1934
No football game kick-off this time. By the time you read this, the football season will be over hope with a happy finale at Princeton and the colorful leaves will either carpet the ground or be stashed in the trash. Seasons change here but many of you keep moving around so fast it's hard to pinpoint what season you are absorbing at any given time.
One Florida resident who gets around is George Nason Collins. His most recent exploit was rediscovering the Danube topped off with a flying trip to Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Yalta. George sent along a nifty picture of himself and Gisele, to prove they were there and back. (The picture is reproduced on the next page.) He said the Russian part was rather strenuous but the cruise up the Danube through all the Balkan countries to Germany was beautiful, restful, and intensely interesting. Then of course they couldn't just sit on their veranda in Delray Beach, with a son in Seattle and a daughter in San Francisco. On a down-to-earth note (greenbacks), he comments that the Old Pine Fund for a life income trust is a great way to make sure of the ultimate gift to Dartmouth while still having the benefit of the income for little jaunts such as he's just had. I m sure Art Leonard is saying "amen" to that.
Now a travel note from the opposite direction. While it does not quite land him in the category of a '34 resident in Alaska (that would have given him one-of-a-kind state distinction!) Bud Powell, normally involved with showing off real estate in Newtown Square, Pa., almost became an unwilling resident of our 49th state. Jay Whitehair '32 reported that while on a July cruise, Bud and Jane Powell took off from the S.S. Rotterdam at Juneau on a seaplane to fly over the vast Mendenhall Glacier. The weather was uncooperative and the seaplane had to land in an inlet some distance away. A launch was dispatched from the ship to retrieve them, and a race against the clock began. The captain said because of the tide the ship had to leave at 11:15 p.m.; the launch skipper said he couldn't make it back before 11:30. By kindness and courage, the captain held the ship for the Powells. What a unique feeling of power for the Powells holding a 39,000-ton ship for more than a quarter of an hour on the high seas! For sure, a '34 first.
Another of our 49 resident Floridians, Chuck Sutton, made a recent '31 newsletter when his friends in Tequesta threw a party for his birthday (you all know which one he was celebrating). Next day they even let him win against the low-handicap golfers. Chuck retired to Florida after a career with Johns-Manville. In addition to polishing his golf game, he serves as president of his condo and is another Floridian who travels in summer to spots like Washington and Oregon for family visits.
He probably has had other adventures since then, but Ed Moore reported flying back from Willits, Calif., several months ago to the Chicago area. One objective was to show his wife Rena where he grew up and worked for many years heading up the family firm, E. R. Moore Company (caps and gowns, etc.). That company became part of Beatrice Foods in 1969 and is now happily celebrating its 75 th anniversary with all kinds of awards and a 50 per cent increase in earnings. Ed was closing out another business connection (Means Service Company) and catching up with Gordon and Fran Haverkamp, who assembled a group of old friends. Ed says, "All the husbands were World War II Navy so we won that war all over again."
A festive Tarrytown garden overlooking the Hudson on a beautiful October Sunday was the setting for the wedding of Dennis, youngest son of Joy and our late classmate Marty Dwyer, to Debra Miller. His brother Bob and sisters Jackie and Dolores led the cheering. Dennis and Debbie had met when she was the set designer and he the lead drummer at the Theater Place in Pleasantville. His arrival was the excellent reason why Joy had to miss our 21st reunion, which Marty chaired. Dennis now works for Dixie Marathon Company.
No doubt you read in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE that the Dartmouth Alumni Council has expanded from 61 to 86 members, now including representatives of reuning classes for three-year terms. Accolades were handed out to the committee of the council that engineered this revolutionary change, and our Stan Smoyer, who chaired it, is being hailed as the "Thomas Jefferson of the Alumni Council."
Got to give attention now to the N.Y.C. Marathon a sports editor I met on a European bus tour has been staying with me while covering the event for his New Zealand papers. I'm to watch, not run. Happy Holidays to all of you and yours.
The ornate, onion-shaped domes of the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed, built by Ivan theTerrible, create a characteristically Russianbackground for this picture of George and GiseleCollins '34 on a recent trip to the Soviet Union.
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