1941

Well, the Russkis may have walked off with the Winter Olympics but at the Winter Carnival last month Dartmouth again came through with the championship - this time by the width of cereal flake. Now it's almost time to get out the duckboards and watch spring come to Hanover. Then before you know it the Dodgers will be in first place and the Class of 1941 will be in Hanover for its Fifteenth Reunion. News received to date indicates that there will be a really large turn-out for this affair - with word coming from almost every State in the Union that '41s will be Hanoverbound come June.

Holden Higbee dropped me a note from Los Altos, Calif., and wanted to know the date of the Reunion. Hig says he is going to attend the International Geographical Congress in Rio de Janeiro this summer and wants to work in the Reunion as well. For the benefit of others who may not be aware of the date, it is June 15-17. Hope you're gonna make it, Hig.

Just this morning I had a telephone call from Red Taft, salesman extraordinaire for Tidy House Paper Co. Red had returned from being on the road and reported bumping into John Twist while canvassing New Orleans. John is a prosperous cotton farmer in Twist, Ark. (that's the name of the town) which is near Memphis, Tenn. John and his wife were vacationing in New Orleans and told Red they were planning to go to the Reunion. 'I hat's the life, man - New Orleans in January and Hanover in June.

Another '41 with the Reunion on the Calendar is Stacy Hill. Stacy reports that he will be going to Hanover in June if he has any money left after building and furnishing his new house. He ought to be just about moved in now. Well, with the way that guy plays golf he can probably pick up carfare to Hanover at the club any weekend. Don't have his new address but it 'must be right around Chicago somewhere. Send it along Stace.

Well, we have a confession from the class treasurer, Stew Steffey. Stew says: "Please make a note in your class notes that several fellows paid dues twice because I was unable to stop a 'second notice' from being mailed from Hanover by the time I actually endorsed check and entered on the books. Tell the class I am sorry I didn't get the college notified in time and have credited these men with the extra payment: If anyone wishes a refund, having paid twice, I will be glad to send it along."

Incidentally Stew reports that this year marks an all-time high for class dues payments. And it was done in just about record time.

The news department this month is just full of tidbits of the doings of '41ers. The Berkshire Life Insurance Company has announced the appointment of George Denny as manager of the Application and Policy Division, New Business Department. George's division will be responsible for the processing of applications and issue of all Life and Accident and Sickness policies. Well, George, you had good background for that during your days in old Fayerweather Hall. There wasn't much sickness but there was plenty of Life and I heard of a few accidents. George is a native of Montpelier, Vt., and served in the Navy as Lieutenant Commander during the War. An associate of the Life Office Management Association, George has been awarded the Certificate of Proficiency by the Home Office Life Underwriters Association.

Dr. Charlie Chaput has been named to the Board of Health of Haverhill, Mass. He has had an office in Haverhill for the past four years.

There is one marriage to report this month and one new arrival among the sons of Dartmouth men. (I'm sure there are more that I don't know about.) Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kuhn spent a honeymoon in Hawaii following their wedding in Indianapolis, Ind., during the January past. And so the ever-decreasing list of bachelors continues to diminish.

If anyone ever tells Dr. Dick Spillane and his wife that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day they are apt to have a head amputated. On Friday, January 13, Mrs. Spillane gave birth to Michael Bruce Spillane and from now on that is going to be a historic day in the Spillane household.

While talking about the New England delegation we might mention that Andy Hunter's picture popped up in the Worcester Gazette recently in connection with a business deal involving the Paper Craft Greeting Card company of which Andy is treasurer. The Worcester operation of the company is under Andy's direction. And I tell you he looks as if he could go out right now and run the 440.

I have received a letter from Capt. DickPaul of the USAAF. Dick is at Travis AFB in California learning some of the mysteries of radar and the latest techniques and equipment in navigation and bombardment in the Air Force. He is scheduled to graduate from the advance phase of the course sometime in April and get his next assignment then. He writes: "Even with 30 days delay enroute and my travel time, I cannot work out a schedule to get us to Reunion. Maybe I can break a leg or something else will happen between now and then to delay our departure from here long enough to make Reunion between assignments. Or maybe I will be sent to the new base at Portsmouth in which event, barring a Saturday flight, I could make it." Here's hoping you do, Dick.

Any of you catch Dr. Gene Stollerman on the television program "Medical Horizons recently? Gene made a fine television debut and did both Dartmouth and the Class of '41 proud. You'd think he was having a bull session in a Hanover dormitory rather than making a national television appearance. It was a grand job and a tribute to Gene that at his age he should have been chosen for that assignment. It was a broadcast from the well-known hospital clinic on rheumatic heart diseases at Northwestern University.

Speaking of television, I have just watched Dartmouth knock off Columbia in basketball 71-70 in a real hair-raising finish. It was Columbia's first Ivy League defeat and Dartmouth's third win. Metropolitan New York TV tans have seen Dartmouth teams twice during that past few months and each time the Green came out on top. Beat Harvard in football on TV and now has whipped the Lions in basketball. There's no business like show business.

That's all for now. Circle that June 15th weekend on your calendars. It's only a few moons away.

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