1935

The biggest ’35 gathering in years occurred in Hanover October 8-9, the peak of the leaf season. When, by careful count, 106 classmates, wives, widows, and friends attended what Mint-Reunion Chairman Bill Fitzhugh dubbed our Elder-fest, honoring our just-past or just-ahead 80th birthdays. Many came early enough on Friday to hear (along with many college and town folk) ’35’s annual Hood Museum lecture, delivered this year by Baker Library rare-book maven Stanley Brown. Stanley is son of Lois Brown and deceased classmate Sandy Brown and, like Sandy, a direct descendant of Dartmouth’s third president, Francis Brown (1815-1820). His subject was “Perils & Pleasures of Rare Book Collecting,” one peril being the rare book market’s volatility. Afterwards, 102 of us set out for Pierce’s Inn in Etna for a truly splendid feast.

The inini-reunion’s most welcome attendee was Reg Bankart, still battling the effects of a year-ago stroke and limiting his public appearances, but greeting many of us at the Chieftain Motel. He skipped our usual irrev- erent Saturday-morning class meeting, marked first by the late arrival of Head Agent JohnTodd and Yours Truly with citations from a simultaneous College fundraising affair, These were awarded to ‘3ss for our superb 1993 Alumni Fund showing, and especially for our 88-percent graduate giving record. (Real sadness: Carl Funke, the man who racked up that percentage, couldn’t be at the mini.) The meeting’s novel feature was an amusing spoof on the return of a presumably long-lost classmate named Fred Zukal.

Brief notes: Bill Rauschal boasts from Florida; “I’ve become a great-grandfather to Nicholas Slade Salerno, bom August 4 to my dear granddaughter Michele and her hus- band, John.” Bucks Weil reports he andjean had a “wonderful cruise to Norway and the North Cape, then five days in London,” but adds, “I miss Hanover and Dartmouth, also Bud Gaboon’s dinner,” And Rey Moulton, sends word of Marj Buxbaum’s death August 28, describing her as “a beautiful lady.” That she was.

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