1951

Classmates who took courses with Professor Rosenstock-Huessy may be interested to know that his books and lectures are being promoted by a 501(c)(3) organization in Vermont. His books are available through Argo Books (www.argobooks.org ). By the time you read this summer will be nearly over and the football season will be upon us. Our '51 Fables will have a sign-up sheet to attend the 1951 fall mini-reunion on October 17-18, the same weekend as Homecoming. If bonfires and parades (we will be riding in style, I hear) still getyou excited, this reunion is for you. Chairman Henry Nachman promises great venues for our pre-parade supper, tailgate gathering, a hoped for victory against Holy Cross and a class dinner that evening. Not sure of Frank Johnson's address, I called him in Mesa, Arizona, and got his wife, Sarah, instead. I learned that the Johnsons after many years in Maryland moved seven years ago to Mesa to be nearer their children and grandchildren, all of whom live in the West. One of the big payoffs from the move came this year when they watched grandchildren garner high school state championships in soccer and volleyball. What a harvest!

In San Francisco in May for his daughter's marriage in nearby Napa, Herb Knight convened a luncheon gathering at the downtown Olympic Club. To show that guys our age still respond to a free lunch invitation, showing up were Jim Balderston, Herm Christensen, John Hatfield, Mike Heyman and your scribe. Topics of conversation were wide-ranging but mostly centered around the College and its governance plus November's presidential election. From the Dartmouth Med School alumni news we learn Tyke Miller is certainly setting the good example for his patients by exercising regularly. His regimen is rowing weekly, year-round at his rowing club. In the winter he rows the equivalent of five to six miles in an indoor tank. Jim Cavanagh writes the column and reminisced about his childhood (age 6) in Hanover when he was bundled into a dog sled and pulled by eight yelping dogs around a course used in Winter Carnival competition.

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