1927

If your birthday is coming up this fall, you will receive a personal letter from your secretary rather than the cards hearing campus scenes. There are only winter and spring cards remaining, inappropriate for birthdays in the autumn

I lack news from or about our classmates, but a search of the files of the class of 1927 brought forth memories of our 40th Reunion in Hanover, with the dedication of the 1927 Pine Tree in the Bema as a gift to the College to replace the Old Pine. This was June 13,1967. The ceremony was witnessed by 119 classmates plus wives, widows, and children for a total of 219, which won the Reunion Attendance Cup and pleased Chairman Ken Murray. Rog Bury, dressed as Eleazar Wheelock, welcomed Doane Arnold and Phil Fowler in Indian garb, Doane beating his drum and Phil pushing a wheelbarrow full of two-ounce bottles of New England Rum which were distributed to the assembly. Bill North delivered his eulogy "To the Old Pine and the New." President Dickey accepted the gift for the College. Those responsible for the event were Bob Stevens, Rog Bury, Bob Funkhouser, Les Battin, and Ken Murray, reunion chairman.

Ending on a sad note, news has come that Rolfe "Doc" Harvey died after a long illness April 24. The obituary appears in this issue of the Alumni Magazine.

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