1951

Where in the world did the summer go? Here it is almost fall already, and that means our annual Hanover mini-reunion is right on the horizon. We'll gather for the Dartmouth Night weekend, October 16-18—big bonfire, football game, the whole nine yards. As usual, it begins Friday night with Martins's Deli, courtesy of Peter and Lu Martin in Blunt. No Saturday seminar though, because again this year the game—against Yale kicks off at noon. But we will rendezvous at 10:30 a.m. for a pre-game tailgate lunch in the Thompson Arena parking lot. And evening will bring still one more great fest, with drinks and food, at the home of Barbara and Dave Hall.

Further—something new mini-reunion chair Henry Nachman is adding a "heavy buffet" Sunday brunch this year, to be held at a place with a most mysterious name, the X Club, in Norwich. You also should know there's a brand new hostelry, the Marriott Residence Inn, out just past Jesse's Restaurant on the road to Lebanon. Henry has procured a block of rooms there for this weekend? To claim one, call 603-643-2146 (deadline Sept. 15) and ask to reserve one of the rooms held under the name of Nachman.

You may want to keep that new Marriott in mind for the future, as well, particularly in making plans for our big 50th Reunion in 2001. Because that's Commencement weekend, June 8-10, the class will have access only to a small number of rooms in the Hanover Inn. If you want to be housed somewhere other than the dorms, the Marriott is the closest possibility. Also, about that gathering: because the class reunions held over commencement are shorter than those for other classes, reunion chair Hank Sanders is looking into scheduling an "extended reunion" going on for another day or two at a resort location somewhere within a reasonable driving distance of Hanover. The Balsams Hotel at Dixville Notch, N.H., has been suggested, for example.

Someone sent me a copy of a Baltimore Sun feature story about Harvey Goldstock, noting that he runs a linen rental business with more than 100 employees, hunts and fishes four times a year, plays tennis and racquetball twice a week—and smokes five big, fat, seven-inch cigars a day. "He began smoking cigars," the article says, "when he was 19 to help with his poker game at the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College. 'With a cigar,' he says, 'I was able to keep a poker face, and it paid off handsomely. He doesn't suffer from shortness of breath. He runs the competition on the tennis courts into the ground...He doesn't believe the bladder cancer excised about six years ago was connected to his smoking. His doctors believe otherwise."

The Chicago area cell of '51s recently made their annual pilgrimage to see the Chicago Cubs play. Herb Knight reports that he, Jim Bovaird, and Dave Hilton made the game this year. Not wanting to cause any heart murmurs amongst this venerable trio, the Cubs reverted to their old tricks, blew a six-run lead, and lost to the Phillies, 8-7.

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Harvey Goldstock told the Baltimore Sun lie began smoking cigars to Kelp with his poker game at Tau Epsilon Phi. Loye Miller '51