1935

The Great Class of 1935 was well represented at the annual class officers meetings just concluded in Hanover. On hand were president Len Bryant, secretary Dick Muzzy, treasurer Put Kingsbury, newsletter editors Reg Bankart and Dero Saunders, head agent Al Dodd, bequest chairmen A 1 Brush and John Wallace, and alumni councilor Hall Colton. The opportunity to meet together and with our counterparts in other classes was fittingly climaxed by hearing from President Kemeny and President-elect McLaughlin.

Some of us were also able to attend, on May 4, the first Frederick Sessions Beebe Lecture. A fund to establish in his memory a program of lectures, internships, and symposia on the art and skill of writing has been established by the Beebe family and some of Fritz's former associates to honor "one of Dartmouth's most distinguished alumni in the field of jour nalism."

Lowie Haas writes of a visit from Ted and Kay Harbaugh. The two couples were able to attend a concert at the Library of Congress in which Ross Harbaugh played cello as a member of the New World Quartet. The Haases' son Fred has been touring Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with the Bobby Michaels quartet. Daughter Jody graduates this year from Colorado College.

Maury Rapf is back teaching at Dartmouth for three terms in a row up until next Christmas. During his last absence daughter Joanna, on sabbatical from the University of Oklahoma, took over two of Maury's film courses, fulfilling a lifelong ambition of teaching, though a visitor, at Dartmouth. Son William has switched from teaching at the Milford, N.H., high school to being head of the art departmeftt in Manchester.

John Thomas sent along a card from home in Sun City, Ariz. He and Irene recently lunched with Robert Ode, the oldest former Iran hostage, and his wife. Irene and Bob were neighbors when they were children, so the reunion was filled with much happy reminiscing.

Retirement at the end of June is in the cards for Bill Adams. He expects to remain right there in Massachusetts, since, as he puts it, "I have other things going that will keep me here for some time."

Swannee and Waltraut Dawson have moved from Sea Island to McLean, Va. "Keep very busy with P.T.A., annual-giving programs, school theater, etc., all a part of having in the Potomac School a nine-year-old, who enters Exeter in 1987!" They spend each summer in Europe seeing in-laws and friends from the Foreign Service days. This helps keep up German and French so that "even Jessica is becoming bilingual."

Tom Swift is still fully retired, as he has been since 1969, in Sonoma, Calif. He writes of visiting the Ben Harrimans in St. Paul and also of seeing Bill and Tia Short. Bill is still mayor of Monte Sereno, Calif.

Bucks Weil down there in Montgomery, Ala., doesn't see many of the Class of 1935. He says that his son has now joined him in business and also become engaged. Jean and two daughters and two grandsons "thrive."

When Barney Tomlinson moved up this way to Bradford, Vt., it's probably safe to say he didn't plan to become a municipal employee. He writes, "I have quit working in my wood products shop that I have at the house and am now the engineer, operator, and chemist of the Bradford Waste Water Treatment Plant. The former man walked out suddenly and left the village in a mess, so . .

Gordon and Elizabeth Spencer now have their first grandchild, Christopher Spencer Mark. Elizabeth relates that Gordon is now enjoying retirement and catching up on neglected chores. They have had a great western trip from Albuquerque north along the California coast to Seattle and Vancouver and home to West Hartford, Conn., through Canada.

It was good to hear from Mel Rothschild, who has so far not retired, nor does he have plans to do so. Mel and Mary did spend some time in Longboat Key and Barbados. Daughter Ann and son-in-law Larry Leven live nearby in Glencoe, 111., so keeping in touch with three grandsons is easy. Daughter Mary will shortly become a lay psychoanalyst on Long Island.

You will remember that Sid Diamond left semi-retirement in Tucson in 1979 to go into government service in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Shortly, he became commissioner but was thereby more vulnerable to political changes and, "sure enough, my resignation was requested in January of this year." While Sid and Mary consider Tucson their permanent home, Sid has become counsel in the Washington office of the law firm of Sidley and Austin, which also has offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, and London. Sid will also resume writing his widely acclaimed column for Advertising Age, called "What's Doing on the Legal Front."

With regret we must pause to remember classmates whose recent deaths will be further noted in the obituary section of this or a later issue Bobb Chaney, Dick Halvorsen, and Dick Potter.

Finally, I'd like to add my own words of appreciation to our editor of the "Tear Bag," Dero Saunders. Dero retired from the post of executive editor of Forbes last March after 21 years of service. You perhaps noticed the tribute to him in the April 27 issue. Their "man for all seasons" has long been ours also! But "we'll hang on to him!

Remember, this is the Alumni Fund's concluding month.

See you on October 2!

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