1942

February 1939. Blue books behind us, we look forward to and participate in our first Winter Carnival. The mighty Eleazar statue, even today a symbol for Winter Carnival, reaches high into the Hanover sky from the center of the Green. Dorothy Gardner becomes our first Queen of the Snows at a glittering outdoor evening on the golf course. The Dartmouth ski team is the winner of its own Carnival. All this as Walter Wanger '15 films it for scenes to be used in his forthcoming movie "Winter Carnival," which will star Ann Sheridan. February 1939. Fifty years ago.

On the move: Bill Clark reports in from San Francisco that he and wife Polly returned recently from a six-week cruise-tour that took them down the Adriatic from Venice, by the Yugoslavian coast, past Istanbul into the Black Sea and Odessa (ballet at the ornate Odessa Opera House), and back to Naples. Five days in Paris and a week in London completed the Clark odyssey.

Bill Thompson was set to leave his Sarasota home to visit two of his daughters in Germany for the holidays after successful motorcycle trips (Dale Bartholomew please note) to rallies in Wisconsin and Indiana.

Sid Bull and wife Dickey made Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Bora Bora their targets in a "fantastic" six-week trip to the South Pacific in the fall. Sid writes: "New Zealand has to be one of the most beautiful countries in the world, inhabited by the most gracious, friendly, courteous, helpful people ever."

The United Retirement Bulletin in its December issue carried an article by DaveSargent, who "bikes enthusiastically despite triple-bypass heart surgery." The article reported on our former class secretary's bike trip through Greece. The tour was "classical, hairy, and (when pedaling along the sandy beaches in view of Greeks in their beach apparel) eye-popping."

From way out in Driggs, Idaho (close by the Wyoming border and the Grand Tetons, if you want to look it up), comes a note from John Brewer and a tear-sheet from the Teton Valley News picturing John as chairman of the Teton Valley Airport Advisory Board and quoting his words in defense of a projected airport expansion. John reports: "I am fine and very much in the real estate business in this beautiful valley in the Tetons. Had a good letter from JohnStorrs (why not tell us about them, John?) not too long ago in between his trips to Russia and Australia.

As has been our sad duty in the last few months, we must chronicle the loss of two more classmates. The Reverend FordGeorge Coffinan died in Hawaii on July 27, and Gibb Clark's January 18, .1988, death has just been reported.

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