1937

Some of you will recall back in "our time" dancing to the Big Bands at Nuttings on the Charles in Waltham, Mass. . . . The adjoining boathouse added the attraction of being able to rent canoes to drift about the river to listen to the music of Goodman, Armstrong, etc. on their one-night stands. It closed during World War II to offer only wrestling or boxing, but the dancing, of course, was never revived. In 1959 the building was sold to Parke Snow Inc., Dex Smith's department store, for storing tires and hard goods, until June 1961 when a general-alarm fire completely destroyed it. One can still see the concrete pilings rising above the water.

Parke Snow is long gone, too, but not our Dex. Currently he is a partner in Farrelly, Hammer, and Smith with office space as agents for Provident Mutual Life in Needham, Mass. They handle pension plans, tax shelters, and various types of insurance. This is a part-time operation for Dex.

Betty and Gib Reynolds regularly attend the monthly luncheons of the Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod and tell us RachelLaughton and Jane Handrahan have been coming around. Cape Codder Milton Marsh came to mind as a result of the recent article here covering the Orozco frescoes and the legendary The Coming of Quetzalcoatl. Milt had been so entranced he had watched the painter Orozco by the hour and occasionally had helped him.

Community and business leaders as well as members of Vermont's Lyndon State College faculty and staff were honored at the fifth annual Presidential Citation Awards dinner. During Frank Irwin's presidency, 1971 to 1975, a number of new programs, including business, meteorology, and the cooperative education concept, were developed. This era showed a 30 percent enrollment increase due in no small part to Frank's efforts.

Last we heard from Dr. John Schilling he had bought a 35-foot boat which sleeps four to six people, and they had cruised up to Alaska with sons and a marine biology student. John said retirement from the department of surgery was imminent. He is listed in Who's Who. Connie Schuck said they were losing money on their avocado business. They bought a 23-foot Ford motor home which they drove to Florida. Also old news was that Frank Danzig had had a "quickie" stroke, two weeks in the hospital and home OK. Twila is still real-estating. Wol Gaines continues to teach law enforcement in Maine. Julian Leslie had an operation on a blood clot in his leg and wife Tata had a stroke, but both seem to have come through fine. They sold the home they built on Casco Bay Cove to a vice president of CBS. Jack Costello must have made some sort of medical record; he had operations on prostate and kidneys and was laid up for only two weeks. Jack claims 12 grandchildren; is that a record?

Word from Boz Bosworth says his old friend and one of our original adoptees, DougHewat, had a stroke from which he is slowly recovering in Vermont, while wife Lydia had drastic spine surgery last year and needs constant attention. Doug labels himself as a house husband.

Two nice thank-you notes came to the class on the memorial book program from widows, with Archer Miskimon and Margaret Gordon both mentioning how much their husbands enjoyed their Dartmouth experience. And a note from Al Grey says there will be a service for Jean at the Trinity Congregational Church in Gloucester, on June 24 at 2:30 p.m.

Along with some 1,200 alumni, the following from our class attended the fabulous "Wearers of the Green" dinner, a tribute to all former Dartmouth athletes put on by the Alumni Association of Eastern Massachusetts. Marg and Ben Doran came to see daughter Brewer honored as two-time captain of the field hockey teams of 1972 and 1973. Others there were Eileen and CrawfHinman, Katie and Bib Bankart, MonkAmon, Vin Turecamo, John Emerson, and (of course) our much cheered and popular adoptee, Bob Blackman. Scheduled to be there but unable to attend at the last minute were Ellenand Charley Collis. Charley had told us he sold that Dary-Victor Ring Traveler Corporation he bought after selling Princess House, as it appeared technology would soon render it obsolete. Vin made the trip up from New York at the invitation of his nephew, who lives in Weston. John Emerson would talk only about GOLF; we guess he must be a fanatic.

This is the five-star finale for the Alumni Fund, so if you ain't cracked yet get crackin'.

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