1931

Items from a welcome bulletin from Prexy Ori Hobbs:

Dick Henry is serving another term as the skillful president of the Dartmouth Club of Sarasota (Fla.). This is about his fifth in succession. Don Ewing, Larry Tucker, and occasionally Spence Cram make the club meetings. Spence appears closer to making Sun City his permanent residence after a trial run there this past winter.

Dan and Betty Denham are now well settled in their new home at Williamsburg, Va., and the Hobbses were planning to stop by and visit them on their way north this spring. Betty had a little physical, flare-up, but both she and Dan have been enjoying good physical health lately, Ori says. (The Hobbses were going to get back to the Hanover area for the Class Officers Weekend in May.)

Back to the Henrys: Dick and Dorothy attended the Dartmouth Seminar at Rollins College this winter and say they enjoyed it very much.

Ori and Bob Chittim '30 are chairing a Dartmouth Club of Sarasota Scholarship fundraising campaign, trying to raise $50,000 over five years. So far, the returns are encouraging.

A correction from Doug Wilson. I wrote that he was continuing to work on Ralph Waldo Emerson's papers. This isn't so. Doug is involved with reediting Emerson's collected and published works, not his papers (letters, journals, sermons, etc., many so far unpublished). Other editors are doing this job.

Doug also reports he had a quadruple heart bypass operation in February at the University of Alabama Hospital (Birmingham). He returned home to Anniston early in March and writes that with some help from friends and neighbors he has been getting along very well. He should be back to work by now and was counting on making the 55th.

Had an Alumni Fund report from RalphMaynard, midway through the drive. He's been fine, was a bit disappointed with how things looked as he wrote, but was optimistic for the outcome.

As this is written, Bill and Lee Schuldenfrei were planning a three-week trip to England and Ireland in late May, with a stopover in the Boston area en route to visit with both of their sets of children and grandchildren, who now are living there. They also plan to attend the Alumni College in August. Bill says his walking is still "not so good" and tells about going out to dinner at Palm Beach (where they live) with the Si Leaches. Si, you know, is recovering from a hip operation. The waiter asked if he could "check their canes." Si was sporting two and Bill one! Si's doing very well, he says, and adds that '31 probably had the largest delegation at the spring Palm Beach Dartmouth Club luncheon when President McLaughlin spoke.

As this was going to press, a fine letter (solicited) came from Bill Steck. Both time and space prevent me from using it all, but I'll save the rest for the next column in September. (It'll keep.) Here are Bill's highlights: He and Betty are fine, although she was clobbered in her car by an 18-wheel tractor trailer just before Christmas. She suffered three broken ribs, but they agree that she was saved from much worse injuries because she had her seat belt on . . . Bill retired from his law practice last November, having hit 75 and having been in harness for 50 years . . . They spent a part of the winter in a friend's condominium in Gulfstream, Fla., where they saw and report reassuringly on the JohnGoodwillies, the Sam Groves, the Bob Oelmans, the Leaches, the Bob Wallaces, the Don Cruikshanks, and the Mac MacKechnies.

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William Wendell '31 was one of the co-recipients of the Class-Newsletter-Editor-of-the- Year Award for 1985. He has served his class as newsletter editor since 1975, following his retirement as employment supervisor of Carpenter Technology Corporation. "For a full decade he has chronicled with quiet diligence, affection, and the regularity of Old Faithful the comings and goings, gatherings and dispersions, triumphs and trials, pleasures and pains, prides and prejudices, thoughts and fancies of his classmates." He had previously served Dartmouth as president of the Dartmouth Club in Bridgeport, Conn., as class agent, and as assistant class agent.