1933

"Don't rain on my parade" was the fruitless admonition for Commencement and our 65 th Reunion. In spite of it, the showuers came and kept coming, deluging the graduates and aborting the plans of 1933 to lead the procession. We were not unrepresented, though, because hardier members Ruth and Al Swan, D.B. Voorhees, and Bob Allen braved the showers and marched in the damp.

Because of the fantastic planning and year-long work of Mary Jo and Bob McDonald, the Reunion chairs, our gettogether was a rousing success with a total attendance of 60, including 27 classmates, 27 wives, five widows, and Dorothy Hobbs Kronlein. Nearly all events were held in the Inn in comfortable surroundings. The Hayward Room was our central meeting place and contained the fascinating newspaper clippings of major events in '33 history, records of football games, Delta Alpha, year-books, and other memorabilia, all lovingly collected by the Merry Macs over the year.

Major gatherings were our two dinners in the Wheelock Room and the '33 and '48 College Luncheon in the Hop, where Rip Ripley, our class agent, on our behalf, presented President Freedman a special reunion-year check in the amount of $103,000, half again as large as die 1997 figure and a tribute to Rip's manful efforts.

The memorial service for our departed classmates was held with our classmate, the Rev. Bob James, impressively presiding, offering a notable prayer, and your correspondent delivering a brief remembrance of those no longer with us. A quiet pause, while the organist played Bach selections, permitted a review of the 468 names listed in the order paper, and the ceremony concluded with the singing of "Men of Dartmouth."

Reunion Memories: Mel Hershenson, volunteer prosecutor, dazzling with his natty wardrobe...Prof. Hornig lecture...Laura Allen, poetess laureate, declaiming her verse...Bill Forbes, producer of greyhounds, detailing track triumphs...Roily Stevens, describing his excitement at reading a biography of Teddy Roosevelt...Peggy Sayre Marshall, viewing the changes in the Inn where she once ruled supreme...Dick Lyon, amazed at his picture in female garb at '29 Delta Alpha...Stella Cunningham, '33's shining bride... 1933 Carnival skijumping and Commencement movies.

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