1937

The class of 1937is leaving its permanent imprint upon our Alma Mater: the Collis Student Center, the Moore Psycholo gy Building and now the Koop Institute at the Dartmouth Medical School. At Leadership Weekend in Hanover, the College released some interesting statistics. We have 259 surviving members. The four classes ahead of us are averaging 28 deaths per year. By 2006 our number will be down to 129!

In the fundraising department, thanks to Fran Fenn and his helpers, we raised 118 percent of our goal. Our 74 percent participation figure is the best of any class older than 1942. And our mini-reunion number of 54 classmates attending is the best of any class older than 1943.

Ben Doran and Marge were healthy enough this fall to visit me for dinner at Kendal of Hanover. They are preparing for a move to the new retirement home at Lasell College in Newton, Mass.

Charlie Dudley '29, who runs the Dartmouth Club at Kendal, is old enough to remember Ted Geisel '25, when Charlie was a senior at Hanover High School and Dr. Seuss was writing for the Jack-0-Lantern.

The sad news department (details in the obit section): Edward Francis Ryan died July 25 in Annapolis, Md.; Dana CarrollDouglass died on July 30 in Bethel, Maine; and Vincent Charles Turecamo died on Sept. 15 in Southampton, N.Y.

Ed worked for The Washington Post Cos. from 1937 until retirement in 1983. Dana established a sound equipment company and was active in mining. He was an active leader of his community. Vince was responsible for important construction projects in the New York area, and was an avid follower of Dartmouth football. He preppedfor Dartmouth at Exeter, and during WW II became a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy.

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