1935
As these notes are being written, our fall reunion has just come and gone. In spite of bad weather and losing football, what a great time we all had!
Starting with Friday afternoon, you knew this weekend was to be very special. The annual "Class of 1935 Lecture," presented free to the Hanover public, was given by famous commentator, Jane Bryant Quinn. An overflow crowd in Cook Auditorium was treated to a talk on
"Reaganomics" given with an incisive wit that commanded our attention for almost an hour and a half. We are all much indebted to Jane's parents, Len and Ada Bryant, and of course to Jane and David for coming to us.
Friday night came the cocktail party and dinner at the Dartmouth Outing Club, where the hundred or so present could visit and get reacquainted. Visitors from afar included Dave and Eleanor Smith and Lou and Harriet Bookheim from California, Bill and Ginny Walrath from Arizona, and Earl Arthurs from North Carolina.
The class meeting, at which most were present, was held Saturday morning and featured reports from officers and committee chairs too numerous to detail here. Highlights included continued successes in the Alumni Fund, the bequest program (life income trusts now total $654,000), and the memorial fund to honor deceased classmates through support' of the Hopkins Center. With the plans for the soon-to- be-built Hood Museum developing, it was voted as the sense of the meeting that we should support both the museum and the center as time passes. Adopted classmate Peter Smith, retiring director of the Hopkins Center, introduced his successor, Shelton Stanfill. We look forward to continuing contact with him and with Peter when, after a sabbatical, he returns to Hanover in another capacity. A moment of silence was observed in memory of the 12 classmates who have passed away since our meeting a year ago. The class also voted to elect Eric Hawke as an adopted member of the class. A friend and colleague for many years of Ted Steele, with whom he lived in Mendon, Vt., Eric has attended many class functions with Ted and has become widely known and well liked by all. Welcome to an old friend as a new classmate!
Don Radasch gave us a quick look ahead to the 50th reunion, which he will chair, while Bob Hage gave the shorter-term outlook to this time next year. Plan on joining us all on October 1, 1982.
The reunion wound up as usual with a festive dinner in Alumni Hall and a resolve to "see you next year."
On to other notes, this summer Polly and I had a fine visit here with Charlie French, a fraternity brother we had not seen in years. Up from his home on Cape Cod, Charlie had brought his youngest son John for interviews at the medical school. Charlie is "partly retired," doing some consulting when at his other home in Wilmington, Del. And now how's this for a record. He and Grace have four children, eleven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren - and the numbers are still multiplying.
Art Flinner reports on doing some interesting volunteer work for the Maryland Historical Society, a fine museum and library founded in 1844. As chair of its speakers bureau, Art arranges state-wide lectures on Maryland history. Also, he does some trouble-shooting for banks and industry on accounting/computer foul-ups. Son Craig graduated from Hamilton College and is heading for law school.
Also retired and heavily involved in community service as reported earlier is Neil Roberts in Denver. Chairing the campaign of the Children's Hospital drive doesn't take all of his time, however. Back from three weeks in South Africa and Kenya, he will produce his 15th travelog slide show with voice and music. If we could ever get Neil back to Hanover maybe we could arrange a showing!
Jack Au Werter writes from Cleveland that he's still active in business, having sold his manufacturing plant but still selling materials to industry. Eleanor continues teaching at her old prep school. They have five grown children and seven grandchildren.
This year has been another one of travel for Pug and Burta Atherton. After taking the Dartmouth Alumni cruise in the Caribbean in February, it was back to Florida and New York, then on to South Africa, the islands of the Indian Ocean, and their ranch in Kenya. In mid-July they were off to England and a cruise to the Orkneys, Shetlands, Norway, Spitzbergen, Greenland, and Iceland, then back to Edinburgh, Now they're on a four-week cruise through the Spice Islands, West Irian, and Bali. Pug says, "That should take care of 1981," and then he adds, "Engage in too many community affairs and keep too busy!"
George and Maxine Goodman have a new Florida address in Boynton Beach. They had a visit from George's roommate, CharlieLebeaux, and his wife Lil, and they expect to see them again this winter. George also is regularly in touch with Joe Sholkin.
Several items of interest to us all are included in a note from Charlie Nayor in Boston. He has moved his law offices from Harbor Towers to Longfellow Place and "all '35ers are invited to drop in and see my view of the city from our 36th-floor suite." Medical malpractice and matrimonial trials make his law practice busier than ever. "Retirement seems a long way off so long as I can continue to do what I truly enjoy." Phyllis was invited back by the Boston Ballet to perform in Swan Lake in both Providence and Boston, while daughter Nancy, who has just finished her junior year at Wellesley College, had leading roles in college theater performances at both Wellesley and M.I.T.
Keep those pencils sharp, and have a happy Thanksgiving!
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