1933
These notes are written on Sunday afternoon, May 1. You will read them after our 50th reunion is, I hope, fondly remembered and still talked about. And also because of the timing, I cannot even give you a report of Class Officers Weekend, scheduled for May 6—7. Most of your officers will be there, as they have been, faithfully, each of my four years as your secretary. They have come from as far as Florida and California to serve you and the College. If I can add anything to Bob Fox's report on "C.0.W.," I will send him a paragraph for his next newsletter.
As I said, before the next appearance of '33 class notes, there will have been the reunion and, within it, our class business meeting at which new officers may be elected. If there is some slip-up and old ones are re-elected, there is always the recall process open to you. In Rugen's ruminating fashion, he wants to say it's been an interesting, time-consuming, but very rewarding experience being your class secetary since the delayed 45th. I am not going to mention your other class officers for the past term by name you should by now know who they were, and you received in April the very useful "Class of 1933 Directory" from your 50th reunion committee. You can look them up. My fellow officers have been very supportive. I wouldn't want to take on this job at my age without such help. You classmates have been great also. If I have one negative remark, it's that you're too shy about writing to me or Bob Fox of your accomplishments and doings. If it's shyness, I urge more proud wives or friendly alumni to give us the glad tidings. Thanks, all!
On April 16, there was a big Hanover celebration over the most successful completion of the Campaign for Dartmouth. Attendees from '33 were Wes and Jan Beattie, Sam and Jean Black, Carl and Lillian Burrill, Jack and Dot Manchester, Jean Meek, and Jud and Ginney Pierson. Jan Beattie is still working assiduously, as a volunteer, in the Alumni Records Office and is enraptured with the computer.
As a follow-up on two paragraphs in Foxy's newsletter, I got in touch with Rufus "Curt" Read and Bill Foster. Curt is retired and has hobbies of amateur radio and golf. Recent hospitalization and recovery, unfortunately, will have kept him and his wife Helen from our 50th. Bill wanted answers as to why Dennis Dinan '61, former ALUMNI MAGAZINE editor, resigned or was discharged. Bob Fox wrote him, as did I. Things like that can happen in any organization. Both sides can make mistakes. Dartmouth has been a steadily healthy college since 1769. I expect it to continue to be such. I've made mistakes in my career (some beauts); have you not? Bill and his wife Julie are visiting China in May and hoped to have recovered in time to make our 50th. Bill was in General Mills, along with Jim McFarland They expect to see each other at that corpora- tion's "Old Timers' Day" and maybe discuss Foxy's and my letters as a side issue.
Henry Carruth, so far, did not plan to attend reunion. My source says that "he is very young-looking, very physically fit." He is a cuba diver has dived off the Great Barrier Rppf and, recently, the Philippines.
George Theriault has resigned as a selectman for Norwich, Vt. He has served since 1974 I doubt the town can select a more select man to carry on as selectman.
Stan Abercrombie wrote from the "wet coast," meaning San Francisco, in late March. He had a visit with Gil Beebe recently, as Gil returned from Tokyo, possibly still studying the effects on the survivors of the A-bombs. This was his assignment as director of the National Academy of Sciences some years ago.
I recently stopped by the home of Fran Birmingham (Fred's widow) in Scranton, Pa., and picked up 142 of Fred's books, beautifully packed in five cartons. I will deliver them to Baker Library as a gift in Fred's memory. I've been riding around with this valuable load in my trunk and will be glad to see it at Baker when I arrive in Hanover this Friday (May 6).
Gertrude Root (widow of Nat) can't get to reunion. She's going to Florence, Italy, to visit her daughter.
Dot Henderson (widow of Hugh) said she'd recently visited Charleston, S.C., and learned that the carriage horses there wear diapers. Neat! Something to tell the cowpokes back home in Boise, Idaho.
I had asked Polly Farrand (widow of George) to go up to reunion with Jan and me. She wrote me a note: "I simply can't do it. Dartrnouth meant so much to George. I'd see him everywhere in Hanover. May the reunion be'super' in every way. Be assured my love and thoughts are with everyone in the class of 1933."
Bless you all!
Robert S. Fox '33 was honored as Newsletter Editor of the Year for his 25 years of service in that post. He was cited for his "famous green sheet" and "steady flow of communication," as well as for his presidency of the Newsletter Editors Association, for his other College service as a club officer and fund-raiser, and for his receipt a few years ago of his own class's Out- standing Achievement Award.
N. Page Worthington '33 was named Class President of the Year for the "consistency of quality, involvement, and achievement in 1933 programs." Cited were three years of honorable mention for Class.of the Year, his "sunny letters annually to classmates, his "cheereading" for the class, his "quiet, patient guidance ; and, "above all, his zest for the Colege, the class, and the job of class president."
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