1952

THIRTIETH REUNION

I can't remember having a better time in Hanover than we did this past June. Of course, it was especially pleasant for me since son Chip graduated on Sunday and reunion started on Monday.

There were about 85 classmates present at one time or another over the three-day midweek reunion. And with spouses and offspring, the total present was right close to 200. Nowhere nearly so big as the 25th, but in some ways the small number made it even more fun.

We had the usual number of rousing parties at the tent. This year we were parked in front of Russell Sage with the 'sls and 'sos right across the road from us on Tuck Mall.

At our class meeting on Tuesday morning we ushered out Bill Montgomery as class president, Will Rooke as head agent, SteveParkhurst as teasurer, Connie Carstens as newsletter editor, and yours truly from this job.

At that same meeting the nomination committee, consisting of Jack Boyle, made nominations for a new slate of class officers and, surprisingly, the entire slate was accepted by the assemblage.

Class president will be Pete Zischke, and because he lives in California it was felt he needed a representative on the East Coast to fill in for him whenever necessary. So the class added an office of vice president to the slate and talked yours truly into serving that function.

The rest of the slate is: head agent, DickMcDonough; secretary, Marcel Durot; treasurer, Jon Walton; newsletter editor, BillMontgomery.

Other highlights of the week were the concert in the tent by members of the '5O, '5l, and '52 Glee Club, a picnic with '51 at Storrs Pond, a marvelous clambake at Paul Sanderson's farmhouse in Wilder, Vt., and a seminar on U.S. and China relations for the eighties a real sell-out and featuring classmate Paul Sanderson as one of the group of experts on China and the Far East.

The weather held up beautifully for us all week and it was a happy but reluctant group who packed up and moved out on Thursday.

One wishes this could be an annual event, but one also knows how time seems to be telescoping as the years go by, and it won't be long until the next one. And I can't make up my mind if that's something to be happy or sad about. So long, friends.

Charles Blakemore

Chuck and Nancy Liddle renewed old friendships with '52 classmates at the thirtieth.

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