1936

12 Godfrey Road Mashpee, MA 02649

Old cliches often must be reworded to fit today's situations. Thus, when family is involved (and especially grandchildren), the shortest distance between two points is not necessarily a straight line. Our straight return to Cape Cod from Stuart, Fla., was via Cincinnati and Washington, D.C.

Of course, there were certain fringe benefits to be gained by deserting the southern reaches of crowded 1-95 and the flat coastal plains of Georgia and South and North Carolina. Shortly after picking up 1-75 in northern Florida and as you come up into southern Georgia, the fields become more lush, the foliage more intense, greener and colorful, and the gentle slopes become rolling hills. There are numerous new (to us) and tantalizing historic spots, shopping malls and specialty outlets thank goodness our tight schedule did not allow time for stops! After the racetrack end run a around Atlanta you head up into the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky the scenery often reminding one of the Green Mountains of Vermont. From Cincinnati to Washington, D.C., the spectacular Route 40/48 takes you from Morgantown, W. Va., to Hagerstown, Md., through the Cumberlands, a route today far easier to traverse than it was for our forebears years ago.

No, not the straightest of lines, but one with considerable variation and beauty. We finally made it to Mashpee, but the weather is anything but Easter oriented.

At Cincinnati I was in luck to find Bob Keeler at his sky-view office overlooking River Park and the Ohio River. He and Peg had just come back from several months of roaming around New Mexico, Arizona, and the Southwest in what Bob dubbed as their ongoing program to "See America at Last." On his trip he had compiled, completed and sent off to the Search Committee in Hanover the 1936 Trustee Advisory Committee (TAC) Report. This has been somewhat of an initial effort to sound out the opinion and feelings of classmates, to consolidate and evaluate the findings, and present a single report to whatever body is most concerned. I think the committee did a bangup job. Frank Kappler, who incidentally had to make the difficult choice between attending Class Officers' Weekend and the Alumni Council Meeting or going on a three-week junket to China and environs for travel-oriented correspondents, made a fine summary of this report in his April 24th issue of Tithe. We are all delighted that the Search Committee has located Dartmouth's next president and we all welcome James Freedman to the Hanover scene.

Back in my March column I reported on a small party we attended to celebrate the retirement of Henry Mascarello. Subsequently, I received clippings from the Falmouth [Mass.] Enterprise reporting that the Crime and Justice Foundation in Boston had established the "Henry J. Mascarello Award for Excellence in the Administration of Justice and the Humane Treatment of Offenders." The award was named after Henry for his some 50 years of work for the foundation, during which one of his major goals was to educate the public on alternatives to the traditional ways of dealing with crime. Henry's lifetime devotion to the field of criminology has not been confined to Massachusetts. He has served on many national boards and spent substantial time with the United Nations Alliance of Nongovernmental Organizations for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice as a representative of International Prisoners Aid Association.

A happy note from Gloria Hatch reports that her granddaughter, Lisa Roth, of West Hartford, Conn., has received early acceptance to Dartmouth for the class of '91. The good news came on December 17, which would have been Granddad Arnold Hatch's 72nd birthday. Congratulations to you, Lisa.

If you plan to join us in Hanover October 2-3 for the Davidson game and the 1936 fall mini and haven't yet made your reservation in the Norwich Inn, better get on the horn right away. Call David Gibson at 802/6491143. The rooms may all be spoken for at the present time, but maybe a soft whisper would at least put you on the Inn's waiting list.

And then, of course, mark your calendar with green crayon for the 1987/1936 Lobster Feed to be held, rain or shine, at the wideopen spaces of Phyl England's waterfront place in Rye, N.H., on July 25. (Please note that this is one week earlier than in previous years, but the lobsters will be just as meaty and succulent.)