1933
'ALL IN KEY FOR '83" This is the penultimate class notes column before our 50th, on June 10, 11, and 12. And such are the vagaries of the delivery of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE that it could be the ultimate one you'll receive. Therefore, I repeat a few addresses you should have in case of changes your plans. We hope those changes are all positive.
Reunion chairman: E. S. "Jeff" Davis, Plymouth, N.H. 03264. Room reservations: Jud Pierson, 45 Rip Road, Hanover, N.H. 03755. Tennis anyone? Wood Foster, W1781 First National Bank Building, St. Paul, Minn. Golf foursome? Jack Manchester, 3 Dana Road, Hanover, N.H. 03755. Historic artifacts from your career which would be of interest in a '33 display? George Theriault, Main Street, Norwich, Vt. 05055.
This promises to be the biggest 50th ever at Dartmouth, with over 200 attending. Reunion Giving Chairman Mannie Sprague is hoping for a record dollar amount, too. He is sure we'll make it if we'll all think seriously about shooting for a gift of six times our usual annual amount. We're only 50 once!
Somebody out there really loves Jack Huntress and his "Sugar Bowl" restaurant in Scottsdale, Ariz. In fact, several bodies. I keep getting newspaper columns on it and not just from classmates. And did you know he was once the mayor of the town?
Lorrin Riggs received the Frederic Ives Medal from the American Optical Society in October. This is the highest award of the society and was given in recognition of his "lifetime of pioneering in electrophysiological, psychophysical, and other studies of the visual process." Lorrin retired in 1977 after a distinguished career as a professor of psychology at Brown University.
Your secretary goofed terribly in not previously mentioning that Douglas Alden, professor of French and chairman of the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Virginia, recently received an award from Sweet Briar College for his contributions, over many years, to the national "Junior Year in France" study program. The award ceremony was pictured in the December issue of the MAGAZINE, but it never received the attention it deserved in this space. Doug, too, had his connection with Brown University. He received his Ph.D. there, a good while back.
Henry and Polly Pierpont are still living in their Omaha, Neb., home, but they go to La Jolla, Calif., for the winter months. Henry, retired, is keeping busy serving on four foundations and occasionally serving three grandchildren.
Jim McFarland is another of those theoretically retired individuals no longer heading General Mills, but still serving on five directorates.
There wasn't room in last month's obituary on Alan Jaques to list all his accomplishments. He and Grace became so heavily involved in the Association for the Help of Retarded Children because of their fourth child,Nancy, who was affected by German measles prior to her birth. An article and pictures devoted to Grace and Alan's work in this cause appeared in the old Life magazine and there is also an entire chapter of a book concerning retarded children given over to describing the efforts of Dr. Alan Jaques in this area.
We had a letter from Don Phinney's youngest daughter. She had to place him in a nursing home, following an auto accident of a year ago. I do not yet have an address for that home.
In lighter vein, Captain Jack "The Maniac" Robinson sent us the following poem in honor of our 50th: "Fifty years a chamber maid and never dropped a pot!/Fifty years in this rat race and look at what I've got!/I'm old and slow, balding and gray, but it doesn't make me worry./ St. Pete can take me any time, but I'm in no damn hurry." I should have warned, "Beware
it's earthy!" (It was an earthen ware pot!) See you in June!
'33's ALL IN KEY FOR '83 50th
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