1927

Fiftieth wedding anniversaries dominate the news this month. Al and Nama Welty had theirs in June, when they were feted by their two Dartmouth sons, Alan '56 and Richard '61, and their families. Also in june, about 200 friends and relatives gathered at the Fountain Hearth in Woodbury, Conn., to do honor to Frank and Evelyn Strong. The class was represented by Steve and Dot Tracy, Tom andDot Gillespie, and Ken Murray.

Ted and Dot Selig's golden celebration occurred way back on New Year's Day, 1982. Fortunately for all, this happened a few weeks before Dot fell and broke her hip, which took her out of commission for the ensuing few months.

At their 50th in May, Jack and Nancy Andrews had several family celebrations. In writing us about them, Jack brought us up to date by noting that they had a busy winter, which included two months in Colorado with visits with one of their daughters and two weeks of skiing. This past summer, the Andrewses, as usual, were at their cottage complex in South Hero, Vt. In September, they planned to fly back to Colorado for an indefinite stay to take in the wedding of a granddaughter, and they therefore regretted that they would not be able to make the fall reunion.

After celebrating the class's 55th reunion in Hanover last June, Dow and Alice Mills visited Ruth Baker in Nahant, Mass., then went on to see other friends on Cape Cod before going north to visit a daughter who lives near Bellows Falls, Vt. Last winter, the Millses spent five months in Arizona, where they had a fine visit with Steve Osborn, who lives in Fountain Hills outside of Phoenix. A trip to Ireland in October will keep them away from the fall reunion.

Jack and Mary Draper will be attending a medical convention in Norway, so they, too, will not be at the reunion.

Other travelers include Jack and Dot Oakes, who must have broken some sort of a record when they went almost 9,000 miles last summer between the 55th and the date when they finally returned to their home in Ormond Beach, Fla. Their wanderings took them first to Concord, N.H., then to Lapeen, Mich., Cheyenne, Wyo., and Riverside, Calif., for reunions with four children, sundry grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Chuck and Frances Brewster have returned home to Pleasant Hill, Tenn., after spending a pleasant summer at their Georgetown, Maine, cottage. One day they took time off for a visit with Wendell Lamson, who lives in Portsmouth, N.H.

Last spring, in Boco Raton, Fla., the local paper carried a picture of Bill St. Amant holding the flag for the eighth hole of its golf course. Bill, who is one of the outstanding club members, had just joined the ranks of that enviable group of hole-in-one-ers.

Brugy Brugiere thanked us for his latest birthday card by writing, "In addition to staying young at heart, I feel lucky to be in good health, and after seven years am finally getting used to 'Ole Virginny' although I still miss California. I am always touched when the class, via you, remembers my natal day."

Among those attending an eight-day Alumni Language Program in Hanover last summer under the tutelage of the well-known Professor Rassias was Curt Wright, who sat next to Rog Bury's son, also named Curtis, while both became rapidly proficient in Italian.

By now you have received notice concerning the class contribution to the 1982 Alumni Fund, indicating that the figure of $127,910 was about 26 per cent over the objective even though total participation was a bit disappointing. The class, again, thanks Bob Williamson for his stalwart efforts.

We also express the sympathies of the class to the relatives of Herbert A. Howe, who died of a heart attack on August 17.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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