1938

Amazing '38 was well represented in the Yale Bowl yesterday (as I write), as it has been at all of the Dartmouth football games. But by the time you read this, the 1983 football season will have been long put to bed.

However, we are more interested in looking ahead, and since you are marking your 1984 calendar, put down these dates: The next fall mini-reunion is scheduled to be held on September 28-30, 1984. Base camp: the Sheraton North Country Inn in West Lebanon. Dick Francis promises another great weekend. The details will be sent out next spring. Bob Reeve reminds us that the glorious 50th will be held June 12-15, 1988.

In the literary corner: Bill Bronk of Hudson Falls, N.Y., continues his writings and did a poem for Governor Cuomo's inauguration. Marty King, who exchanges ideas with Bill, sent along the following poem.

"This Precious Moment" Let what was ... go. Let what will be . . . come. Let what is . . . be. Now is . . . forever.

Enjoy this Precious Moment. Norman Cousins continues to write very successfully about overcoming handicaps. There are many '38ers who are dealing with their problems quietly and successfully. It was great to see Bill Lyle and Jim Briggs at the mini-reunion. Bill reports that "my heart problem seems to be reasonably under control with drugs they decided that open heart surgery would not be possible, at least at this time. The program is a bit restricting and I have to watch over-exerting, which causes angina, but it isn't too bad. I still get in nine holes of golf a couple of times each week and often doubles in tennis."

Jim reported that he spent ten days in Hanover last July taking the cram course in Italian. Says Jim, "The program is a brain-child of the highly energized Professor Rassias, and for any alumnus interested in increasing proficiency in French, Spanish, German, or Italian I highly recommend it." Apparently it is quite an intellectual workout: eight hours a day for ten days. Jim Cooney, who participated in the French program in 1982, was back again in 1983.

Morgan Marshall, who helps track down news for the class notes from Bellevue, Wash., phoned on his way through Connecticut last fall. He had dropped in on GilTanis at Hanover and was on his way to a reunion of the aircraft carrier Mission Bay at Annapolis.

In an earlier letter, Morgan sent along the following news about Bruce MacMeekin of Seattle: "Bruce was over for dinner and I had a chance to take a good look at his car. Bruce bought the car in 1939. It is the only car he has ever had and he still drives it. As Bruce says, 'I am probably the only person in the world that can make that claim today.' " We are expecting a picture so that we can share this rarity with you.

Dave Bradley's No Place To Hide, pub- lished in 1948 and a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, has been out of print for years. The book was just reprinted in hardcover and paperback and released in November. After 35 years, the book is far from outdated.

When we reported that Jack Mcintosh of Chicago had 13 grandchildren we did not realize that others are right behind him. Jimand Ginny Chandler now count nine grandchildren. Howie Casler of Bend, Ore., last seen at the mini-reunion, is a great-grandfather. How about you '38ers bringing me up to date on your growing families? Jack Smillie of Ann Arbor, Mich., proudly

announced the birth of John Wilson Smillie III, who was named for Jack and his grandfather, a pioneer homesteader in Eaton, Colo. Jack is still practicing ophthalmology in Ann Arbor but is beginning to discover the joy of long weekends.

After 30 years in Miami, Dan and BettyQuilty have resettled in Ocala, Fla. Art Koeppel writes, "Retirement living within 25 miles of Hanover is really great. And Woodstock, Vt., makes it even better." Ted Thorne, now living in Wilder, Vt., advises that he spends each day at Baker Library, where he is working on a new book.

Joe Tardiff '37, whose mountain-climbing exploitshave been reported in the past in thesepages, poses beside a list of some of the manypeaks he has scaled.

Phil and Ginny Leach '38, who have hostedthree mini-reunion gatherings at their homeon Lake Morey in Fairlee, Vt., are chairing thelocal business section of the Wheaton CollegeSesquicentennial Campaign.

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