1940

Several of our Hanoverarea classmates joined in a battle against the New Hampshire Highway Department. It seems that Ledyard Bridge is about to collapse and our classmates and their compatriots felt that the New Hampshire engineers proposed to wreck West Wheelock Street with a massive widening and straightening, leading to a huge new bridge. Protesters feared the vista from Hanover would feature great slabs of concrete. But a compromise was reached, and the plans have been slightly scaled down.

The Cape Cod Club recently had as speaker Charles Mayo '65, the renowned whale expert. Ed Fettes and Brud Seller joined us for the interesting slide show. We enjoyed an art show by Tim Dibble at the Cape Museum of Natural History, where some of Tim's impressive stone sculptures were on loan from his parents, Faith and BobDibble. Another art show in Princeton, N.J., recently featured three artists. Everyone knows at least one of them, Tom George. I know another one, Jane Eccles, who by a surprising coincidence moors her day-sailer right next to mine here in Pleasant Bay.

Using the class of 1940 stationery for maximum impact I wrote to Michael Heyman '51, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to criticize the anti-U.S. bias in the original plan for the Enola Gay (atom-bomb) exhibit. Happily that plan has now been scrapped. [See ourcover story, page 22. Ed.]

I spoke on the phone with Bob MacMillen in February. I was pleased to find him in a cheerful mood and making a good recovery from his recent surgery and radiation treatments. He had been tromping around Thompson Arena and hoped for a late-winter expedition from Hanover to their Jekyll Island retreat Bob reported that John Manley underwent surgery for a benign tumor and was still in Mary Hitchcock Hospital. We hope they will both be in fine shape for the 55th Reunion.

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1940's Fabulous 55th and still counting June 12-14, 1995