1956

Remembrances from a memorable 40th Reunion: Dick Whitney keenly examining every check as classmates report in and pay up. • Russ Brace gamely hobbling about on a badly sprained ankle but insisting on helping to register everyone.

• Josh and Barbara Hill everywhere; registering, raffling, quilting, doing all the little things that make a successful Reunion.

• Ken Bridge overseeing all the excellent meals; Leo McKenna coordinating the booze and wine; four kids from the College named Beth, Max, Jessica, and Sonia working very hard tending bar and doing everything they were asked in splendid fashion.

• Carl Hilker flying his plane from Mason, Ohio, being turned back by weather 20 miles from Lebanon, landing in Rutland, and racing to Hanover in a rented car.

• Bill Loyer taking a motel room in West Lebanon so that Carol would have wheelchair access while her seriously broken leg mends.

• Tom and Pete Rosenwald enjoying each other's company at a class reunion for the first time in decades.

• Karren Merrels' surprise and welcome appearance among us.

• Early arrivals enjoying the serenity of Bashon Brook Farm as guests of Leo McKenna and Chris Tomkins.

• Bill and Trudy Ehrenfeld arriving from California via Chicago late but having the times of their lives at their first Dartmouth reunion.

• Elliott Weinstein and Art Zich deservedly basking in gratitude of classmates for their editing and publishing of Famous Last Words.

• Mike Zissu bursting with pride at his son's graduation from the Naval Academy and his commissioning as ensign USN.

• Everyone liking the "cube" glasses as best favors although the hats, jackets, socks, and pipes were fine, too.

• Late registrants accepting the bad accommodations of Smith Hall without complaint.

• John Koehring with pipe and funny hat enlisting participants for a class safari to Africa.

• Boodge Erwin helping out whenever and wherever he could but never quite able to get Libby under control.

• Fritz Simms tickling the ivories whenever they were available and standing guard as class sergeant at arms in 105 Dartmouth.

• Seeing both Bob Faulkners at the same events without reference to the good and the bad.

• Stan Klapper without Stu (whom we sorely missed) but jovial and high spirited as always.

• George Brophy wearing the finest sport coat in town.

• Doug Keare's new little round glasses.

• Another Wood and Rosazza memorial

service in an overflowing Rollins Chapel as we followed an elegant service with the reverent reading of 79 names.

• A charge up the hill to the Old Pine where '56ers reenacted the day two score years ago with real tobacco (not inhaled) and real clay pipes broken in remembrance.

• A magical evening by Occum Pond with a fine repast, serenades by the Ares, candle glow on the tables as the cool night air enveloped diners unwilling to see it end.

(TO BE CONTINUED)

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Tom Holdorff '56 reunes, p. 25