1937

The Golden Jubilee 50th!

At the class officers meeting last May, Ben Doran was recognized as class president of the year, receiving a citation and handsome colored picture of Dartmouth Hall. He has worked hard and conscientiously to keep this class together and now looks forward to our "Five-Star Final" next June, the culmination of 50 years of fellowship that has been so rewarding to us all.

We hope you all got to see the great article covering our dedicated classmate and Surgeon General Chick Koop in the PeopleMagazine of April 21, 1986, p. 91. We so well recall the last time we saw him in Hanover at a class mini-reunion, 1968 when Chick was urgently called'out of the meeting to learn that his Dartmouth son (his third) had died in a climbing accident in the White Mountains. He went on to great acclaim for separating a pair of Siamese twins and many other brilliant operations. With most of us now retired in one way or another, it's a new life Your secretary left his old haunts of the wool business in Boston and moved his office to his home in Wellesley. He gets to town maybe once a week, but it seems peculiar after 50 years of commuting.

We noted in the "Mint Bag" of last April that so many of .you are in Florida it behooved Katie and me to fulfill an offseason mission to "go see." We had gotten notes from Hal Putman that he had a condo we should look at in Vero Beach, so we combined everything into a three-week fly-drive starting with Tampa's Busch Gardens, then the usual Epcot, Sea World, Cypress Gardens, etc., with out- standing weather and small crowds. We had decided that it was too much driving from Boston so we had to by-pass intended visits with folk en route like the A 1 Bryants, but will make it up later. We were in touch with Barbi and DanaDouglass who came down especially to see Baby Shamu, the baby killer whale, but we could not get together with them. Next, on to Vero Beach to spend an hour with the Putnams and learn about (and see) Marlene's lovely portrait of astronaut- teacher Christa McAuliffe, which was dedicated at the Concord, N.H., High School on May 23. NASA chose Marlene for her superior portrait work, and furnished her with a photograph and general background information. We stayed long enough to see some of her work stashed about their studio and there is no doubt of her outstanding ability. Hal has every right to be very proud of her.

From Vero Beach we headed south for a few outstanding days with Ginny andGus Farwell in their most attractive, comfortable "Florida House" in Stuart. Gus took us for rides in his boat up the inland waterways, to an evening reunion over the happy hour at the home of Betsy andBob Ross, and then took all of us out to dinner.

Took off from there for another minirreunion with Janie Brown in her neat condo and tiny pool. She toured us around Palm Beach so we could observe how the Rolls Royce crowd lives. (We lost count of how many.) We spent a weekend with friends in Light House Point and continued down the road a bit for another great reunion with Orlan andGeorge Roewer in their condo high above Pompano Beach, with lunch at a local beach club. George is all golf as are so many of you these days. Then we started toward the West Coast, making a 250-mile round-trip drive through the Keys to Key West. Drove another day through the Everglades National Park. Key West was a treat, with the best oysters on the half shell ever! Headed north again to Naples for a few days of more luxury living with Martha and Boz Bosworth (who, incidently, are now in their new home in Pemequid on the Cape). They were getting ready for the trip north to be near daughter Johnny when her baby arrived. (He did, weighing in at ten lbs., four oz.). He is their combined 13th grandchild.) The Barn in Eastman is long gone and shall be missed by those of us who attend minireunions, Next stop was a little efficiency motel on Fort Myers Beach which we loved. From there we drove to Punta Gorda for a visit with old friends. Loisand Crawe Ferguson had already gone north, but we did see old roomie EdWhite '38 with other mutual friends.

From there we flew home, but horthoroughly recommend Florida in April, with off-season on top of senior citizens' rates at motels like the Red Roof chain and Red Carpets ($35 for two per night less the ten percent service charge). But we particulary suggest your classmates. They are wonderful hosts and hostesses and seem eager to see '37ers.

Our most recent trips was to the final annual dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod, which we have been following fairly closely since Rachel Laughton clued us in. We stayed with her. Jane Handrahan met us there, and the four of us drove to the dinner together where we sat with Betty and Gib Reynolds, the Art Hendersons '42, and adopted classmate Marion Bratesman, who brought down the director of the Hood Museum in Hanover who gave a very interesting talk with slides on the everchanging exhibits and future plans for the museum. Marion is the PR woman for the museum, one of her many accounts.

We sincerely regret to report the death of Bob Heneage in Hartford, Conn., on April 10, 1986, of heart trouble. His obituary should be in this issue.

Hard-working Lem Bowen says 1937 made its quota of $107,000 for the 1985 Fund even though the College was having its troubles. He says "thank you" to all who helped this worthy cause.

A memorial portrait of teacher!astronaut Christa McAuliffe, painted by Marlene Evans Putnam, wifeof Harold Putnam '37, was dedicated at the Concord, N.H., high school in May. Present were thePutnams, left, and Natalie and J. Willcox Brown '37, right. Also present, but not pictured, were Tomand Jean Parker '36.

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