1939

John Dakin Horn died on July 20 after a short illness, which starts off this season of class notes on a negative theme. Dake had spent much of'his working life moving up the ladder in an executive capacity at New York's famed Lord and Taylor's store. Previous to this connection he had had a fascinating war experience. We direct you to the obituary section of this or a future issue for more details.

We feel secure in the statement that our gala mini-reunion will have been recent history by the time this column is read. Barring a complete rundown by Bob Davidson's "Thirty-Nine Out," we'll provide a fill-in on November's pages, which will include the presentation of the first annual Classmate-of-the-Year Award.

High on our agenda for this month is the splendid Alumni Fund effort completed last July by Jim Corner and his willing workers, who set a new College record for non-reunion classes 42 years out, a whopping $98,771. Granted it only yielded a sixth place in our Green Derby, and a 67 per cent participation index, putting us in fifth place in this category, yet the end result was magnificent.

Corner took 12 days off in May to visit the Northwest with his wife Doris, and in their travels they spent some time with Kenny Mac Donald in Seattle and with Jack and Jacie Stewart at their new address, 12140 SW Parkway, Portland, Ore. 97225. Jack retired from medical work with the Veterans Administration last fall. Jim says they also have a fine beach home on the Oregon coast, and since their three children and families are nearby, it makes for a happy existence.

This past June our prexy, Bert MacMannis, was honored by the College through his appointment to chair the Alumni Council's awards committee, a group which Bert has served for a good many years.

From our steady correspondent in the far west, Moreau Brown, we learned of Harriman Jones' retirement from the faculty of St. Lawrence University a place where Brownie himself served years ago as director of admissions, and, incidentally, where Bob Howe once chaired the parents committee. Harriman was a professor of modern languages and had joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1957 after earning his master's and Ph.D. from Harvard. As reported previously in this column, in 1978 he was honored by the French Embassy by being named chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Academiques. In the meantime, Moreau Brown has committed much of his time to developing the class matching gifts campaign, which has shown surprising progress these past few years.

On the summer's sport circuit we learn that Lou Oldershaw came in second in a golf tournament held in western Massachusetts, under the auspices of the Old Colony Banks. Lou played in a foursome with Bill Brown, the president of the parent First National Bank of Boston, along with Bob Cousy of basketball fame. Making headlines on Dartmouth's lacrosse team this spring was Hilleary Hoskinson 'B3 the son, of course, of our own Boots Hoskinson, a mean mid-fielder in his prime in 1939.

Charlie Neer is always in print. We were sent a clipping from the New York Times which indicated that Smiling Charlie diagnosed Richard Burton's painful shoulder pain while this luminary was trodding the boards (and trying to wield a sword) in a reincarnation of Camelot.

This summer your scribe and spouse spent a pleasant three weeks in York Harbor, Maine, and were told that we just missed Bill Webster, who put in to the sheltered harbor in a sailing vessel. But just a week later, when we were in attendance, Dick and Bunny Brooks pulled into port in, of all things, Web's Grand Banks power craft, which Brooksy had chartered for the trip to the Maine coast. Fresh from having rented Web's summer home on Long Island Sound off Old Saybrook, came Cornie andJanet Miller, who met the Brookses at the marina, took the time to raise a few with the Jacksons, and then departed as crew for the return trip to Old Saybrook. The water in the immediate area had a very green tinge.

Just off the press, a listing of the moves of some lovely '39 ladies: Ginny Sanborn is now at 25 Oakwood Drive, Peacedale, R.I. 02883; Kathleen Selkirk can be reached at 275 Girdle Road, East Aurora, N.Y. 14052; Nancy Brown can be found at P.O. Box 334, Manchester, Mass. 01944; and Bea Haartz is at 32 Hillside Road, Lincoln, Mass. 01773.

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