1953

For all the mail that pours out of Hanover, there is very little flowing back the other way. As a result, my cupboard is very bare. Please send some news.

There was great snow for cross-country skiing at Devil's Thumb Ranch in Colorado in March, and more than enough for downhill skiing at next-door Winterpark. Put Blodgett and his new bride, the former Marion Eastman, were the host and hostess for the class reunion. Unfortunately, the only other family to come was Charlie Buchanan and his four Big Greeners Mike, Doug, Dave, and Clare. Charlotte stayed home in Albany. A skiing reunion seems like such a great idea, but the lack of response seems to indicate that it really isn't. Should it be in Aspen or Vail, or should we drop it?

Fred and Nancy Chase and their sons drove from Florida up to Elk Mountain, Pa., for a week of skiing in early February. And PaulBousquet, after a successful season at his ski resort in Pittsfield, Mass., spent a busman's holiday at Snowbird.

Polly and Jack Koerner's oldest daughter Kathy was married in March. She is now living in Connecticut where she is going through a sales-training program with 1.8.M.

I ran into Rick Mainzer in Rochester. He is president of Performance Promotions Inc., which specializes in marketing programs to increase sales. Their customers are primarily on the Fortune 500 list. In his spare time, Rick is in charge of the Greater Rochester Ski Patrol Council a job he learned in college.

Unfortunately, Len Gochman's play, TheSurvivor, which we reported on last month, did not survive the reviewers' scalpels. Jack and LuMorris, Chuck and Donna Reilly, George andPatti Sarner, and Don Smith and date got together to see the show before its demise.

Seagram Cos. president Phil Beekman made the best offer of the more than 170 job opportunities that Mary Cunningham considered. She will be vice president of strategic planning.

No issue with football applications would be complete without a look at our fall reunion schedule. September 19, Princeton comes to Hanover and we have reserved all of the rooms at Pierce's Inn, Etna, N.H. 03750. Immediately after the game, there will be cocktails at Fredand Mollie Carlton's and then dinner at Pierce's Inn. October 17, we play Harvard in Cambridge. Plans are incomplete, but on the Friday night before, there will be a dinner and dance at the Sheraton Boston. Dave McLaughlin '54 will make a major address. On October 24, Cornell comes to Hanover for Dartmouth Night Weekend. We have reserved the Norwich Inn. If you can only make one weekend, this is the one. Friday night there will be a class dinner at the Hanover Inn after the parade and bonfire. Saturday morning, a class meeting at the Norwich Inn, lunch at Leverone, and cocktails and dinner at the Norwich Inn afterwards. October 31, at Yale, there will be cocktails and a buffet after the game at Jean and Dick Lena's home in .Woodbridge, Conn. November 14, when Brown comes to Hanover, there will be a cocktail party after the game at Nancy and BillJohnson's. Reservations at Pierce's Inn and the Norwich Inn are on a first-come, first-serve basis, so make your plans now.

Once again we are having our annual 1953 cocktail party and dinner during commencement weekend. It is Saturday June 13 at the Hanover Inn, hosted by Lillian and Don Goss, our prolific newsletter editor. We're expecting well over 100 people. All members of the class are urged to attend not just parents of graduates. Bring your family, friends, or whomever, and come.

That's it for this month. Please let us hear from you.

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