1945
I've just put away the old football pants and shoes for another year after a good season (5-2) and am taping sticks and oiling hockey skates in anticipation of some cold New England weather. My, how time flies! But if you keep busy, and coaching is one way to do it, you can stay young in spirit and somewhat so in body. If you don't believe me, let me point out old leather-arm Jim Doole who is still throwing strikes and balls with the same success he enjoyed way back with the Big Green teams. Latest ex- ploit regards the Pacific-touring St. Louis Cardinals who ran afoul of Jim's nifty knuckler in a game against the Hawaii All-Stars this fall. Although Lou Burdette worked the first six innings for the All-Stars, it was Jim who handcuffed the Cards over the final three innings with but one hit and no runs. P.S. The Cards won 5-4.
45's active in alumni association and club service include: Harry Hampton, on the Executive Committee of the General Association of Dartmouth Alumni; Bob Nelb, President of the Naugatuck Valley Dartmouth Club; Bob Ross, faithfully carrying on as Secretary for the Dartmouth Club of the Gold Coast in Fort Lauderdale: Bill Webster, President of the Dartmouth Club of Baltimore; John Leggat, President, Dartmouth Club of Lowell; and probably some others that I have missed.
My Washington grapevine has it that Harry Carter is off on a Latin American jaunt for the administration. Hope he gets a warmer reception than the V-P. Know he will for he's a Dartmouth man, an advantage in this world which Mr. Nixon, unfortunately, did not enjoy. Harry's trip however, necessitated his missing the Dartmouth-Princeton game for the first time since 1946. That left Knox Armstrong and Bud Blackburn with the responsibility of taking care of Harry's amount of the cheering. A rather difficult job, to say the least. Dr. Ed Crane reports on his activities from Charlotte, Vt., where he is a G.P. after several years' service with the Army in Germany. "Spent much of last year as chairman of the Pastoral Committee of the church and next year will again be chairman of the Prudential Committee. Other sparetime activities include Pres. of Burlington Camera Club, area representative for Photographic Society of America, Vice-Pres. of the New England Camera Club Council, some color slide exhibiting in P.S.A. internationals, and two minor medical society jobs, plus Sec. Treas. of Vt. Chapter American Academy of General Practice, plus part time faculty Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine." Did I forget anything, Ed? And when do you see your family?
From Dr. John Ruppe comes the information that he is practicing Dermatology on eastern Long Island, Riverhead, to be exactAnd if the Democratic tide swept through West Virginia on the state level as strongly as it did on the national scene, then I fear for the political aspirations of our charming councilor, Jim Knowles, who was running for a seat in the House of Delegates. How'd it go, Jim? Gone?
The happiest man of the month is Bob Paulson, way out in Sunnyvale, Calif. Bob writes that he is happily working as National Sales Manager for the Professional Products Division of the Ampex Corp.; happily selling the most incredible electronic device the television industry has ever seen, the VR-1000 Videotape Recorder; happily traveling around the country about 50% of the time ...; happily returning home to Sunnyvale the other 50% of the time to enjoy the company of Marge, wife-still, Alan, 11, Kirk, 9,. Nancy, 7, Penelope, dog, and Figaro, cat.. Man, is he happy! And why not?
From Jim Edson of Grand Junction, Colo., comes word of more 45's. Ernie Alexander, with a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, is doings pharmaceutical research in Albany, N. Y., and living in Rensselaer, just off the Thruway. Dick Steiner is still with the American Linen Supply Towel Co., and Jack Plummer works for Colgate-Palmolive out of Kansas City. If Dick and Jack should pool their interests they should really be able to clean up!
Other items of international interest include: the marriage of Dr. Jim Dickson to Miss. Nancy Gilbert of Newton, Mass., last Oct. 20. Honeymooned at the Harvard-Dartmouth game, says Jim; a note from Irv Graves announcing his return to Boston and engagement to Miss Ann MacFarland of Belmont. A February wedding will be reported on these pages; a short report from Major Fred Campbell from Camp Lejeune where he is attached to Headquarters Company. You didn't have anything to do with the excitement last spring did you, Fred?
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