1930

I've heard nothing recently of our illustrious classmate PatWeaver, but I do see occasional mention of his distinguished daughter, Sigourney including a cover-girl picture and feature article in a slickpaper California magazine called Valley (for San Fernando, at al.). Being a rare movie-goer, I've felt a little guilty that I'd never seen our classmate's daughter on the screen. Consequently, I grasped a shipboard opportunity to see Gorillas in the Mist, in which Sigourney plays primatologist Dian Fossey.

Shipboard movies, under no particular jurisdiction and possibly presuming a mature audience, occasionally show, or say, things that would be edited out for U.S. family-type showing. I recall one such scene early in Gorillas. For days Dian and her native helper have searched fruitlessly for their first gorilla. Suddenly, on a jungly hillside side, Dian slips and falls, and lets out a loud expletive that identifies very explicitly what she slipped in. But then came the dawn, and with the light of happy discovery flowing in her eyes, she exclaims, "Gorilla spoor!" And so it was. Bill Fenton and Nancy, the last I heard, were spending February in San Marino, Calif. One wonders where they've since found a place to dry out, the March weather in Slingerlands being what it is.

The 1997 annual report of the Dartmouth Education Association, just in, shows 1930 still holding its accustomed position in number of members (i.e., givers), ahead of our two adjoining classes, and leading all preceding classes.

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