1935
The annual Class Officers Weekend in Hanover has just concluded. Though one member of 1935 was unable to attend, nine of us, plus wives, were on hand to claim the largest single class attendance for the series of meetings. After winning the "Class of the Year" award for the second time last year, it was perhaps not surprising that we could receive merely "honorable mention" this year. Treasurer Put Kingsbury was elected a vice president of the Class Treasurers Association. President Len Bryant reported on approval by our executive committee of the plan for our 50th reunion gift to the College. This plan, originated by the committee of George Colton, Don Radasch, and John Wallace, will be submitted for final approval to the class meeting on October 1.
The concluding highlight of the weekend for all of us was a dinner party at the new residence of Al and Jean Brush. They have a beautiful home on the shore of Little Lake Sunapee in New London, N.H. You can hardly imagine a more delightful environment in which to enjoy a gathering of old friends.
Mini-reunion Chairman Harry Ferries, has appointed Bill Fitzhugh to manage the program for the fall reunion. Bill and Florrie are now full-time residents of Norwich (address: P.O. Box 356, Pine Tree Road, Norwich, Vt. 05055). Bill will take over these duties from George Col ton.
From Skidmore College comes an announcement we are all proud to read: "George H. Colton, a retired vice president of Dartmouth College and a member of the Skidmore College board of trustees for more than ten years, has been elected chair of the Skidmore board, effective July 1. Colton, who joined the board in 1972, serves as chair of the trustee external affairs and general policy committees and as a member of the audit, executive, long-range planning, and nominating committees. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of Skidmore's Wide Horizon Program, a three-year capital and annual fund campaign which concluded in October 1981 with more than $13 million raised against a $12.5 million goal."
Since returning to the College last July, following his post-Hopkins Center sabbatical, adopted classmate Peter Smith has been working on special projects for alumni affairs and development. Some of the publications he has written have gone to all of you the"One Increasing Purpose" final appeal of the Campaign, the Dickey Endowment supplement to last December's ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and the recent final report for the C.F.D. His chief avocational interest is still acting, and he has been in half a dozen shows since getting back from his six months in London.
For the past three years I have been invited as a representative of our class to attend a preceding reception and the annual Frederick Sessions Beebe lecture in Dartmouth Hall. Established in his memory by the family and friends of Fritz, it is presented to bring to Dartmouth and to the community lecturers on the art of writing. This year, Lester Bernstein of Newsweek and Roger Rosenblatt of Time dealt in a most interesting fashion with the question, "What's Happening to the Language?"
The April 5 issue of The Dartmouth carried a student-written article headed, "Screenwriter Rapf'35 watches film studies grow up." A fine summary of Maury Rapfs work during parts of all the years since 1966, this article showed a great appreciation for our classmate, adjunct professor of drama and long-time director of Film Studies. It stimulated me to go back and re-read Maury's introductory piece entitled "The Hollywood Connection" in that recent "Dartmouth at the Movies" issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Look it up! (It's that one with the Chinese red cover.) You'll enjoy all over again Maury's story and the whole coverage of the Dartmouth connection with the movies.
Dud Russell writes of a visit with his son David '64, an Air Force dentist in Guam, and of more recent plans to visit Fred Raymond en route to a couple of weeks in Florida. Dud expects to attend our fall reunion and is corresponding with Sandy Brown's son, Stanley '67, who is in charge of special collections at the Baker Library. Dud hopes to arrange for a showing of a series of 1933 photographs he had taken from one of the radio towers on Wilder and had sent on to the College. The exhibits are expected to be on view when we're all there this fall!
The class of 1935 was represented at the big C.F.D. celebration in April by Colton, Brush, and Peter Smith from nearby and by Au Werter, Fraser, and Cornwell from farther out of town. My apologies if I missed anyone.
One of those green cards you fellows are sup- posed to send me showed up the other day from Wiley Hubbell. He's in Roanoke, "still busy with consulting work, golf, tennis, traveling to the Kiawah Island condo, church work, and civic chores." He's seen Rem Ryder and Earl Arthurs recently.
A note from Paul Hilli's widow Bet let me know that the class of 1935 would be represented in the Woodsmen's Competition in Hanover on May 6 and 7. Paul Jr., a student at Paul Smith's College, was to be one of the contestants.
Finally, here is some very important news about our fall reunion program. We have just learned that the Class of 1935 Lecture on Friday afternoon, September 30, will be delivered by the son of Ed and Mildred Reich. Robert B. Reich '68 was a Rhodes Scholar and is a Yale Law School graduate. He is now a professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and is attracting wide attention as a leader in current economic thinking. Be sure you arrive in Hanover in time for this very special lecture!
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