1931

In a recent duplicate-bridge club session an opponent pointed at the 1931 inscription on my 60th Reunion jacket, saying that he had a brother-in-law who went to Dartmouth at about the same time, and asked if I knew Sid Rubin! I brought my 31-year book to the next session to show him how Sid and I looked a few years ago.

A depiction in painting and verse, The Storyof Noah and His Ark, by George Conklin, has just been published, and I understand that a novel based on George's experience in North Africa during WW II is in preparation.

I'm trying to dig up news from the nine '31s who have residences which may have been in the path of hurricane Andrew, and I shall report. All are in Florida, none in Louisiana.

Jim Frame thoughtfully sent the Boston Globe obituary of Cliff McDonald and also the bad news that Cubby Miller was in a nursing home in Weymouth, Mass., with Alzheimer's. A week earlier Hart Gilchrist wrote that Alice and he had attended the memorial service for Bill Grant, also a victim of Alzheimer's. Several hundred people turned out, a testimonial to what Denver thought of Bill. Gilly also wrote that despite his handwriting's not so indicating, he and Alice were well.

Back to my mine of returned 60th Reunion questionnaires: Jean and Spence Cram hit their 57th wedding anniversary in 1991.I hope that Al Sutton's one-liner "like vintage port we improve with age" fits the rest of you better than it does me. Don Crane plans to see the year 2000 and beyond. Ruth Slaughter's best news of 1991 was that her Dartmouth '82 granddaughter was pregnant. Dick Denby's one-liner: "Let's keep it a college not a university." Bill Schuldenfirei must be a Perotian since his biggest worry was the national debt. Vance Dickerman's continuing concern is that San Diego is too far from Hanover. SnitzSchneider is in poor health at Glendale Health Care Center in Naugatuck. And WesDingman's biggest worry was how long he could continue to mow the lawn.

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