1963

Tanzi's, Putnam's, the Green Lantern, Campions men's store, the Beefeater (you remember the Beefeater) are gone but Main Street still casts a magic spell on this brisk autumn night as I casually climb through time on Allen Street to the Canoe Club, a beautiful restaurant, a latecomer to us, but nonetheless a mainstay pre-parade dinner destination for Homecoming mini-reunion '63s.

There are about a dozen of us. Dave and Carolyn Schaefer and Bill and Pat Russell save a spot near Bob Haubrich, Bruce and Patty Bag- galey, Bob and Beth Bysshe, Sam and Deamie Cabot (author of the new psychological mystery Write Is Wrong, published by Xlibris, available on Amazon), Tom and Pat Jester, Tom Kraig and Peggy Northrop, Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes, Terry and Diane Russell, Ted and Anne Suess, Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan and Jim Clouser with memories of his beloved Heidi, who made so many trips here with him. We march resolutely in the parade and are joined by Dave Dawley on the Green.

Most diners are members of the class executive committee who gather Saturday morning in the Treasure Room of Baker Library with Dick Berkowitz, Steve Guthrie and others to determine the course of our next three and a half years up to the glorious 50th reunion. Dave Schaefer presides for Larry Bailey, who is home in Seattle, Washington, with the flu. "Many people are surprised we have started so early," observes mini-reunion chair Tom Jester.' We are ahead of most classes." Fiftieth reunion book chair Ed Mazer is in Italy but has submitted a report proposing a budget and requesting a firm commitment to the project. The executive committee votes to have a book, approves the designer and authorizes Tom Perry to seek funding options. Head agent Bob Bysshe reports $472,000 raised for the College in 2009-10 "in a very difficult year for philanthropy. We need to ramp up for the 50th," says Bob, who proposes a resolution "to fully support the goals of the '63 Dartmouth College Fund this year and each year throughout 50th reunion in 2013."

Bob Haubrich, Marty Bowne and I enjoy a lunch at Lou's before heading down to join Jerry Ashworth and other '63s for football against Harvard. (Dartmouth lost.) After the game Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes graciously open their home, as they often have, for drinks, dinner and fellowship. I run into Hank Rodgers; Dick and Pam Booma, who live in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where Dick runs Hanover Transfer & Storage, a North American Van Line agency; Cheryl and Bill Breetz, a Hartford, Connecticut, lawyer; Larry Stifler and Mary McFadden of Boston with Molly '14; Susan and Jim Higgins, a Manchester, New Hampshire, lawyer; Gayle and George Richardson, a Lynfield, Massachusetts, lawyer; George and Mary Jo Hellick, who were married their senior year at Dartmouth; Bob Chavey and Kerry Nix; Bruce and Phyllis Coggeshall; Steve and Ellen Kardon; Steve and Diana Lewinstein; Mike and Jeanne Prince; Bill and Sue Spencer; and Dick and Anne Swett.

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