1933

Some more repercussions from our 50th (this could go on for years, it was that good): Walter Snead said the reunion was a momentous occasion for all of us. He would like copies of Jus Stanley's and President McLaughlin's talks at the class luncheon, and he thinks everyone else would, too.

Ruth Goldberg (widow of Morrell) thanks everyone who made her weekend so memorable, especially Emily Hobbs. (That Emily is a good one, as Win was! She sent in the note about Chet Thomson which appears further on.. She is a most welcome addition to our '33 executive committee.)

Bill Sherman says he is sorry he couldn't make reunion; he was in a hospital, but he hoped to make a mini this fall. His doctor wants him to gain weight. He's the same now as in 1933. Would that most of us were!

Mel Hershenson: "That weekend in Hanover was enjoyable beyond description. Page and all the fellows who worked on the various committees deserve our gratitude for making this milestone in our lives so meaningful and pleasant."

Ed Weidenhamer: "What a reunion! Virginia's and my first. The fun it was to see all the old goats [sic!] after 50 years, not to mention the magnificent planning and execution that went in to it. Tommie Maskelieson, my roomie for three years, was the only '33er I was absolutely sure I knew at first glance." (Weight again.)

Jack Brooke was sorry he couldn't make it too busy. There was a story and picture regarding this busyness in the June issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Paul Guibord '36 and Henry Conkle '39, president and vice president of the newly formed Dartmouth Club of the Western Carolinas, were pictured on either side of President David McLaughlin at the founding ceremony. Jack, another one of the founders and first secretary-treasurer, was too busy registering 90 members (and collecting dues) to get in the picture.

Lee Shaw was another whose health kept him from reunion, much to his regret. He sent me an article clipped from the Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Journal, quoting from an address by Meryl Streep, Vassar graduate and quondam Dartmouth student, at her Vassar reunion. "Good grades at Vassar were hard to come by. During a stint at Dartmouth, A's were conferred with ease and detachment." On the other hand (now back at Vassar), there were "others who were chunky, disastrously uncool people; the nerds. Vassar was full of nerds. The smart ones, the weird ones, the undateables."

Of the two Henry Smiths in '33, Henry C. Smith was a victim of a stroke and arthritis some years ago. He has been a patient in an Andover, N.J., intermediate care center for the past three years. "The time has passed quickly. I'd like to get out in the world again, but I'd have to walk better." Our other of the same name, Henry P. Smith III, as a follow up to the story on Roz and John Monagan's entertaining on the cocktail lounge circuit, said that he'd gone to the Lion's Gate Tavern, Marbury House, Washington, D.C... along with many other of their elder statesment friends. "There were four 'Sleepy Time Gals' (Roz's college quartet). Roz took the solo parts and was particularly good. John came on and accompanied himself on the piano, singing several ballads. An outsider entered the lounge and inquired whether it was an AARP meeting."

Bill Hitchcock says that he and Janet enjoyed a 12 day cruise to Alaska out of San Francisco. On board, they found Bob and"Dode" Fairbank, making their eighth trip with Royal Viking.

The Worthingtons have just returned from Amsterdam, Lucerne, and Munich. The Octoberfest had already started in the lastnamed city.

Also in September, Sid and Miriam Stone man were visiting Sardinia, Rome, and London.

Gay Milius was recently elected president of the Virginia Council, Retired Officers Association. He is also on the executive committee of the American Radio Relay League. He has recently spoken to Dick Dorrance '36 and Bill Leonard '37, in Brazil, on his short wave. Daughter Mitzi was with Gay and Martha at our reunion. She just received her B.A. from the University of Virginia and heads for Colorado to sell real estate and to ski on it.

Jack and Sally Paull's daughter Betsy was another who accompanied her dear old dad and mom to our 50th. She is an assistant buyer with Bloomingdale's in NYC and has her B.A. from Wayne State College, Detroit, Mich., where Jack practices law. Betsy's avocation is dancing for the theater. (Sally teaches that.) She fell in love with '33 and Dartmouth and would like to go there to get her master's degree (and to get Streep's easy A's?).

Emily Hobbs's news release on Chet Thomson: He was recently elected board president of the Westchester County, N.Y., Jewish Community Services, a state-certified child guidance and family mental health clinic. It is one more in a long list of services he has given to his communities, secular and religious.

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