1949

The annual mini-reunion occurred over the weekend of the Harvard game, and the usual suspects were present, numbering approximately 70 in all. The featured speaker was the magnificent Al Quirk, director of Admissions and Financial Aid at the College, who demonstrated his ever-increasing postgraduate popularity with an explanation of admission procedures. Be of good cheer Al lives. Acclaimed for his attendance was professor Allen Brooks, who recently retired from teaching architecture at the University of Toronto and has moved to a home he acquired on Downing Street in Hanover. No major policy strides were taken by the class executive committee, which illustrates our class stability.

I am, however, enjoined by lovable BudHughes to "do some tub-thumping" for our fabulous 40th Reunion. Only Hughes would inveigh me by using obsolete slang from the 19405, which was Bud's "heyday." (I can match Bud's obsolescence any day, even if I am not a lickspittle for him or any other tub-thumper.) It was my recollection that Skip Ungar was reunion chairman but besides Bud we also have Punchy Thomas sticking his snout into the business by devising a return postcard indicating your intention to attend or not attend. Submit it to him at P.O. Box 405, Norwich, VT 05055. A smorgasbord of events has been scheduled by our troika Ungar, Hughes, Thomas of operators, commencing on June 12,1989, and concluding on Thursday, June 15, 1989. In chronological order, there will be luncheon meetings with speakers at Tuck School and the Medical School, a bus tour of the Dartmouth/Hanover area, a College-sponsored panel, open house at the Dartmouth Outing Club, Robinson Hall, Rockefeller Center, the Geology Department, the Tucker Foundation, and the Hood Museum of Art, a class reception, an alumni dinner for all reuning classes, an informal visit with President Freedman and his wife, a concert by the Glee Club, the annual meeting of Association of Alumni with our own Vail Haak Jr. presiding, a special class meeting with lame duck TomSwartz Jr. presiding, the class picnic on the Connecticut River with Dixieland jazz, formal class dinner at The Bema, a dance, a Great Issues panel, a class memorial service, tennis, golf, another reception, another dinner, and a concluding lunch at Moosilauke Ravine Camp.

Incidentally, Skip Ungar is still playing piano at Caruso's, in Plainfield, N. J. He has assumed the stage name of Michael Notsofienstein. Moreover, Slade Gorton was happily elected to the United States Senate last November, regaining a status he held for six years and lost in 1986.

Ungar to Gorton is definitely a non-sequitur, but we congratulate both Slade and Skip upon their auspicious achievements. Don't we?

All of us must exalt over the results of the football season, including the stunning victory over Princeton, a game attended by Thomas, Hughes, Swartz, Ungar, and RayRasenberger, among others. We should also exalt over the basketball team. The rebuilding of that sport has been a painful and painstaking process, almost as painstaking as Bill Griffiths's efforts in the successful formation and stewardship of his very own saloon, The Quechee Gin Mill, in Quechee, Vt. Here's to you, Bill.

Finally, the aforesaid Vail Haak retired from Travelers Insurance Company after a lifetime of devotion, bought a home in Hanover, and now works with A. B. Gile Insurance. A life of modest enterprise in Hanover is indeed possible.

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