1937

The title of the editorial in the Connecticut newspaper The Advocate was "Dave Camerer and Mayhem." Sounded reasonably normal, and we knew he wrote articles for them, so we read on to find out what direction the Light Brigade was headed this time. It's a worthy cause that has attracted national attention, and rightly so. The mayhem is caused by those hard plastic and steel football helmets players are apt to use like battering rams, injuring opponents. With the attached face mask a player can also suffer serious neck injuries in collisions. Dave has attracted growing support Red Smith of the New York Times, Jim Crowley of Notre Dame's four horsemen, George Halas, founder of the Chicago Bears, and others of athletic fame. Good luck, Dave, we're sure with you.

We seldom get to write news of our prizewinning newsletter editor, Rog Allen, as he has his own trumpet. This is personal and newsworthy. His ring finger was curling up and the visit to the doctor started a chain of events blood pressure going through the roof (now under control), off the cigarettes forever, and the operation to cut the tendon in his hand. He has gone onto Social Security and is keeping just active enough to jingle some pocket change. Ginny retires from the bank next year.

Latest on the search for a suitable picture for the Gordon Bennett Lounge produced a photograph of Ben in his football uniform, from which an artist known by Charley Collis will be painting a portrait. This should be finished by July. We look forward to further news of progress on the lounge.

Mort Berkowitz Company brought a new magazine, called Historic Preservation, to the world of advertising, according to Adweek. Sorry, that's all it said. Your ball, Mort. BillHeroy represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of Frank Vandiver as president of North Texas State University last November.

Our great ex pres Fred Asher gets telephonitis and lucky us often get included. Lunch with Jack Devlin produced news that he is still "lean and running" all over the country selling those plastic garden items, especially the popular flamingos. Helen pretty much stays at their home in Scottsdale while Jack commutes there from their home in Morton Grove (Chicago). Fred spent a month in California trying to work out a problem of shipping plants for his nursery mail order business. State laws are very tough there. He visited Jacky and ParkJohnston, as usual finding them most happy. You may recall that at our 40th reunion word came that Herb Butz was in a head-on collision in which his wife and others died. Fred said Herb has finally recovered but no other news.

It's official. Myrtle and Tom McIntyre's address is 250 South Road, Rye Beach, N.H. 03871. Phone 603/926-8777. Bob Aylward retired from COSERV on April 30. His friends and colleagues gave him a dinner and a scrap-book of memorabilia connected with his business and professional life.

Bob McCoy retired from Lothrop Associates (architects) and has taken a job with a similar firm in New Haven, which does a lot of work for Yale. He and Liz sold their home in Larchmont and moved to their summer home in Guilford, Conn., near Betsy and Bob Ross. Bob Ross says of himself that he goes in now more for a big garden and not so much golf. FredVogt took a two-week trip to the West Coast to see the Big Sur and Crater Lake. Frank Irwin has a hobby of writing about the Civil War. He mentioned delving into duties performed by American consuls in intelligence work on evading the blockade. Betty and Chuck Bassett rented a place in Wellfleet on Cape Cod last summer. Chuck caught 17 bluefish in five hours and took home 100 pounds of fillets.

Bill Rotch is winding down and now on a four-day week with time off for such things as a ten-day trip to Greece (Ben Cardozo was on that trip) and a weekend on Cape Cod devoted to whale-watching. Bill Newburger has built a barn on his Vermont place, adding sheep and cattle. (Bill, watch out for G. Fox.) Lem Bowen, our '82 reunion chairman, is all recovered from his heart attack and being careful. He is a volunteer associate in Hanover working in continuing education for senior business executives during the four-week summer session. Irene andStan Lappin took a ten-day trip to Poland and Israel last summer. They had dinner with Menachin Begin and were very much impressed by him.

At this time the Alumni Fund is halfway through. If you have procrastinated about sending in your check. Gene Jones would appreciate action to save mailing expense and fingernail biting.

Tom Reck, left, and Pat Uhlmann of 1937 prepare to hound a fox.

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