1954

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On Friday night, October 16, the class of 1954 claimed the attendance cup at the impressive Dartmouth Night dinner at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Over 600 loyal northeastern alumni were on hand to see and hear President Dave McLaughlin give his first official alumni address.

Our class hosted a large cocktail party both before and after the dinner. Classmates had come from all over the country to lend support to Dave at this important gathering. Class President Steve Mullins took the opportunity to present the '54 class etching to President McLaughlin as a gift to the College. This print, the first of a series of 54, will hang in the 1954 Room in the now-under-construction Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. For a more detailed story of how this class etching came into being, see story and picture adjacent to this column.

The following classmates were in attendance at the Dartmouth Night festivities in Boston: Pete Barker, Bob Berry, Dick Brace, Bill Glover, Jerry Goldstein, Dick Gorsey, Bill Grover, Herb Gilden, John Gillespie, John Heston, Tom Kong, Stearns Martin, Charlie Morrison, Dave McLaughlin, George McLaughlin, Steve Mullins, Herb Margolis, Jim Love, Dick Page, Seaver Peters, Jack Reilly, Tom Tyler, Jim Tofias, Dick Trowbridge, George Voss, and Shelly Woolf.

The following day, most of the above were seen tail-gating along the Charles before and after the Dartmouth-Harvard game. For many of us from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, it was the first visit back to Cambridge since our undergraduate years and the Harvard holidays when the whole school would make the trek down to Cambridge. As a matter of fact, on October 28, 1951, Dartmouth beat Harvard 26 to 20 and I'll bet most of the class of '54 was there. Remember the Eliot Lounge? (Any drink 39 cents, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) It's still on the corner of Commonwealth and Massachusetts avenues. Incidentally, the cost of a seat in Harvard Stadium in 1951 was $3.60. Starting ndxt year we will see much more of Harvard in Hanover, since the series will now be on a homeand-home basis. As a matter of fact, the Harvard game will be played during Homecoming next year, the weekend of October 15 and 16. Our class is planning a super weekend for Homecoming, so mark the date now. More details will follow in the June column. Special note: Since this weekend will be at the height of fall foliage, rooms in the North Country will be at a premium, so reserve well ahead if you are planning to make the journey to Hanover for this sure-to-be-special weekend.

Following the Big Green win over the hapless Harvard 11, a number of classmates returned to George and Betty McLaughlin's lovely home in Cambridge for a post-game cocktail party. During a tour of the house, George disclosed that they had recently literally "raised the roof." A contractor had removed the roof and added a terrific new second floor; George said 20 carpenters worked like the proverbial ants to put a new roof on in one day. Super house!

The following day put the icing on the weekend cake for the Gillespies, as we watched our daughter Laura row for Choate Rosemary Hall in the Head-of-the-Charles race. We also had the fun of cheering for several Big Green boats as well.

We spotted a large photograph of Rod Rockefeller and his lovely wife Sasha in the October 7 issue of the New York Times. The Rockefellers were attending the opening of the new art collection at Asia House. The Rockefeller collection of Asian art, consisting of more than 250 pieces and representing the major traditions of China, Japan, India, and virtually every other country in Asia, opened to the public early in October. The collection was given to the Asia Society by the Rockefeller family.