1938
It is with sadness that I start this column with the news of the loss of three more classmates...GerryUllman, Muff Davis, and Brue Porter.
Gil Tanis' annual trip to Florida was delayed for a successful heart bypass in January, but by now he and Fran should be in their winter home in Venice, Fla.
With these two items, one good, the other bad, I am now completely out of class news! However, in foraging for something... anything to write to you about... found a column in a 1986 Alumni Magazine written by the class of 1950. It does an excellent job in describing a "season" in Hanover that I hope will stir up a few memories and, as you will be reading this in mid-April, here goes..."Spring came early! In late March the forsythia bloomed to grace Easter. But the North Country remains cruel, tantalizing, taking what it gives, reverting from promise to threat. The dogwood blossoms blended with the swirl of April snows.
Remember those lazy days! The warming sun teased! Books laid forsaken for an afternoon! Tanning was the order of the day until...! The inevitable always intervened, perhaps after two days, three at the most! Then the wind swung into the North, the black clouds crossed the river, and the rain chilled! The promised vanished!
But April always stretched into May. The evenings lengthened with the greening grass; the elms filled out and cast those mystic shadows as the songs at hums spread over the campus in the glowing twilight before the cool nights drifted into mornings sparkling with the freshets of dew as time stood still for wet down and ceremony until June came and the dream ended for three years when exams were over and then forever with graduation, except for the stolen return trips as spring evolves and for lingering memories."
For those who enjoy tongue twisters, try these on for size: 'Tie twine to three tree twigs; Twixt, Trent, and Tweed; Strange Strategic Statistics; Does this stop stock socks with spots." And this in closing- "Trouble being an old fool is that no credit is given for seniority—Anonymous."
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