1937

10 Colby Road Wellesley, MA 02181

THE GOLDEN JUBILEE Finally, the magazine has a new editor after a national search. He is Jay Heinrichs, who has taken over the reins from rehabilitated ex-editor Charlie Widmayer '30, an old friend of many of us through the years. Jay is promising improvements but essentially to get it out in the month stated on the cover. Since the magazine has had a reputation for always being late, this, of course, has created problems for class notes from time to time, but, more importantly, for paying advertisers. Mort Berkowitz's advertising agency in New York handles most of the Ivy League alumni magazines so he should now be among the happiest group.

We have all had tussles with computers through recent years, always a frustrating experience. Most times they are right, sometimes wrong, but the worst is what happened to Joe Tardiff! After a year of receiving no Hanover mail, Joe wrote to the College only to find out the computer had actually deleted his name and any records therein confined. To make matters worse, he and Olive are in Florida expecting to have their mail forwarded from Exeter but the post office there compounded the boo boo by using the wrong street number. Then they got a large envelope from the Exeter, N.H. post office supposedly containing back mail, but the packet had been stripped. Empty! That's not all! Our new directory is finally in your hands as printed and mailed by the Hanover computer with everything "up-to-date." (We hope you will put it to good use calling or contacting classmates and encouraging attendance at the giant 50th come June.) But, there again, Joe is lost. No name, no directory! So the College sent him one specially, only to find he is not listed! His address is: 46A Hayes Trailer Camp, Exeter, NH. He and Olive will be at reunion so you can compare frustrations at that time. Two more items before we leave Joe. His will specifies his ashes are to be sprinkled along the Appalachian Trail, which he completely traversed a few years ago. He noted, also, he spent a nostalgic 50th Andover Academy reunion with Bill Dwyer, whose wife, Kathy, is a corporate lawyer making him (Bill says) a "house husband."

Santa Art Ruggles (Rug Bug) writes us Marge had a stroke last March which "left her cold on the left side, and warm on the right." Other than that she seems to have made good progress. We talked to her by phone a few months ago without noticing any speech problems. Rug stopped Santa duties last December 8 for 1986, due back end of May for limited time. He did 58 days in 1986, planning now for 54 days in 1987.

In addition to Barb Pierce's accident, which made Hank Pierce's housework pile up, he was chosen for jury duty with no compassion from the judge. Last fall Hank ran the post-Dartmouth-Princeton game party for the scholarship fund in a building near the stadium for all alumni. He reports it was very successful. Millieand Fred Bunce are ensconced in their newly built one-floor home in Kittery Point, Maine, overlooking the harbor. They love it. She has been cured of her cancer but has a bad lung condition so is on oxygen. Their navy son is in nearby Bedford, N.H. Fred has done volunteer tax work for AARP (Vita) for the past nine years.

Jim Emerson stays busy golfing, gardening, and cleaning out the attic of his old family homestead in Danvers, Mass. The famous historic General Israel Putnam House dates back to 1643. It was built when Danvers was called Old Salem Village during witchcraft days. Olive Tardiff wrote it up for the North Shore newspaper, real history! Point here is Jim has been assigning things to historical societies' rare book sections; to Dartmouth he sent a copy of the Stamp Act. He says in those days nobody threw anything away, just stored it in the attic. The old house stands in the way of commercial development, making a decision imminent on what to do with it while trying to perpetuate a piece of history. Societies are trying to be helpful.

We are indebted to Jim Lutrell for the sad news that Bob Cheney died January 9 in the St. Thomas Hospital of emphysema. Maggie, he, Jim, and Jean spent many happy times together, as did SamDillon, who was also instrumental in getting this sad news to us. Just looking over some of our articles from the seventies (during Hanover problems) and many letters to the editor, we made comments ending with this quotation from Thomas Carlyle; "Today is not yesterday, we ourselves change. How then can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same, change indeed is painful, yet very needful, and if memory has its force and worth, so also must Hope."

So, we look forward to June, when the old and new come together for a once in our lifetime 50th reunion. DON'T MISS IT!

The golden Jubilee 50 th REUNION June 12-14, 1987