1935

The Dartmouth College News Service has just announced a major gift to the College of one of the nation's finest collections of the works of author Jack London. Containing several hundred items, the gift was made by Dr. Marvin A. Rauch and his wife, Sue. Marvin graduated from New York University Dental School in 1939, where he later taught. He continues his practice at his home in Far Rockaway, N.Y. Baker Library will have the collection on display at our reunion, where we all look forward to seeing it, together with the very generous donors!

Jack Au Werter has always been a ski buff from his college days and has visited Mont Tremblant and elsewhere over these many intervening years. Last January, as reported, he and Eleanor spent some time in Aspen as they visited in the home of Dick Durrance '39 there. This was their first contact since 50 years ago, when Dick visited Jack at Tuck School in January 1935.

If you happened to live in Newport, N.H., what do you suppose you might have been doing on the night of March 9? Going, of course, to a production of The Mikado. And whom would you have seen there? None other than Peter Smith as KoKo. What versatility! If all of us were as busy as our adopted classmate, Peter, I'd have no difficulty filling this column with class news!

In the March issue we told you, with help from Bob McLellan, of the arrangement engineered by Bud Cahoon, president of the Raymond Moore Foundation, for the establishment of a Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts. Now, with help from A1 Dodd, we can show you a picture of Bud with actress Lee Remick, a newly elected member of the board of that foundation. Such good judgment in the selection of a board member cannot pass unnoted by Bud's envious classmates!

Shortly before putting these notes to bed on March 15 I had a long and encouraging telephone conversation with reunion giving chairman Bob Richter in Florida. It's early, of course, to appraise our progress toward that goal of $1,035,000, but I can affirm Bob and his committee are very hard at work. By the time you read this, you will certainly be even more aware of the work of Bob and his 40 or so committee members seeking to make THE BIG FIVE-OH showing of the class of 1935 one of which we shall all be proud come June!

Bob and Audrey are now, of course, well settled into their new home in Sarasota. Recent guests included 15 classmates living nearby together with their wives, a total of 30! Bill and Helen Clark were arriving the next week. There's a host for you, but many of you already know that!

A check with reunion chairman Don Radasch indicates we're more than likely on the way to a record attendance at THE BIG FIVE-OH. Treasurer A 1 Brush is momentarily expected back from a sojourn in Hawaii, and with his return and intensified work by all of the committee, your reunion is being masterminded by a team that will put on a time you must not miss.

These notes from your class secretary, written in mid-March, will be in your hands in May and are my last chance to communicate directly with you before that big weekend of June 6-9. Come one and all, and be prepared to be surprised by the numbers of friends on hand, by the intensity of a crowded program, and by the just plain enjoyment you will have at this biggest of all gatherings of the Great Class of 1935 since 50 years ago! Enjoy!

THE BIG FIVE-OH '35 LET'S GO!

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