1948
Spring is once again lazily stretching itself over the Hanover plain. The snow is melting, the duckboards are being dropped onto the campus paths, and grass is appearing on the common over the lines followed by the steam pipes from the heating plants. Mud is in evidence everywhere, and the crack of a baseball into a mitt can occasionally be heard. The sun is shining a little longer each day, and the restlessness identified with spring fever is gradually being felt by the students. Downtown, the stores are bringing out their spring exhibits, skis are being removed from the windows and replaced by shiny new golf clubs. All in all, there is a feeling of suppressed excitement and lazy activity in the air, a sure sign of spring.
In spite of spring's resurgence, however, your secretary has very little to report this month. Not much news has been forthcoming from you guys, and without some information from you it's pretty difficult to write a column that is at all interesting and personable. This column is your column, so take five minutes and drop me a postcard on your work, marital status (or potential), or what-have-you, and also include any suggestions you feel like offering All contributions gratefully received. Before going any further, I'd like to welcome Jerry Ludington to his first year as Class Agent for the now alumni class of '48. The Alumni Fund drive for this year starts in the near future, and Lud is trying to put our class over. Hope we can give him all the support our class and our college deserve.
Congratulations go to Hugh Chapin for the magnificent job he did as Chairman of this year s Winter Carnival Committee. Few realize the terrific amount of work, planning, detail, and responsibility that are an integral part of this position. Hugh, in fact, began preparing for this year's winter week-end way last spring. It paid off, too, because, by all reports, this year's was one of Dartmouth's most successful Carnivals. Doug Carter and John Zillmer, too, performed near miracles as members of the Committee.
Moving into another sphere, we find that some more members of the class are beginning to hear the sounds of wedding bells. The parents of Miss Ann Cottrell have announced the engagement of their daughter to Bill Warnock. Ann is from Portland, Me., and the two are planning an early fall wedding. Bob Pillsbury tells me that Bill and Ann met in a summer camp in Maine, and that it was just a matter of time as far as Bill was concerned from the moment he met her.
And Joe Smith, too, has found the girl of his dreams. He is engaged to Miss Helen Ruth Hoyt of Hanover. She is a junior at Wheelock College. We don't yet know the date set for the wedding.
Joe Hickman has recently become engaged to Miss Jean McLaughlin of Paterson, N. J. She is a graduate of Bennett Junior College. Unfortunately, we don't know any dates connected with this event either. We do know, however, that Joe is working for Bendix International.
And here's a note that just came to our attention. Mr. and Mrs. Ev Wilson stayed at the Hanover Inn the night of February 8. We didn't even know you had taken the step, Ev. Congratulations. Guess we just don't get around enough to find these things out.
And here's some individual news of others in the class, a class that now has its members pretty well spread around the world. FrankStern, for instance, is studying in Oslo, Norway. Bob Carpenter is learning the insurance business as a claims investigator with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos. of Lynn, Mass. Lionel Beck is an assistant buyer in the radio department of The Fair, State Street, Chicago. Bill Pruden is a dental student in Philadelphia. Rollie Sontag is a mill superintendent with the American Silk Label Cos. in New York City. And Dave Culp is acting is some capacity connected with chemistry in Denver, Colo. Foxy Parker and Fink Finkelday are both teaching fellows here on the campus, Foxy in Thayer School, and Fink in the chem building. Lan Macartney, along with Jim Vanderbeek '47, just climbed a 16,000 foot peak in the Andes in Colombia, South America. The two of them were stranded in their tent on the top of the mountain for two days, recovering from a case of snow-blindness.
Guess that about does it for now, you guys. Let me repeat, though, that a simple postcard from you will do wonders to revive this column and make it amount to something. And don't be modest about writing about yourself. The other fellows want to hear about you as much as you about them. See you next month.
PROUD BROTHER: Carroll M. Swezey Jr. '4B gives sister Patricia a hug for being named Queen of the Winter Carnival. Also pleased was Dad '2O.
Secretary, Musgrove Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, C & G House, Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 101 Longfellow, Detroit 2, Mich.
