1933

In late August when this appears, they are gearing up in placid Hanover for the 231 st year of the Wheelock Academy. Here in Georgetown in June in 90-plus-degree heat, w are bedeviled by the daily brouhaha of two self-styled candidates for the presidency of the United States throwing roundhouse punches at one another like palookas in a preliminary bout. The press, talking heads, TV and pollsters love its big bucks, though, so we are doomed to suffer it for 130 more long days, craven weaklings that we are.

At any rate, it makes the prospect of a visit to Hanover on October 5 seem much more attractive. Bob McDonald informs us that his plans for getting a group together for a modest mini-reunion are progressing and he is hopeful that a few '33ers will be on hand for the game and a meal or two together. For those of us who always trekked to New Haven for this contest, the prospect of having the Elis playing on Memorial Field is intriguing. Why not attend? One person we'd like to see attend is Miller Wachs, who, according to one of our informants, was noted lending his mellifluous voice to the massive Dartmouth rendition of the Brahms's Deutsches Requiem in New York's Carnegie Hall on April 10. We're glad to see the well-trained pipes are functioning in tip-top form.

Another classmate who might well bus it to Hanover is Dick Bradshaw, who has just settled down in a charming "stream-side setting" in Laconia and is pleased that the distance to the campus is so much less than it was from Richmond.

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