1951

Got the midwinter blahs? Then get yourself to Hanover for our mini-reunion on February 24-26. Like us, these minis get better as we get older, for it is a great chance to renew old friendships and to make new ones. So get out Batch's latest newsletter and follow the directions!

Batch has reported at length on the events and the great turnout we had for the Dartmouth Night weekend in October, but I want to point out that once again we had more classmates at our executive committee meeting than did some entire classes for the weekend 15, count 'em: Suds Bissell, BillBoynton, Bill Brooks, Joe Caldwell, JohnClayton, Russ Dilks, Jack Giegerich, BobHopkins, Bob Hustek, Chuckie Mc-Intyre, Al Mori, Dick Price, Howie Read,Hank Sanders, and Joe Welch. Class treasurer Read reported that we have added some 30 dues-payers during the past two years, a significant increase in view of the unrelenting fact that nature exacts its toll on our numbers (65 since 1949). A lot of hard work by Howie and some others has produced a 69 percent dues-paying rate, which places us first or second among the 1946-56 group. Let's all help to get a least another 20 on board!

Related to our success with reunions, mini and major, is the determined effort we are making to involve the widows of classmates in the affairs of our class. Co-chairing this important responsibility, as members of our executive committee, are ChuckieMclntyre, Jock's widow, and Carol Morse, Don's widow. Their work today will have far-reaching effects; for if we are to remain the highly unified class we are now, we must seek ways to help the wives of deceased classmates to become a genuine part of our fellowship, especially for those who are as fond of the College as were their husbands. If you are, or if you know of such a one, won't you drop a line or call Mrs. Charlotte Mclntyre, 41 Woodland Drive, Cheshire, CT 06410, 203/272-7748; or Mrs. Carol Morse, 35 Nason Hill Road, Sherborn, MA 01770, 617/653-5370?

Al Mori teams with Frank Smallwood to send along a clipping from the Daily D which reads, "Class of '51 aims to improve town's relationship with gown." The article highlights Bob Hustek's grand efforts at initiating and sustaining our class project, "Hanover: A Remembrance." Since last reported in a "box" in the summer DAM, Bob has spread good times to a group of learning-disabled persons, and to veterans from the VA hospital in WRJ, by getting them tickets and transportation to the last Dartmouth-Harvard game. There our guests not only saw a 38-7 home-team victory plus a Dartmouth fullback scoring a touchdown in the longest running play in Ivy League history (97 yards from scrimmage!.), but were also thrilled when Bob got the cheerleaders to present football mementos to "them.

With our class-project successes the Baker bells maintenance (now in the care of the Donal Morse family), our support of the Hood Museum's artist in residence Program, and "Hanover: A Rememrbance" some of our classmates have begun to suggest other projects for the future beyond 1991. That's the spirit! Send your ideas to Bob Hopkins (6 Pilgrim Road, Darien, CT 06820).

Acres of Diamonds Dep't: We hear that Jack Gannon has loosed his grip on the corporate wallet at Buxton and is now helping his wife Terry's expanding toy-store business on Cape Cod.

Heading South for the Winter Dep't: Howie and Peggy Read, leaving late this fall, hauled their seven-ton cutter-rigged sailboat on the interstate, rather than sailing down the Intra-Coastal Waterway. Either way, they say, it's an adventure!

Finally, all our good wishes go to JakeLivingston, who is recovering from heart-bypass surgery.

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