1930

Can you remember July 12, 1933? The market probably was still going down. Maybe by then you had landed a job that paid $25 a week. But that day meant a lot more than that to Kay and Lee Chilcote, because it was their wedding day! This summer, 50 years later, their children and grandchildren arranged for a 50th anniversary party for friends near and far at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club in Gates Mills, OH. Both Brownie Neff and Cliff Vogt and their wives attended as part of a large Dartmouth group. Incidentally, they and Lee are the only remaining classmates in that area. Congratulations to a couple who have meant a lot to the class.

Congratulations also to Pat Weaver, recipient of the Governors' Award of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as "one of the most influential programmers in the history of network television."

Charlie Widmayer finished his latest stint for the College as acting editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE last spring. His relinquishing of those reins was marked by, among other events, a staff luncheon at the Inn, which gave my editor, Dana Grossman, opportunity to present an epic poem dedicated to Charlie. Since she is the same Dana Grossman who has just reduced the space allowed for 1930 class notes, we regret we must eliminate the poem! And Charlie quickly had two additional assignments, one of which was to be the official College representative at the inauguration of Michael Hooker as president of Bennington College. This leads me to a little Widmayer family joke to the effect that when Charlie married Lari, he was marrying the oldest living Bennington alumna, since she was in the first graduating class. Charlie's second assignment was an invitation to attend the 40th anniversary of the Sibley Award of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. "The DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE was the first recipi- ent of this award 40 years ago, and Charlie was on the staff. Six years later he captured the Sibley Award under his own editorship." Now for those who are hard pressed to identify the future generals and admirals pictured in the accompanying picture, here is the key. Left to right, front row: Bob Marr, Fran Horn, Chick Sherburne, Win Durgin, Frank Tragle, and Bill Fenton; second row: Wade Safford, Porter Haskell, Mrs. Tragle, Mrs. Funkhouser, Mrs. Godwin, Mrs. Duback, Mrs. Horn, and Mrs. Durgin; back row: Joe Placak, Mrs. Placak, Dick Funkhouser, Mrs. Callaway, Pete Callaway, Mrs. Marr, Les Godwin, Blair Wood, Stan Osgood, Paul Duback, George Mosher, and Win Stone. The time was June 22, 1945; the place, Stan Osgood's apartment; the occasion, the only 15th reunion these men, kept in Washington while the rest of the class convened in Hanover, could have! This picture, supplied by Bob Marr,"is one featured in a display of 1930 memorabilia in the Class of 1930 Seminar Room at Rockefeller Center, which many of you saw at the dedication of the room over the fall reunion weekend.

We have additional new items which we shall have to carry over to the November issue; be waiting for them!

When they couldn't make it to Hanover from Washington, DC, for their 15 th reunion in 1945because war-time military service kept them in the capital, these members of the class of 1930managed to create their own Washington-based, mini-reunion. Details on the gathering are in the'30 column.

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