1927

The 1984 Alumni Fund campaign is now upon us and our head class agent Bob Williamson and more than 40 eager assistant agents are head over heels in their efforts to make it a huge success as far as 1927 is concerned. Make their job a lot easier, and Bob's a lot happier, by mailing in your check or pledge at an early date if you have not already done so. The area fund kick-off luncheon at the Harvard Club in Boston on February 15 was attended by Paul Hannah, Bob Williamson, and Seth Besse, who came up from New Bedford, Mass.

In reporting the foregoing meeting to us, Seth wrote, "I am now in the third month of my 1984 golf season. I played three or four times in January, again in February, and in March had a good 16-hole match. Members were not allowed to use the regular greens and tees and took preferred lies everywhere. Not exactly golf, but fun, nevertheless."

Gordon Smith, when thanking us for his latest class birthday card, summarized his 1983 activities as follows: "We still drive to our summer place on Keezer Lake in Maine about June 1. We have been going there for about 20 years, and return to Reddington Beach, Fla., about October 1 for the winter. I still water ski and swim before breakfast in both places, but not during the recent January 1984 freeze."

From Kennebunk, Maine, Tom Anglem wrote that he has now almost 90 percent retired from his Boston surgery practice, although he is still involved in long-term follow-up research on a large number of his former patients. Tom's new avocation of playing the piano is progressing well, but he modestly admits being not yet being quite up to a performance in Carnegie Hall.

Glen Hannaford reported in from Denver, Colo., with "Nothing new here. Am fine except for the usual creaks and pains of advancing years." Similar notes, but some with more old-age symptoms than others, were also received from Dud Bonsai, Cug Daley, CharlieHuntley, Art Keleher, Bill Starr, and JayWilling.

The annual winter mini-reunion luncheon on March 8 in Sarasota, Fla., was a huge success again this year, with 24 classmates, wives, and friends attending. Guy Bostwick, as chief coordinator, presided, Chuck Baker pronounced the invocation, and Rog Bury put on an interesting slide presentation of trips that he and Marion had previously taken in their yacht to many Mediterranean and northern European ports.

On February 20, Tom and Dot Gillespie,Frank and Evelyn Strong, Gene and LorettaSullivan, and Larry and Ora Scammon represented the class at the monthly meeting of the St. Petersburg, Fla., Dartmouth Club.

Out west, another gathering, this one informal, was organized by Syd Harris, with brunch on February 5 at the Beef Eaters Restaurant in Phoenix, Ariz. Present were DowMills, Steve Osborn, Jack Sheldon, Syd, and their four wives. Again, on March 6, the Osborns, Millses, and Lowell Wormley attended the winter dinner of the Phoenix Dartmouth Club at the Arizona Country Club.

The good news this month is that during April we welcomed Cornelius "Tubber" Cronin and Larry Milner as the newest members of 1927's "Made it to 80 Club." Active members now number 30, which, in our book, is a pretty handsome percentage of my latest class count of 222.

The sad news is that, in early March, JohnMachen's only son, Gill, at the age of 49, failed to survive an operation for cancer. Also, regretfully, we have lost two more classmates: Fred Auer on February 7 and, according to information just received, Burton L. Snow on August 31, 1983.

That's it for now.

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