1935

October, month of the football weekends, continued after our fall reunion (which was covered last month) with more fine times for the classmates of '35.

Dartmouth Night in Boston was followed by noontime tail-gating and the very satisfying victory over Harvard. On hand were at least 15 classmates, by my count, and very likely more not seen.

Hardly enough time was left to get back to Hanover for Dartmouth Night there, with a preparade dinner at the Norwich Inn. (Have to confess some of us were rained out of the bonfire.) The game, and a sudden change to beautiful weather, brought out 20 or so of us for pre-game lunch in Leverone and a surprising football show. Following the game, Nick and GerrieJacobson entertained all classmates and guests for cocktails and buffet at their spectacular old farm home high on a hill outside of Norwich.

Then it was on to New Haven for pre-game festivities. Some 30 people were on hand at the Bankarts' for cocktails and the Ferrieses' for dinner. You could not miss this work of our class poet over the mantle in his Heritage Village home:

We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing On all of us here and the game we're addressing; We ask it particularly for the Big Green For Yukica, our coach, and his football machine. No blessing at all do we seek for old Yale; May their rushes go nowhere, their passes all fail. May we give it our best, if we lose, not for trying, If we win, Wah-Hoo-Wah, Men of Dartmouth Undying.

The invocation was effective almost through the first half! The fun-filled post-game dinner arranged by Bob Naramore helped make the trips home happier than they otherwise would have been.

A brief summary of a memorable October! Brief for two reasons one, space limitation, and two, I'm sure our intrepid "Tear Bag" editors have long since regaled you with names and other colorful details.

Classmates revisit Hanover for a wide variety of reasons. Bud Fraser was here this fall bringing his daughter to join the class of 1985. We hope Bob Stone will appear one of these days to visit his daughter, Missie Ann, married last summer to Franklin Walker Jr. and now living in Hanover. But have you ever heard of coming to Hanover to play the fife? Art Somers, erstwhile trombonist in undergraduate days, showed up with the Minute Man Fife and Drum Corps for the big New Hampshire-Vermont Shriner's high school all-star football game and parade; 25,000 people clapped and, we suppose, whistled back!

A recent issue of the Boston Globe carried a fine feature article about Ruth Ley. She was then about to appear at a luncheon program to benefit the Salvation Army, of which Doug, incidentally, is a trustee. The story told of her early Boston television series and filmed celebrity interviews which some of us remember from a little way-back-when. A nice tribute to a charming and talented lady!

Brad York is still active at the FamilyWeekly magazine division of C.B.S. He and Harriet have a new granddaughter, born to son Donald, now studying for a master's degree in religious psychological counseling.

Another new granddaughter arrived to join the two grandsons of Herb and Rose Ostrow.

Sorry to lose Wii and Fran Ogg from the New Hampshire '35 delegation. They have bought a home in Hendersonville, N.C., a day's drive from their place in Juno Beach, Fla. You'll be missed, Wil, except possibly by those who eyed the golf prizes you used to gather in!

Without his explicit permission, I want to share with you this bit of vintage Dan Cotton: "For me, the high point of the year has been the successful implantation of a tombstone. For years I've wanted a satisfactory tombstone, figuring I could design one better than most. So for Christmas and birthdays for this past year and a few coming up, Jeannie 'gave' me one of my very own. I made the template and stencil for letters, etc., but not the stone work got a stone cutter for that two tons of granite, low to the ground, designed, among other things, to with stand the onslaught of elements, elephants, and kiddies bent on destruction."

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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