1933
Those of you who read these notes will be doing so after Class Officers meeting, held the first weekend in May. Such is the timing of the Magazine's printing that I will have to rely on Bob Fox's newsletter to give you my view of that meeting. Getting it in the September issue of the mag would make it ancient history.
Pete Sawyer '32 very kindly sent me a page out of the Agway house organ. It pictured Warren Braley at an Agway seminar and farm show. Warren is retiring this year as a director of the company, after many years of service.
Carl Burrill has been elected an honorary trustee of the Whitman Massachusetts Savings Bank, in grateful recognition of his 25 years of service. He and Lillian plan to attend Alumni College again this summer their umpteenth time.
Jack Manchester, hoping to set up a minireunion in the Chicago area, had negative results, but it did spur a letter from DonWood, out of Evanston, III., which said that he and Katie, with a daughter in New Jersey and a son in Massachusetts, plan on a trip east soon and want to include a Hanover visit. They could prolong it to September 21, see a bunch of us at the Manchesters' garden party for '33, and go to the Princeton game.
My attempt to get John and Helen Manley to forsake a New York City apartment on Central Park West for a home in bucolic Rossmoor, N.J., has come to an end, though perhaps not finally. Helen writes, "John likes his daily walk in the park or its edge. He likes his weekly morning at the University Club library, where he keeps abreast of what the London Economist and other esoteric publications have to say about things and eats a nice lunch. He pursues the old umbilical cord down to Wall Street every few weeks, where he is joined at his lunch club by a few former associates who are still around. I can get to my volunteer job at the National History Museum in minutes. I can also easily visit and browse in other museums, hear a lecture or some music, see a film, and choose my modest requirements from a vast selection of goods and services." The Manleys .still have Mayor Koch, too.
Another good classmate by derivation, Grace "Bobbie" Jaques, widow of Alan, has sent me a letter and enclosed a Dartmouth College catalogue for the academic year of 1853-54, a Class Day program, and a Commencement program, both dated July 1857. Bobbie had a couple of relatives listed, among them a Sanborn, named before the Hall. There were other names, familiar to us of '33: a Cutter, a Davis, two Burbanks, and an especially recognizable Sam Lovejoy, class of 1857.
There were then 236 undergrads, plus 54 in the med school and 28 prospective engineers in the "Chandler Scientific School." Heavy Greek and Latin were required just to enter college. You had more, as a student. Most of those students came from the New England states, but there was one each from Illinois, Missouri, and North Carolina. There was one "Native American." Fees for the 39 weeks of the school year totaled a projected $l4O, and included tuition, room and board, wood for heating, and lights (I assume candles). I've phoned Jane Lovejoy several times to tell her about the early Sam, but she was not at home.
Joel Portugal '58, Alumni Fund chairman, has asked class secretaries to remind you all that the campaign is in high gear. I am sure Mannie Sprague and Bob Niebling, our chairman and his assistant, would like your early contribution so they can stop that last minute worrying over 1933's goals.
A bit of chiding: When I send out a letter asking for information about your activities and even enclose a stamped reply envelope, I would like the courtesy of a reply. Though you just say, "Go soak your head, Rugen!" such reply takes less time than steaming off the 22-cent stamp, and lets me know you are still with us. Blessings.
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