1933
The big news for this issue is about our minireunion weekend, October 14, 15, and 16, based on Dartmouth Night and the Harvard game. The New Hampshire countryside was just beautiful; I am told it will be perfect on June 10, 11, and 12.
About 30 of us, class officers, committee members, and wives, met Thursday night and Friday, through lunch, at Dartmouth's Minary Conference Center on Squam Lake, N.H., lately become famous as Golden Pond. It was a great spot in which to enlarge, improve, and harden plans for our 50th. These included reports from Reunion Chairman Jeff Davis that 104 classmates have already indicated that they will be at reunion. This figure does not include the wives and widows who wouldn't think of missing it. Jeff expects '33 will break all records and have 185 present. I, ruminating again, think 200.
Our host, Cliff Jordan '45, associate director of development at the College and advisor to reunioning classes, arrived to a put-on. It was agreed to tell him that '33 was seeking a goal of $33,333-33 for our 50th reunion giving. He heard it, and his face blanched. Head Agent Mannie Sprague restored color by saying we already had $225,000 given or pledged and hoped for $633,000 as a total. This can be pledged or given between now and June 30, 1983. The pledge, so made, can be fulfilled up to January 31, 1984. In effect, there are three tax years over which a gift can be spread. Mannie vowed there would be no solicitation at our reunion. After all this, Cliff Jordan felt a lot better, but we still decided to nickname him the "Blanched Jordan Almoner."
The post-reunion gathering at Spalding Inn, Whitefield, N.H., looks like a shoe-in, for the Sunday to Wednesday period. Many have said they are going to take advantage of it for R&R and the chance to really talk to classmates and wives. We will have one great plus over previous 50th reunion classes. The College has decided that we are it! The town was getting too crowded. We'll be the only ones those days. Therefore, Woody Foster, planning tennis matches for you, and Jack Manchester, planning golf, will find court and fairway time available.
On to Hanover and Dartmouth Night: We had a big peerade, with Jack and Dottie Manchester's grandchildren holding the '33 banner. We marched directly behind the dignitaries, the band, and '32, in its actual reunion year. There were the exhortatory speeches, the reading of telegrams from all over the world, and the biggest on-campus bonfire the Green has ever seen. This class of '86 is really gung-ho!
The game, Saturday, was a delight. A bunch of us gathered back of the JTP '33 license plates near Davis Field House and then witnessed a very exciting game, with the longest-ever (68 yards) pass in Dartmouth-Harvard history putting icing on the cake.
That night, no less than 60 of us gathered in the basement of the Norwich Inn for a roast beef dinner and presentation of '33 merit awards. Jack Manchester and John Monagan received these well-deserved plaques and pewter trays. Their wives, Dottie and Rosemary, were present also.
It was great, too, to see that all award winners of the previous years were there with their wives: Bob and Babe Fox, George and Ray Theriault, Sam and Jean Black, and Hank C. and Helen Smith.
Page Worthington said a few graceful words of "farewell and see you in June," but that was by no means the end. Ted Allen went to the piano. Old Glee Clubbers Niebling, Davis, and Black, and good old Et Alia gathered around, and so it went.
It was good to see old friends who have not been such frequent visitors to these minis: Tom and Helen Noonan, the aforesaid Monagans, Ted and Laure Allen, and Don and Muggsie D Arcy. Tom Noonan is still a practicing attorney, a worker's compensation referee in Pennsylvania. Rosemary Monagan has an interesting job with the Smithsonian in Washington. She sticks together old shards, turning them back into the Etruscan vases they once were. Sam Black spends other people's money, buying paintings for a Connecticut museum.
News from other classmates, further afield, not back for the mini: Paul C. Zamecnik,' M.D., Harvard professor, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of science at Harvard Medical School s 200th anniversary, October 14. This was for on-going work in the prevention of cancerous growths. This news may be in the "Give a Rouse" column. Jack Huntress was given a big write-up in the Arizona Republic of Phoenix on October 6. It told of his success with the pink and white "Sugar Bowl" restaurant in Scottsdale, Ariz. An ice cream parlor, it serves delicious food, no booze, and has had, as paying guests, Leo Durocher, Nancy Reagan's mother, Van Johnson, and even our peripatetic president, Page Worthington. My informant says, "Jack is a very much respected and active citizen in this area. The class of 1933 is indeed fortunate to claim him as a member."
That's keeping busy! Good! Happy Holidays!
Douglas W. Alden '33, professor of French at the University of Virginia, was recently presentedwith a certificate of merit by the president of Sweet Briar College, Harold B. Whiteman. right.The award recognized Alden's long and distinguished service to the Sweet Briar Junior Year inPrance program. He has been a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Junior Year inTrance for 32 years and has chaired it since 1967.
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