1972

Approximately one hundred '72s returned to Hanover in June to make our 15th reunion an unqualified success. For those of you unable to make it, forget any stereotypes of yuppies flaunting their personal and business successes. The class was definitely in Hanover to relax. Of course, it's hard to flaunt anything when you're sleeping in dorm rooms and carrying diaper bags.

Our class has baffled the College once again, this time with a belated plunge into parenthood. According to statistics for 15th reunions, our children should have been ripe for the junior program (ages 5-14), but we had very few registrants in that age category. Instead, we set a new record for crib requests! However, at our class banquet, Eddie Chamberlain '36 informed us that we weren't alone in the new parents category one of his classmates brought a two-year-old to their 50th!

Reunion chairmen Gary Dicovitsky and John Burke did a fine job of organizing the weekend and keeping things running smoothly. Gary and John had help, including John Collier, who arranged an interesting seminar on how coming of age in the sixties has affected our social development. Jim Conway and Bill Anderson arranged the food and beverage service, including a beer truck, which along with John Rockwell's tape player and tapes made our tent a popular spot. In addition to a host of '7os and '71s, visitors at our tent included former dean Carroll Brewster and former freshman football coach John Curtis.

Participation chairman Max McGee and his committee of Chris Brewster, GaryShanley, Fred Crossman, and Ted Lipman made numerous calls, convincing people to take their vacations in Hanover. They must have worked hard, because quite a few classmates showed up at the last minute, including Stever Tozer,Fuzzy Thurston, Bev Love, Jim Smith,Dave Hazelett, Roland Walker, MartyCain, Paul Pullen, and Dave Bauer.

Lloyd Ucko helped out by organizing the athletic events. Barry Luetscher won a hilarious one-club golf contest, with tough competition from Crossman and Ucko himself. A number of others, including Jim Gottschalk, Bill Pollock, BrendanO'Neill, Joe Leslie, and Wayne Young took advantage of the beautiful weather and played more serious (?) rounds of golf. Reunion treasurer Dave Friend paid the bills for our events and kept Conway and Anderson from getting carried away.

In reunion-wide events, Steve Shirey won the reunion 10K run. Down on the river, a boat crewed by Peter Thompson,Bill Boardman, Roger Poor, Rick Greenberg,Jon Einsidler, Miles Harbur, Rod Morgan '71, and Steve Tourek '70 beat entries from the classes of '70 and '71 in the Reunion Regatta. The class crew did not seem to miss the services of CharlesNearburg, who was in California racing his formula car, or Dan Moors, who was enthralled with the beer truck and didn't make it to the boat house on time.

Coming long distances were Dick Krant from Belgium and Mark Stitham from Hawaii. Bob Nycz flew in from California courtesy of a job interview in New England, and Bill Schur came from Chicago on tickets provided by his wife's frequent flier program. In contrast, Upper Valley residents Young Dawkins, Bud Lynch,Pete Paquette, Dicovitsky, and Collier went home to their own beds each night.

Our class meeting produced the following slate of new officers: Peter Broberg, president; Chip Carstensen, treasurer; Alan Lovell, newsletter editor; JohnBurke, Alumni Council representative; Jon Einsidler, mini-reunion chairman; Dave Bailey, head agent for the Alumni Fund; and Joe Davis, secretary. The outgoing officers, headed by Shel Prentice, deserve our appreciation for a job welldone, and we will try to keep up the good work.

Whenever the class gets together, it is both inevitable and appropriate that we remember our deceased classmates, so it was especially nice to have Lewis Poag's widow, Catherine, join us at reunion. I also call your attention to a belated obituary for Ronald Coy McGee elsewhere in this issue.

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