1933
Java good summer? If you've read it elsewhere, it still bears repeating '33 broke the record for Alumni Fund giving by a class 48 years out of college, with a total of $104,000. Eighty three per cent of our alumni contributed. Mannie Sprague thanks all of you, especially those assistant class agents who were so helpful in making this a record year.
There were other reasons why this was a good summer: Chilant Sprague is able to play tennis again after her serious operation; while JackManchester was not yet playing golf, he has been spotted swinging a club on his front lawn; and I have heard that Sid Stoneman has recovered nicely from the repair or removal (or whatever surgeons do) of an aneurysm of the aorta.
Some gleanings from the above-mentioned faithful ACAs, who picked up news in the course of their work: Bill Dorman lives in Lansdowne, Pa. He transferred from Dartmouth to Haverford College, but still remembers his first love and will probably come back for our 50th. Vin Young is just now retiring from the practice of surgery in Knoxville, Tenn. If he can get over his dislike of travel, he may join us in 1983. Bob Grow left our ranks after sophomore year to graduate from the University of Michigan. He gave us the sad news of the recent death of his wife Eleanor. Jack Paull is thrice retired from 27 years in the Air Force, then from K-Mart, and lately from J. L. Hudson in Detroit. He is definitely heading for reunion.
Hank McKee writes that regular '33 minireunions are held in Sanibel, Fla., all winter. This year the steadies were Joe Searing, George Drowne, Tom Mann, and, of course, Hank. At times they were joined by Pete Grace and Wo.od Foster. During September, Hank and Ginny will be in Scotland for golf, salmon poaching, or just grousing around.
Wes and Jan Beattie moved north from Hanover to Wolfboro for the summer. This September, they are joining the Dartmouth Alumni College Abroad cruise to ports in the western European countries. I have been intrigued by the literature on those cruises apd hope to be aboard sometime when they hit more ports that my companion and I already haven't. Do you read me?
More '33ers receive Foxy's newsletter than get to read these pearls of mine, but it bears repeating that Jus Stanley received two (2) honorary doctorates this summer one from Oklahoma City University, the other from Indiana University. To relax, he gave a lecture at the University of Salzburg, Austria, then, with Leigh, barged on the Marne, Epernay to Paris.
Bill and Llda Lang also went to sea this summer, touring the Caribbean in a 47-foot motor-sailer, with daughter and family. I hope the rest of the family was small; the son-in-law is about six-foot-six.
I have had some good notes from our "sistersin-law": Margery King (Bill L.) has moved from one address to another in East Lansing, Mich., and says "the notes and various periodicals that come have given me a sense of belonging, and I like that." Jean Krolik (Day) enjoys reading the '33 class notes and those of '70 (Day Ill's class). Ruth Michaelson (Jesse) writes, "Our daughter Wendy is now senior resident in internal medicine at the Veterans Hospital in Boston. Our son Clifford graduated from NYU School of Medicine in June and is now an intern at the Northport, L.1., Veterans Hospital. I am well and keep busy."
Bob Fox arranged a '33 outing at the Hyannis, Mass., Yacht Club on August 9. In addition to the Foxes, there were Sid and Miriam Stoneman, the Spragues, Karl and Mary Scheibe, Norm and Margaret Erlandson, Dele Colla (Stan), Wally and Evelyn Watson, and Bob Mitchell. Ev and Alice Shineman were expected but Ev showed up only briefly to report that Alice had been taken to a hospital the day before, after "an incident," but was already showing improvement.
John Monaghan says the shift from peanut butter to jelly beans has sparked the Washington social scene tremendously. He enclosed clippings to prove it. In one, at the Istanbul stop of the "Oriental Express" bash, the Honorables Pete Hart and Hank Smith are shown in black ties and burnooses (burneese?). In another, Jane Hart, beautifully gowned, Mideastern style, tests the buffet dinner.
Jim Doherty, roommate of Bob Goodell, whose obituary appears in this issue, writes, "He was a most intelligent, kind, and gentle person, and, while married very late in life, a very devoted father to his son John." Bless you, every one.
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