1928
Hal Moody's big ice boat is a familiar winter sight on Mascoma Lake, four miles from Lebanon, N.H. Hal, 78, a former high school principal in Lebanon and Enfield, lives in Enfield right by the lake. If the wind is not too strong and the snow is not deep, then the lake is navigable, as it was when a Valley News photographer took a full page of pictures. Often Hal takes children out for a spin in the afternoons after school. On this particular day he was accompanied by his wife Laura and a friend. Wish we could show you all five pictures, including the one in which Hal demonstrates the proper steering method with one's feet. But we've arranged to at least have one of the pictures reproduced on the next page.
Hal built his iceboat for $l0, the cost of material for the sail. A spruce tree in his garden was felled for the mast, and the rest of the boat was constructed with scraps of this and that around the house.
Hal moved on from Lebanon to higher administrative positions, retiring in 1969 after eight years in Dartmouth, Mass.
The big news this month is the approaching marriage of a '28 widow and a '28er. A December 28 note from Al Lathrop of San Francisco says he and Dotty Russell are going to be married probably in late May, and in any case before the 55th, which they will attend. Dotty has a new condo in Scottsdale, Ariz. Al spent the holiday season in Scottsdale, and they are both very happy about their approaching new status.
A Christmas card from Joe Chay gives a new address: 193 Fuh Wong Ist Road, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China.
In case you missed seeing the picture of President and Mrs. McLaughlin escorting Myles Lane to the pep rally for the Harvard game, look on page 23 of the November ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The front section of that issue was devoted to "Dartmouth at the Movies" and took six months to research and prepare a "Wah Hoo Wah" for the staff for such a marvelous job. Under the heading "Starring . . . don't miss the first male lead on the list Ted Baehr on page 33.
Various notes: Jack and Peg Zellers are spending the month of March on St. Barts; as Jack says, "Back to the same place, with nothing else to do but swim, walk on the beach, and lead a slow-down life." Jack and Fran Kenerson are spending the first three months of the year in Green Valley, Ariz. Budd and Mibs Maring are spending April at the Anchorage on Antigua, their favorite place.
The Baviers came north from Siesta Key, Fla., to attend the wedding of their granddaughter, Sara Sue Strong, and Reed Wilbur in Freeport, N.Y., on January 1.
Elly and Nellie Jones of Cave Creek, Ariz., are having a problem of whose 55th to attend. It will be Nellie's 55th at Northwestern, and since they both grew up in the north shore suburbs of Chicago, and their son is located there, that gives them a pretty strong pull to Nellie's 55th. We will have to wait and see whether they'll make it to Hanover for our June 13-15 gathering.
Mail has come back addressed to MonaWesthaver in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Her relatives live in Worcester, Mass. Can anyone help find her address?
We are sad to report the sudden death of Craw Pollock on January 16.
Hal Moody '28 has achieved some measure of renown in the Upper Valley as an inveterate ice-boateron hake Mascoma in Enfield. The subject of a recent photo-feature spread in The Valley News, Moody is pictured here aboard his home-built craft with his wife haura (right) and a neighbor,Bettina Corliss (left). The boat is made almost entirely of found materials; note the pieces of oldangle-iron and the discarded double-blade skates used as runners and the spruce tree mast. More onMoody's ice-boating is covered in the 1928 class notes column.
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