1933
It was pure coincidence that the article by Gay Milius and Dick Dorrance '36 on early beginnings of Dartmouth's radio station appeared in the November issue of this magazine, and, in the same issue, our class notes told of their present day chats, via shortwave between Virginia Beach (Gay) and Brazil (Dick). Gay tells me they've extended the current Dartmouth gabfests to noon, EST, Tuesdays and Fridays, on 7160 KHZ, call letters W4UG. You get all this from me, and I can't remember to dial "one" before the area code!
Did you read the December issue on 75 years of the Dartmouth Outing Club? Warren(Mr. B) Braley and Dunham (Farmer) Kirkham made that, with a story and picture of their 1932 cross-country trek. As we get well into our seventies, we tend to make more and more of these "remember when?" articles.
Heagan Bayles has remarried, as of Feb- ruary 11, 1984, close to last Valentine's Day. We welcome Jane to our '33 membership. Heag says that, together, they have 25 children and grandchildren. When not babysitting, Heag and Jane remodel houses, hunt antiques, play tennis four or five mornings a week, and swim. In the late winter they fly south, as snowbirds, and continue.
John Monagan's son, Charles '72, and John's son-in-law, John McCutcheon, had a busy evening as did the whole family, at the Atheneum Book Annex, Alexandria, Va., on December 11. Across the aisle from each other, Charles was autographing his new book, The Reluctant Naturalist; John McC, his new record, "Winter Solstice." That John, like his father-in-law, is a singer, but also a composer and dulcimer virtuoso. The aisle was so crowded with admiring relatives that customers had difficulty ringing the cash register bells.
That other Washingtonian, Hank Smith, had a breakfast with Ray Theriault in Norwich and went on to attend a conference of the Boundary Commission on the St. Lawrence Seaway, a commission he chaired when a congressman. On December 27, he spoke to the Baltimore Kiwanis Club, regarding one of his favorite projects "Unite the Democracies." He is executive director of the association with that aim, at its Washington, D.C., headquarters. Page Worthington, a Baltimore Kiwanian, notes, "H.P.S. 11l spoke good!"
Whit Kimball, in a quickie, listed his activities as an involuntary bachelor: "cook, clean house, shop, rake leaves, strip furniture for a granddaughter, and work at my church, helping to put out a pictorial history of Newbury, Mass., for its 350 th anniversary this year."
Your secretary induced two letters from classmates, and great letters they are. The first was from Dr. Dave Hatch, telling his and Dr. Mary Hatch's doings out of their home in Columbia, S.C. To refresh your memory, Dave is a Ph.D. in socy, out of Harvard; Mary is a Vassar graduate, with a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in philology and German. Both still teach Mary, full time at Columbia College as a professor of German; Dave, as visiting professor of sociology at Benedict College, an all-black, open admissions, liberal arts college, also in Columbia, S.C.
There are four Hatch children, all married, all with their own children, and all, like their parents, having careers in the service professions. With their family ties and their work, Dave and Mary have little "free time," other than gardening around their home. Every other year, they travel to Europe, using only public transportation systems, buses, river boats, and small hotels, thus mingling with the natives. This year it's Germany and Friesland, where Mary will continue her research in the life of the early Friesians.
The other letter was from "D.B." Vorhees, out of Houston, Tex. The letter was on class of '34 Tuck School stationery because D.B. is active in its fund drives, as well as helping Mannie Sprague with 1933's Alumni Fund. (First plug in '85.)
D.B. retired from Exxon in 1976 after 38 years of hard labor, ending as manager of domestic and international purchasing. Since his retirement, he has done some consulting and public relations work. Currently, he is doing development and managing advertising for a business in west Houston.
He and his wife, Nan, play golf at the Pine Forest Golf Club in Houston. He was its president in 1980. They also enjoy duplicate bridge. Nan, on her first trip to Hanover for our 50th, was very impressed with the facil- ities and "all you folks." The key remark she made was, "If I had a son or daughter now, I'd like them to go to Dartmouth." D.B. says, "And that from a Texan!"
Isn't it good we have busy classmates still not so busy they can't write great letters? Blessings!
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