1932

Our summer vacation last July and August consisted of a week's study at Santa Clara University, a bus and train trip to San Francisco, Portland, and Glacier National Park, and a long stay in Missoula, Mont., where two of our three children live. While attending the Elderhostel Continuing Education program at Santa Clara University in California, we had a chance to talk to Rev. Charles McCoy, who is living there. Charlie is now fully retired as an educator and recently wrote a book, The Structure of PoliticalThought. We understand that Greenwood Press of Connecticut will be publishing this shortly. Because of health reasons he does not now plan to attend our 50th, but we hope that he will be able to change his mind and be with us.

In San Francisco, Addie and I enjoyed a good Chinese dinner with Jim and Peg North. The Norths live in a beautiful, exotic townhouse in downtown San Francisco overlooking the bay. Their three-story house is furnished with exquisite Oriental furniture and furnishings. They even have an outdoor swimming pool and a large fruit-laden lemon tree growing on the patio on the top of the house! The next day we took a boat trip on the bay, and we could spot the Norths house high up on the cable car route on Taylor Street - a perfect location. Jim and Peg are very active with their various club activities and definitely plan to be at our 50th reunion next summer.

We missed seeing Phyllis and Carl Ward while in San Francisco, as they were on a threeweek tour, with their motor home, of the Tetons, Yellowstone and Glacier Parks, and Banff and Lake Louise in Canada. A recent card from them states that they had excellent weather and that they plan "lots of skiing next winter." Carl has a novel approach to his winter skiing trips. He writes, "Phyllis and I go up to our mountain home and out on the ski slopes on Sunday or Monday; we ski three or four days and then return to our home here in Pleasanton to pay bills, do the laundry, and buy more food." No doubt Carl has found out that by skiing during the week and staying home on weekends he gets (Jeaner snow and fewer people on the slopes. And no doubt again that the Ward motor home will be headed east next year for our 50th!

We talked a bit with John Collins when passing through Portland, Ore. John lives alone in an apartment which has a nice view of Mount St. Helens. He plans to make a long trip to countries in Eastern Europe in the near future and hopes to be able to be at our 50th also.

Our president, John Zimmerman, passed along word that Ben White had recently written him a "long and delightful and newsy letter." Ben is now fully recovered from a serious automobile accident and plans to move to Eastman in Grantham, N.H., soon. His new address will be P.O. Box 336, Grantham, N.H. 03753We look forward to having seen him at our mini-reunion in October.

Russ Harper writes in from Clearwater, Fla., that he has recently discovered he is famous, since he and Carl McGowan were the first tenants of 410 Gile Hall - the same room that President McLaughlin occupied as a student. Says Russ, "Fame comes later to some of us!" Congratulations are in order to HowdiePierpont for being selected to serve on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, representing the class treasurers. He will be attached to the bequest and estate planning and public relations committees. Howdie is the only '32er at the present time serving with this prestigious group.

Chuck Odegaard writes that he will have been unable to attend our mini-reunion in October because he was to be on a 26-day trip to China. As he describes it, "We will be going down the Yangtze River on a boat which accommodates 36 passengers. There are, of course, many side trips along the river, with a great many things to see in that area." Chuck is going to get a surprise when he runs into Irv andRuth Kramer, who, we predict, will be on the same boat, as was advised in last month's column. It is too late now for your secretary to advise them of this meeting, since as of this writing they have already left the States. Both Chuck and the Kramers will meet again in Hanover at our 50th reunion next June 11, 12, and 13 and can tell us all about the Yangtze River trip.

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