1948

421 North Main St., Mount Prospect, Ill. Last month I said I'd see you in 30 days, but the month of February sneaked up and short-changed me by a couple of days. So, since my international correspondents haven't had time to get much news in, I'll try to interpose a few comments on the local scene into the column, along with the usual personal notes.

To start with, there is a huge new dam going up across the Connecticut River about three miles out of Hanover toward West Leb at a point where the river lies right next the road. It's a really huge development, and should result in a great easing of the short electricity supply in the surrounding countryside. The awed passing motorist can stop in the special parking place overlooking the construction in order to watch the progress, and there are always quite a few cars there. The whole thing is quite a project, what with its great rearing abutments of concrete, and it helps, of course, to confirm the old adage about Dartmouth's being the best college in the world by a damsite.

And the great metropolitan dream city of this area, White River, has also undergone some considerable change since the great fire there last year. That conflagration flattened the whole block just to the left of the underpass that goes up into town, but it has since been rebuilt in clean, modern lines. The new buildings are low enough, however, that the smoke from passing trains no longer is hindered, as formerly, in its attempts to cover the main street. And a popular new nightclub, complete with bar and dance floor, has since been erected further down the street. Yes, White River has changed and is indeed the city of the future.

But now for some more appropriate news. Foster DeGiacomo in mid-January married the former Nancy DiMaggio of Cambridge. She is a graduate of Burdett College, and he is working on his M.A. at Boston University. The couple is now living in Wakefield.

Bob Hoekelman has become engaged to Ann Elizabeth Sheeler of Cliffside Park, N. J. Ann studied at Syracuse and Virginia Universities, and then became an alumna of the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital's School of Nursing. Huck is at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, and will get his M.D. in June.

In a little different approach to the same type of subject, Pete Foster writes that he spent his Christmas holidays on the slopes of Mount Hood. "The skiing was excellent—6 to 7 feet of the driest powder snow I ever saw." But the main reason Pete was in Oregon was Miss Anne Case of Portland. He took full advantage of the opportunity and gave the very lovely young lady a very lovely ring. Ann is now at the University of Oregon, while Pete is still doing engineering work in the Hartford, Conn., area. The couple are planning a September wedding "out there."

The Hanover Inn reports that Chuck Yardley and his wife stayed there two days in February. They are living in Chestnut Hill, Mass., but this is all the information we have.

The fast dwindling number of '48s still on campus was drastically cut by the February graduation of 11 of our number. A.B. degrees were awarded by the College to DaveAnthony, Lee Browne, Stan Churchill, DonCummings, Jim Fox, Walt Friend, Ed Gingrich, Norm Laird, Fritz, McTarnahan, GordyMann and Mike Shea. Haven't heard from any of these, so I don't know much about their present whereabouts or activities. How about a line sometime, fellows?

Al McAllister, Lloyd Krumm and BobDouglas went down to Boston the other night to see the B. C. hockey game. The game was disappointing for Dartmouth, but these three ran into Dick Leggat and Ed Gingrich at the Arena and proceeded to have a small '48 reunion in Dick's room. There were three sets of drooping eyelids in class at Tuck the next morning.

Ran into Norm Saunders over on Suicide 6 in Woodstock the other day. He was enjoying a short vacation from his last year at Harvard Med School, and is looking forward to receiving his M.D. in June. Said he occasionally runs into classmate John "Cheerleader" Parks, who will also become a doc in a few months.

Ray Richard is still in the G.E. executive training program. He's now a student in the Advanced Production Program at the Drexel Hill, Pa., plant. We have word that WaltWood is an analyst in New York City, and is living in Bronxville. But we don't know just what it is he's analyzing. Bill Wright has stayed close to Hanover. He and his wife are living in Sachem, and he's teaching social studies at Lebanon High School. ChuckWerber and his spouse are living out in Great Neck, Long Island, and he is working in advertising production with Gimbel's in the city. Jim Schaefer, who is working for Beechnut in Canajoharie, N. Y., was skiing in this area a couple of week-ends ago. I didn't see him, but several of the fellows reported observing him flashing by on his wooden staves at Bromley and Ascutney.

The Class of '48 hereby welcomes the 14 former members of the now defunct D.N.A.A. who have elected to become members of our class. Their names are Philip Betterdorf, Stephen Burberry, Alvin Gilbert, Kenneth Hall,John Hanson, Arthur Harris, Robert Huntington, Joseph Logan, Benjamin Perles, Kenneth Pinhero, Thomas Savage, George Weiner, Henry White and Robert Wieler. We're mighty happy to have you fellows with us, and we sure hope you'll join in fully in any class activities. The fact that you did not get your degrees from Dartmouth means nothing to us, but the fact that you consider yourselves Dartmouth men very definitely does, for that puts us all in the same tribe.

I know I express the sentiments of JerryLudington when we thank those of you who contributed to last year's Alumni Fund. Nobody can call old Eleazar down and out yet. Thanks a lot.

Well, it's time to close the inkwell for another month and go back to spade up some more news. Wish you fellows would be less reluctant in writing.

Secretary, Elm St., Norwich, Vt. Treasurer, Phi Kappa Psi House, Hanover, N. H. Class Agent,