1933

It is a departure from tradition for the notes of non-reuning classes to appear in this September issue of the mag a change announced at the Class Officers Weekend in May. I write four more issues in five years, with no increase in pay! To business: At a dinner on May 31 in Thompson Arena, attended by about 400 persons, Alumni Award winners of past years were honored. Those of our class who have won that award and who attended the dinner were Wes Beattie, BillDewey, Jud Pierson, Mannie Sprague,Sid Stoneman, and Page Worthington. All except Dewey were accompanied by their wives. Sue Dewey had a prior, uncancelable engagement. Don D'Arcy,George Farrand, John Faegre, and JusStanley couldn't make it. Don and George for obvious sad reason.

The following night, not content to end it too soon, the group dined at the Lyme Inn, there joined by Sam and MaddyCunningham, Mel and Ruth Katz, Natand Mildred Leonard, Jack and Dot Manchester, Ray Therriault, and Waxy andMadge Wright.

The Dartmouth Club of Eastern Massachusetts had a big dinner on Cape Cod on June 26. Club treasurer Ev Shineman kept books and counted noses. The class of '33 had 17 members present the largest number of any class. President McLaughlin was the speaker.

In the April issue of Yankee Magazine there was a picture of Gil Fernandez and his wife, Jo, banding an osprey before releasing it. Gil was wearing a Dartmouth cap. The accompanying article told how the Fernandezes' interest in the osprey developed in 1963, when they spotted a pair nesting near their farmhouse in Westport, Mass. The ban on DDT helped, but Gil and Jo are credited with the unprecedented 11-to-15-percent annual growth in osprey population around Westport.

John Reed, president emeritus and scholar-in-residence at the Center for Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo., received the Distin- guished Service Award from that college during its commencement exercises. John served as president of the college from 1962 to 1969, changed it from a school of 700 students with no accreditation to one of more than 1,800 students with greatly expanded facilities and full accreditation for its baccalaureate degree program.

We've had letters from Jean Douglas, widow of Douger, and from Elsa Osborne, widow of Harry, thanking the class for the memorial books placed in Baker Library in memory of their hus- bands. In my opinion, this is a great program. The college supplies cards which we secretaries can use to tell the families when this is done. I always add to the card the title of the book and the author's name. In the case of Jim Noonan, the book chosen was Kim Flaccus's A Poet'sView. There was that fortunate double connection to our '33 classmates. Not incidentally, that book of Kim's was finally reviewed in the May issue of this maga- zine.

More on Kim: John Monagan sent me a portion of the 1985 descriptive catalogue of the special collections in the Georgetown University Library. In its library, there are "extensive correspondence and research files developed by poet Kimball Flaccus in the course of writing a biography (as yet unpublished) of Edgar Lee Masters." The collection also includes letters from others, such as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Aiken, and John Dos Passos.

Jean Meek is a gadabout in a big way. In May, she traveled to China with a Radcliffe group. In June, she and a cousin sailed a boat down the Yugoslavian coast of the Adriatic.

John and Helen Manley and Carl andLillian Burrill are two of the couples who attended Alumni College in August. Mac and Ruth Field celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on June 28. Daughters Jane and Sally gave them a dinner party in an epicurean (Mac's word) restaurant in Bal Harbour, Fla.

I hear that Don Voorhees is now doing class notes for Tuck School '34. If your elementary math still works, Tuck '34 stems from Dartmouth '33. Welcome, Don!

Our sympathy to Ralph Alexander whose wife, June, died this summer. They had been married 49 years.

While this is written in July, you will perhaps read it after the mini-reunion, based on the Princeton game, September 21. The Manchester are again having the pre-game picnic at their home, and Jack has again arranged for dinner parties Friday and Saturday night see Foxy's newsletter for details. President PageWorthington never misses an opportunity for a business meeting. We soon have to decide on what to spend any excess money in our '33 treasury on and how to avoid making last-minute phone calls to guys who want to give to the Alumni Fund but "just forgot to do it 'till you called."

Rugen will accept all prepaid phone calls, letters, or postcards.

117-A Old Nassau Road Jamesburg, NJ 08831