1948

Here it is June already; caps and gowns are being taken out and dusted off all over the country. Commencement orators are figuring on telling thousands of graduating classes that they have a greater responsibility than has ever been known before. Numberless males are walking their last mile to matrimony as the bride's father liquidates assets to refresh thirsty guests. And you and I are looking at our checkbooks wondering how we can possibly swing that vacation we've been planning since we got rested up from the last one. At least we can take an occasional turn on the links and drink our beer in comfort while we witness the latest showing at the outdoor cinema.

As of May 5, the members in favor of an offyear reunion in Hanover number about 20 with more names coming in all the time. So, by the time this is in your hands, a gleeful handful will probably be descending on Hanover bent on improving class organization and enjoying a few brief days in its familiar environs.

Way back in March, the 19th to be exact, Miss Dorothy Mae Gopeland became the bride of Warren Daniell in Stamford, Conn. They are living in Andover, Mass., at 29 Maple Ave. and Warren is with the New England Electrical System. The new Mrs. Daniell is a Mt. Holyoke grad.

May 6 was the date set for the wedding of Sabe Basescu and Miss Elinor May Josephson of South Orange, N. J. She is an alumna of Oberlin and Sabe is teaching psychology at Princeton.

Phil Johnson and Miss Carol Edna Bonsai MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia this month. He is slated to intern at Bellevue Hospital. Miss Bonsai graduated from Wellesley in 1948 and is. a research chemist with the Schering Corp., of Bloomfield, N. J.

A late summer wedding is being planned by Walt Palmunen and Miss Nathalie Beatrice Johnson of Barnstable, Mass. She graduated from Sargent College of Boston University.

And, in case any of you have been trying to get anything from the class treasury, you might as well give up right now. Al McAllister is in no mood to bother with trifles. He and Miss Lois Patricia Bruce of his native Manchester, N. H. announced their engagement in April. Miss Bruce is a graduate of Bradford Junior College and Tobe-Coburn School in New York.

Now into the miscellany. . . . John Holbrook is working for the Institute of International Education in New York. He is an assistant accountant. The work entails placement of foreign students in American colleges and universities.

John McFalls is in the insurance business in Seattle and is planning on coming all the way in for the reunion. Dick Bredenburg, who is now a mini-ster in Amherst, 0., is planning on getting up to Hanover then, too. Phil Shepard, now in a Navy school at Anacostia, D. C., has signed up. Dick Leggat will be up there, too, with a shiny new LL. B. from Harvard Law School in his back pocket. Paul Branch will be coming in from Olean, N. Y., where he is in the insurance business with the firm of Both, Branch and Hendrix, Inc. Bobo Russell will be slipping north from the Hudson Valley. Stan Alger, who is a budding young architect with one more year of M.I.T. to span before becoming full-fledged, will be among the participants. Stan is working with an architectural firm on Cape Cod during the summer. Others who will join in are Irv Tuttle, Don Ryan, John Holbrook, Bob Tracy, Pete Foster, Dick Barlow, Howie Westney, Beech Lockwood, Warren Daniell and Bob Foster. It's not too late to go up now. '48 Out!

Address changes for the month:

Bob Blum, 150 Overlook Drive, Springfield, Mass Bob Bryan, 2126-A-N. John Russell Circle, Elkins Park, Pa. . . . Dwight Burley, 410 Prospect St., East Orange, N. J Bill Campbell. 13 Ridge Terrace, West Caldwell, N. J BobCarpenter, 5 Herbert St., Lynn, Mass Bill Coleman, 2 Drake Lane, Levittown, L. 1., N. Y. Bill is a third-year Med student at Cornell in N. Y. . . . Don Drescher, 501 Sunset Ave., Asbury Park, N. J. Ken Schaefer, 549 West Foothill Boulevard, Altadena, Calif. . . . Gil Shattuck, 90 Maple Ave., Hartford. Conn. . . . Bob Stewart, Box 4051, Glendale 2, Calif. Bob is a specialty salesman. . . . JimDuffy, 54? West Washington Blvd., Chicago 6, Ill. ...Chuck Werber, 635 Rockland St., Westbury, L. I. Chuck is assistant buyer for Men's Furnishings at Gimbels in New York—whatever Men's Furnishings are?

Frank Stern, who is with the Geographv Department at Syracuse University, reports the arrival on April 4 of Richard Olav, a likely prospect for the Class of '72. With wife Lelle and young Richard, Frank will be spending part of July and all of August at Bennington College in Vermont, attending the annual summer field camp in geography. That sounds near enough to enable Frank to make that trip to Hanover he has been planning ever since he returned from Norway with a wife last year.

Through Frank we learn that Bob Huhe, who passed his Ph.D. comprehensives in geography at Syracuse this spring and was slated for an assistantship there, has received a Fulbright grant for study and research in Burma during 1951-52. Bob and his wife Ellie were scheduled to leave in late May for the University of Rangoon, where he will work on a study of urban Rangoon and of vegetation types in the dry area around Mandalay. The Hukes are expecting in the fall.

A squib clipped from the Dartmouth ClubNews, New York City notes that Bud, Gedney has finished up the training program with Biow Company, advertising, in New York and is now an important cog in their research department.

'48's Fund Standing

Since this is the last issue till October that carries these notes, it is likewise my last chance to say a word about the class and the alumni fund. The latest figures I have are dated May 16 but they show that we are running true to form again—last in the Little Green Derby. At that time we had only 89 contributors, just 21% in the participation index, and that they had given a total of $910.14 for 24% of objective.

Of course, the most important factor is the participation index. If everybody could send in something, it would mean that we would be an outstanding class, even if we didn't make our dollar objective. At present, we are running under both our objectives, especially in comparison with 1946, 1947, 1949 l950 easy to keep putting your contribution off so get it in the mail today and those assistant class agents won't be hounding you any more.

I wish I could convey with words to you just how much the College needs whatever you can give. The privately endowed colleges are on their way out unless you and I can dig down just once a year and help them out. Think of all the things that Dartmouth means to you and then dig deep if you want those things to be available to others who need them, too.

Well, this is all till October. Thanks for the help you've given this year and if I don't get to see you in June, drop me a line over the summer. The college keeps us pretty well posted on address changes so if you wish to know anybody's whereabouts, I'll do my best to give you the right answer. Remember ... '48 OUT in Hanover this month!

Class Notes Editor,: 47 South Third St., Niles, Michigan

Secretary, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass.

Treasurer, 636 Prospect Ave., Hartford, Conn.

Class Agent, 421 N. Main St., Mt. Prospect, III.