1944
Due to the tardy arrival of my class notes last month, the good editors took the shears to a portion of the copy to squeeze it into the allotted space. You'll recall Jack Jenness spoke about Al Barrett in his letter and went on to say he was mentioning this because Al never wrote anyway. Well, within a few days after receipt of Jack's letter, the old Baltimore Flash did come through, to wit:
"First, I left the newspaper field in October 1951, to enter, of all things, the life insurance field, and have been here ever since. Don't ask me how it happened; it just did. My production isn't all it should be, but what is?
"Enough of that. Pat and I have three children, a boy named Mac (6 in March) and two girl - Virginia (3 in April) and Amy (1 in July). Amy is why we couldn't get to reunion, because she was due very shortly thereafter, but we'll make it next time.
"Our good friend Robert Myers (Whitey) has paid us visits the last two years on business trips to the home of the Orioles and Colts. Whitey is an investment man from out of Indianapolis, and a great guy. His capacity for martinis is what one would expect out of a Dartmouth man.
"Phil Brown, a neighbor, not to be confused with our left-handed pitcher, is doing a first-class job as president of the Baltimore Dartmouth Club. It was under his aegis that the enrollment committee, or school committee, got started a few years ago, and now we are pretty well flooded with applicants for Dartmouth.
"John Sherman (Red) O'Connor will be graduated from the Johns Hopkins Medical School as a full-fledged doctor in June, and has been offered a post on the Hopkins staff. Actually, he has been a resident for the last couple of years - he graduated from the school some time ago.
"Jack Buck is living in New Orleans as a Pontiac tycoon now, but he makes it back to Baltimore once each summer. He now has a young son who will be a year old this spring.
"Surely there must be a few '44s who get to Baltimore on business every now and again. Tell them to give us a call and we'll let them see the new, new Orioles this summer."
The other night while thumbing through the Cincinnati Post, I came on the following headline in the sports section: UC TOPS STARS AT OWN GAME; RECTOR "RINGER" SCORES PAT. An intriguing lead, I continued to read the report of UC's football game with the UC Alumni All Stars, which went on to say,
"Then a rector ringer made the All Star extra point by drop kick. This was the Rev. Mr. DonaldOakes, ex-Dartmouth placement kicking specialist and rector at Calvary Episcopal Church near the campus. The Rev. Mr. Oakes, a youngish 31, who works with Canterbury Club, campus Episcopal group, got the urge to see some grid action just before the game and asked if he could play. An Ivy leaguer was welcome naturally. His placement just made it, blooping down on top of the cross bar, then bouncing up and over as the crowd cheered, little realizing that the All Stars had gotten some ecclesiastical help."
There was a good picture of Don in the Cat uniform booting away at the leather. Well, he got to be quite a sports celebrity, with the sports writers taking a lion's share of literary license, and could have spent the rest of his life in the aura of a hometown Lou Groza ... if he weren't an honest man of the cloth. He did get the scribes together to set the record straight.
"Whoever said I was a star player at Dartmouth," he told them, "had a record amount of misinformation. I was a drop kicker and all I ever got in was one spring game. I did coach in Japan. I was sent there as a missionary and was professor of American history and theology at St. Paul's University there. The team I coached won two national championships. I also coached an all-Japan team that beat a U. S. Army team in the Rice Bowl. All of my players were Japanese."
Dick Allen is back at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to complete his thesis, "Use of High Vacuum Techniques in the study of Rectification Properties of Metal Points Against Germination." What could be more natural. Undoubtedly you know what this is all about so there is no reason for my wasting any time in explaining it.
Up in Northampton, Dr. Jim Averill will be co-chairman of the 1955 Heart Fund campaign. A heart specialist, Jim is eminently qualified for the job.
And for a few quick placements... Dr.Paul Carroll up in Columbus, Ohio; GeorgeIves now living in Alexandria, Va.; E. BrandBeacham, sales manager for Chipman Knitting Mills, living in Bronxville; Joe Goldstein, teaching law at Stanford and living in Palo Alto; Lawyer John Murphy in Natick, Mass.; Dr. John O'Conner, a resident at Johns Hopkins; Dr. Chuck Secor, an orthopedic specialist living in Larkspur, Calif.; Pediatrician Russ Burdge in Syosset, N. Y.; Jim Towsen in Houston; teacher John Sanders in Tyngsboro, Mass.; Harold Weeks in So. Portland, Me.; Metropolitan Life agent Hal Cannon in Sea Cliff, N. Y.
Be kind to your Alumni Fund agent when he calls; we did a good job last year and should do an even better job in '55. If you're one of the reliable contributors, please get your check in early so that the agents can concentrate their time and effort on the lads who keep fish-hooks on their wallets.
CLASS AGENT Malcolm McLoud '44 (secondfrom left) shown in earlier days, about 1941,with Bill Saunders, Sherm Davis and JohnEaton.
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