1933

First, let's talk about our 55th reunion next year. Bill Hitchcock is off to a good start with a stellar committee in place. He plans a relaxed, sit-down, low-calorie, in bed by 11:00 affair with intellectual overtones supplied by Ken Spang. It will start in Hanover June 13 and will end in Hanover, noon, June 15 and will continue at the Spaulding Inn, Whitefield, N.H., June 1516, an inn highly recommended by those who were there after our 50th. Accommodations will be available at a Tuck School dormitory, and rooms are set aside at the Hanover Inn, available after noon on June 12. If you wish one of these, please call Joanne Bellavance, NOW, 603/643-3827.

A class meeting was held this spring in early May. Most of the class officers were there with the notable exception of Jud Pierson, who was in hospital. Thanks to Mannie Sprague and Bob Niebling, we have exceeded our '87 Alumni Fund goal of $100,000. Jack Manchester has scheduled the mini-reunion Princeton weekend, September 18-19. Twenty-four officers and classmates met afterward for dinner.

John Monagan, our very first class secretary, and Rosemary report that on "April 3, Helen and Hank Smith's grandchildren tendered a tea (I saw none) dance at the Sulgrave Club in Washington to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Present were many distinguished Washingtonians, but none more noteworthy than members of the class of '33: these were Jean Meek, the ever loyal Emily Hobbs, Jane and PeteHart, and the Monagans, self-described as captive democrats." John further reports that "I visited my home terrain of Waterbury, Conn., to see my new grandson, Matthew, son of Charles '72 and Marcia. I also had dinner with Copey and Hal Smith, who is turning the management of his S and L over to his two sons. And also had lunch with Jack Smart who sallies forth from the Litchfield hillsides to play golf."

After 53 years of management, Dave Russell has retired from the Boro Bus Company of Red Bank, N.J., and finds it hard to have no place to go and no desk to put his feet on to discuss problems of the day. Instead, he's working on his golf game to get his handicap back where it was ten years ago.

On May 19, a memorial for Bill Dewey was held at his third generation home in Dewey's Mills, Vt. Several members of the family and others spoke of Bill's many contributions to the College, the community and the woolen business. Out-of-town classmates included Ed Foley, Rip andBetty Ripley, Ned and Anne Lord, Jeff andBea Davis and Mugs D'Arcy. Sue Dewey plans to stay in the area till returning to Florida in the fall.

And now for some tid-bits of news as the space allows. Paul Zamecnik, 1933s internationally known medical scientist, was to receive an honorary Ph.D. from Dartmouth at the June Commencement, but was unfortunately in hospital (nothing serious) and couldn't make it. At a recent meeting of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley, Ro Burbank, after being introduced as the club's first president, was one of the featured speakers. Ralph Alexander has retired from the practice of radiology, and after June's death married a family friend, the daughter of a New York radiologist, which sort of keeps it all in the family. Keep the phones ringing till next month.

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