1933

The '33 mini-reunion on the weekend of October 3 was a great success. Waxy Wright reports that 30 people attended and had a great time. Jack Manchester managed the event and delivered a hilarious account of his and Dot's marriage arrangements. Ned Lord brought a keyboard and Ted Allen played oldies for group singing.

A class meeting was held on Friday morning at which plans for the 60th Reunion next June 14 were discussed, and reports were presented on class financial matters. NancyElliott, for many years a loyal, de facto member of 1933, was formally elected a member of the class.

The sun came out for the football game and all enjoyed the Balch Hill color display and a 44-14 Dartmouth victory over Bucknell

We recently interrupted Harry Carruth in Pompano Beach as he was working at his computer, where he spends his mornings. He revealed that his annual major travel project took him to the northern tip of New Guinea earlier this year to spend ten days scuba diving off Biak and various small islands. The diving was superb and the sights ran the gamut from small coral to hammerhead sharks. From New Guinea Harry went on to Bali and then to Java where he spent ten days exhaustively covering the island with a car and driver. At home he is working on a way to do cartooning on the computer. He also has setup a database as a memory jogger to assist him in an autobiographical memoir which will be intimate (tsk, tsk!) and not for publication. Obviously he is a healthy and happy octogenarian.

John Merrill retired from his job as district counsel for the Veterans Administration seven years ago and intersperses his daily chores in Amherst, N.Y., with regular trips to distant places. His wife, Dorothy, died seven years ago, but he has traveled with his son on occasion, particularly on an automobile trip which they took through Sicily several years ago. John has also toured the Languedoc, in France, England, Wales, and eastern Canada. Some time ago he visited Hanover and was disappointed at the changes which had taken place in the ambience and policies of the College since the days of auld lang syne.

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