1930

Now hear this! The March 1997 issue of our prize-winning DAM will feature the women of our class Since 1930 wasn't coeducational (not officially), this is to be a tribute to our wonderful wives, widows, and partners, past and present. Immediately, two come to mind who received class awards, and at least two others who should have, but I need your help and your memories. My deadline for March is December 15, so I need your suggestions, please, by December 5. For starters, who was our Carnival Queen?

From Ed Weinstein comes a welcome (i.e., not asking for money) letter saying that last winter he "vicariously and all too briefly" re-experienced his youth by attending the Heptagonal (Ivy League plus Navy) Track and Field Championships in Hanover. "Anyone who thought the admission of women would detract from Dartmouth's virile image should have watched the 3,000-meter run, in which Dartmouth women took first, second, and fourth places." After a half hour's rest, Kristin Manwaring '96, the second-place finisher, came back to win the mile. Says Ed, "That's running."

I've sometimes mentioned my cruises, but never, I think, much more than an occasional itinerary.

However, this past April Chuck andBobbie Jacobs and I shared 16 days on the small, yacht-like Renaissance IV from Barbados to Barcelona, with five interesting intermediate stops, and only 90 passengers, most of them very congenial. Shortly after embarkation Chuck had chatted and swapped backgrounds with a University of Pennsylvania alumnus, whose hockey team, he boasted, had beaten Dartmouth in 1932.

At dinner, Mr. Penn was in a large group, to whom he obviously had reported his conversation with Chuck. As we were passing their table, a largish woman rose and said to me, "Class of 1930! My God, how old are you?" I replied "Only 87 so far." She motioned toward her husband and said to me, not very quietly, "He's 75 and look at him!"

Actually, Arthur looked pretty good, and, thus introduced, we became good friends and members of a nightly happy hour in what was called "The Club. ' Mentally, I chalked up a small victory for 1930.

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