1934
The kick-off for this month's column is the opening game of the football season. Fortunately, we in '34 have been to enough Dartmouth games so that we could swallow our disappointment and admire grudgingly Penn's surprising performance while concentrating on the pleasure of greeting old friends. Ed and Barbara Brown, the Hanover hosts who arranged all the '34 events, did a superb job in setting up receptions at Smoyer Lounge, private room dinners at the Norwich and Hanover Inns, and nightcaps at their own home. As Bill Scherman has so ably reported in the newsletter, there were 34 classmates with wives and family members plus two widows Helen Clark and Dottie Morton-enjoying all this and pledging attendance at our big 50th.
At the class meeting held Saturday morning at the Chieftain Motel, Bill Wilson, who is heading up the reunion committee, said we should reserve the second weekend in June 1984. We will be the only reuning class but will share Hanover with the parents of the graduating class. By long tradition, the golden class participates in the commencement exercises. There are 414 of our original 625 classmates who are still on board, and we need just another 20 months to be marching in that parade heading for our M.O.S. (master's of survival) degrees. Let's all do it! Give Hanover a rousing housing problem, even if we have to sleep in shifts!
In addition to his host role and collecting for dinners, Ed Brown gave us the treasurer's report for the year ending August 1. Just under $5,000 in dues were collected from 329 classmates and widows and this provided the newsletter mailings, the memorial book program mailings, a modest class gift fund, and ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions for all class members and widows regardless of whether they paid dues for the year. With careful managing and investing, this provided a surplus of $550 this year (versus $373 last year). Let's pay dues pronto and make our treasurer glad he accepted the job-and also add comments on what's new or old for passing along to the newsletter or this column. Incidentally, Ed doesn t spend all his time collecting and investing for '34. As executive vice president he is the man who's making the Hanover Water Works work.
Another of our local Hanover couples, John and Ellie Bathrick, confirmed over that weekend what they had hinted when seen at a summertime beach club brunch that their hearts belong to the Nutmeg State for year-round living, so they are moving to New Canaan, Conn., and putting their attractive Hanover co-op apartments on the market. Anyone interested? (Yes, I used plural-they were neighbors before each was widowed.) I told John that if a sale resulted from exposure to the vast '34 market we'd expect an extra contribution to next year's Alumni Fund. The brunch setting was provided by Dave and Virginia Callaway to welcome 1934's long-time railroader, MacCollins, and his wife Mary in their annual swing around former haunts up north.
Speaking of Connecticut, if the Bathricks strain a muscle or two moving down to New Canaan they'll have the comfort of being within range of the Greenwich Hospital, where Harry Watt Wallace is a Red Baron. A picture of that elite corps of volunteers came from HankWerner, who spotted it in the Nutmegger, a magazine published by his son-in-law's father. See, you can't hide your light, Harry. Hank seems happy with a golf score about one and a half times his age and writes that son Peter '6B has just completed directing a film in New Zealand titled The Prisoner starring Tatum O'Neal. Watch for it.
If you'd rather contemplate medical science in more esoteric terms, how about this word from the University of Rochester. They announced the election of George L. Engel, a professor of psychiatry and medicine, as a senior member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He earned that distinction because during his 44 years as a scholar, teacher, physician, and researcher, his contributions "bridged the areas of psychosomatic medicine, internal medicine, electro-encep holography, clinical neurology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and medical education" and helped define the new field of biopsychosocial medicine! Wow! That's what it says. Congratulations, George.
On that therapeutic note I'll close for this month. Stay well.
Shown here relaxing in his Hanover office, S. Russell Stearns '37, an emeritus professor at theThayer School, recently traveled to New Orleans to be installed as president-elect of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers.
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