1928

Class doings at the Dartmouth Night/Yale game weekend may be old news but, for those of us who weren't there, meaning almost all of us, it really may be news. Anyway, we had two carloads for the Dartmouth Night parade. Before-hand the Jerry Sasses hosted a dinner for classmates at the Italian Gardens in, of all places, Norwich. Attending were CurlyProsser, the Flanders, Holbrooks, HerbSensenig (wife Mimi was in the hospital with a broken ankle), Laura Sadler, and Mutt Jennings. Mutt hosted lunch for the same crowd the next day before the game. Who hosted the drowning of sorrows after the game is not on record.

The California earthquake shook us all, but some more than others. Among those who got shook up the most were EleanorDickerson, Wat's widow, in Oakland and Mary and Charlie Proctor in Santa Cruz. For Tavey Tailor in Santa Rosa the effects were minimal. Eleanor, recently back from a trip to England, had just turned on the TV to watch the World Series when things started coming off the walls. She was unhurt and her house, on top of a hill, suffered no structural damage except possibly to the chimney. Charlie was less fortunate. He and Mary were at Charlie's foot doctor's office at the time and Charlie was thrown around a bit and suffered a cracked rib. Mary drove home where they found broken glassware, crockery, and knickknacks but no broken windows or structural damage. Charlie said he had never experienced such a fright. This, coming from our normally fearless champion skier, is eloquent testimony to how shattering an earthquake can be to one's composure, to say nothing of one's body and habitat.

We regret to report that Jack Heston died on October 24.

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