1938

The headline on today's issue (October 12) of USA Today said, "Round Two: No Knockout." The issue has been clearly settled as you read this. However, we are delighted to report that the mini reunion, September 2830, was a knockout. Repeat, knockout.a wah hoo wah for Richard Francis, our esteemed mini reunion chairman. You should have received his report on the affair by now. Next year: October 11,12, and 13. Sheraton North Country Inn, West Lebanon. The game: Colgate. Foliage: at peak. Details forthcoming from Dick Francis in the spring. Mark the date.

Fifty years ago. The statement by Bob Ross urging early payment of dues deserves a repeat. "It was precisely 50 years ago this month (September) that our association with Dartmouth College really began. In September, 1934, we came together in Hanover for the first time, well over 600 of us (707), the pea green freshmen, the class of 1938. We wore had to wear those telltale green beanies with the white buttons on top. Commanded by countless lordly sophomores, we lugged countless desks, couches, rugs from the fourth floor of Lord or Streeter to the fourth floor of New Hampshire or Topliff. We crowded into Commons, ate at the long oak tables, and listened as our freshman orchestra up in the balcony beat out 'Judy' or 'Stars Fell on Alabama.' We trooped one by one into President Hopkins' office to be greeted and handed our certificates of matriculation. We sat in the rain in the stadium for the opening game against Norwich, belted out 'Dartmouth's In Town Again' and 'Eleazar Whee lock,' and gave a 'short cheer team.'

"And then the ultimate event of that first week: the College convocation in Webster Hall where we swelled with a little 18 year old pride when Mr. Hopkins began his address to us with the momentous words, 'Men of Dartmouth. . . .'It was all a very heady experience. But we were indeed or at least, we were on our way to becoming men of Dartmouth."

From another traveler, Lew Parker of Camden, Maine: "We will sail on August 31 from Montreal in the Polish liner Stefan Batory.The timing is dictated by a seminar on 'The Shipowner in History' at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, at which I am scheduled to read a paper on William F.Palmer and the Palmer fleet of Boston." Lew expected to be back in Boston on November 1. He goes on to say, "We had a grand Alumni College trip to the Danube last month.Barbara and Ray Ammerell and Betty and HamMitchell were in our section, and we saw GilTanis and Bob Reno for a few minutes when we met the other section in Budapest."

Hal and Ruth Berman are moving from Boston to Atlanta, where Hal will be teaching at Emory University. Hal will be giving some of the same courses that he has taught at Harvard Law School for the past 36 years. There will be sgme exciting new things to do, since he can stay on indefinitely instead of having to "drop out at 70." New address (after January 10):36 Lullwater Estate Road, Atlanta, GA 30307.

Robb Kelley, chairman and chief executive officer and treasurer of Employers Mutual Casualty Company, EMCASCO Insurance Company, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws from Drake University, Des Moines, lowa, last spring. Robb became a Drake University trustee in 1964 and served as chairman of the board from 1978 to 1982. Robb and Win were on hand for the minireunion. Robb, with the assistance of EdWhite, lifted Dick Francis bodily to the podium at dinner on Friday night (September28) at which time Dick was presented with a green jacket with letters on the back reading Dartmouth Tour Guide, 1938.

Sedate and settled? Bob and Betty Foley moving to Boca Raton in January.DonBadger remarried and moving to Texas.Dickand Evelyn Holt have bought a condo and moving one mile (!) from their present address. Harry and Barbara Connor pulled up Cape Cod roots and are now "settled" at 531 Bay Ville Lane, Naples, FL 33963. Although a resident of Hanover, and retired, our successful head agent appears to be never settled. We continue to receive reports of his appearance in various parts of the world.

Remember,if you have just retired or are retired, it's a whole new world and not the end of everything.

Officers of the class of 1938 gathered at the Woodstock Inn in Norwich, Vt., in late September for amini-reunion. Pictured, left to right, are Bob Hallock, vice president; Gil Tanis, head agent; GusHennessey, secretary; Bob Ross, treasurer; Richard Francis, mini-reunion chairman; and Bob Reeve,president.

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