1949
March is in like a Lion as I sit down to write this. The Big Green has clinched both the Ivy League Championship in Basketball and the N.C.A.A. Skiing Championship, so there should be some proud and smiling faces not only in Hanover but also among the alumni throughout the land. Hanover hosted a splendidly successful athletic weekend, ending yesterday, and it was Freshmen-Fathers Weekend to boot, so the timing was excellent.
I've done some following of Green events over the last thirty days wherein I've met many of you. At the hockey game here at Brown the following were in attendance, to whoop up an upset win for the sextet: Bob and Shirley Magown, Jack and Peggy Kilmartin, Bob and Joan MacArthur and John and Nancy Stockwell. The following night I journeyed to the annual Boston Dartmouth Alumni Association dinner at the Statler. Bob MacArthur and Don Barr '46 went with me and we thoroughly enjoyed the evening. It was the first time I'd ever made this particular occasion and I'm surprised and disappointed that there weren't more of our gang in attendance. I can't imagine living nearby as many of you do and missing this evening. Those who were there included Bert Rodman, Ed Sullivan, John Taylor and Dick Raybold.
On February 19, John Everatt was in town visiting the Providence Office of the New York Life Insurance Co., for whom he is New England Special Agent in the accident and health field. He hits our town every other month or so and we hope to make lunch together next time.
Two of you got back to the Hanover Inn during the last month - Ed Grant and family of Worcester, Mass., made it in January, and Clarke Church of Lexington, Mass., made it in mid-February.
One wedding to report this time - that of Marv Durning of New Orleans to Miss Jean Babcock Cressev of Norton, Mass., on the first of February. Marv is presently an instructor at Yale where he is completing a course in the Yale Law School.
Marjorie and Elliot Baritz announce the birth of Neil Steven on February 5. Neil becomes the second son in the Baritz family.
Got a very fine letter from Sachem Village in Hanover from George F. Day, whom many of you will remember from our early undergraduate days. George left Dartmouth in 1948 to enter business but he's always since wanted that elusive sheepskin, so he decided to go back with his family — wife Ann and three children - for the last lap, his senior year. He's having a fine time there and would welcome any traveling classmates in the Hanover area. I think George deserves a helluvah lot of credit for returning after nine years — I'd hate to have to hit the books for a year now. It was tough enough then as I recall. Lots of luck, George!
Into miscellaneous news - Alan Hodges is the youngest President of the National Hide Association. His regular duty is Treasurer of J.C. Hodges & Co. Inc., a Boston hide brokerage firm.... John Goodrich of the Littleton, N.H., Social Security Office spoke at the first February meeting of the Grafton Star Grange on Social Security benefits and the methods of using them..... Bill White (our Treasurer) was promoted to the post of senior mathematical assistant of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. in Newark, N. J.... Dr. Dick Hoar has been promoted to assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.... John Achorn is with Northeast Airlines out of Logan Airport, Boston.... Dick McFalls is teaching at Wayne State Teachers College in Nebraska.... Capt. Bill Perkins is with the 8th Air Force at Westover Field, Mass. ... Capt. John Miller is stationed at Fort Sill, Okla.
The College's huge Capital Gifts Drive will be strongly under way by the time you read this, and I hope that any of you who are in the position to will do your share. All of us can help on our own level, and I think we owe the College that gave us such a fine education all the help we can. Do your share!
Happy Easter to you? and how about a letter?
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