1937

We're halfway through the Alumni Fund drive, and it seems we only finished the last drive two weeks ago! At least the pressure is less with the completion of the highly successful Campaign for Dartmouth, which raised $204 million. Our modest goal now is $100,000, so let's get behind our new, recycled agent, Al Bryant, and give him all the support we gave to Gene Jones.

An overlooked item tells us that Bob Weeks retired seven years ago from the presidency of the Shuron Optical Company in Rochester, N.Y. He serves on various local boards library, etc. and doesn't have enough time for golf. Another retiree, John Detlefsen, claims he has not found that life of leisure that title implies, as he is working for H&R Block while Ellie does volunteer work for the Virginia Museum in Richmond.

The Ben Dorans and Bill Heroys combined for a 40-day cruise-type voyage on a freighter, the Shirley Lykes, through the canal and down the West Coast to Chile. The ship only takes 12 people. They were thrilled to pass a nuclear sub in the canal. Stan and Connie Berenson got together with the Lappins in Palm Beach and they both got together with Sally and Hal Gould for a New Year's Eve of just plain chitchat to welcome in 1983. Sounds like most of us these days. We checked with Arny Shapiro's secretary to find that he and Dot are, as usual, at their place in Palm Beach until May. We were pleased to hear that Dot now has a clean bill of health from the doctors.

Charley Pingree has been much too quiet since he retired from the bank. After reunion last spring, Ry and Bob Areson disinterred him for a get-together. Charley is treasurer of the Duxbury Yacht Club as well as of the Bay State Seniors Golf Association. Ry and Bob Areson spend summers at her old family place in Truro on the Cape. Monk Amon tells us that old buddy Claude Clark thinks he is retired but is actually so busy he is not! Monk took a combined pleasure-business trip in April to Amsterdam, Madrid, Bangkok, Melbourne, and on to Honk Kong to visit son Hank, who lives there and is a lawyer.

A card from Lynn and Dana Prescott reported on two weeks in Tobago with friends, thence to Georgia and Florida en route to Palo Alto. Also one from Rachel Laughton from Florida where, in addition to other things, she visited Phil Conti and attended a Dartmouth meeting. Like everyone else this season, she reported the weather too cool and rainy. Barbi and Dana Douglass spent a month there touring around in their new Citation visiting friends. They too complained that the weather cut into their golfing. Their new home venture, "Bed and Breakfast," is proving to be quite active, averaging about ten people over weekends during the winter. Barbi signed up with the Hanover offering for the Alpine trip to see Bavaria, etc.

Katie Brooks's father, who lived next door to them in Gloucester, died last fall, so Lam, has spent most of his time with paint and paper getting his house ready for rental. Katie was pleased to get a surprise phone call from Joe DeMay in New York who (as the ad says) just called to say hello. The Brookses' only luxury was a trip to Oregon last Christmas to be with their daughter.

Al Romanow has expanded his corrugated cardboard box business into a "complete packaging" operation, offering a service where "you show us the item and we'll provide all the packaging you'll need for it." His two boys are with him in the business. Al and Bert try to make ah the Alumni Colleges. They went to Barbados last year and just missed seeing Bill Timbers.

Janet and Tom Nast took a four-week trip to Peru, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands, where the birds and animals are so fearless of humans they have to walk around them. At one point their group was in a motor launch which broke down on the Amazon River. They had to be rescued by the Peruvian Navy. The group went through the Lima airport six times and each time one or more of them had their baggage rifled. Tom says, "Not a trip for novice travelers."

Lin Marr is very much retired and spends the bulk of his time reading. He and Margaret take long walks and Lin particularly likes to just get in the car and drive around locally.

Eleven members of a southern contingent of '35s and their wives gathered in March for a cocktailparty at the home of Ralph and Trudie Specht in Sarasota, Fla., when Ralph's brother Frank andhis wife Edie came for a visit. Present were, from left to right, front row: Cherry Ryder, AudreyRichter, Ralph Specht, Trudie Specht, and Bob Richter; second row: Frank Specht, Dot Russell,Edie Specht, Gwen Webster, Ann Ferries, and Alison and Joe Fellows; third row: Ken Websterand Harry Ferries; and fourth row: Rem Ryder, Bill Russell, Jean Ritchie, Eaura Moulton, ReyMoulton, Reg and Babs Bankart, and Al Ritchie. Specht noted that two classmates unable toattend were Bob McClellan and his wife Lois and Arthur Allyn and his wife Dorothy Allynbecause he was in Chicago recuperating from quadruple by-pass heart surgery.

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