1937

It's about time we second-handed the news to you from our Christmas card collection. Esther and Fred Mayo continue to say, "Some day we'll get back to Hanover," but they do love Sun City. Meantime they much enjoy the "Mint Bag," especially Rog's great reunion report with all the snapshots. They took a local five-week course on computers and got so hooked they were about to invest in one. A note from the Eldreds says Cal got to New England last June for his 50th reunion at Governor Dummer (Byfield, Mass.), a few hours in Hanover, thence to Eastman for a brief hello with the Bosworths, and back home. He and Fess are, he says, busy busy.

From the Florida coast. Betsy and BobRoss's Xmas picture in their tartan plaids with an all-green background looks very enticing. They moved from their condo across the street to a small house there in Stuart 1878 South East Coronado Lane and regretted missing fall reunion but it came too late in the fall this year. Ginny and Gus Farwell, also in Stuart, say more and more Dartmouth folks are showing up at their club, the latest being Bill Dewey '33, a cousin of Jud Smith. And heading for a month's trip south, including two weeks at Ormond Beach, were the DanaDouglasses, stopping with friends en route. Their bed and breakfast operation has become well established now on a year-round basis; tourists come from all over the country in the summer, then the skiers descend on them with the snow. They had 12 arriving for a week the day after Christmas. Betty andChuck Bassett were in Fort Myers for Christmas to join their Alaskan son Bob, who needed a change of climate and said Syracuse was not the answer!

Jean and Jim Luttrell continue to relish their island paradise (St. John's). Lots of changes in the five years they have lived there, not all for the better. Progress brings building and crowds who demand services and gripe at inconveniences, so summer is more enjoyable. (Like Cape Codders who prefer the opposite season for the same reason.) They miss their island buddy BobCheney, who decided to remain in New York this winter. After she gave up all sins, Jean's stomach ulcer is again OK but did bring on a slight girth gain. Millie and Fred Bunce now live in one of their son's homes in York, Maine, while arranging to build on their own property on Gerrish Island at Kittery Point. As this is being written Fred was up clearing the land so there is still much to be done.

Lynn and Dana Prescott's newsletter was more than a travelogue, but we find Dana still with Beckman (now Smith Kline Beckman) as a consultant. He does volunteer work with the Boy Scouts and is a mini-farmer. He comes east in June for his 45th at Harvard Business School. Myrtle and Tom McIntyre enjoy their new home in Rye Beach, N.H., but Tom seems most unhappy about the poor showing of male athletics in Hanover. Sherryand A1 Bryant's newsletter told of his rather remarkable recovery from three strokes last year; he came slowly back into normal activities like choir, golf, etc., then finally, with the doctor's blessing, took a 15-day trip to Austria, Germany, and Hungary.

The Ay 1 wards' newsletter told of Meg's return to the hospital when the 1979 artificial hip became loose and caused severe bone damage. To rectify this took a four-and-a- half-hour operation to put in a longer spike, a bone graft to strengthen the pelvis, plus an artificial layer over that to which a new socket was fastened. With a strict regimen of activity she made rapid progress so by late November she was swimming a quarter-mile. Bob is getting a first-class education in wifely duties.

Both Gib Reynolds and Ralph Griffith sent us news clippings headlined "Georgia mayor wants to buy Red Sox." Jim Gray, mayor of Albany, Ga., and owner of The Albany Herald newspaper, grew up in Westfield, Mass., and with three unnamed college friends who still live in New England was seriously considering making an offer of some $25 million. That was in January and at this writing no further news has developed, but the Red Sox management has been pretty much a mixed-up mess for a while and no doubt needs some good old New England savvy.

The 50th anniversary of America's first ski tow, on Gilbert's Hill in Woodstock, Vt.,in January, was a Big Green affair from beginning to end.Included in the month-long series of events was the dedication of a memorial to Wallace "Bunny" Bertram '31, owner of Woodstock's Suicide Sixski area for 25years; a reenactment of the first ski tow, which received extensive media coverage including from Tom Farmer '81 of WCAX-TVin Burlington, Vt.; a vintage skiwear contest in which "Bud" Titcomb '36 took second place; and a public relay race, in which Dartmouth teamscopped wins in two divisions. Pictured above are some of the participants. On theleft, from left to right, front row, are: Geraldine Ames, wife ofHarry Ames '61 and assembler of the Bertram memorabilia; Howard Chivers '39; Anne Craigue '80; David Bradley '38; Don Cutter '45; WarrenChivers '38 (with his brother Howard plus Bradley and Cutter winner of the "men over 50" relay race); and Harry Ames, who did publicity forthe celebration. In the back row are Joe Walsh '84, Aaron Solnit '83, and Dale Rodgers, coach of the Dartmouth development ski team all threeamong many Dartmouth relay skiers in the collegiate division. In the photoon the right are four '36ers, left to right, BillCrangle, "Bud" Titcomb,Brad Chase, and Morrie Paine. Sadly, just six weeks after the celebration, long-time Dartmouth Ski Area manager and Ski Hall of Fame memberHoward Chivers died; his obituary will be in an upcoming issue.

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