1928

In September, Tavey and Lou Taylor stopped in Grants Pass, Ore., and called Van and Dorothy Curll to see if they were home. Van met them at a shopping center and guided them to their "hide-away" bordering the Rogue River. Tavey says they have a lovely spot in the timberland and you need a guide to find the place. The Curlls spend six months in Grants Pass and six months in southern California.

The entire California-based branch of the Tavey Taylor family (11) went to Maine November 8 for an early Thanksgiving with their daughter at Alna. Their other daughter and family from Brattleboro, Vt., joined them. Tavey and Lou really get around having just returned to their home near San Francisco on October 10 after the '28 mini in Hanover.

Bob Kilgore and Mrs. Mildred Calder, one of the best-known artists at Heritage Village in Southbury, Conn., will be married on Thanksgiving Day..

Bud Mann's widow Ruth of Franklin, Mass., writes that her granddaughter, Cary Mann, is a freshman at Dartmouth and is playing in the marching band. Her dad is Dick Mann '57 of Walpole, Mass. Bud and his son lived in New Hamp, and now Cary lives there.

The Barre-Montpelier, Vt., Times Argus carried a picture of John Stone and his son standing beside Marv Throneberry, former major league first baseman, while he autographed souvenir baseballs for them. John Jr. had won free trips to the first two games of the 1983 World Series in Baltimore.

Bruce and Thelma Lewis report they are constantly on the go with friends in Lost Tree Village, North Palm Beach, Fla., plus keeping in touch with their 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, with two more on the way. Incidentally, Bruce's daughter, Mary Virginia, born May 22, 1929, is the "class baby." Thelma plays bridge three times a week and Bruce plays golf twice a week and continues to be active in Rotary.

Virginia and Tim Paige, long-time regulars at our reunions, are relieved that Tim's health problems have been resolved successfully. A small cancer was removed from the upper intestine, which was restructured. All is healthy, and no further treatments are scheduled. He has been home since Septemer 19 long enough for the arthritis in his ankle to take top position on the complaint list. This ankle was broken while playing baseball for Dartmouth and that slide into second base has come back to haunt him.

Our annual mini-reunion was held October 7-9 at the Norwich Inn and was a great suc- cess the 26th consecutive affair at the same location and with the same organizer HerbSensenig. There were 41 attending the party that Herb and Mimi gave the Friday night before the William and Mary game. The affair adds to the enjoyment of the weekend; I'll have to ask Mimi when they started it about the time Wat Dickerman, Al Fowler,Bill Marx, and George Klein provided the music in the Sensenig kitchen for those who wanted to sing. There were others who came to the football game but had to leave right afterward, including Red and Fonty San-born, Budd and Mibs Maring, and probably many others.

There were 50 who came to the dinner at the Norwich Inn after the game. President Rick Rickenbaugh presided at the head table, and Art Kneerim and John Phillips introduced our guests Colleen Larimore '85 and Matthew Glendinning '87, the first two '28 Scholars. Before our 55th reunion, the class started a 55th reunion gift project to perpetuate the memory of the class by establishing the Class of 1928 Memorial Scholarship Fund, entirely separate from the Alumni Fund. This is an endowment to provide tuition assistance to deserving students, with preference given to undergraduates related to '28ers.

Sufficient funds were received by our 55th to enable the first '2B Scholar to be named Matt Glendinning, grandson of Geoff andEve Glendinning and the son of the Rev. David Glendinning '58, rector of St. Paul's Church, Concord, N.H. Matt's twin sisters graduated from Dartmouth the day before our reunion started.

During the summer, additional endowment gifts were received to enable Jack Kenerson and Gwynne "Curly" Prosser to announce the name of a second '28 Scholar, Colleen Larimore '85, a Native American from Massachusetts who has worked three summers for the National Park Service and plans a career in that field.

Sadly, news has just reached us of the death, on Septemer 24, of Al Lathrop, after a week in the hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz.

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