1936

12 Godfrey Road Mashpee, MA 02649

At the fall mini-reunion October 3 and 4 (incidentally, Dartmouth won its first football game of the '87 season!) Pete Fitzherbert, retired insurance mogul and historian of some note, gave me a copy of class secretary Norb Hofman's report in the February 1950 issue of the Alumni Magazine. It was a masterful five-column bit of poetry (five columns are a no-no today) in which he meticulously enlisted every member of the class, including wives, to send in newsworthy items of his particular program, progress, or problems. Funny, almost 38 years later the tune is the same—only the audience is smaller and much more select, but the news morsels are all the more important.

The fall of 1987 mini was a great success even though we did play tag with the weatherman. A few non-reuners did show up on the Hanover Plain to take in the almost-peak foliage. We ran into Henry andConnie Mascarello in front of the Inn. They were visiting folk in Ascutney and couldn't be persuaded to break away for our Friday dinner. Bob and Theo Prentice were escorting a group of leaf-lookers around the territory and did stay for the Davidson game.

There were some of the regulars who could not make the occasion: Joe Cunningham was sidelined by some Exposition activity in the Arizona hinterland and Billand Abby Niss had previous commitments with his Scouting activity in Portland.

Ed and Ruth Brooks—aside from ferry trouble from Martha's Vineyard to the mainland—were also in the midst of finetuning their plans to take off soon for an extended winter trip through Africa, Islands of the Indian Ocean, and on up to Singapore and various exotic spots in the Far East.

Connie and Helen Wickham must have waved at our gathering from their cruise ship off Casco Bay as it made its way up through the Bay of Fundy to Canada and the Saguenay. At the class executive meeting Connie was elected class social chairman, replacing Barry Sullivan, who was putting down a well-worn cudgel and going in for a few surgical repairs. Thanks, Barry, for your excellent work for the class and we all hope that by now no further get-wellquick wishes are necessary.

Although Baxter Fullerton came on from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Dave and ShirleyFox, recently transplants to the West Coast, found a trip to Hanover impractical. Dave says they are fairly well settled in their new home—7704 Ridge Drive NE, Seattle, WA 98155—and are ready to be hospitable to classmates en route to the Alcan Highway, Alaska, Hawaii, etc. Of course, they may be Elderhosting somewhere out in the wilds of Oregon, but the invitation is there.

At the Friday night dinner, we greeted Spencer and Jessie Johnson of Pompton Plains, N.J., and Bill and Sina Martens from Snug Harbor, N.Y. It was good to greet a couple of new faces we hadn't seen since the 50th.

The Saturday night spectacular had to be transferred from the DOC House on Occom Pond to Landers on Lebanon Flats—but the sociability was great and the meal and service superb. The awards portion of the evening, chaired by Frank Curtis, presented the Class of 1936 Award Bowl to PhyllisEngland, a first-time distaff recipient, honoring her back-up service to our former class treasurer, Cliff England, and for her untiring work, along with Madine Morton, with the memorial gifts and ladies' program. It's no secret how much you girls mean to the male portion of the class of 1936—we thank you all—and congratulations to Phyl.

And on the congratulations and best wishes side of the ledger: to you Al Gibneyand Jane Clark (Heer), who were married October 17, our very best wishes for happiness and a long, long life together—personally and with the class of 1936.