Not a mini-reunion, but a micro. Stephen and Carolyn Wilson, Ken Harvey, and Kilt Andrew invited your scribe to join them for lunch in Falmouth, Maine.
Rick “Rags” McNally left Hanover after sophomore year to attend seminary. Having been Roy Nyren’s roommate, the association with the clergy seems likely.
On the occasion of the pending reunion of the Old Antarctic Explorers Society, I called Steve Wilson. Steve has significant renown as a beekeeper and was Beekeeper of the Year in 2016, as noted in the class newsletter last year.
We write our notes at the winter solstice and also during the holiday period with visions of sugar plums abounding if not for us, for the grands and great-grands.
Friday night’s 41-18 win over Yale on October 5 was momentous and I hope a portent of the rest of 2018. Let’s recall in 1953, the fall of our junior year, glued to radio, we listened to a victory in the same Yale Bowl, 32-0.
Shortly after our stay at the Trapp Family Lodge, we spent four days in the College Grant. July Fourth saw fireworks by heat lightning and fireflies. Hellgate Gorge has swift water for Brook Trout. We kept a 17- and a 14-incher for breakfast.
Thanks to the good works of Jack Doyle, Ralph Sautter, and especially Betty Brady, 33 ’55s, spouses, widows, and guests gathered for a luncheon at Weston Country Club April 21, which seemed like the
Another veteran with tales to tell: Art Smith, Army ROTC, was assigned to the 71st Ordnance Division and served two years in Munich, Germany. Art then worked for the New York Telephone Co. as personnel manager and retired in 1991.
I found Sigma Nu brother Larry Freier and Elizabeth in Lexington, Massachusetts, in the same house for 50 years. Larry went through the Marine platoon leaders program at Dartmouth and served in the Mediterranean.