1951

Well, hello again! It's Loye Miller here, taking up the class secretary's baton from your able servant Bill Brooks. Doesn't seem all that long since I did this before, so I'm astonished that the records show my earlier hitch ended in 1961,35 years ago. Well,it's nice to be back.

Let's look to the fall. Pundits are forecasting great things for Dartmouth football this year, with some predicting the Ivy title will be returned to Hanover by Thanksgiving. That's all the more reason to lay your plans to attend what has become a class institution: the 1951 mini-reunion always held on the campus on Dartmouth Night weekend October 18-19 this year. The game is against Yale and, with any luck at all, we'll savor the spectacle of the Big Green thoroughly thrashing the Elis.

Mini-reunion chair Henry Nachmac says the agenda will be familiar: Friday night mixer courtesy of Lu and PeterMartin, followed by the big bonfire. Saturday we'll have another of those stimulating morning seminars, chowder at Nitaand Mike Choukas' before the game, drinks and food and more good company at Barbara and Dave Hall's house afterward.

A block of rooms for 'Sis is being held at the Holiday Inn Express (603-448-5070). Call before September 18 to claim one.

Speaking of reunions, June has come and gone, but fine memories of our great "Forty-Fifth" should linger with those who attended for a long time to come. We had a relaxed, thoroughly pleasant three days and nights of visiting and good fellowship. Some highlights:

Whitey Hand, conducting the big ad hoc assemblage of all reuning Glee Clubbers (including our own Dick Miner) in the "Hanover Winter Song."

Our class seminar, rich with a tender retrospect on John Sloan Dickey by Frank Smallwood, a sensitive impression about women and Dartmouth by Nita Choukas, and nostalgic recollections of illustrious faculty members John Adams, Royal Case Nemiah by JeffO'Connell.

Seminar chair Peter Martin's priceless account of the secret to Nelson Wormwood's uncanny success, as confided to him in our senior year by Dean Neidlinger: "Her perfume...he smells it through the mail slot" in dorm room doors.

A moving memorial service in Rollins Chapel for our 108 deceased classmates, conducted by Rabbi Bill Leffler, the Rev. Dick Bucey, and Dave Hilton.

The company of special people, some of the widows of the class: Sue Livingston, Mary Hodgson, Nella Boardman, "Chuckie" Mclntyre, Carol Morse, Connie Krehbiel, and Barbara Renner.

Attendance, including 119 members of the class, spouses, children and significant others, totaled 230. Thanks for a super affair, due to tons of hard work by reunion cochairs Dick Price and JohnClayton and their yeoman committee members.

If you weren't there, we missed you. See you at the Yale game?

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Sandy McDonald '51, p.25