1934
It may seem a bit late to report on football games, but this is my first opportunity to reveal how it happened that Dartmouth reached a 34-3 score against Columbia. It was all because there was a strong '34 rooting section of Vinnie andCatch Cerow, Ed and Barbara Brown,Gene and Nina Orsenigo, Joy Dwyer, and me. Later I learned the Mayo Cohens were also there. On the way out of the new stadium, someone spotted my '34 cap and shouted, "That's my Dad's class." It was Bill, son of Junie Kneisel; so you see it pays to have the identification handy.
At the Penn game, where we went down just 19-14 after a good struggle, I was sitting in 50-yard-line seats with son Bill and his wife from Washington and thought I was the sole '34. Then I spotted Mayo and Bernice Cohen higher up-all the way from Hanover-with their daughter up from Maryland. They are undisputed '34 cheerleaders, having attended every Dartmouth game last fall.
While talking about football gatherings, Tom Beers sent word about plans for the mini-reunion in Annapolis which he is setting up for the October 4 Navy game weekend. Headquarters for '34 will be the Maryland Inn, smack in the middle of the oldest and most interesting part of town. Write Tom if you want to reserve a room.
There was a very special holiday gift for Bob and Mary Engelman-in fact, three of them. Three granddaughters arrived, and now the Engelmans match the TedGermanns with an extended family that includes 15 grandchildren. Before the December family activity, Bob attended the Alumni Council meeting as our representative and filed a full report which BillScherman summarized in the newsletter.
Speaking of the extended '34 family, Art Leonard reports a new great-grandson and wonders if anyone in '34 can match that? Art reminds us that Dartmouth's future family depends on the generous forward thinking of alumni like us- through life income trusts and annuities we can establish for our use now and their use later, as well as the bequests for the ultimate gift. In a recent letter he described how beautifully timed a charitable gift annuity is for us, thanks to recent changes in annuity rates and tax deduc- tion benefits.
It's an earthshaking event that has happened to some of our classmates-those who wasted little time in singles bars-a 50th wedding anniversary! Nick and Alice Xanthaky happily celebrated this great event recently. Besides tennis for Nick, they find themselves always busy with things other people find for them to do.
With 48 anniversaries now celebrated, Al and Claire Cotton went through the process familiar to many of us: sorting through all the treasures of years past and cutting the ties of many years while moving from Worcester, Mass., to Boynton Beach, Fla., last year. They came back north to see family and their favorite summer haunt in Ogunquit, Maine, and then managed a tour of Great Britain.
A lot of '34s have been traveling-certainly Rena Moore, Ed's widow, has. She will have returned from a gathering in Quebec and from cruising the Volga River as part of a Dartmouth Alumni Tour. She hoped she'd find some '34s aboard. She didn't find any of us on the Caribbean cruise she took last spring, a trip she and Ed had planned with the Chief Executive Organization to which Ed belonged. There were other notables aboard, however, like Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, the Bert Lances, General Westmoreland, and Father Hesburgh.
At the instigation of our president, MoeFrankel, a pre-holiday luncheon was set up by Henry Werner and Jerry Danzig at the Yale Club where Dartmouth has NYC headquarters. More than a dozen classmates showed up. Moe reviewed the class projects and records of 1985 and the plans for 1986. Stan Smoyer talked of the Danube trip plans for the '34 travelers, scheduled now for late May.
Winner of the long distance honors was Sy Lewis-he had returned just the night before from skiing in Utah! He reported meeting an '82 skier there who was a great-granddaughter of Doc Bowler. Soon Sy will retire from partnership in a NYC law firm. Bob Griffin was also at the luncheon, and since he'd been to both North and South Poles, I wondered what diversion he now had-why, building a boat, of course. Art Willis was there, having recently been to California where he and Barbara enjoyed attending son John's wedding, the son being a lawyer specializing in real estate.
Answer to last month's trivia question: Dorothy Phillips was Queen at our Winter Carnival, the Beta House had the winning sculpture, and the theme was King Winter seated on an elaborate ice throne.
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