1955

For some reason I was reminded of our freshman trip while driving up from Connecticut the other night. So I decided to call one of the first '55s I met, Kilt Andrew, down in Brunswick, Maine. Kilt retired form L.L. Bean several years ago, and with his friend Ann "Clemmie" Brown bought an old cape in Brunswick and joined a real-estate office where both are now brokers. Kilt, who has three children and an adopted granddaughter, says the real-estate business keeps him pretty busy, but he does find time for some White Mountain hiking and cycling. He reports that the bow tie is alive and well, and he is an enthusiastic customer of Lowe Bow Originals in Cheshire, Conn., along with Dr. Koop '37 of the Med School. Kilt sees classmates Peter Packard and HughTaylor at local Dartmouth Club meetings.

Recently I have seen several articles about the Hovey murals, which adorn the walls of what we knew as the Hovey Grill in our undergraduate days. Several 'sss including Herb Gramm,Dick Hogarty, and myself worked as waiters in the Grill and were quite accustomed to the murals which depict Eleazar and scantily-clad Indian men and women meeting in the wilderness. During the seventies the College concluded that the murals were offensive to women and Native Americans and had them covered. Recendy, the Student Assembly has reconsidered the issue and called for the display of the murals for educational purposes and their transfer to the college art collection. Once a new Hovey's pub is opened in the basement of Collis next year, the Grill will become an art gallery under the control of the Hood Museum with viewing hours and educational materials describing the murals and their history.

Recently, four 1955 couples held an informal dinner reunion in Danvers, Mass. According to Ralph Sautter, who had considerable difficulty in finding a mutually agreeable date for the affair, the other attenders were the JohnDell Isolas, the Dana Hennigars, and the Larry Veators. Among the topics of conversation during the evening were the significant decrease in capacity for drinking and a review of individual medical problems. Sounds like the typical group of people entering their seventh decade!

Not having seen Larry Veator in many years, I called him to find out what he has been doing. Larry and Patti moved to Gloucester, Mass., five years ago from Mahwah, N.J., when Larry retired from W.R. Grace after a 28-year career. While with Grace, he was involved with their international business and had five years of overseas assignments in Australia and Switzerland. The Veators have four children and one grandchild. They summer in Gloucester where Larry golfs and has a fishing boat that, in his words, never leaves the sight of land. They also have a home in Quechee, Vt., which they use in the fall and winter. Larry has been attending the Iliad study group at the College where he has studied Confucius and business ethics, and this fall he'll delve into 21st-century politics. Sounds like retirement agrees with him.

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