no ill effects from the removal of an aneurysm in the aorta.
Woody and Billie Woods celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary June 19 in Brandon, Vt.
Hammie and Gratia Hammesfahr's children put on a surprise party in New York for their 50th anniversary on June 13; the party included a play, a cocktail party, and then dinner at the Plaza with dancing all evening.
Joe Smith asked for an eight-week leave of absence from the Rotary Club of Eustis, Fla., where he is editor of the newsletter. Joe's urologist had suggested radiation treatment, and after much thought he and Ruth decided on the treatments in a seven-week program, five days a week; it involves a drive of 80 miles round trip from their home in Umatilla to Ocala. Joe says, "If all goes well I just might see y'all at the Princeton game."
Lane Dwinell recently sent us a clipping from the Santa Cruz, Calif., Sentinel, with a feature story and photo of Charley Proctor. It brought back many memories of Charley's career, as captain of the Dartmouth ski team in 1927 and 1928 and winning the U.S. intercollegiate championships in jumping, slalom, and downhill racing. He was then a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1928 at St. Moritz.
In 1931, he and Johnny Carleton '22 were the first skiers to have skill and courage enough to make the run down the nearly-vertical headwall of Tuckerman's Ravine. During 1930-31 he entered all ski jumping meets in the eastern U.S. and said he was the only competitor who could not speak Norwegian. Charley went on to coach the Harvard ski team, start a skibinding manufacturing firm in Boston, and write two books on skiing.
From 1938 until his retirement to Santa Cruz in 1971, Charley was an executive of the Yosemite Park and Curry Company and director of winter sports at the park. He was elected to the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1959, an honor also bestowed in 1967 on his father, Professor Charles A. Proctor '00, whom all of us remember.
We asked Dick Lee about his bridge (he used to be one of the few hundred Life Masters in the country), but he says he plays infrequently now, not often enough to remain competitive. However, he plays golf three times a week "with declining skill and much joy." He had just celebrated his 74th with Rosemary and their children and grandchildren, an annual event.
A call to Heinie Williams, a retired resident of Prescott, Ariz., brought out the information that he and Lois were just leaving on a summer trip to Alaska. Heinie, former manager of the Waldorf Astoria in New York, had just signed a release to allow his name to be used in a play you may recall an article about Heinie a few months ago in The New Yorker and in Art Kneerim's " '2B Campaigner."
Cal and Genie Billings hope to have been at the mini-reunion in September. Their older son William, who is 35, has been in the hospital since March 26 and is now at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Cal says he has very low resistance and immunity, so several infections have surfaced; a cure for the problem is practically unknown, but N.I.H. should be able to help if anyone can.
Jerry Sass reports that Jack and CornieHerpel were in Southern California for several weeks' vacation, during which they spent the night with Jerry and Rachel following a Southern California Dartmouth Club-sponsored "Picnic in the Hollywood Bowl." Jack's son, Jay '59, and his family (club members) were hosts. I just found out, from a questionnaire which Art Kneerim persuaded Jerry to fill out, that Jerry flew the first non-stop flight of the South Atlantic (west to east) as co-pilot on a C-54, ferrying the commanding general and his staff for Headquarters Air Transport Command, European Theater.
We are sorry to have to report since our June issue, the deaths of Carroll Shepard on April 11, Ken Robbie on August 2, Gordon Miller on August 7, and Jim Hardy on February 22, 1980.
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