1948

Couldn't be working in a more Hanoverian atmosphere this month. The snow is up over the bottom rail of our fence and even the kids are starting to stay inside, having got their fill of snow - at least for the day. We haven't seen the ground here for six, going on seven weeks now after a very much open winter through Christmas ... and the snow still comes down. This, in a spot where snow normally lasts no longer than a week. And back in Hanover the plows have stacked snow above eye level along the roads. What a time to think back to cold winter evenings on campus with snow crunching underfoot, steamy windows diffusing light over campus when a deep breath seemed to burn the lungs.

But any institution takes more form from people than it does buildings or other physical surroundings and when the snows melt again and mild June weather brings summer with it, those people who make up Dartmouth '48 - you and your classmates - will gather again on the Hanover Plain to both reminisce and renew acquaintances. The dates are June 13-14-15 so mark your calendar now and start working on sitters, June will be a short time comin'. There's only one Tenth and it'll be something not one of you wants to miss.

Weddings are very much in the news this month and leading the parade on November 30 was the marriage of Dr. Jim Hudson and Miss Janet Gallo of Little Falls, N.Y. Miss Gallo is a graduate of Knox School, Cooperstown, N.Y., and Smith College. Jim studied medicine at Boston University and is practicing internal medicine in Boston. Following a wedding trip to Canada, the Hudsons are living in Boston.

On December 28, three more classmates marched to the altar. In Trenton, N.J., Dick Barlow and Miss Jane Frances McHugh said their vows in a Dartmouth congregation that, had it contained Eleazar Wheelock, could have been little more complete. From '48 were usher Bill Ivins, and spectator BudThome. There was then a group of '14s (Dick's father's class) up to '6os (Jane's brother's class). To top things off, they receptioned at the Princeton Inn. Dick reports that they ran into Bob Merriam and his bride, Mary, at the Chateau Frontenac and spent a New Year's honeymoon eve with them. Jane is a graduate of Smith College and is a member of the Junior League of Trenton. Dick is practising law with the firm of Lenox, Giordano and Lenox in Trenton. They reside at 834 Bereley Avenue, Trenton, N.J. Only a few miles away, in Manhattan, Hugh Ettinger and Miss Jane Terry Dwyer of Rochester, N.Y., were saying "I Do." She is a graduate of Wells College and is on the staff of the United Nations. Hugh is associated with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Meanwhile, in Cleveland, Tom Huffman and Miss Elizabeth Nank of Cleveland were being married. Jim Woods acted as an usher. Details were reported in the January issue other than the fact that Tom is a resident at St. Luke's Hospital in Cleveland.

In the patter-of-little-feet department, we have the birth announcement of Peter Baird, son of Mr. & Mrs. John Van Raalte on December 30. The Van Raaltes are living at 110 Old Farm Road, Pleasantville, N.Y.

In the literary field, Wid Washburn, has come out with what advance reviewers praise as a top-notch history, entitled "The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia." It was published by the University of North Carolina Press in January. Wid is an instructor in history at the College of William and Mary and is a fellow of the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg. He resides in Yorktown. In November, he was elected president of the American Indian Ethnohistorical Conference.

Paul Hackett is with Continental Casualty Co. in the New York branch office. He resides at 8 Newberry Place, Port Chester, N.Y.

Stan Churchill has moved to Orleans, Vt., and set up his own practice in veterinary medicine, coming from Lyndonville, Vt., where he was associated with another doctor. Ev Aspinwall has moved from Worcester, Mass., where he worked as an announcer at WTAG, to Portland, Me., and a new position with WCSH-TV.

We wish also to acknowledge the pretty Christmas card received from Barbara, Nat and Linda Jo Merrill. It got in the wrong stack and I didn't discover it until after the February notes were in the mail.

We thoroughly enjoyed Jack Tracy's newsletter which hit the streets on January 15. Almost everybody who writes in says that they'll be at reunion. We are looking for not only a good crowd but a well planned and executed program under the direction of Rick Landon. Incidentally, the offer is still open for a more potent name for the newsletter.

Our wad just about being shot for March, we'll see you in the rainy month - and definitely in June at Hanover.

Secretary, 807 Tomahawk Lane, Niles, Mich.

Treasurer, 120 No. Lincoln Ave., Niles, Mich.