1927
A few days ago, in looking through some old papers of my late father, class of '00, I came across an interesting envelope. It bore a twocent, first-class postage stamp, was postmarked Hanover, N.H., September 23, 1923, and contained a letter that yours truly had written only a week after he had set foot in that place for the first time in his life. Here are three sentences from that letter: "At 3:00 a.m. this morning, Sunday, six freshmen hoisted our 1927 banner up to the top of the flagpole on campus, tied its rope up about 60 feet from the ground, and greased the pole so that no sophs could get it down. This afternoon, however, the sophs herded our entire class, about 600 strong, out on the campus and forced one freshman to climb up the pole and take down the banner. ... I may not be able to wear the sportshirts that Mother sent me because we freshmen all have to wear neckties all of the time, meals included." (Sweet memories, eh?)
In a more recent vein, Tom Anglem is about to start taking piano lessons. One of the things that he and Marion enjoy most about retirement is traveling the width and breadth of the land to visit grandchildren, of which they have two in California and two on the Gulf Coast one in New Orleans and one in Grader, Miss.
Josh Davis's widow, Jill, took a trip to Alaska last summer, returning home to New Jersey via ship through the Panama Canal. She enjoyed Alaska so much that she wants to go back to see more of it.
On his annual trip east from Tyler, Tex., last fall, to visit his aged mother in Winona, Minn., Kroggie Krogstad stopped off in Mechanicsburg, Pa., for a visit with Ross Lyon, who briefed him on the 55th reunion.
Mike Choukas, who unfortunately has been in and out of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital many times during the last few years, is now feeling much better and was planning to drive from his home in Portsmouth, N.H., to spend Thanksgiving with his son Michael Jr. '51, who is active in the leadership gifts program of the Campaign for Dartmouth and lives in Hanover with his family.
Norm Swift was planning a somewhat longer trip for the Christmas holidays, forsaking Montrose, Va., to visit his daughter near San Francisco and later a son and his family in Dallas, Tex.
Another classmate who is not content to stay at home is Charlie Fleischer of Highland Beach, Fla., who in October was off to visit some friends in Mexico.
Bill Elliott, following the death of his wife early last year, has recently sold his house in Cambridge, Mass., and moved to smaller quarters, namely a townhouse at 89 Falmouth Court in Bedford, Mass. This is part of a newly-completed retirement complex containing complete medical, dining, social, and other conveniences. In talking to us recently, Bill indicated that he is very happy to have made the move. He still works two or three days a week in various libraries at Harvard University "to keep me in beer money," as he put it.
We spoke with Class Treasurer Jay Willing a few days ago and learned that he is exceedingly pleased not only with the large number of congratulatory "Dear Jay" notes he's gotten but also with the number of checks that he received in payment of our modest ($l5) class dues in response to his request of last fall. We share with Jay his special gratification over the fact that the responses included 47 from class widows more appropriately referred to as our lovely, loyal ladies.
We regret to have to report the deaths of three classmates Robert H. Treat on November 27, 1982; Lawrence I. Duncan on December 18; and G. Doane Arnold on January 21. We had heard from Doane, who tirelessly served the College and was a frequent contributor to this column, just before he left for Arizona, where he passed away. He had reported that, except for the few winter months when he went south, he busied himself delivering meals on wheels to shut-ins in his hometown of Bridgton, Maine. All three classmates will be missed, and their obituaries will be in this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE.
That's it for now.
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