1933

As this is written, Winter Carnival is not long over, though if, and as, you read it, April will be showering. Page and Margaret Worthington are pushing spring at Hilton Head Island, S.C. Margaret is recovering from a back operation and has hopes for relief from a long period of incessant pain.

At an age when most of us are relinquishing duties and hard work, Harvey Hopkins is having them thrust upon him. "Hop" has been elected chief honcho of Heritage Village, Southbury, Conn. This is a job equivalent to being mayor of a town of 3,000 persons, but with the added burden that all his constituents are about as old and ornery as you are. With his duties, Hop and Louise are not traveling as much as erstwhile, and, therefore, neither is Louise's sister, Helen Blumenthal (Jack's widow), who occasionally went along.

Lup White sent me his church's Sunday bulletin from Chatham, N.J. He and RicharMerkt, son of Gene Merkt (who died in December 1980), are listed as officers. Richard is a Yale alum, but admits that was a big mistake -he now believes he should have yelled, "To hell with Harvard," from the Hanover Plain instead of from Morey's.

On Saturday, February 13, appropriately close to Valentine's Day, Howe Grove Wheelock Jr. '71, son of Gretchen Wheelock and our Howe Grove Wheelock, who died in January 1980, married Candace Ann Smith. Both bride and groom are vice presidents of the Crocker National Bank. Quite a merger!

Follow-ups: A few issues ago, there was a request in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for anyone who had worked on the Baker Library murals with Orozco to submit any data or information on that undertaking. Both Gobin Stair and Rich Bradshaw have responded to that request. Rich also informs me that, while he is not a graphic artist, he sent Jeff Davis a sketch for a 50th reunion insignia, in slim hopes of winning that valuable prize Jeff is offering. He has time to do this because Suzie is skiing in Switzerland for a week or two.

I sent Jack Brooke the names and addresses of 12 '33ers (one a "sister") in his four-state area, as prospects for the Dartmouth mini-reunion on May 1 at Hendersonville, N.C. Jack is very pleased at finding so many from our class, and others, who are possible celebrants. Page and Margaret hope to make it, too.

Bob Estes, as an addendum to my December class notes, re the war between his TRS-80 Model III computer and those of two neighbors, "IBM types," says that his brother-in-law, '38 and a C.P.A., is willing to judge all answers to my proposed question, and winners will be notified. No prizes; just notification. I forget the question.

In more serious vein, we ordered nine memorial books for departed classmates during 1981. The response to this program by their families is most heart-warming. Typical is a portion of this note I received from Charline Scanlon: "I cannot tell you how much this means to my daughter Libby and me, and I am sure that John would feel honored." Charline is visiting Libby and the grandchildren in Washington, D.C., this winter.

The class to our immediate north is now much involved in preparations for its 50th and is bringing out a book, published this May, edited by "Ping" Ferry '32, with essays by 25 of his classmates, all friends of yours. It has a forward, highly commending its picture of our times, by President McLaughlin. I'm relying on Bob Fox, with more space in his newsletter, to tell you how and where it can be purchased. Happy 50th, 1932!

The class to our south has had a sad loss in the death of Marty Dwyer '34. Marty was a friend of mine in College and a great class secretary for '34, forced to give up the job late in 1981 when his long-standing emphysema became too much. His columns were a lesson in writing. Our sympathy to his family and to '34.

Class officers' weekend will be held during the May 8 weekend. I am sure most or all of your officers will be there. Now is the time to let Bob Fox or me know if you have any special requests or demands for our attention. Now is your chance! Our 50th is only one year away! The major newspapers in the Northeast have been replete with stories about the financial worries of private colleges under the government's austerity program. Think of that when you make out your check to the Alumni Fund this year. Dartmouth, Head Agent Mannie Sprague, and the future torch-bearers will appreciate it. Bless them all.

Basking on a Martinique beach nearly 50 years ago were Dick Cleaves and Howie Newcomb, both'32 (far right and second from right, respectively); with them were friends from Princeton andBrown. Cleaves and his wife Margo recently revisited haunts remembered from that 1933 trip,about which he reminisces in the '32 class notes column above.

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