1933

Sixty-five years ago in this season, Dartmouth footballers defeated Cornell 21 to 6; Jack-O-Lantern, in a rocky, eventful year, produced a worthy "Fall House Party" issue; the Players staged Merry-Go.Round; the Studenten Verbindung "Germania," under the direction of the ebullient Herr Professor Schlossmacher, staged "Er ist nicht eifersuchtig" ("eifersiichtig" means "jealous," you could look it up); the Glee Club quartet of Cox, Rollins, Bernache, and Farmer were singing "The Peanut Vendor"; in a straw poll, students voted 67 percent for Hoover, 16 percent for Norman Thomas, 15 percent for FDR, and 1 percent for Foster, the Communist; and the members of the newly founded Green International, in their green shirts, were raising the cry of "No More War."

We open with this nostalgic bit to recall the pleasures of that delightful, if straitened, fall, and also to remind classmates that our peerless leader, Manny Sprague, has appointed Bob and Mary Jo McDonald to chair a 1933 Reunion Committee, that members have been appointed, and that all are working to organize the event scheduled for June 12, 13, and 14, 1998. Contact Bob and Mary Jo with suggestions or offers of assistance. Doubtless most of the program will take place in the safe and secure precincts of the Hanover Inn, but venturesome brethren and sistern will have the beautiful Hanover area to disport in. In the words of that noted Yiddish wunsch, "We should live so long!"

Jinnye Mackey phoned us recently from Danbury. As always, she inquired about our children and then carried on a spirited conversation, loosing her characteristic shafts of wit, including a side-splitting description of the novel method of showering followed in her retirement establishment. Copey Smith, who lunches with Jinnye occasionally, testifies that her appetite remains fabulous. She reads every word of these'33 columns and of Ned Lord's 1933 Class Notes.

When we discovered that Web Blanchard was living at Heritage Village in our old congressional district, we gave him a call. After leaving Hanover in Depression year 1932 for financial reasons, he studied typing and shorthand and found work as a secretary. This led later to a job in a tin mining operation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, whence, returning via Europe, he moved to Collier's magazine, subsequently served in the Air Force, afterward worked at Woman's Home Companion, then McCalP's, and ended up at Better Homes and Gardens, from which he retired in 1976. Now a guiding elder at the Village, he lives contentedly with Andrea, his wife of 57 years. He still loves Dartmouth.

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