1934

It won't be long now before you'll be getting your updates "live" in Hanover instead of in this written fashion. Sam and Alec Carson are building up to an active reunion, where he will preside over the official '34 meeting. They have rented a house in Florida for the first month of spring as a place to assemble all five children with spouses and grandchildren the ninth of these arrived at year-end in Switzerland and provided Alex an excuse for a quick trip back to Geneva.

A recent magazine article covering Lake Placid as a tourist attraction spoke of the 1932 Olympics held there, and how, "fittingly, a congenial, rosy-cheeked native of Lake Placid became America's hero in those games: JackShea, who won two gold medals in speed skating." Then on a recent news broadcast I heard our Jack Shea mentioned as one of a group sent to Yugoslavia to scout the possibility of getting a future Winter Olympics back here. Maybe we'll have a chance to ask him about it in June.

Ollie Sargent, it turns out, had a valid reason for missing our fall mini-reunion. It conflicted with an American history group tour to participate in Paris, Versailles, and London ceremonies celebrating the 200 th anniversary of our Revolutionary War. After that he and Katharine rested in the Scottish Highlands.

While her home base is now Palm Beach, Fla.,Dottie Morton manages to get around to interesting new places. The next major trip will be with the Dartmouth Alumni group to Peru at the end of June. When not on a trip, Ethelyn Hedges is busy keeping track of her new grandchildren and her lawyer sons David, representing Houston Natural Gas in a merger situation, and Dan '68 U.S. Attorney for southern Texas. She will tell us more at reunion.

Now turning spotlight on three Tuck fellows, Ray Vickland retired from his long career with McKesson and Robbins, which culminated in a post as regional vice president. When contacted recently he was still to be found in Barrington, I11., active as trustee for an estate and a bank director. He has also, for the past five years, steered a class in the discovery of "Great Books" (shades of Mortimer Adler). Between duties, he and Margaret manage to check out sections of England and France.

Another whose retirement includes duties as a bank director is Bill Haist. They undoubtedly use his accounting acumen to spot trouble and opportunity ahead. He went directly into public accounting from Dartmouth and after getting his CPA joined Belknap Manufacturing, becoming general manager. He shifted for four years to American Standard before landing in his 20-year connection with the Sprague Meter Division of Textron as president. There were many civic and gas association activities along the way. Now he and Doe are enjoying the retirement life at Heritage Village, Southbury, Conn.

Then there is our memorial gifts chairman, Bill Daniells. Did you know he had a west to-east career? He went back home to Toledo after Dartmouth and let Libby Owens Ford Glass Company give him on-the-job training until he was superintendent in their safety glass plant. The Navy found him there and launched him in the Pacific aboard the Saratoga and Bennington carriers as aviation ordnance officer. He came back "to a blissful rural life working on a diary farm in Connecticut" until money demands forced him into working as a factory superintendent with a folding carton company. Then a bold move he and a partner bought a folding box company about to fold and, using his Tuck intuition, brought it back to flourishing life. With increasing demands for more capital and a new location he sold out and shifted into real estate until he retired to accommo date the "winters in Florida/summers at Cape Cod" life that he and Jane have become accustomed to, now that their three daughters and son Tom '76 are out of the nest.

Bill will be back at his Cape base soon and will check to see if his neighbor, Bill Scherman, has added to the heavy load of church and library work he acquired in his first years as a concerned citizen of Orleans as though being 1934's newsletter editor were not responsibility enough. One long-term responsibility for Bill and Gerry did get launched into independent orbit: son Dan '83 is with the Bank of Boston in the trust department.

While he's often found swimming in Florida, our retired '34 secretary, George Cogswell, surfaced long enough to report that he and June had returned from what he described as a super Mediterranean cruise (Athens to Lisbon) in time to get involved with Tom Hicks and Bob Engelman and call on Chicago area classmates to urge them to make the golden pilgrimage back to Hanover for June 8, 9, and 10.

That's a message that applies to all of us from all of us.

When the class of 1933 arrived on the Hanover Plain in the fall of 1929, 17 of the pea-greenerscame from Deerfield Academy. Last June, eight of the 12 surviving members of that groupgathered in Hanover for their 50th reunion. The mini-reunion of Deerfield '29/Dartmouth '33was captured in this photograph, which recently ran in Deerfield's alumni publication. Fromleft to right are (front) Bill Dewey, Bob Cox, Dick Graves, and Harry Osborne, and (back) HalSmith, Fran Harrington, Rip Ripley, and Dick Goldthwait.

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