1951

Freshman trip anecdotes will be featured in this column in the September/October issue (deadline is June 28). Send me yours—they can be amusing, heartwarming- and it doesn't always have to be positive. It's not too late for '51 Out to mean you all come to Philadelphia May 5-8 for our annual pick-a-city mini-reunion. This is the fourth in recent years amid a growing recognition that these gatherings are really fun for all. Working hard to guarantee a good time in the City of Brotherly Love are cochairmen Buck Scott, Jack Giegerich and Sam Roberts. Historical sites and cultural outlets are all on the agenda with the Union League Club as our headquarters. Look for a signup in your mailbox. Call Sam or Jack or me ifyou never got one.

Not having any news clips sent to me by classmates or the College I am again going back 50 years in our Class Notes. Dave Leslie wrote in the October 1954 issue: "Last May 15 in Glenbrook, Connecticut, Patricia LaCroix and Edmund Hunt were married. The bride, a graduate of the Rhode Island Hospital School of Nursing, is on the staff at Stamford Hospital and Ned is with Pitney-Bowes." By 1975 Ed was president of his manufacturing company in Wilmington, Delaware, and had at least four good reasons for working: Pat and three children. In the 50-year- book we read that Ned and Pat have retired to Boca Raton and have eight grandchildren. Don Snell appears in the November 1954 issue as a lieutenant (jg) in the Navy aboard the USSGilbertIslands and the news was, "Joanne was due for a bundle of joy—that was August but we haven't heard the good news yet." The good news came, according to the 25th yearbook, in the form of Anne. Three more bundles were received by the Snells while Don's career as an engineer for GE flowered for 38 years before his retirement. He labors now for the Nature Conservancy in Troy, New York, as a volunteer and part-time employee and lives in nearby Glenville. The December 1954 issue featured this wedding news: "Marcia Weeks and John Clayton are now Mr. and Mrs. Given away by her brother, the couple was married by the brides father in the Epiphany Episcopal Church, Niagara Falls, New York. Ted Eberle, Al Karcher, Dwight Allison, Dick McFarland and Gil Mueller stood by for the Big Green. The bride was graduated from Skidmore and, of course, John saw his wife through Tuck. After a wedding trip the Claytons are living somewhere in the vicinity of Bean Town." "Somewhere" was Hingham, where Marcia and John spent 38 years raising two children while he labored in the shoe trade and finally an outplacement business. Marcia and John have been in Grantham, New Hampshire, since 1992 and are fixtures on the Hanover scene. Go online to your class Web site: www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes (then double click "1951").

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