1948

The big news this month concerns 1948's Fifth Reunion, which is only a little over a year away - in the sixth year after our official graduation. With a grateful sigh of relief at at last having things moving, yours truly wants herewith to thank Jim Schaefer, who has taken the mighty task of Reunion Chairman in hand. It was a struggle to find someone who has the time and enthusiasm to do the job as it should be done, but Jim is just the type the class needs. With the help and cooperation of all of us, he'll be able to put a great show on the road. By the time you read this he'll probably already have begun his organization work. An indication of the type of weekend we'll have may be contained in his following lines. "It'll be a lot of work, but it'll be fun, too. You mentioned the bizarre not being out of line. Well, I think we can drum up some great gimmicks to help." Good luck, Jim! I think I can speak for the whole gang in saying you can count on any or all of us for help in any committee work you may have up your sleeve, or in any other way you may have in mind. It'll be '48 in Hanover in '54!

Jim, by the way, is living in the Dartmouth Club at 37 East 39th Street in New York. He'd like any nearby '48s or passers-through to feel free to drop in to offer help or suggestions or just plain talk. The bar is always handy. He writes, in fact, that the bar "looks like one of those Hanover beer parties we knew so well." Abe Abrahamson and Joe Marple also live at the Club, which means that '48 is generally well represented among the establishment's brass rail supporters of honorary classmate John Barleycorn. Scheaf also writes that he sees John Hatheway quite often, and that "Rompin' Rog" Tenney drops in from time to time between trips to his Wilkes-Barre stamping grounds. Rog's most recent trip to Gotham was to case the Furniture Show. JohnVan Raalte, Tenney's first-year roommate in Richardson, is another '48 very much in evidence around the Club. "And GeorgeMichalik was in town unexpectedly at the Club's Valentine dance." Thanks, Jim, for all this news.

Bobo Russell writes that he'll be working to put '48 on the map this year in the Alumni Fund Drive that is to begin soon. As Class Agent, he is in the midst of getting a staff of assistant agents well organized so as to get good coverage of the class. Bobo was responsible for the best showing yet made by '48, that of last year. It goes without saying, of course, that his success and that of the class as a whole is absolutely dependent in the coming Drive on what each one of us as an individual contributes. With the College objective set at $600,000 this year, we've got no insignificant job to do. Dartmouth needs the help that '48 can give! How about it?

Thanks to Ken Hill '25, whose nose for news is said by a classmate to be better than his handwriting, we have some interesting word of Ray Richard, who is in the Navy on a Mediterranean cruise aboard the U.S.S. Leyte. Ray's carrier put in at many Med ports during the past few months, and at Valencia, Spain, an out-of-season bullfight plus all sorts of spectacles were presented by the local populace in honor of the first visit by an American carrier to the city. "Ray says the cruise has been a real experience and an education in itself, he having collected a few stories, color slides, and made many friends over there." After his discharge this coming summer, Ray is considering going back to Hanover for the Tuck-Thayer course.

We have two important items of news from Springfield, Mass. The Jim Pundersons, who live in nearby East Longmeadow, were blessed with a son last December 10. Sorry to be so late with the announcement, Jim. By the time this appears, your boy will be half grown up. Bob Cormack likewise rates congratulations, though for an admittedly slightly different cause. He was appointed head teller of the loan department of the Springfield Institution for Savings at the beginning of the year. How's the money business, Bob? Making much?

Hanover's favorite sack-time body depository, the Inn, reports that two '48s have within recent weeks put in an appearance on the premises. Ed Ouellette rested - or at least stayed - there the night of January 26. Ed was down from his home in Berlin, N. H. Then, the Washington Birthday weekend found Dr. and Mrs. Bill Pruden up for a night Perhaps they saw the Big Green's basketball team pull off that surprising upset of Penn's mighty quintet in the gym.

Some piecemeal bits of news are the following as picked up here and there about the countryside. Joe Smith is a mathematician with International Business Machines in New York. He works in the offices at 590 Madison Ave., and makes his home over in Bayside, L I. Don Morrison is located in Denver at 1407 East 11th Ave., but this is all at present available. What about it, Don? Do you ever run into Bill Malone or Dr. John Price in Denver, or Dave Culp over in Boulder? Dr."Chaunce" Levy is practicing medicine in the Connecticut area, and is living in Fairfield on White Oak Rd. Bob Mohrbacker is an industrial engineer in Ellwood City, Pa., but that's all we have on "Mo." Bill Weir is using his engineering training in the sales field in Quincy, Mass., but again our news is incomplete. Bob Sebilian was recently promoted to the rank of Captain in the Marine Corps, and is now stationed in Washington, D. C. Congratulations, Seb!

And that's about the bottom of a rather small bag for another 30 days. Am still among the Mainiacs of Portland, but have yet to run into any '48s around here. So much fog I probably couldn't see them anyway. See you in Saskatoon.

Secretary, Norwich, Vt.

Class Agent, 128 Market St., Saugerties, N. Y.