1945

Our musical judge Dick Owen and his family, along with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, will provide an exciting evening for all of you who may be near Hanover on May 27. As part of its program the orchestra will play a symphony written by Dick based on a poem by Amy Lowell, and his wife, Lynn, will be the singer. In addition, their son David '90 plays in the orchestra. Another son, Richard Jr., has been accepted in the class of 1993. Obviously Dick will be there and he is hoping to see a number of classmates and other College friends.

Errata Dept.—March: We have no classmate named Charles Yoremans but Charles Youmans is one of us. (Mea culpa.)

One of the reasons Sam and Gertie Cutler were in California (March notes) was to get acquainted with a grandchild, son of Andrew '76. We recently spent a "skiing" weekend at Woodstock, Vt., with the Cutlers and others (where no snow meant tennis swimming, and other indoor winter sports were featured), and learned that they now have four grandchildren —two born in 1989. There should be some Cutlers in Dartmouth classes of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Although we are well into spring we have news gleaned from Christmas letters from John and Molly White and John and Martha Holdridge (the latter is courtesy of Frank Aldrich). Molly reports a multitude of activities including "picking, packing, cooking, freezing, and distributing the fruits of John's pastimes." Her husband's pastimes include service on the boards of Maine Medical Center, Maine Historical Society, Consumers Water Company, and Key Trust Company—plus lobstering, scalloping, gardening, and boating. Together they ski (senior lift rates are attractive to John), cruise on their boat, and travel. The letter raises an interesting question: "Why are there so few hours in a day, so few days in a year just when we need more?"

The Holdridges spent part of the year in Italy visiting historical sites as well as family, and commented on the deterioration of Roman structures due to city population. Away from Rome conditions were better—including Pompeii, "considering what happened in 79 A.D." They spent spring and summer at their West Virginia farm and then fall travels included Beijing, Jakarta, Tokyo, and Taipei, all of which were related to conferences on economics, development, business, and agriculture.

Harry Hampton writes that he and Shorty Pierce were in Hanover last month and made all the arrangements to update the weather instruments. New weatherproof equipment has been ordered, the Hanover Inn management is most helpful, and before long there should be a lasting 1945 memorial weatherpost on the Inn corner.

As George Barr reported in the newsletter, the Class of 1945 tape is finished, and available. It is also magnificant, particularly the Glee Club side. The tape features the 1960 Glee Club and includes songs not included in today's repertoire. The second side covers two Dartmouth Band concerts. The tape is called "Dartmouth Nostalgia" and is available for $10 plus $1.50 for mailing costs (checks or money order only payable to Class of 1945) by mailing to Dartmouth Nostalgia RR #2, Box 215, West Lebanon, NH 03784. Anyone may purchase, with proceeds to benefit the Class of 1945 Scholarship Fund.

The Leggats spent the past weekend in Hanover for a medical school skit night with both sons involved (Bruce as a borrowed guitarist), and we saw Don and Ruth Sisson at the handsomely refurbished Ivy Room in the Inn. As attractive as the campus 's I had forgotten how drab it can be on a gray, warmish "schlump" day in late winter.

Best wishes for a summer without drought but with much sunshine and happiness.

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