1933
This month's column starts off with news from three of your class officers. President Page Worthington has been working with Treasurer Sam Cunningham, getting slowmoving class dues-payors to come through. Results are good the highest percentage of participation in ten years.
Sam goes on, "To date, 282 classmates and 27 widows have paid dues. Page and I are frequently on the phone or writing notes to delinquents during the collection period." It's great to see such results, but those two didn't expect to be working so hard in their retirement years. Next year, get it up promptly and let them relax.
Socially, in Sarasota, Fla., Sam is also busy. There are about 120 in the local Dartmouth Club, which holds club luncheons the second and fourth Tuesday every month. "Waxy"Wright, Jack Manchester, and Dick Goldthwait have shown up at these. There is also an Ivy League Club with luncheons the first and third Tuesdays. At the latter, more formal, jackets and ties are worn, with dark green predominate at one or two tables. On March 17, Dartmouth's and Penn's baseball teams are playing down there, under lights, in "spring training." A lot of Green will be showing.
Jud Pierson, along with his fine letter and brochure about the Dartmouth bequest program, sent me a note about the DCAC "Wearers of the Green" dinner in Boston, April 27. Jud, Mannie Sprague, and maybe BillMcCombs are going as members of Dartmouth's last and championship water polo team. It will be quite an evening, with President McLaughlin speaking and many other of Dartmouth's renowned athletes attending.
Bill Lang, also wintering in Florida, says he keeps working once a week as a hospital volunteer and is a director of his condominium association, where members are mostly retired, in their seventies, crochety, with loads of ideas of how things should be done. Bill and Llda play tennis, and now more golf. Their night life is active with bridge, concerts, and theater. As a change, he helps Bob Niebling with the Alumni Fund, west coast Florida division.
Bob Estes, lawyer and former VP of General Electric, now retired, has recovered from three hip operations and a new procedure on his left knee. He expects to get back to low 90s golf. His wife Pan, former club champion, can still break 80 at the Apawamis Country Club in Rye, N.Y. Pan got her nickname not from playing pipes or golf; she was Priscilla A. Nelson before becoming an Estes.
At Levensaler, too, has had his bouts with poor health this winter but has gained back ten of the lost 15 pounds as a Florida snowbird.
John Monagan and Hank P. Smith both reported to me the death of Cal Milans, whose obituary will appear in this or the next issue. There was a memorial service in Bethesda, Md., attended by Page Worthington,Dick Lyon, Larry Reeves, Emily Hobbs, and Hank and John. All but the last two had been in the Washington, D.C., high school system with Cal. Dick Lyon was a fraternity brother in high school and then roomed with Cal freshman year at Dartmouth.
John M., 1933's assistant secretary, usually a bearer of good news, also says that GeorgeWerrenrath died on February 14 (his obituary will be in an upcoming issue) and that TedPurcell had suffered a massive coronary. You have a '33 directory send Ted a note, or send up a prayer, or do both.
Fran Birmingham, widow of Fred, sent me a good letter, saying that the College had given her an appraisal, for tax purposes, of the books she gave to Dartmouth in Fred's memory She was pleased with the way the College took care of this.
Mel Katz sent me a clipping from the Deerfield Academy Alumni Magazine which shows eight of the 12 surviving Big Green members of Deerfield's class of '29, as they attended their 50th reunion at Dartmouth. Deerfield kindly shared the photograph with our ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and it is reproduced near this column.
Mel said the "Mud Season" had already started in Hanover. That was in late February. It has now been suspended temporarily, as I write in early March.
Remember "D.C.'33" on May 14 and 15. I understand letters have gone out to those within 200 miles of Washington. Aliens are welcome! Write Pete Hart!
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