1936

12 Godfrey Road Mashpee, MA 02649

While current thoughts are mostly concerned with whether or not the Harvest

Moon will bring a killing frost and an end to the garden flowers and whether or not the Red Sox will make it all the way when this column reaches you, all thoughts will be on Christmas. From your class officers and executive committee Season's Greetings and best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year.

Planning ahead for the first part of 1987, the 2nd Annual Alumni Winter Festival will be held in Hanover on the weekend of February 21-22. There will be two Ivy League basketball games: Friday night against Brown (defending Ivy champions) and Saturday against Yale. Other events will include the Players production of Devil Mas, directed by Errol Hill, a Saturday afternoon seminar on a Great Issues topic, and for those who love the crispy out-of-doors, there will be a chance to try out the slopes of the Dartmouth Skiway.

The Hanover Inn has announced a special for this year's Annual Alumni Winter Festival of $57 per person per night, which includes dinner and breakfast.

For those classmates who live south of the border and visiting snowbirds the Dartmouth Sunshine Conference will he held March 27-29 in Orlando (Winter Park), Fla. The Radisson Plaza Hotel in that city will be headquarters for the conference. Two hundered rooms have been set aside for the Dartmouth family at $60 per night, double occupancy. If you call the hotel you should specify Dartmouth and 1936.

The conference will include a trip on "The Southern Seas" in Disney World/Epcot, two special dinners, two seminars, and a concert by the Dartmouth Glee Club. On Sunday, March 29, there will be a golf tournament at the Cypress Creek Country Club sponsored by the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida. After what we saw at Spalding, 1936 should be able to put a couple of super-foursomes on the course to compete for a class club trophy.

The whole affair should be a great minireunion before it's time for heading north to plant the snow peas. I'm sure you will be hearing from Barry Sullivan, who is continuing as the class social secretary. Barry also reports that there will be a lobster feast in New Hampshire around the first weekend in August 1987.

Shortly before the 50/36 a memorial portrait of astronaut/teacher Christa McAuliffe by Marlene Evans Putnam was dedicated at Concord (N.H.) High School. Among those present were Tom and JeanParker and Marlene's husband, Harold '37. Tom and Harold were Ledyard Canoe Club buddies way back in 1933.

A clippng from the San Francisco Examiner sent in by J. Moreau Brown III '39 reports on the 50th wedding anniversary celebration for Aldis and Chub Butler given by their son, Perry Aldis Jr., at his newest restaurant, Butler's in Mill Valley. "His mother's gift to her long-term spouse: a gold wedding band. Obviously, she felt it was time to make that commitment. The marriage seems to be working out."

The Fall/86 mini-reunion was held in almost ideal weather conditions on Dartmouth Night/Harvard game, October 17 and 18. From as far west as Cleveland,

Ohio, and as far south as Washington, D.C., the class officers, executive committee, and other classmates gathered for a lively executive committee meeting Saturday morning. Al Gibney is putting in motion a program designed to keep the. class of 1936 very much in the limelight of College alumni activities. No withering on the vine for us after a great blooming 50th.

Paul Guibord, reporting on the finishing touches on the Hopkins Memorial Plaque, indicated that his fund will need about $l0,000 to complete the project as planned. If you haven't responded to his letter by this time, please pause a moment and send your checks in time for the '86 tax deduction.

Head agent, Clay Mellor, in discussing the aim and direction of the 1987 Alumni Fund, declared he planned to strive for almost complete participation. He expects to call on the executive committee to help him reach his goal.

Of course, prompt action by each of you, dear classmates, is essential. By the way, my Picea glauca conica

(Dwarf Alberta Spruce to you) is doing great feels right at home in good old Cape Cod sandy soil. What reports are out there from his 49 brothers and sisters?