1934

We all wish Frank Heath were here to appreciate it as we take prideful note of the 1980 Alumni Fund Award which Frank won for Outstanding Head Agent among classes more than 40 years out.

On the letterhead of The Nature Conservancy, Tom Beers makes another award known to us. An enclosed tear sheet from DirectMarketing contains the announcement of a direct mail award to Jerry Danzig, of Ogilvy & Mather, for his Burpee seed campaign. In case you think, as well you might, that this refers to. our Jerry, you're wrong ― it's his son and namesake, class of 1974. Jerry Danzig '34 is a member of Chester Burger & Company, New York public relations counselors.

Let's read the roll call of some more of our classmates who seem to have moved out of our sights in recent years. John Poole, I haven't seen you, have I, since the summer of 1940? Tell me if you're not being an attorney in Pasadena, because that's what the book still has you doing. Frank Sweetser, you were a sociology professor at Boston University. Still? Neal Richmond, you were art librarian and a professor at Queens College, N.Y. Would we find you there now? Same question is directed to Vance Kirby, who is listed as an attorney and a law professor at Northwestern. Are you, SidCarter, still professor of neurology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia? And Bob Burkart, what are you doing in your retirement from the FBI?

Nick Nanos reminds us that he has been retired from law practice for ten years and spends most of his time in Florida., "I have learned the art," says Nick, "of doing very little and enjoying it. Every winter George Cogswell, Fred Robbe, and I get together for golf, drinks, and dinners. It would be nice if I saw more of you guys."

From Largo, Fla., comes word from ArtGrimes that he and Gerrie have moved into their fourth home in the four years since they married, "this time into a villa on the golf course. Still working for Diners Club in charge of the west coast of Florida and doing a lot of traveling."

A great long letter came from Ed Klee in California, recounting his first trip back to Hanover since graduation. It was so chock full of '34s that I wanted to use it but fretted about how to squeeze it into a column with a quota of 800 words per issue. What a relief to read its equivalent in Bill's newsletter, which has no space problems nor word quotas.

Quota or not, however, I'm going to bring you some of Hank Werner's letter about the trip he and Liz took to China. (Who else has gone? I know that Stan and Barbara Smoyer have, also Sam and Alec Carson. Others?) "We went," Hank writes, "with a Dartmouth alumni group of 23. We visited Peking, Sian, Shanghai, Kweilin, and Canton. Each place was exciting and had a four-star rating. Peking, the "Forbidden City," with the Great Wall only 50 miles away. Sian, site of the great terra-cotta army that is being excavated, our single most fascinating experience. Shanghai, the most cosmopolitan of all Chinese cities. We located a doctor who had graduated 46 years ago from Columbia P. & S. Today he is a plastic surgeon and lives in two small rooms with his wife and two adult daughters, none of whom speaks English.

"Kweilin, one of the most beautiful scenic spots in the world. We took an 80-mile boat trip on the Li River and each scene was a work of art. In Canton, the 48th Trade Fair was on. And Liz and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary."

Hank also passed on excerpts from a letter Jocko Stangle had written him: "Was in Hanover four times this fall. Went to the Harvard game with Howie McHugh and saw him again in Hartford each of the four times the Celtics played here. Jake Edwards has retired to Key Biscayne. I see him in the summer when he comes north to Sturbridge and have visited with him a few times in the winter. He looks pretty good and stays active. He lost his wife with cancer about four years ago, and I lost my wife with cancer six years ago. I see Art Leonard at Hanover, Saratoga, and the New York Giants. We use Art's box at Saratoga once a year and usually see the Giants play Dallas at Meadowland. Bill Scherman joined us there for the game two years ago. I play a great deal of golf most of the year. I come to the office each day and disappear when the sun comes out."

Here at Old Timers' Day 1934 are (we think) Stan Karstedt, Sol Palmer, Frank Wardwell, Nick Nanos, Hank Pierce (standing, from left), and Gail Raphael and Al Levenson (crouching). Who the pourer and the recliner are is anybody's guess.

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