1948
Springtime has once again rolled into the streets of Hanover and over the Dartmouth campus. There is a decided warmth in the air, the snow has nearly all disappeared and the grasses and lawns about town are getting rid of their brown coats and taking on a lazy green coloring. The skis and skates are put away, while golf clubs and tennis racquets are now the order of the day. The town is slowly shaking off its winter lethargy, and the student body will soon be doing its studies on the various dormitory and fraternity lawns in the sunshine. It s spring again in Hanover.
College resumed operations today following a two-weeks vacation period. Since I am temporarily confined in Dick's House with a broken leg, I was not a witness to the students' return to classes. There are still a few '48s on campus, however, and WaltCairns, Al McAllister, Keith McLoud, LouClarke, and John Price have all dropped in to say hello. Seems great to have a few of the old gang still around.
Before going any further, I'd like to mention the job Rod Susen is setting out to do as Class Agent in an attempt to help our class be a more positive aid to the College in the Alumni Fund drive this year. We weren't much help last year; in fact, '48 was at the bottom of the list both in total amount of contributions and in number and percentage of contributors. Rod, with the help of his assistant agents and newsletter editor, JerryWensinger, will try to bring us out of the cellar this year. Here's hoping you want him to be successful, and, above all, don't think the little bit you can afford is too small to help. It took a lot of bricks to build Baker Library.
John Van Raalte sends up some news from the New York area. John Alden is teaching ancient history at Columbia Grammar School, a boys' private school in the city, and finds it gratifying after being on the receiving end so many years. Tom Campbell was with the New York Telephone Co., but has left that position in order to reach for a job in sales. Tom reported that Dean Rathbun is in partnership with his father down in Maryland in the business of designing and building houses. Dean still rides and parties a lot, and leads the life of a country gentleman in his spare time. Don Casey was with Union Securities Corp., but has since left that company and gone to Denver to work with a steel outfit. We don't know what his present capacity is. Dave Walsh is really moving around. He has been working with the American Foreign Insurance Co. in New York City, but is now being transferred to India where he will be an agent for the company. Let us hear from you sometime, Dave, and good luck.
Harry Shaw, who is working and going to evening law school in New Haven, was over in Waterbury a few weeks ago and managed to round up the following information. Tom Matthews is building a home, and for a very special purpose at that. He will be pacing the aisle with Virginia Kane of Thomaston, Conn., on April 17, an event for which we offer congratulations. We haven't anything further on Virginia, but we know Tom is an adjuster for the Conn. Railway 8c Lighting Co. Norm Wilion is in business with his dad in Waterbury. They operate the Star Clothing Store, and they have just finished remodeling the whole structure. Norm is still in the ever narrowing ranks of '4B bachelors. Harry tried to contact Rog Jackson, but he wasn't home. Harry did learn that Rog is in graduate school "somewhere," but that was as much as the maid knew.
Dan Schuman, according to information received from Pete Foster, is another '4B who has gone overseas. He is studying at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva. Before going across, he married the former Bella Katz of Colchester, Conn. The couple apparently expect to return to the States in the fall. HarryWood will enter New York Medical College at the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital next fall. At present good 01' Harry is doing grad work at Yale in physiology. Pete also expects that Phil Gahm is in business with his father as a manufacturers' representative.
A small group of '4Bs got together down at Boston just before vacation in the Chancery Club at Harvard Law. Present were DickGreene, Dick Leggat, Jack Tracy, Dick Donahue, Fred Loomis, Al McAllister, and myself. We really had a lot of laughs going over some of the well-remembered events in the history of individuals in the class. Dick Greene had some really unfortunate luck a couple of months ago. He was in an auto accident in Wilder, Vermont, and it forced him to leave Tuck for a year in order to recuperate. The accident was plenty bad, the car skidding on some ice and wrapping itself around a big tree. Dick still feels shaken up, but he expects to be completely well soon. We're all with you on that expectation, Dick. Good luck!
CONCERNING CLASS UNITY
Received an interesting letter from BudGold in N. Y. C., who reported he had just attended the class agents' dinner there. He pointed out one of the factors that keeps our class from being as unified as it might be far better than I ever could, so I'll quote it. "Ours is a difficult class to keep together. We originated in March of 1944 (all 32 of us, if I remember correctly) when Wheeler and Richardson were the only dormitories open for civilians, and straggled on to 1950. Those of us who sprinted through in 2 years and 8 months never got to know a great many of the boys in our class. Just as we departed from the Hanover scene, a majority of the '4Bs returned to finish up." You're right, Bud, an awful lot of us don't know each other. It's just one little obstruction that we should all try to overcome together so we can have a better, more closely knit group. Our first reunion comes in June 1954 (not, as previously reported, 1952), so let's get together then and have one all-out good time as the Dartmouth Class of 1948.
Guess that about covers it for this month, and to think there's not even one lousy pun included. I must be getting stale. At any rate, I'll see you next month, and in the meantime, don't forget to help Dartmouth via the Alumni Fund. See you up the river in thirty days.
Secretary, Elm St., Norwich, Vt. Treasurer, Phi Kappa Psi House, Hanover, N. H, Class Agent,' 421 North Main St., Mount Prospect, Ill,
