1937
Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Again, preparations are being made for the every-five-year Hanover gathering of the only class of 1937 Dartmouth will ever have! The early warning flag is waving to set aside June 14-17, 1982, when we join with 1936 and 1938 for the first time since graduation. This is pretty special, as our coming 50th will be all alone in 1987. This 45th will be like old times and not repeatable. Reunion chair Lem Bowen has been assembling people and jobs for over a year. You will be hearing lots more as we go.
Our usual fall reunion is scheduled for October 23-24, with Hojo's as headquarters. The on-campus team of Stearns and Jud Smith has earmarked the X-club, Peter Christian's, etc., while the College is set to provide a football game with Bob Blackman's Cornell people. If this magazine can perform the wizardry of getting this info to you in time and you don't plan to stay home, please try to join up with us before or after the game. Every classmate is a must at any reunion!
One more notice: This year the Harvard game returns to Cambridge on October 17. Again, the Bankart house at 10 Colby Road in Wellesley will be open to whoever can make it after the game. Attendance has suffered in recent years due to retirements and moving, but we plan for you, so won't you please plan for us?
Gene Jones proudly reported that the class exceeded the Alumni Fund goal of $95,000 by pulling in over $lOO,OOO. He is pleased and grateful for the support received from his nine regional assistants plus their sub-agents. From now on, he arid Fran Fenn will be working together to try to equal or surpass the $385,000 raised for our 40th reunion gift. Fran says we already have $124,000 in the till credited from the Campaign for Dartmouth and a nucleus fund of $56,000 set up as a challenge response, which worked well last time.
In July the College invited about 20 m.ore couples from the class to attend the on-going "Horizons Program," where one can witness all facets in person of everything Dartmouth has to offer. If you get an invite, grab it! We were in town visiting Boz and Martha and attended the final luncheon at Alumni Hall, where we listened to the enthusiastic appreciation expressed by our classmates. The now-retired Erdmans had flown up for it. Carl is very busy serving on a hospital board, participating in fundraising activities, and doing consultant work at the bank. Lee and Russ Stearns were heading for Florida to attend her parents' 70th wedding anniversary. They are 91 and 90, bless 'em. Russ was still acting dean through the summer session. Irene and Stan Lappin had to cancel out due to their son's undergoing open-heart surgery. Came through fine, we hear. We sat with Betty and Bud Knorr, who implied that he was letting up on his doctor business and that they had built a cabin somewhere in Maine, with which he was very much in love.
As related in the "Mint Bag," the Bosworths went on the Alumni College Abroad trip in June on the 55 Regina Maris, which they found very enjoyable for many reasons including having a home base instead of living out of suitcases as the boat made stops in the Scandinavian Countries and Russia. A joke popular there is that "America has all the automobiles but Russia has all the parking places."
Ben Doran received a note from Art Sloggett thanking them for being the first Dartmouth friends to offer congratulations to him and Lydia on their marriage May 1. He said it was a quiet wedding at home with a few friends. Because May is so lovely in Hawaii they postponed the honeymoon trip with an eye to getting to New York and New England for fall reunion if all works out well.
We survived the summer quite well but not entirely so. We regret to say we lost two members, Bert Geller and Andrew Eken. We also had word that Fran Evans's wife Florence died last spring. She had been in failing health for over a year. The class extends deepest sympathy to the families.
For the record, the class of 1937 would like to extend our thanks and best wishes to expresident John Kemeny for a job well done and to welcome our new president Dave McLaughlin '54, to whom we pledge our full support.
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