1935

As these notes are being assembled we have just concluded the month of October with more than the usual number of football and reunion weekends for the class of 1935. We started the month with our informal fall reunion, about which you've read in this column and the "Tear Bag."

Next came the southern gathering at Williamsburg set up by Ed Neff, Frank Specht, and Hugh Wolff. That weekend began with a cocktail party hosted by Frank and Edie, followed by a private dinner for '35ers, 13 in all plus wives and guests. Understandably Ed had little to say about the game with "the William and Mary team who, ironically enough, call themselves the Indians. A few of their cheerleaders, in what they believed to be Indian costumes, had the impudence to dance around in front of the Dartmouth stands. Whereupon, they were greeted with a few Wah-Hoo-Wahs, an Indian phrase with which they were unfamiliar. Baffled, they slunk away." A Saturday evening dinner and a Sunday morning lecture completed a most enjoyable small reunion.

Seven days later it was back to Hanover for Dartmouth Night preceding the Harvard game. Fourteen of us plus spouses gathered for an early dinner at the Norwich Inn and then hustled back to Hanover for the torchlight parade around the campus and the big rally with inspirational speeches and the bonfire. Another six or eight joined in on the lunch Saturday and cheered the team to its first victory.

The fifth football game of the month, a narrow one-point loss to Yale, was yet another occasion for a '35 get together. Seen in the stands, in addition to our local regulars, were Bill Russell, Doc Cornthwaite, Jim Le Sure,Bill Adams, Emil Petke, Don Hagerman, and Hal Stanton.

Bill and Dot Russell have become at least a temporary part of the group we here think of as local talent. With a home in New Jersey and a regular one-month sojourn in Florida, they've had the good sense to rent in the summer at the nearby Quechee complex. They have been regulars at quarterback luncheons and all the other activities we here enjoy. We count on seeing them back next year.

One of the most interesting pieces of class information I have lately received came from Jack Dodge, who lives in Battle Ground, Wash. Jack himself is now retired, having sold his small newspaper, and with his wife Olivia he does a lot of traveling by station wagon. Jack was kind enough to send me a long article from the Vancouver, Wash., Columbian detailing an editor's conversation with Fred Haley. We all know Fred as the boss of the candy company bearing his name making that wonderful Almond Roca. The latest of his many volunteer involvements in education in Tacoma and the state of Washington is a new appointment. Fred chairs the state's Temporary Committee on Education Policies, Structure, and Management. This is a 17-member citizens' committee charged with taking a critical look at the state's schools from kindergarten through universities. Just another evidence of his home state's recognizing and utilizing the public mindedness of this talented classmate!

A short note from Lou Bookheim relates that he and Harriet could not get back to Hanover this fall because his classes at the University of California at San Diego started too soon for them to come east. That's right, he's still a student!

Hunt Harrison has been living for the past six years or so in Bolinas, Calif., a little north of San Francisco "a comfortable area at this stage of the game." He and Alison enjoyed a recent trip to the Greek islands.

Jim Huntley, while 100 per cent disabled since 1965, continues in fairly good health as he puts it. He plays piano for the Rotary Club in White River Junction each week and for two services each week at the Veterans Hospital. Here's hoping his very extensive physical problems are now at least stabilized!

Charlie and Jean Sewall are living in Palm Harbor, Fla. A' New England trip brought them north for a month in Maine and to their daughter Bea's wedding in Falmouth, Mass.

Our best Cleveland correspondent, Jack Au Werter, writes of a two-week European visit last summer. He and Eleanor enjoyed a charter bus trip from Frankfurt to Vienna and back and a London visit to their married daughter and family. What's new with some of you other fellows in Cleveland?

Lloyd Markson was the sole representative of the class of 1935 at Aumni College this summer. He gives an enthusiastic endorsement of the whole program of lectures, seminars, and other events, and he says his pride in Dartmouth College (always considerable) is greater than ever, adding, "I recommend Alumni College 1983 to all!"

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