1952

John Cutler (2232 Greenwood Ave., Evanston, IL 60091) spent the better part of 50 years holding Dartmouth College at arm's length. As our 50th approaches, he re-established contact, made reservations at the Hanover Inn and made his plans to come back to Hanover with Marilyn, his bride of 43 years. Welcome home, John.

John entered Dartmouth with five other graduates of Evanston Illinois High School and finished with a degree in international relations. He was swept up by the Navy, sent to Newport and emerged four months later with a single gold stripe and assigned to the USS Manard (APA 201), a troop transport operating in the Pacific. His first memory of Newport is of Don Chambliss in dungarees shining a brass fire extinguisher. He finished his Navy career at Great Lakes training command as a full lieutenant. In 1957 he and Marilyn and moved back to Evanston and law school. John worked for a time in the real estate department of a law firm and then joined the law department of First National Bank of Chicago, which he says was the first corporate law department in the nation. Johns family bought a local real estate and construction magazine from Dow Jones when the Wall Street Journal went national and he is now the publisher of this 50,000 circulation periodical.

The couple started sailing in the 50-boat Lightning fleet on Lake Michigan as soon as they moved. They gave up one-design sailing in the mid 1970s and bought a succession of cruising boats, ending with a 35-foot Beneteau First named Cheers, which they cruised up and down the west shore from Waugheegan.

Chicagoans consider Venetian Night to be one of the most popular in the metropolis. It consists of a parade of vessels of all kind on the Chicago shoreline with several hundred thousand people looking on. As an outgrowth of sailing, John and Marilyn joined the organization almost 30 years ago. John became chair of it for a number of years. At one opening banquet, he was seated next to Mayor Daley, the elder, who was proclaiming that nuclear power was the necessity of the future. He advocated federal intervention and control in the design and operation. An accurate predication.

John remembers John Gazley, the history professor, remarking that the class of'52 went off into the world in very unsettled times. "How true," says John, "and how different from the world greeting todays graduates."

Dick Ellis, retired but not inactive Episcopal priest, was invited to a reception on the Isle of Man at which he was introduced to His Royal Highness Prince Charles, pretender to the throne. A friend of the Ellises's who sent the news enclosed a photo showing the two shaking hands. Dick is saying, "I am afraid, sir, that I am from one of the rebellious colonies." "Oh, no," said the prince, stepping back quickly in mock alarm. It reminds one of the punch line: "Who is that guy talking to Dick Ellis?"

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