1935
As I sit down to write these notes, just after the first of the year, and I glance outside at the falling snow, THE BIG FIVE-OH seems a happy event in the distant future. Not so, however! When you read this column, as I indeed hope you will, there will be fewer than 90 days remaining before you come back to Hanover on June 7. For some, this may be the first visit, and for others, one of many, but be assured, it will be the reunion to be remembered. Those of us fortunate enough to get back to Hanover at least once a year are accustomed to seeing what we think of as a large group of classmates and wives here each fall. But now we are looking forward to seeing at once between three and four times the number of classmates, wives, and relatives who have come to these informal reunions! What an opportunity, brief as it is bound to be, to see back on the campus so many of all of those friends whose paths have led to just about everywhere in the world.
Just don't delay a moment longer! Send that reservation along, pronto! You won't believe until you get to Hanover the amount and quality of the planning being worked on by reunion chairman Don Radasch, reunion treasurer A1 Bruch, and the 21 other members of the 50th reunion committee.
Here are a couple of quotes from a letter from Dick Schneider, which will be of interest to everyone: "For the past 35 years I have been at the University of Michigan on the neurosurgical service in various capacities, from resident to head of the section of neurosurgery for about 11 years. Currently I have retired and am doing a bit of writing, a book, Sports Injuries: Mechanisms, Prevention, andTreatment. This is finally going to the publishers this week. It is a far cry from the more esoteric works which we have done in the past. Nevertheless, it has kept me active during these retirement years."
In a postscript, Dick adds: "Although we sing of "The granite of New Hampshire in their muscles and their brains," I should advise you that in my 35 years as a neurosurgeon I have found only one rock in a brain and that was in an 11-year-old girl who will have to wait a few years before she goes to college in Hanover."
A note from Bob Boehm describes a very interesting trip which kept him and Fran from attending our last fall reunion. They covered much of West Germany, from West Berlin to Cologne, Koblenz, Heidelberg, Wortzberg, Rothenburg, Munich, and then on to Vienna. Bob says he is now "working hard as a member of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, organizing an international conference scheduled in the fall between Soviet and American lawyers on arms reduction and the illegality of nuclear weapons."
A clipping sent from Bob and Corinne Naramore announces the engagement of their son, Richard, to Susan Brooke Jackson of Stamford. A June wedding is planned, incidentally, just after our 50th reunion. Richard has been living in Hanover and studying in a graduate program for computer and information sciences at Dartmouth.
The Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts is to establish a building in Dennis Village, in part as the result of efforts of classmate Bud Cahoon. Bob McLellan sent along a local news item with a picture of Bud, president of the Raymond Moore Foundation, after he had been instrumental in reaching an agreement for a long-term lease between the foundation and the museum, which will become part of an extensive arts complex on Cape Cod.
Bob Neill and wife Ann will be attending two college reunions this spring. In addition to his 50th they'll be at her 40th at Wells. Bob retired from an insurance career in 1966 and a part-time consulting business in 1979 to difficult adjustment to thrice-weekly golf." He is thankful that "fake hips" have helped. He suggests a "hip replacement handicap in June." Better watch out! Three times a week?
An announcement of the establishment of the West Hartford Sports Hall of Fame and the honoring of Paul Hilli as one of 22 deceased men who had devoted a total of 300 years to youth sports came recently from Paul's widow, Bet. Paul managed the Civitan Baseball Little League for more than 25 years, before his death in 1978.
Hunt Harrison writes that he and brother Chick Harrison are working on plans to return to Hanover on our 50th. He'll have a chance to visit son David '60, who had retired from 12 years of banking in New York and after living in Seattle for nine years has become a magazine publisher in Camden, Maine!
You cannot possibly be unaware that reunions, particularly 50th reunions, are accompanied by campaigns to raise funds for Dartmouth College. Bob Richter and his 40or-so-member reunion giving committee are working very hard indeed to help us (all of us) to find ways to reach that high objective of a contribution by the class of 1935 to Dartmouth College of $1,035,000! Please do your individual part and s-t-r-e-t-c-h!
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THE BIG FIVE-OH '35 LET'S GO!
