1923
Sorry I could not tell you in advance about our reunion plans for the weekend of the Cornell game. You will probably have received your first copy of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE with class news about the middle of October. I hope the list of 15 nearby motels helped you with accommodations. It was a busy week in Hanover.
From Ormond Beach, Fla., Mox Hubert writes: "Both Kay and I keep well, which is something. Living here is as fine as we could have anywhere, with walking to the beach and the fine climate. Still able to enjoy ocean bathing and some fairly decent golf. We feel lucky to have settled here and to be able to enjoy this fine living." Mox also says he and Kay hope to drive north to join us in Hanover for our 60th.
Sherm Clough says that he and Bert have lived in Sarasota for 12 years and are still enjoying the lifestyle there. His recent letter goes on to say: "We had our usual annual trip north last June. Marion and Dwight Keef met us at Logan Airport. We spent a few enjoyable days with them, then a week with Bert's brother at Hilltop in New London, N.H., and then finally a day in Hanover, where we had a good visit with Gladys Doten. Our principal reason for going north is to visit with Sherm Jr. and his family. He met us in New York and drove us to his home in Chappaqua. Sherm Jr., D'sl and Tuck School '52, is a senior executive with General Electric and has his office in Fairfield, Conn. His oldest son, Sherman III, has been a sports announcer at KOA in Denver, Colo, for the past two years. Second son Bradley is a senior at St. Lawrence University, and daughter Carolyn is a freshman at Hood College. Clarence andPriscilla Goss's granddaughter, a sophomore at Hood, has been very helpful to Susan. As we usually do while in Chappaqua, we had a delightful day with the Gosses in Hamden, Conn. Our older son Galen '58 has his doctorate and is head of the English Department at Evansville, Ind., University. His wife also teaches there and at Indiana State University. The Galen Cloughs have three daughters, the oldest of whom will enter college next fall."
Many thanks to both Mox and Sherm for bringing us up-to-date on themselves and their families. I earnestly hope more of you will do the same in the months ahead.
An excellent summary report came from Richard Blum '53 of the 142nd meeting last June of the Alumni Council. The most important subject discussed was the reorganization of the council itself. The present council consists of 61 members; 43 are regional representatives, nine are from the various alumni associations, four are from the faculty, two are undergraduates, and three are ex officio. By classes, the membership ranges from 1932 to 1982. Alumni members range from 1932 to 1977. The responsibilities of the council are quite well defined by the designations of the present twelve standing committees - executive, Alumni Awards, alumni continuing education, Alumni Fund, athletics, bequest and estate planning, class organization and student life, enrollment and admissions, honorary degrees, nominating, public relations, and regional organization.
Welcome letters have also come this month from Olive Caswell, whose granddaughter is studying law at Suffolk University. Another just graduated from the University of New Hampshire, a third is starting her freshman year there, and a grandson is in his sophomore year.
Many of us are now at the point where the third generation is in or about to enter college. The Dodges are no exception, with one granddaughter a freshman at Plymouth State College, another at Yale, and a third on the S.S. Universe with 500 other undergraduates for a "semester at sea" which began in September at Seattle and ends in mid-December at Port Everglades, Fla.
And from Kit Carson's daughter Patricia in Littleton, Colo., came a description of her job gathering up and sorting out the accumulation of her father and mother's lives together when her mother moved from her large home to a retirement complex. Patricia particularly cherishes several Dartmouth mementoes of her father's that she found. For the first time I learned of the death of her brother Bruce '5l in a car accident in 1955.
Again, I am sad to report the loss of more of our classmates. Ted Hellwig and John Wylie died in June and Leonard Truesdell in September! You may have noticed that a classmate's death is sometimes reported several months or even years after the fact. This may occasionally be due to the long interval between copy deadlines and publication of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE or, possibly as in the case of the September issue, to a larger accumulation of obituaries than usual. More usually however it is caused by long delays in notifying either the College, Babe Miner, or myself. On the same subject, it is also most helpful to send us a local news clipping if one is available. This makes it possible to update and supplement the data available in the class scrapbook, the "Golden Review," and various College records.
The College has a new dish antenna, dedicated in ceremonies in September, which willenable Dartmouth to receive television programming from the 13 satellites orbiting NorthAmerica. Made possible by a gift from the William L. Bryant Foundation, the antenna willgreatly increase the educational, public and community service, and medical programmingavailable on campus. Present at the dedication were Dartmouth President David McLaughlin '54 (rear), principal speaker at the event, and William J. Bryant '25 (front), aresident of South Woodstock, Vt., and president of the Bryant Foundation.
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