1954

Please note the following dates on your calendar NOW because time flies, especially at our age. Dartmouth Night, October parade, bonfire, Harvard Game, class meeting, Maude's Old Juice, etc.

The 40th Reunion, June 13-16, 1994, is now only one year away. Send your favorite recipes to Sandy Gillespie for the class cookbook right away or you will miss out.

The weather was superb for Class Officers Weekend in May, and '54 had a good turnoutespecially for the dedication of the bronze plaque marking the Appalachian Trail's path through Hanover, a gift to the Town of Hanover in observance of our upcoming Reunion. John Gillespie was most modest on the occasion, but it really was his original idea, planning, and coordination with many jurisdictions that brought the project to fruition. President Jerry Goldstein and John presided over the dedication at the Hanover Inn in conjunction with the DOC and the Appalachian Trail Conference. Classmates, wives, and others in attendance for Class Officers Weekend included Clark and Donna Davis, Dick Danforth and daughter Heidi, John, Sandy and Laura Gillespie, Jerry Goldstein, Rick Hartman with Ann and son Tom, John Heston, Herb and Anne Hillman, Dick and Audrey Lewis, Dave and Louise Ransom, Hugh and Phyllis Roberts, Harry Robinson, and Tom and Pat Sayles. More than incidentally, the Ransoms have hiked the entire 2,144 miles of the Appalachian Trail!

We have lost a number of classmates in recent months, and their obituaries will appear in this magazine in due course: Norm Bander, Charles Dorries, Irwin Herrman, Ray Johnson, George Voss, and Frank Wright.

John Heston was unduly modest when he related to me the events that took place during last winter's mini-reunion in Florida. John received the 1954 Class Award for his many positive and rewarding class activities over the decades.

Jay Chandler contributes a sports article from the Washington (D.C.) News about a rookie pro slalom skier, Kem' Corcoran, daughter, of course, of two-time Olympian Tom Corcoran. Kerry is a former U.S. Ski Team member who spent the past four years skiing for the University of Colorado, where she became an NCAA Ail-American. "I love the pro tour. I feel the potential is limidess. It's exciting, challenging and you're the captain of your own ship. The choices and mistakes you make are yours alone. There's no blaming someone else. If you have a bad day, it's your fault entirely. I know I can ski with any of them and I have the attitude that I'm not going to beat myself. The other girl has to beat me."

Now you may ask why Jay and Fleur were in Washington during the Inauguration. As Jay tells it: "We got to know the Clintons through daughter Jenny '82, who founded the Republicans for Clinton in New Jersey. Fleur and I may be ushered out of the clan for being Clinton Republicans."

I make a point of not getting involved in politics in this column, Jay, but you might not be the only ones who did not vote tor George Bush. Jay stepped out of his job as surgery-department chairman at the Medical Center at Princeton in September 1992, but he is still busy with his surgical practice and starting a year as medical staff president.

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