1933
Jeff and Bea Davis, Waxy and Madge Wright, and Bob and 'Silla Niebling have moved to Florida for the winter. Bob took along his homework, the preparation and planning for the 1984 Alumni Fund campaign. Jim Noonan in Pennsylvania has agreed to be a '33 assistant to Bob, gallantly trying to carry on that work for his brother, Tom Noonan, and for Bud King, both of them having left us this past year.
"Lup" White, though not in robust health, but also an assistant class agent and active officer in his church, keeps me supplied with optimistic news about Dartmouth campus life. The latest, a cull from U.S. News andWorld Report, quotes Professor Berthold: "A tripling of religion majors at Dartmouth has made the subject that school's fastest-growing department. He attributes the increase to renewed concern oyer ethical issues." And later on: 'A Dartmouth fraternity held a Thanksgiving dinner for the poor."
Bob and Babe Fox spent Christmas with their daughter and two grandsons in California. They returned to hear the sad news that Ev Shineman's wife Alice had died on December 22 after a long illness. The Foxes, Norm and Margaret Erlandson, and DeleColla attended the memorial service in Orleans, Mass. At least nine other members of the Dartmouth Cape Cod Club also were there. Shin is treasurer of that club and has been active in it for many years.
Dele had spent the Christmas holidays visiting her two sons, Coleman '58 and Stan jr. The latter, a schoolteacher in Hawaii, is going for his M.A. He has been invited to Hanover for an interview in that cause..
Helen Noonan (Tom's widow), MuggsD'Arcy (Don's widow) and Rose Allen (John's widow) have all expressed their thanks to the class for the memorial books placed in the library in their husbands' memories. Muggs said, "TheEncyclopedia ofAncient Civilizations was quite appropriate for Don, who was an avid Latin student and planned on teaching it until his father pointed out the salary limitations of that vocation." It was Rose who told me about John's ancestor, Samuel Clesson Allen, class of 1794, mentioned in John's obituary in this issue.
President Page and Margaret Worthington visited Moss Creek, S.C., over Christmas. On the way home, they dropped in on HunterHicks at Hilton Head. He was nursing a broken leg, incurred from making too fast a turn while switching TV channels in his own living room. Farther along, the Worthingtons stopped in Pinehurst, N.C., to call on DaveCoolidge and Bob Norton, both sound in body.
John Reed, mandatorily retired from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay because he s about as old as you are, has moved back to Durango, Colo. He will be working with emeritus status at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. He founded the center when he was that college's president in the early sixties.
George Gates, M.D., traveled to the West Coast to visit a grandson at Stanford University. While there, he also visited Bob StuartTurner, retired professor of anatomy at that university's medical school.
Larry Reeves, from Silver Spring, Md., writes that his wife Margaret has had two most successful cataract operations. Because of his own health, and two reorganizations of his insurance company office, he could not attend our big reunion,' but he hopes to make minis soon again.
Another famous insurance company, in its house organ for December, stated that . CarlRugen observed his 50th anniversary as an agent of that company on December 29. In an exclusive interview, given to this reporter, Carl said, "Actually, my first client bought a policy from me on December 28,1933.1 didn't sell it. My agent's license came through the next day."
You will be sorry to learn that Bob Swander died on January 5, of a very fast heart attack. This was reported to me by Hank McKee and Bob's brother, Dan Swander '35. An obituary will appear in the back of the Magazine.
On a lighter note, Hank Smith III has written to me about the Washington, D.C., reunion, which will start in the late afternoon on May 14, 1984. It sounds like a real blast in the early stages of planning, with visits to many of Washington's outstanding attactions available at your option. The Honorable Parker T. "Pete" Hart of 4705 Berkeley Terrace NW, Washington, DC 20007 has agreed to be corresponding secretary and take your reservations. More details will follow later, through Foxy and me. This is going to be known as mini-reunion "D.C. '33." How astute of our forefathers to use the "D.C."!
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