1938

For many of us this has been a summer of planning. At the behest of Bob Reeve and Gil Tanis, your class officers, augmented by a few more classmates, gathered at the College's Minary Center on Squam Lake, N.H., on July 9 and 10. Amid such conducive surroundings, of course a few tennis matches, a few rounds of golf, even a little wining and dining took place. But by and large it was a working session. The subject: getting the ball rolling for the 50th reunion, what else!

The question of how to start raising the considerable sum of money traditionally given to the College by the 50-year class was of course a major topic. Under the leadership of Bob Manegold, our reunion giving chairman, Clark Barrett and PhilLeach, Bob's two vice chairmen, and GilTanis, our head agent, a solicitation committee was established. All 16 classmates attending the Minary meeting agreed to serve on the committee, and it was further agreed that the committee would be considerably expanded over the summer by inviting additional classmates to join in the effort.

For the last month or so, Bob Reeve, Bob Manegold, and Gil have been doing just that, with outstanding results. Their success rate has so far been 100 percent! Bob Manegold reports in a letter just received: "Since our very successful Minary Center meeting, we have been approaching non-attendee classmates to fill out our solicitation committee. It is gratifying that all we have contacted have signified an enthusiastic willingness to help in any way possible. And help we will need! Meeting and exceeding our goal will be a real challenge: it's about ten times the amount we've been giving in each of the last couple of years! It is also exciting to report that we already have a good start toward our $1,000,000-plus target, thanks to the considerable efficiencies inherent in donating before the 1986 year end." In short, we're off and running.

At Minary Dick Francis, impresario for our 50th (read: chairman, reunion committee), also reported that two more classmates have agreed to help out with our 50-year book. As Dick wrote in this column last May, Gene Waggaman will serve as editor; John Scotford, designer; Dick Sherwin, printing consultant; and Ted Thorne, author of the class history; but now Wayne Guyther has also agreed to serve as illustrator and Bill Bronk to write the class poem (the same service he performed for us at commencement 50 years ago). Reunion activities are also beginning to firm up. They will include the traditional three-day round of dinners, lunches, a class banquet, and the usual socializing in the class tents (remember when they used to be called beer tents?). On a more serious level, however, a service memorializing our departed classmates will also be held during the weekend led by Bob Harvey and TelMook, two of our men of the cloth; and of course as the 50-year class we will have the honor of leading off the academic procession on commencement day. Following the custom of past classes, Dick is also exploring arrangements for a post-reunion get-together on June 14—16, probably at the Spalding Inn and Club in Whitefield, N.H.

Having recently returned from California, where I both celebrated well, passed anyway my 70th birthday and had the good fortune to welcome the birth of our fourth grandchild, I found a letter from an alert spy in Boston with the news that Job Fuchs has been singularly honored. At its commencement exercises on June 22 Northeastern University awarded Job an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree. As an M.D., Job has been associated with the University's health service and has served as physician to Northeastern's health service and has served as physician to Northeastern's athletic teams for almost 30 years. For the past 10 years he has directed the Lane Health Center. Northeastern obviously knew a good thing when they saw it. Congratulations to Dr. Dr. Fuchs. 5 -YEARS-AGO-THIS-MONTH DEPARTMENT

Ah, October, remember? Harvard Weekend? The peerade? Here's the way the Dartmouth reported it on Friday, October 23, 1936: Students Descend on Cambridge to View Battle as Mighty GreenWarriors Face Crimson Team. "Dartmouth College will be moved from Hanover to Boston today. Over a thousand rooters, anxious for the scalp of Jawn Harvard, will throng into the metropolitan area counting on a strong Big Green Team to bring back another victory to the hills of New Hampshire. . ." (byline: John Emerson). In a related story, same day (byline: Lou Kraft), it was noted that Boston also "holds in store for the incoming Hanover peerade this weekend a variety of events ranging all the way from a midnight show at the Old Howard this evening to a concert in Symphony Hall." Other activities offered were the Crimson-Green Ball "at the Hotel Somerset with Hudson-De Lange and Jack Marshall supplying the music" and the Harvard-Dartmouth Dance at the Copley Plaza Ballroom "with dancing to the strains of Dartmouth's own Barbary Coast." Stag, $2.00; drag, $3.50.

That was a good year, 1936. We beat Harvard going away, 26-7. But next month, Yale! Those were the days, my friends.

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