1928

Dank Folsom spent the summer and fall walking with the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. He started from Los Angeles and expects to reach Washington, D.C., in mid-November. The 400 marchers honored Dank, their oldest marcher, with a giant party July 21 on his 79th birthday. Grinnell College, lowa, had invited the marchers to camp that night on the college campus. At that point, Dank had walked 2,300 miles with the group.

Dank was a Cabin and Trail member at Dartmouth, left after one year, and graduated from the University of Colorado, where his father, Fred, Dartmouth '95, was a professor. Fred was a football coach at Dartmouth, 1903-1906, and coached the first Dartmouth eleven to beat Harvard. Fred later was the football coach at the University of Colorado and spent most of his life as a professor in the law school there. In 1941 the stadium there was dedicated in his name.

Sam Magavern called September 2 to welcome me into the Octogenarian Club; in the conversation I learned that he is the head of his law firm in Buffalo, Magavern, Magavern, Lowe and Beilewech, with 28 lawyers, including his two sons, Jim '55 and Bill '56, and a nephew. His daughter married Dick Worrell '56, and Sam has 17 grandchildren, two of whom are Mary and Lydia Magavern of the class of '83 and '86, respectively. Sam just resigned a couple of directorships after 50 years on the board of the YMCA and 38 years at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

Madeline McGrath has the most grandchildren 20, plus six great-grandchild ren. She has lived in Ft. Lauderdale for eight years, and two children live nearby, Madeline works for Hospice as a volunteer, staying with terminally ill cancer pat ients. She says it is a wonderful organization, and it gives her a great deal of satisfaction to be helpful.

Ed Flander's son, John '83, was promoted to assistant treasurer and commercial lending officer of the Numerica Savings Bank in Manchester, N.H.

Dusty Griffin writes that Natalie, who had a stroke last December, lives in a retirement center near St. Louis, where she has therapy, which she faces with determination and courage. Dusty bought a condo nearby and usually has lunch and dinner with her. They hope that with continued progress she may move into their condo. They have two sons and five grandchildren their younger son, Ralph '65, is first secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon.

Shuke Shukert spent his 80th birthday in an Omaha hospital recovering from major surgery, but he was fully recovered when I called him at home September 15. He said he had attended a picnic of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Great Plains two weeks earlier, September 19-20.

Fifty-six attended the mini-reunion at the Norwich Inn, including Proctor and Taylor from California, Rickenbaugh (and two grandchildren, Bart and Anne), Haines (and granddaughter Carolyn Salsgiver), Kenerson, Prosser, Sensenig, Flanders, Hankins (and son Tim, a Dartmouth professor, and his wife), Tidd, Dwinell, Jennings, Sanborn (and grand-daughter Pam Sanborn '90), Hassell, Morton, Hartjens, Marx, Martin, Moody, Magenis, Nixon, Bell, G.I. Davis, Kenney, Skinner, Nat Brown '90 (grandson of Jim Newton), Carl Blood '90 (the latest on the list of '28 Memorial Scholars), plus wives.

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