1925

You have doubtless received a bill for class dues from treasurer Nate Bugbee, accompanying his report for which shows a healthy surplus due largely to the exceptionally large attendance at our 60th reunion.

We report regretfully news of the death of Howard Megee in September. His wife, Lucille K., died in May; they had no children.

By the time this gets to press, BillSleigh and Betty will have returned from a three-week trip to Scotland and Ireland, including a six-day tour of Scotland on the fantastic, restored Royal Scotsman, a deluxe version of the old train which used to run from Edinburgh to London. Living aboard with night-stops on sidings (for comfortable sleeping), taking day-stops to visit castles, forts, battlegrounds, scenic views, fishing villages, etc., with super cuisine and service, one has little to worry about save what the brochure calls "possibly a little damp at times." A few days in Dublin, then roving around in western Ireland concluded the trip.

Pete Haffenreffer and Ginny, with a couple of granchildren, are currently signed up for a cruise on the Royal VikingStar up the New England Coast to the St. Lawrence and up the Saguenay River.

More on Bob Reynolds, who wrote to say how much he enjoyed reunion. After Dartmouth and Harvard Business School and a lifetime in the securities business, he is not optimistic about this country's economic situation. His advice is "batten down the hatches." The expression comes from his career in the navy where he reached the level of lieutenant commander. He lost his wife in 1969 and has lived alone since.

Whitey White, our genial special events chairman (reunions, mini-reunions, etc.), hit the press again with a feature story in the Marblehead Magazine, a glossy seacoast journal. It detailed his distinctive weather vane business, developed in his retirement and operated out of his garage. He designs, cuts the pattern, has it cast in aluminum, and then finishes it with smoothing off rough spots, mounting in on the N.E.S.W. pedestal, and painting (if desired). He has sold them all over the country through his advertising (which he has now given up, as it brings in too much business). Meantime, he is busy with Rotary Club, Society of Colonial Wars, and other activities, not to mention skiing from his lodge in North Conway and cruising out of Marblehead in his 26foot yacht with his wife, Bobbie. Would that all of us could lead that full a life.

Bob Boorwell and Ken Montgomery are giving a chair to the medical school in honor of their personal physician, a fellow Dartmouth alumnus.

We learn that Bill Boies is now president of the Hillsboro, Fla., Beach Club. Next time you are in Hanover, be sure to see the progress, if not completion, of the beautiful garden between the Inn and Hopkins Center donated by George Zahm and designed and supervised, in its construction, by Fran Zahm, who is a professional landscape gardner.

We learn that Don Hunt won the senior golf championship again this year at his club on the Cape.

As Francis Bacon has said: "Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old authors to read, and old friends to trust."

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