1937

When you have a cooperative, literate pal like Bib Bankart willing and able to lend a hand, collecting class notes is easy. But first: „

Two weddings of interest to '37: Jim andJean Luttrell have announced the marriage of their daughter Margaret (Peggy, to those of you who remember her at reunions) to Robert C. Brecht at Brown University s Manning Chapel on December 15.

Less than a week later at Chappaqua, N. Y., Barbara A. Ray, daughter of Muttand Corkie Ray, became the bride of Judson H. Phelps, a senior at Williams.

Mark G. Bowen is the new secretary of the Board of Reliance Insurance Co., which recently merged with Standard Accident, with which company Mark has been associated since college.

Will Brown is a candidate in the New Hampshire Primary for delegate to the Democratic National Convention, favorable to Lyndon Johnson.

We Easterners think of Kansas as consisting of wide open spaces where people ride horses (they do) and wear chaps ana sombreros (they don't), or if they do it is not evident in a picture forwarded by FatUhlmann taken while Pat was practising for a fox hunt.

Now for the guest column by Bankart. We knew Bib would be on hand at the big 100th Anniversary dinner put on by the Dartmouth Club of Boston, and we prevailed upon him to spend a sober, methodical evening jotting down whatever he could glean from classmates. The result was just what you would expect, pure Bankart prose, and Bib, we are grateful:

"Last night's DO was quite an affair with some 1200 people attending, but the cocktail gathering for the whole group was like an old reunion-type thing with all the classes mingling, which was quite enjoyable.

"We did pretty good for '37, with 11 gents and 10 wives showing up. That's something like 2% and a heluva lot better than the usual. In attendance: Amon, Bankart, Bill Brown, Berenson, Lappin, Branch, Graf, Taft, Handrahan, and Collis, all with wives. Albie Chester soloed and was therefore able to squeeze into one of our two tables instead of being relegated to the balcony like Charley and Cinny Collis.

"For a gathering of that size you'd think there would be a good bit of news, but not so. Only gleaning was Monk volunteering that he has taken on a job as president of Belmont Hill School alumni activities in which he has long been active anyway. I might add that all our girls looked gorgeous and did themselves proud. I, personally, am all for including women at these functions, not only to avoid relating everything that happened once home, but also having the girls meet the fellows from other classes that we talk about.

"None of the above is any fatter, thinner, balder, or orneryer than he was at the Twenty-fifth; it was a most enjoyable dinner.

"One personal note. Kay and I have both gotten bifocals at the same time. Now we will be able to see a little more of one another. Our oldest guy is a junior at Colby, doing well, and liking it. Our youngest is at Huntington School here in Boston, and has applied for Dartmouth, so you know what the temper of our house will be like for the next two months."

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