1956

With less notice to classmates than he had hoped, Roger Schumacher and Sherri organized yet another great trip, this one on the Seine: Paris to Normandy. The two-week trip began on June 26 on a ship with 160 other travelers. Judy and John Allen were just across the hall. That’s no surprise. Roger and John have known each other since grade school and have shared in each others’ weddings and important life events. After passengers boarded in Paris the ship visited the Cannes Peace Memorial and then Normandy. From there it was up the Seine to visit the Monet Gardens, Versailles, and a host of other attractions. A highlight was a visit with Paul Berry at his home just outside of Paris.

While I was learning of the trip to France, Roger recounted a nifty trip made earlier to Morocco. It was a trip like few others, with camels, tents and the kind of hospitality one reads about but rarely experiences. Their guide was fantastic, a Sunni Berber, who introduced them to locals who then opened their homes as an expression of hospitality. Along the way they were guests at an Islamic marriage ceremony, after which Sherri and Roger reenacted their vows, this time in the Islamic tradition. It required costumes and advisors for both bride and groom. John Allen served Roger, and Karen Merrels was Sherri’s. For the required dowry Roger offered a gold necklace and a camel. That was judged insufficient and had to be augmented with a Land Rover and a vacation house in Fez, Morocco. Pictures won’t do that group of memories justice.

Those of you who follow the work of our Association of Alumni will be aware that Doug Keare was elected second vice president in our most recent election, garnering 10,656 of the 12,668 votes cast. That’s surely an expression of trust!

In June our ’09 scholar, Ryan H. Yuk, had the five handsome wooden chairs I mentioned in the last issue of DAM on display in the Baker Library. I got over to see them but missed Ryan, who is now in New York with Barclay’s Capital. Hillary Mimnaugh, our ’11 scholar, enjoyed her Sophomore Summer in Hanover with a full load of classes and her continuing work as president of the Dartmouth Classical Ballet Theater. In this year’s national mock trial competition she was awarded the Intercollegiate Outstanding Attorney Award. I hope she can be with us at our Homecoming dinner. I’ll introduce the class of ’13 scholar when he or she is identified sometime in the late fall by the financial aid office.

Sad news: Tom Gidley alerted me of Pete Shipman’s death on May 3 in Naples, Florida. I learned from the College of the death from liver cancer of Irving Kendall Clark, seven years ago in late 2002. Look for obituaries later in this issue. Barbara Beckwith, Ted’s wife, died May 3 at Lake East Hospital in Painesville, Ohio; Ted died two years ago in November.

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