The mini-reunion on October 2-3 enjoyed colorful foliage and a hard rain for classmates who braved the elements to watch the Big Green continue its losing ways against Penn. Your scribe, fighting a bad cold, watched the game from the comfort of a Hanover Inn room’s TV. I later learned that otherwise healthy classmates did the same. As usual chairman Henry Nachman pulled together nicely catered, conveniently located dinners on Friday and Saturday as well as moving to the indoors Nita and Mike Choukas’ Chowda Party. Fifty attended and their names will appear in the ’51 Fables. Not attending was our president Jack Sutton, who for various reasons has reluctantly resigned. Vice president Loye Miller has succeeded him, completing a transition that our class has experienced before. The executive committee has chosen October 8-9, with Yale as the football opponent, for our next class mini. Agent Dave Saxton became the latest “Spirit of ’51” honoree at Saturday night’s class dinner. His citation, written by Loye Miller, will be in the next ’51 Fables. Back to the issues of The Daily D in late 1949, November 29, to be exact: John Clayton is named New England’s Outstanding Player and will receive an engraved watch at a dinner in Boston on December 7. John cannot recall what happened to the watch. In the same issue we read that the varsity hockey team had its first Hanover workout on Storrs Pond, not Davis rink because Davis still isn’t ready! Just to prove that the life of an ink-stained wretch (read newspaper reporter) is not always dull, on December 2 Ted Laskin tells all to his faithful readers about his interview with the fabled Mae West in her dressing room back stage in a N.Y.C. theater. The future editor-in-chief obviously enjoyed his work. In January Congressman A.S. Mike Monroney, a Democrat from Oklahoma, spoke at “Great Issues.” It was a coincidence, of course, that his son John Michael Monroney was a student at Dartmouth. Go online for class news: www.dartmouth.org/classes/51. —Peirce McKee, 239 Village Gate, Orinda, CA 94563; peirce.mckee@rbc.com
 


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