1933

In the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, I took more than my allotted space, thanks to a very kind editor who felt that a 50th reunion deserved a little elasticity in the rules. These present notes may cover more that I couldn't get in the last.

Reunion Giving Chairman Mannie Sprague marveled to some of us there at 1933's history of giving to the Alumni Fund (breaking the Dartmouth record at our 25th, and now again, at our 50th), in spite of our graduating during the Great Depression and in spite of many having our budding careers nipped by World War II. He wondered how many careers had been interrupted. I now have a partial answer. Out of 188 living classmates in the A to M section of the alphabet, 106 were on active duty in the Armed Forces during those critical years; nine changed from their old jobs to enter government service; and 28 changed from their old jobs to ones more closely connected to war work. The remaining 45 were obviously exempt already in government work, already in defense industry or otherwise exempt work, or already like the old woman who lived in a shoe. Yes, Mannie, '33 has been resilient!

Heagan Bayles sent me a note saying that he couldn't be with us at reunion because one of his daughters was getting married on June 11. He praised those who worked so hard to make our 50th so successful. Now, here they are: In addition to the aforementioned Mannie, there was Head Agent Bob Niebling. Jeff Davis was reunion chairman. Jud Pierson and Jack Manchester shared the job of reunion treasurer. JefFs committee members were Wes Beattie, Bob Trask Cox, George Drowne, Mel Katz, Dumps MacCarty, Jean Meek, George Theriault, and Jack Wright. Our heartfelt thanks, along with Heagan's praise, go to them all.

Two of those on Jeffs committee have their thumbs in more than one pie, as you can see in the picture on the next page. Expect to sample some of Wes Beattie's and John Manchester's creations when you tailgate at mini-reunions in Hanover this fall.

More as a result of the big reunion: Each night, Ted Allen played the piano for group singing in the tent. The old glee clubber, Harry Osborne, led it Saturday night. Dick Rocker sent his best to us. Operations on both knees and hips prevented his joining us. He is counting on coming to the 60th. Pete Mankowski and Claris are so heavily involved in an apparently Edenic real estate development called "The Sea Ranch," about 100 miles north of San Francisco, that they couldn't get east either. Pete invites any '33ers to have a minireunion luncheon with them at the Sea Ranch Lodge, whenever. We had another '33 "relative" graduate from Dartmouth this June. Elizabeth Davis, widow of George Davis and now married to George's older brother, Jonathan '27, T'28, wrote that her step-grandson made it and goes on to Tuck this fall. She hopes one or more of her own eight grandchildren will follow the example of their grandfather George and their two fathers.

Bob Trask Cox and Flint Ranney '56 have established a Dartmouth book award program in nine southern California prep schools and a local high school to encourage interest in Dartmouth on the part of graduating seniors.

It was Len Shortell '35 who sent me the news (passed on to Bob Fox's newsletter) about Roz Monagan and her "Sleepy Time Gals" hitting the saloon circuit in the Capitol City, with John Monagan playing an occasional piano. I've tried to call the Monagans several times, to see how it worked, but no one answered the phone. That doesn't indicate success or failure. Simply that everyone leaves Washington in August.

The mini-reunions have already started. There was that report in the newsletter of the one at Mount Moosilauke, attended by the Burbanks, Goldthwaits, Beatties, and Davises. Wes didn't cook she kissed him.

Carleton and Lillian Burrill attended Alumni College this summer. He reports that also present were Sam and Jean Black, "Farmer" Kirkham, Gobin and Julia Stair, and George and Ray Theriault. Professor Emeritus Theriault was one of the seminar leaders.

Since this issue (the first of the fall) won't get into your hands before October 8, the 1933 mini-reunion on that date will be a thing of the past by the time you read this. So we'll have to depend on Bob Fox's newsletter for notice of the gathering. (For those of you who have had concerns about ALUMNI MAGAZINE delivery over the past year, the Magazine's usual schedule calls for mailing in the middle of the month. This means that you could normally expect to get it in your hands around the third or fourth week of the month. However, the problems at the Magazine over the past year have caused delays of several weeks so in some cases mailing has been into the next month; and, in a few cases exacerbated by further postal delays, receipt has been into the second month after. But the Magazine staff expects to be back to its usual schedule soon. You are thanked for your kind patience.)

Pictured in a recent issue of the Hanover Co-op grocery store's newsletter were two members of the classof 1933 WesBeattie, left, and Jack Manchester. The pair was described as "proud graduates ofthe recent cooking class, 'Out of the Frying Pan.' " The emphasis of the course was on preparingnutritious foods, such as whole wheat pie crusts and rice-sesame pudding. Beattie was quoted assaying, "The only cooking I had done was in Boy Scouts when they'd give you a merit badge forcooking the food and keeping it down. This course gave me the confidence to cook and try somethingnew."

Thoroughly bridging the generation gap with Dartmouth degrees are John Monagan '33, a formerU.S. Representative, and his daughter Susan '83. They are pictured last June as the Monaganfamily was celebrating both a 50th reunion and a commencement.

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