1937
Fall reunion was the usual assembling of old friends, annual reminiscing, and like all our reunions, highly enjoyable. Weather was great, football game with Penn was our first disaster of the season. Friday night was dinner at the Inn in a private dining room with cocktails provided by an appreciated but unknown sponsor. The speaker was the new director of athletics, Ted Leland, who is most impressive, while fighting the statistics which show the women's athletics results superior to the men's. After all, every female admitted takes the place of a potential male football player so we must relate that to our Ivy League standing. Unfortunately the pub-lic places too much emphasis on comparing mutual success of a college with its football standing. Ted is building for the future in all phases so we can hope that the Dartmouth Sponsor Program, seeking funds to support our adopted classmate Whitey Burnham's program to fly in good prospective athletes for a look at Hanover and to meet with College people, will help the football program. It's perfectly legal, all the Ivy League does it; we just have to find good candidates interested in Dartmouth. Get in touch with Vin Turecamo if you know any good ones.
The class meeting Saturday morning at Ho Jo's showed our treasury solvent and our scholarship program in gear. Our 1937 student on campus is a girl, Lynn Tracy, from Hartford, N.Y., and an outstanding recipient. She was spending the fall trimester in England, so she was unable to be with us as we had hoped.
Saturday buffet was most successful at the old Coolidge Hotel in White River, now renovated, with an excellent reputation for cuisine par excellence. Thank goodness StanBerenson took piano lessons as a child so we had music to sing by after dinner. We, like other classes, are so fortunate in having resident classmates on the Hanover scene. Bethand Jud Smith put on a delightful brunch with Bloody Marys, quiche, fruit, and oldfashioned hash brown potatos on the lawn, overlooking Baker Tower, at their new Hill Top Lane home; the brunch was about 100 percent attended.
Plans are growing for the BIG 50th in 1987 with a questionnaire going out in the near future for the individual biographies for the 50th book. Rog Allen is chief organizer, so be sure to comply when you receive it. We also have a tough assignment to match or exceed 1934's reunion gift last year of more than amillion dollars! Charley Collis and Fran Fen are organizing that aspect so we will all be hearing from them in due time.
You will be hearing more particulars on the fall reunion from our master reporter,log Allen, in the near future.
Sam Dillon chose September to come stateside to further promote his guest house, The Pink Fancy, on St. Croix. Actually, while we were gathered in Hanover, he said Jean andJim Luttrel were staying there. How about a response on that, Jim? We were sorry to have Sam tell us his marriage to Dorothy did not work out; they are divorced but remain good friends. Sam had spent a few days visiting his old friend Bob Woodruff in Kennebunk port, Maine. Bob was supposed to have retired from Florida and be sitting around biting his nails, but instead he is extremely busy flying in and out of New York selling newspapers. Not like it sounds!!! His experience in that business has given him numerous contacts, and he is actually a newspaper broker, selling news organizations as going units. Sam says Bob's phone never stopped ringing while he was there. That weekend he was deep in a very large operation which, we hope he will tell us about someday, if it works out!
Among many items discussed at the class meeting was a possible class organized trip abroad. Hank Pierce is in charge and checking on a 12 day trip (London, thence to ten days on the Rhine River Boat). Estimated costs will be $1,500 per person. A show of hands made it appear a popular possibility; if you are interested write to Hank and get your name on the list. We were unable to talk to John Doukas, who was napping. His di abetes goes on and he sleeps a lot, but Mary takes good care of him. He is not a well guy.
Jock francine spent two days fishing at Cobb's Camps on Pierce Pond in Maine where, among the record holders for trout caught, was listed the name of Marge Doran one at five pounds and one at three and one half pounds. Since anything to qualify must exceed three pounds, looks like Ben got his skunked! Can this be a true story?
For years before he retired, Charley Fowler was connected with the hanscom Air Force Base Library. The library is a very complete one, used extensively by Air Force people, civilians, and senior scientists; Charley was a specialist in the work and proud to have been involved with such a renowned place.
Jim Otis went to Denver, Colo.,for the second reunion of NVSBD 331, the Marine Divebomber Unit with which he served in World War 11. They mustered about 20-25 pilots and gunners. We noted recently a picture of VP Bush stepping into an SBD that had been especially resurrected for a ceremony recalling his being shot down and rescued in the South Pacific.
To keep old records straight: Jack Costello does not run the Lowell Sun newspaper. His brother does. Jack's interest is all cars.Called "1400 Motors," one unit is in lower Nashua, N.H., another in Portsmouth, N.H., where they do leasing of Chrysler, Plymouth, and AMC cars, and another is a Cadillac agency.
Jack Kenney has just completed his 22nd year of operating their tennis camp in Franconia, N.H. It is truly an international operation. They had 44 students for four weeks last summer. Besides a U.S. following they had some from Tokyo and from France. Back in 1962, Jack was seriously injured when kicked by a horse. In 1963 he decided, since his arm had healed satisfactorily and because he was grateful, he would work with disabled kids and since that time has volunteered his tennis expertise to disadvantaged kids in Roxbury, blind kids at Perkins Institute in Watertown, Mass., and other places as well. Good man!
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