1935
Now that our 45th reunion is successfully behind us comes the era of 45th wedding anniversaries. Dan and Jean Cotton had a different angle on this situation and last month celebrated by giving themselves a party on their "Golden Wedding (ten per cent off) Anniversary." Their rationale is that "we're still able, like discounts, and want no presents we have too much stuff already." Here's wishing them 110 per cent of all the good things of life less ten per cent!
Many of you haye been good enough to send along cards this past summer with bits of news I'd like to pass on.
Newk Stainsby is retired and plays golf every day in Meuthen, Mass. He doesn't shoot his age yet, but doesn't do too badly. Newk and Fran now have four grandchildren ranging in' age from 22 years to ten months!
From John and Lee Howe comes an account of exensive travels in Nova Scotia and England with Hobe and Frieda Griffin. By the time you read this, we understand that the Howes will have been at their first fall reunion in a long time.
Bill Rauschal has gone into business for himself representing several computer type-setters, bringing on the presumably happy situation of paying both the employer's and employee's Social Security tax!
In retirement, Jim Le Sure is conducting what may be a mutually exclusive holding action to keep his tennis game going and his golf handicap inching down. He and Jean will have reported at fall reunion on how to do this!
Seemingly always on the go, Joe and Onalene Waters returned from skiing in Kitzbuhei, Aspen, and Vail, to Vero Beach and, en route home to Ithaca, made a short visit to Bucks and Jean Weil in Montgomery, Ala. All this before leaving to visit a son out West.
Paul Hilli's widow, Bett, tells us that young Paul is in the Forest Technician Program at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks.
John and Irene Thomas took a 7,000-mile motor trip in late spring, seeing daughters and grandchildren in the Midwest, Carolinas, Florida, and Gulf Coast. They're very happy in Sun City, Ariz. "A nonstop mile swim every day helps a lot!"
From St. Louis, Harry Deckert writes that he plays golf frequently with Bill Chapman and occasionally with Boyd Rogers. He says he recently received the renowned O.S.W.A.L.D. Award, acronym for a widely used expression on golf courses.
Jack Zimmerman has been retired from Sears for ten years but continues his involvement in S.C.O.R.E. (another well-known acronym) and teaching at local colleges near home in Framingham, Mass.
Herb Knowles in retirement out in Deerfield, Ill., plays golf daily and tennis frequently. He also gives a good deal of time to S.C.O.R.E. and as a volunteer consultant and project coordinator working with non-profit (by intent) organizations. After his Tabor Academy reunion he visited Cape Cod, seeking homes and grave sites of ancestors. He hopes to continue this project in the future. Maybe Herb should enlist the help of our strong '35 delegation there!
Also in Deerfield, Ill., Dick Montgomery is at last improving. His incredibly difficult, prolonged illness is gradually coming to an end to the relief of every single member of the class of 1935. He and Betty are able to hope that they can make a trip to Hanover in the fall.
A card from Howie Hinman goes like this: "Just got back from sitting in a radon mine in Montana. Believe it or not it definitely helps my arthritis. Can reach for my pocketbook without it hurting (my shoulders). Off to Alaska for a month of fishing."
Bud and Eileen Cahoon on a trip to Scotland this summer took in the British Open at Troon and visited the Isle of Skye and the Western Isles. Back to Cape Cod and fall reunion.
For Dud and Bet Russell the big event of the summer was a six-day trip down the Mississippi as guests on a towboat guiding a "tow" the size of three football fields. The pilot's skill was fascinating. Later the Russells planned a visit to Fred and Bette Raymond and the Knoxville World's Fair.
John and Jean Jewett took time off late in the summer for a vacation trip to Switzerland and Austria. John continues to be busy in his gynecology practice and professorship at Harvard Medical School. In this latter capacity John chaired a group studying Rh disease. He is the editor of a book just published, The Eradiation of Rh Disease.
Lowie Haas writes of what he calls a hilar- ious reunion he and Hilda had with Bill and Ruth Mann in Chapel Hill, N.C. This was their first time together since the Barbary Coast cruised on the Volendam in 1935! Lowie still plays sax with the "Clipped Wings Combo," a group of former United Airlines pilots. Son Fred '73, with the Ranato Sambo Band, will be at the Copacabana in Tokyo until December 15 and then at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz until April 15. Hopes to see any of his dad's classmates in either place!
You may just possibly have noticed that 70th birthdays are coming into style among us. Responses to some of the greetings I am able to send out, in rather erratic fashion, result in comments both printable and unprintable the former usable in these notes, the latter at least entertaining to me. Nick Jacobson put it quite well: "I doubt that in 1935 I expected I'd make 1982. But we're still babies, thank God! Just keep well and happy."
Upon the retirement of Ralph Lazarus '35 (right) as senior member of the Dartmouth trustees after14 years of service, he was presented with a reproduction of a painting of Dartmouth Row by the latePaul Sample '20. Making the presentation is Richard Hill '41, who chairs the board of trustees.
Box 265, Eastman Grantham, N.H. 03753
