1932

A Washington D.C. bulletin from the public information office of the Supreme Court of the United States announces that "Chief justice Warren E. Burger declared on January 14 that the Honorable Carl McGowan was designated as Chief Justice of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. Another bulletin, this time from New York City, informs us that Ed Marks was named president of the United States Committee for Refugees at a recent directors meeting of this group. Ed, who has been a consultant to UNICEF, served as associate director of the U.N.'s International Year of the Child (1979) and in other UNICEF positions as well. Congratulations are in order for both of these illustrious classmates.

George Hahn recently sent us news from his home in Philadelphia on his continuing activities as a traveling oncology consultant sponsored by the University of Southern California Medical School and the American Cancer Society. He was recently in California and India, where, he reports, he ran into temperatures of 112 degrees in the shade. Red was also in both Atlanta and Virginia this winter on speaking missions. For those classmates who want to know, he spoke in Montreal in April on "condyloma accuminata, a typical type of venereal wart." Personally, we would rather see him wrestle or doing gymnastics as he did so expertly while in College! On this subject Red says, "I have become a veritable orthopedic museum, so I no longer actively wrestle, but I maintain membership in the Pen Grapplers." His wife Anna "continues to show our beautiful Chesapeake Bay Retrievers and also manages daily to feed me a sumptuous meal."

Red sent us a clipping from the letters to the editor column of the Philadelphia Bulletin of March 13, in which Bain Davis, now retired from the foreign service, writes about the Reagan administration's lack of understanding of foreign policy. Bain writes as follows: "As a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer who has served in Latin America, I am shocked at the lack of comprehension of the current situation in Central America, especially in El Salvador, shown by those guiding our foreign policy." It is a good many years since your secretary visited Bain in Panama, when he was on the U.S. Embassy staff in Colon, and many things have changed in that area since then. Bain is still active in many interesting volunteer activities from his home in Media, Penn., such as Friends World Committee, and he continues to travel in both Latin America and Europe.

We had read in our class newsletter that EvHokanson stated that he did not see many classmates in Wisconsin, and he claimed that he was the only '32er living in that state. Our files indicated that Fred Ivins also lived near him, so we wrote Ev about this. His answer: "At least I am the only graduate of '32 in Wisconsin, but thanks for bringing 'Bish' (his dad was an Episcopal bishop) Ivins to my attention. I phoned the number you gave me, and sure enough he lives within about three miles of me. However, he left College in his junior year, and I had not seen him since 1931!" Ev visited Bish and reports that he had had a laryngectomy operation about a year ago and is making good recovery. We all wish him well. Ev says he is committed to attend our 50th, and "maybe Spaulding Inn."

A short note from Peter Ostafin of Ann Arbor, Mich., enclosed a copy of an old, old photograph the 1932 cross-country team. Pete indicated that he remembered this old photograph quite well and all the team members. We would reprint it if we could find the negative. It appeared in our 25th yearbook. Who has the original or a good print? Pete informs us that his daughter Elisa, who graduated with honors in the class of '78, and who is the first 1932 daughter to graduate from Dartmouth, is doing very well at the medical school.

We were fortunate to obtain from FrankPower last fall at our mini reunion in Williamsburg, Va., the black and white photograph accompanying these notes. As you all recall, this was a great and glorious day just 49 years ago this month of May. It looks as if the beer containers were much larger then, and we know that the beer and the hard cider were stronger! Those were the days, my friends!

Your obedient servant,

Classmates Al McLaughlin (left) and PaulLeach demonstrate how 1932 did its thing49 years ago on Old Timer's Day in May.

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