1923

Once again Charlie Zimmerman kicks off the 1981 Alumni Fund with a letter that makes us forget for a time the passing years and the inevitable aches and pains that go with them. All the detail of how well we have done and hope to do is there. What I particularly liked about it was the comment, "We feel best when we have done something nice for someone else," which I guess is what it really is all about.

Cap Palmer has been honored by the American Archives of the Factual Film by establishment of "The Cap Palmer Collection" of his many films and publications.

Ray Atwood '22 writes that he reads, as do many of us, the class notes of the classes immediately after and before his own. He encloses an excellent picture of Jock Osborne and ChuckCalder taken in the rear of the DKE house in 1922. I am sending it to them. Ray also enclosed a copy of the Dartmouth Winter Sports Schedule for 1980-81, which I judge he views, as do I, with mixed feelings. Here is a summary of the number of meets scheduled, including intercollegiate championships.

Men Women Basketball 21 19 Gymnastics 10 10 Ice hockey 24 18 Swimming 12 12 Squash 11 10 Indoor Track 11 6 JV Basketball 13 ― JV Hockey 16 ― Combined Men's and Women's Skiing 14

The schedule of meets lists separate coaches for each of the fourteen teams.

My apologies to all three generations of the Babe Miner family. In a recent issue I alleged that Babe's and Florence's daughter Virginia had become a bride. It was their granddaughter, Lisa Nichols, who was married to Edward I. MacDermott. Sorry about the goof.

Once again the "In Memoriam" booklet has been distributed with the grateful thanks of the Alumni Fund Committee on behalf of the College. All 405 members of our class who have passed away have been remembered and are listed in the booklet. Memorial gifts from 45 widows are included.

Among the letters from class widows this monthis one to Clarence Goss from Alice Gordon thanking him for a gift in Cy's memory. Alice says she does not go north to her own Mt. Holyoke reunions any more, but she does have a lot of loyal Dartmouth friends nearby. Clarence says he and Priscilla are holding their own and still sticking with their daily routine of a two-mile walk before breakfast.

Also a note of thanks from Len Marshall's widow Elizabeth. And from Ruth Penriell a letter of appreciation for the class news in "Skiddoo" that keeps her up to date.

I am sad to tell you of the death on January 17 of Alice and Joe Pollard's daughter Susan Refojo from injuries received in an automobile accident. A Hanover native, she graduated from the University of New Hampshire and received a master's degree from Boston University. An accomplished violinist, she is survived by her husband and two children.

What to do about 513 copies of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE dating in unbroken line back to 1924? They represent a diligent effort of preservation, mostly by Ted Caswell, who turned them over to me some ten years ago. I much prefer to dispose of them appropriately and with all due respect for the 57 Dartmouth years they chronicle. Any suggestions?

Not incidentally, Ted's and Olive's friends will be happy to know Ted has recovered enough so that the Caswells were able to make it to Naples, Fla., in February.

On Sunday, February 22, classmates Chet and Barbara Bixby, Rusty and Mary Sargent, Babe and Florence Miner, Walt and Connie Dodge, Ike Phillips, and many, many of Frank and Gladys Doten's friends gathered at the Church of Christ in Hanover in a memorial service for Frank, who died on February 18 following a brief illness. It will be difficult to tell you in the brief space available for his formal obituary, which will appear in a later issue, how much he meant to so many of us. Suffice it to say he was a fine and an honorable man. We shall miss him greatly.

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