1937

Final report for the Alumni Fund shows 399 classmates contributed $8,520 and the total fund amounted to $611,531. Chief agent Dana Prescott, before you pick up the phone and call me to tell me I'm crazy I must tell you that those are 1952 figures. I hasten to report that as of April 19 we had raised $66,000 toward our goal of $110,000, according to Dana.

Why the history lesson? Bibs and KatieBankart are planning to leave their home at 10 Colby Road in Wellesley and move to Yarmouthport and hence the housecleaning of '37 Class Notes columns and Mint-Bag newsletters of the late forties and early fifties. Bibs sent your secretary an envelope-full to peruse and I'll share a few of the historical gems with you.

According to Bibs, Al Bryant recruited him about 1948 to write the Mint-Bag. RogAllen took over editing the Mint-Bag in 1954 and Bibs became secretary and wrote the Class Notes for more than 30 years. For one who has been writing the notes for three years, it is hard to imagine anyone, other than the Bibber, doing it for three decades. My hat is off to him!

Remember the Ferocious Fifteenth Reunion in June 1953? Carl Ray rounded up door prizes for everyone. One of the annual big events in September was the clambake at Bill Brown's place in Gloucester. In 1948 the committee of Stan Lappen, LarryBrooks, Crawf Ferguson, and Bill Brown reduced the fee to five greaseballs per couple with lobster, franks, and free beer for all. What a deal.

A picture of Col. Allan Sutter, then executive officer of the Dartmouth NROTC Unit, receiving the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in Korea. Al served with the marines in Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa, Inchon, and Hungnam and to my knowledge is the only classmate to be awarded the navy's highest honor medal.

Lou Valier was a good correspondent, sending many letters of his voyages throughout the Pacific. In a 1951 column it is noted that Stan Berenson and wife took the occasion of spending the New Year's holiday as a guest at the Hanover Inn. TomMcIntyre was elected the mayor of La-conia, N.H. A long letter from Lynn Pres cott described life in Teheran in 1949 during Dana's two-and-a-half-year stint with the U.S. Military Mission. Before the H-D game in Cambridge, a class smoker Friday night was a fixture. Chick Koop please note. In '52, Fred Castle and JackDevlin were guest editors of the Mint-Bag. Fred Asher and Park Johnston were raising chinchillas in Chicago. Bill Leonard has a radio program at WCBS called "This is New York."

Back to the future in 1990, Bibs and Katie jetted to Arizona and California and en route visited Fred and Esther Mayo. BobAylward's annual report reveals he is busy as senior warden recruiting a new rector for their parish. Last call for the mini-reunion in Hanover September 14—15 with golf Friday morning at Eastman.

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