1934

It's hard to visualize as I try to start my frozen car, but by the time this reaches you winter will be over and the first signs of spring should be warming up your lives if you didn't escape to the Sun Belt before now.

Everyone in the '34 family doesn't go south or yearn to. Bob Singleton, retired now from full-time teaching at Wesleyan University, but keeping a hand in as advisor to seniors and teaching a course, states he can't believe he could find a better place to live than Connecticut, in a small, comfortable house in a beautiful country setting. Besides, his travel preference has always been to go north. He's seen quite a bit of Iceland and has driven Newfoundland to its northern tip - to see the Norse ruins, of course. One thing he'd like though is cheaper fuel oil.

Our '34 mates don't stage mini-reunions just in Hanover or while tail-gating at Big Green games or in Florida. We heard that Herb andEvie Hawkes hosted a congenial fall gathering in Tucson, Ariz., that included Dick andMary Emerson, Bob and Bo Allabaugh,Harry and Dottie Espenschied, Jack andMary Fran Feth, and Sam and MariannaMcCray. That's a great way to keep the bonds warm till the 50th.

We're indebted to Art Bamford '35 for news of Bob Morris, who has been coping with M.S. the past 25 years.'He tells us that Bob, a widower now, leaves his Lakewood, Ohio, home when the first snowflake appears for a Key Biscayne visit with the Bamfords, then flies in February to Lost World Resort, Calif., for a couple more months in the sun with the Ted Hucks '35. Bob's a bridge expert and, according to Art, "definitely the domino king of Lakewood." Good to hear Bob isn't letting his limited mobility stop him from sharing his warmth and companionship with friends across the country.

Howie McHugh is still being lauded and missed by the Celtics and their fans. A feature article in the Boston Herald American this fall lamented that "courtside at Boston Garden will never be the same again when the Celtics play - a man who had a lot to do with the success of the team has retired." As publicity director, the team's historian, and number one fan for 54 years, "James Howard McHugh is the last of the original Celtics."

That article was sent in by Ed Marshall of Cohasset, Mass. He is still actively pushing stocks and bonds for Paine Webber four days a week and says he "likes the excitement and positive attitude one finds in the investment field - no one gets very far with a negative attitude!" In a footnote, Ed reminded me of a '34 Softball game we played on Staten Island in 1938. We can't remember the organizer but do recall that Oscar Ruebhausen played first base. I'll bet Oscar has long since forgotten who his supporting cast was. He has had more urgent matters to think about - in the past two years he has been quoted in the New York Times whenever there is some development that affects the prestigious 13,000-member City Bar Association of which he is president.

This is a bit of ancient history, but I must report that on a blustery day at Baker Field, when the Big Green did a fine job of taming the Columbia Lions, I had no trouble finding and tabbing the '34 contingent, both of them - Vinnie and Katch Cerow and their young lads from New Canaan plus Gene and NinaOrsenigo. Gene's sideline encouragement made up for our slim numbers. If you thought his move to Heritage Hills in upper Westchester County was for retirement, you're only half right. He commutes to Manhattan and his furniture business three days a week.

We've reported on the Alumni College at Hanover - now we have another favorable review on a more distant branch of the College's outreach program. Ed Klee and wife Babette of Los Gatos, Calif., traveled to the Dartmouth seminar held in Port Townsend, Wash., where 68 attended the weekend session, staying in officer quarters at old Fort Worden. That provided an excuse to visit Victoria Island and the Cascades area of Oregon and to dine at the Nut Tree in northern California, where you park your plane (their friends had one) and walk in for dinner. After that warm-up they headed for Sedona, Ariz., for visit with Bill (Flamen) Ball and Bill (ex-N.Y.) Gilmore - all this after going through protracted foot surgery earlier in the year.

As you know from late word in last month's column as well as in the newsletter, we lost our redoubtable ex-secretary, Marty Dwyer, just after the New Year. Sadly, word has also been received of the deaths of two other loyal '34s who contributed a full measure to society during their careers: Dan Taggart of Carlisle, Pa., and Dick Compton of Naples, Fla. The obituaries should be in this or the next issue.

Lyman Wakefield Jr. '33, left, the majordonor for the new Ice Center at the Breck Schoolin Minneapolis, Minn., cuts the ribbon to openthe rink before the school's first hockey game ofthe season on October 8.

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