1948
It's a funny thing about the spring recess around here, but after it's over everyone looks as though he needs a vacation worse than he did before the vacation started. It's early April here in Hanover now the birds and the bees are really out in full force, and the usual springtime Colby runs are apparently making the road to New London look like Fifth Avenue. Softball is being played on the campus and the golf course is sufficiently dry to allow its usual spring activities to be pursued. There has been some canoeing on the river, the DOC and other forest lovers are taking to the woods in the afternoons, and the baseball and track teams are out in full force.
And April brings with it, too, the annual Alumni Fund drive. Some scholar once said there are only two things certain in this world—death and the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. We are all on the receiving end of many and varied appeals for gifts, but the Fund is something special—you yourself know how you feel about Dartmouth and what it means to you. The gifts of our forebears made Dartmouth what it was for us, and it seems only natural that we should help pass it on to our kids in as good shape as we found it. Let's give Lud the support we can in his very necessary job. Nuff said.
In a public debate held in Dartmouth Hall last night, Steve Kandel, Ken Saunders, and two profs, Alexander Laing and Al Ives, discussed the fraternity situation in the school. No definite conclusions of any startling proportions were reached, but both '48s presented their respective sides of the question with skill and logic.
The '48 contingent still on campus is steadily growing smaller. There were approximately 120 of us here in October, but the number has now sunk to about 100. February saw thirteen more of the class, that I know of, close their books as undergraduates for the last time. They were Al Becker, Bob Cormack, Don Drescher, Woody Kirschbaum, Walt Kliebe, Bill Malone, Ted Finkelday, Word Morris, Bob Russell, Lou Springsteen, Mouse Taylor, Irv Tuttle, and Harry Wood. This is probably not the complete list, but all that I know at the present. Further information appreciated.
Not much change, as a whole, on the matrimonial front this month. As far as I know, since the last appearance of this column, only one more of us has settled his marital future. John Warwick earns congratulations, as does his fiancee, Miss Beverly Ann Pabst. She is from South Orange and attended Sarah Lawrence. The wedding was to take place in March or April. John is now with the advertising firm of Warwick & Legler, Inc.
Sorry our information on this sort of thing isn't fuller, but without word from you gentlemen as to your social and other activities one has to be a conjurer and a liar to think up anything to write about. I hate the thought of connecting the wrong fellow with the wrong girl in the column.
The Hanover Inn reports that Tom Tormey and his wife stayed there from March 1 through the 6th. Didn't see Tom so didn't get any news from him. And, in addition, Andy Redding was there on the 16th of the month, whom I also missed.
Learned from Bob Herrick that Boze Kirpatrick is in Temple Med School. He has joined the AKK fraternity for medical students there, and is another of '48's large list of prospective physicians.
Ray Richard apparently has quite a position with General Electric. He is taking their two-year executive training course, moving about quite a bit as he does so. At the moment he is in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but will be in Erie, Pa., this summer. And speaking of GE, George Gendron, who has worked for them in Schenectady for the past five months, has just returned to Thayer School to finish his engineering training.
Marcus Weiss has had his name legally changed to Marc A. Wyse, and is working in advertising in Cleveland. Wyse move. BobKennard is working in Boston, making his residence with his wife and baby out in Braintree or some branch thereof. (Ouchl)
Well, that's it from this end for this month. Time to put an egg in my shoe and beat it. And for Z .... X sake, won't you gentlemen please drop me a card. The first five received get a free chip off Eleazar's tombstone. See you in Bombay.
Secretary, Musgrove Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, C & G House, Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 101 Longfellow, Detroit 2, Mich.
