1941

John Everett was there, looking good and no wonder: he divides his year between golf courses in Massachusetts and Florida. "There" is Hanover for the October reunion, and Brother John was one of the respondents when I passed out cards at the class meeting. "Dartmouth," he writes, "remains, in our family, a centerpiece of attention and a focus of our affection... (and) my interest is in Dartmouth present and Dartmouth future with a deep sense of gratitude to Dartmouth past. It cannot be 'undying' if it doesn't keep apace of change."

There were about 50 of us in town, men and women both, for Dartmouth Night, the Yale game, Friday dinner in Alumni Hall with 1942, and by ourselves the next evening at the Outing Club. And there was Saturday's pregame luncheon in Leverone, our tables overflowing, and Rich Fisher had his camera going full-tilt. So did I, and the product of each will be directed to the archives.

Unc Richardson, sporting his '41 cap, is still engaged professionally in money management, and he advises investors to "Sit on your cash." Full-timing for his township as zoning enforcement officer and land-use ad ministrator is Bob Flouton, newly elected to the class executive committee together with Felix Lilienthal. Freshly retired to Quechee, Vic Schneider and his lady. Present at a mini-reunion for the first time, StuMay "can recommend it to all." He and Audrey are relocating to Spring Hill, Fla., and would welcome '41 connections there. Expecting "grandchild #14 momentarily" are John and Pudge White. (That'll happen when you have five or more daughters.) Polly and Dick Hill recently returned from a "quite hedonistic" trip to England on the QE2, followed by driving around Ireland for ten days.

Also present, reporting "Everything okay," Dick Whittier, and the Bjorkiunds: Brodie was okay, but Fran is hobbled by a broken hip. Recently first-time grandies, these two. Add Ed and Jan Martin, the former not long ago singing with a group in China. And Bert French, escorting a Barbara, Beanie Nutt and Babs, and some names that haven't turned up in this space for a while: John Ahlgren, Zeke Billings,Bill Broer, Roger Epply, Clayt Gray, BillHammond, Ed Marlette, Bill Steel, and Chet Stothart. Pretty good turnout, right? And I'm saving some of the names for later on. My first mini in three years, by the way, and it was good to get to work again.

Off-campus, as it were, the governor of North Carolina recently reappointed Andrew J. Waring to the Mitchell Community College Board of Trustees. Nice picture of Jack with the news item. And John W. Bates, another "Jack" to his classmates, is a chairman emeritus now that he's retired from Reading & Bates Corp., an offshore drilling concern based in Houston,Tex.

In reserve, for another column, we are holding a newsy letter from Bermuda in the incomparable hand of Steve Winship.

Carpe diem.

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