1928

Since not many classmates seem to be doing anything strenuous these days, it might be appropriate to start a report of inactivities. This idea was inspired by a note from Larry Kenny, who lives on his 200 acres of non-farming farm near Middletown Springs, Vt., happily doing nothing much beyond occasional letters to die editors of magazines. He notes time's rapid passage by the fact that his son will celebrate his 25th Dartmouth reunion and that his granddaughter has just completed her freshman year with the class of '98.

Comes a time when looking backward is more fun than vice versa. Jack Zellers has sent me copies of some pages from the 1927 Jack-O-Lantern he has managed to keep all these years. I found the old ads as interesting as the old jokes. Ed Flanders sent a clipping from the Goffstown News about the Dodge family selling their store after 100 years. (Surely you know where Goffstown, N.H., is.) Well, it seems the late Homer Dodge, who had been Ed's roommate for four years, eventually took over the family business and was succeeded by his son, who has just sold it. It was one of the last remaining cracker-barrel, pot-bellied-stove country stores.

Barbara Strong, daughter of Rappie Bavier, wrote to inform us of the death of her mother, Sue Bavier in Sarasota, Fla., in May. Barbara's husband, Frank, is Dartmouth '56 and Tuck-Thayer '57.

I regret to report the deaths of WoodieWoods on March 14 and Bill Morton on April 18.

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