1934
As I write this column, Dartmouth has an undefeated football team. Those in '34 who attended the opening game with Princeton not only saw a heartening victory and a well-played game despite the continuous warm rain, but also had the pleasure of hoisting a toast afterward with dozens of classmates, wives, and friends at the Smoyer Lounge. Since Bill and GerryScherman interrupted their move from Jersey to the Cape in order to be there, the names will undoubtedly appear in the newsletter before these notes. Their son Tim '85 and an '84 MoeFrankel niece were behind the mixing table.
That was the finale of an enjoyable minireunion that began at sunset Friday with a fine buffet at the Norwich Inn, followed by the customary open house at the home of Treasurer Ed and Barbara Brown. It also included a Saturday morning pow-wow of classmates over which our prexy, Sam Carson, presided. He congratulated a smiling Bob Thompson and his team of class agents on the Green Derbywinning results in this year's Alumni Fund (over $l08,000 with 85 per cent donating) and discussed how to continue this momentum through to an explosive climax in 1984. It's not too early to look ahead to that June when we march in the commencement parade and show the new grads how good it feels to survive 50 challenging years. Sam pointed to Bill Wilson, who will chair that reunion, and all agreed how fortunate '34 is to have this local stalwart, and his wife Irja, willing to take on that responsibility.
Among those present who were pulling out grandchild pictures, none were more exuberant than Bob and Mary Engelman, who recently welcomed their tenth grandchild (Lily Jean), the first for lawyer daughter Mary and Byron Hathorn of Ely, Vt. In February they will pick up their skis and head for the Austrian Alps along with Tom and Jean Hicks Tom taking time off from his Chicago car business. We were delighted that Marian Hinsman made the trip over from Woodstock, Vt., for all functions and plans to stay close to '34 activities.
Mac and Mary Collins returned on the QEII after what they reported to Marty Dwyer was a fabulous tour of England, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, and France. They were accompanied by their son and daughter-in-law, who was celebrating her new Ph.D. Perhaps the biggest thrill was spending their 44th wedding anniversary in Interlaken at the very hotel where they first discovered each other. Since their move to Florida, the ex-railroad man has become quite active in local affairs - FISH (volunteer transportation for those in need), SCORE (retired executives helping new businesses), and the Siesta Key organization for orderly planning, which Mac now heads. While visiting their old New York-area haunts, the Collinses stayed with Dave and Virginia Callaway in Darien, where the Callaways have lived for the past 25 years. Dave still drives to Wall Street daily when he's not on his monthly week in Detroit he chairs the board of the investment firm. First of Michigan.
Speaking of Callaway reminds us of Vinnie Cerow, his pal back in Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall days. Vinnie and his wife Katch have sons Peter, 14, and Bobbie, 11, who were with them at the Princeton game. Does any classmate have a younger pair? The 40th reunion handbook reports no challengers, but of course we don't know what's been going on behind closed doors the past seven years.
I learned from a passing-through-Short Hills call to Marge Copp that she was about to leave with a group of 22 women for another golf holiday. After warming up on the courses of Morocco and Spain, the group now feels ready to tackle the home courses of the original golfers, in Scotland. Marge was going to be late for the royal wedding, which Dottie Morton and Ethelyn Hedges saw from a great vantage point thanks to Roald and Dottie's son Jim '73, who works in London for Bank of America. Ethelyn recently reported the appointment of son Dan '68 as U.S. Attorney for the 45-county Southern Judicial District of Texas. Some of you may recall how proudly Dave, who was not well at the time, reported to us at our 1977 fall reunion that he and Ethelyn had just been to Washington for Dan's pre-trial swearing-in by the U.S. Supreme Court. Dan has been a trial lawyer for the Houston firm headed by Jaworski, and he and his lawyer wife have been politically active for some time.
Unhappily, 1934 has suffered another sad loss. Bill Baird died, after brief illness, in Omaha. See the obituary section of this or a future issue for details.
By the time this reaches you, I hope you've stored your acorns for the winter ahead and, like the squirrels chasing each other from tree to tree outside my window, had fun doing it.
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