1937
Living at Eastman in Grantham, N.H., in the summer has a number of fringe benefits. Bob McCoy invited me to the daily Kaffee Klatch at the Inn, which has been described as the Hanover synod. Regular attenders are Jud Smith, Lem Bowen, and Frank Irwin. I met Edward E. Emerson '26, called Triple-E, brother of johnEmerson. Ed says John drives a red Mercedes with 130,000 miles which he purchased in Germany in 1977. There is no change in John's marital status—still single.
Met Harold and Sally Gould in the Inn lobby. Harold has retired from the shoe business and is enjoying retirement in Plaistow, N.H. I chatted briefly with Harry Schultz, who was stocking up on socks at Serry's. Readers of the Alumni Magazine advertisements will note an absence of Campion's ads: they are having a going-out-of-business sale. Interesting rumors persist as to the new tenant. The College owns the building.
Bob McCoy is making good progress recovering from a second hip replacement at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and hopes to be walking without a cane by mini-reunion.
While visiting Blunt to confer with Julie Lepine on our class directory material, I found the name of Franklin E. Robin on the Outstanding Class Agent Plaque for 1976. The plaque for the highest 40th Reunion Class Gifts listed Franklin E. Robin and Fran Fenn in 1977 with $385,424 raised. There is more. The plaque for the highest 45 th Reunion Gift, Eugene Jones, $379,683 .
President Fran Fenn visited the following classmates in July and August to test the waters for our 5 sth reunion gift to be considered at the class meeting on September 28: BudKnow, Arnold Shapiro, Monk Amon, StanBerenson, Stan Lappin, Al Romanow,Charlie Collis, Ray Bauer, Chuck Basset,Rob Robin, Joe Arborio, Roy Cooley, and Herm Anstatt. Herm's daughter Kim was graduated from Dartmouth in 1991.
A "Where Are They Now" column by Tom Whelan in the Gannett Westchester paper reviewed the storied career of Dave Camerer. Dave's novels include The Damned Wear Wings and Nine Saturdays Make a Year. Now Dave has written an autobiography called BetterThan Bucks, presently in the hands of the publisher. Whelan describes Camerer as "always a man of great loyalty, he had the same best man for both of his weddings, Carl "Mutt"Ray, his teammate center on those Dartmouth teams."
An item in Whelan's column is a new angle on the famous 12th man in the Dartmouth Princeton game in 1935. Here is die account: "Camerer, stationed at tackle, suddenly glanced to one side. There stood a little guy in an overcoat lining up to do whatever he could to help his adopted Big Green. The weather didn't faze him. He was loaded. It came out later he worked in a nearby restaurant and didn't like Princetonians. The 12th man didn't make any tackles but did last all four downs undetected by officials and stadium guards." Dave, that's the first time I heard that the 12th man helped Dartmouth for four downs.
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