1924

You will have received by now the first report from Dick Morin's reunion committee about our big "60th" on June 11-13, 1984. If you have not already filled out the reply card, please do so, so that the hard-working committee may plan accordingly. Every indication is that it will be a great occasion. Don't

The mini-reunion over the Princeton game weekend was a conspicuous success. Those at the dinner Friday evening at the Inn in Norwich were Chinee and Margaret Allen,Stan and Barbara Chittick, Dave Dyche, Harry and Frances Holmlund, Dick and PaulineMorin, Rollie and Edna Taylor, Pete andAlma Wheatley, and Ed Winsor, together with widows Beatie Adams (accompanied by daughter Jean Wehe), Mary Bridge, Helen Coyle, Polly Hartshorn, and Lois Hersey.

After dinner, we were entertained by a professional pianist playing songs of our era. Chinee Allen and Rollie Taylor were vigorous in supplying the vocals, and the less articulate members of the group joined in with a more subdued style on the more familiar numbers.

Saturday morning the bequest committee met at 8:30 a.m. and then joined the rest of the group at a class meeting at 10:00 a.m. Several of us who did not work as hard as the bequest committee attended a "Breakfast with the President" session at the Hanover Inn, which involved all classes having reunion groups. President McLaughlin fielded questions from the audience in a lucid and masterly style. There was no question that the audience's reaction was that the presidency was in good hands.

In the absence of our class president, DonWilbur, Pete Wheatley presided at the meeting, at which we found out from Stan Chittick that we had had a surplus of receipts during the past year and were amply solvent. Rollie Taylor reported that we had exceeded our Alumni Fund goal for 1983 but that as a full reunion class in 1984, we should have to aim substantially higher for the coming year. Harry Holmlund, backed up by Dave Dyche, reported that there had been a few new living trusts established during the year, but not enough of them to qualify as good news. He said that: the good news was that no classmate who had made a bequest to the College had died during the year. You will be hearing more about this program from Harry and Dave in the coming months.

Chinee Allen reported on the memorial book program and said that we were substantially up to date. He has planned to have specimens of such books on display in the Hayward Lounge during reunion with instructions as to where other books given in memory of deceased classmates can be seen at the Baker Library.

Dick Morin then reported for the reunion committee, but as you will be hearing from him directly, there is no need to elaborate on this at the moment.

As you already know, the Princeton game was a'success and a fine opening for the season. The rain which started near the end of the first half drove some of us down under the stands, but miraculously it stopped raining before the beginning of the second half and as far as I could count, we had no one driven away by the short shower.

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