1934

On your behalf I did see the Big Green trounce Penn for a winning Ivy football season. It was a treat to see us do the wrap-up so solidly. And my '34 cap brought hands waving from three classmates I could join for second-half cheering. Stan Smoyer had made it. Mayo and Bernice Cohen, the perennial rooters, were there from Hanover, along with Bernie and Dorothy Cushman, who escorted the Cohens back to their Washington home for a Thanksgiving visit. The Cushmans told me of their pleasure living near their first great-grandchild.

I also went to Washington for a family gathering and used our (directory to catch up with some of the nearby '34s. Dudley Tibbits, retired State Department and International Bank economist, often on foreign assignments, can now sail his boat at Rehoboth Beach after his sons help get it launched. Walt and Teta Bryant are enjoying the quieter life now but it does include goose hunting when son Steve visits.

Louise Barcella misses the football games she and Ernie regularly attended but is happily situated with her daughter, son, and grandchildren nearby. Line and Carla Daniels feel they are well situated with their year-old grandchild just 15 miles away, but they will get down to their Delray Beach base for the winter months where Line can keep tabs on a close neighbor, George Collins.

Speaking of Florida, Stan and Mabel Silverman made their move from N.Y.C. to Lake Clarke Shores just ahead of the holidays. They join 59 other Florida '34s and a dozen more who have a second residence there.

During the past year Lois Frankel got around to Florida and also London and Iowa and wherever family was to be found, and of course to Hanover for the graduation of granddaughter Rebecca Reese '89. Lois is gratified that the Moe Frankel Scholarship Fund is now ready to make annual awards. Also on the subject of funds with a '34 connection, Bo Allabough told me the Robert F. Allabough Memorial Lecture this fall was given by Prof. Claudia Koonz, author of a recently highly regarded book, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics, which was part of a History Honors seminar at the College.

Here's hoping 1990 is an upbeat year for all of you.

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