1951
Hello again. Down here in the not-so-sunny South of late, we're still pleased with the recent tidings from Hanover that the Big Green wrapped up the National Collegiate skiing championship and the Ivy League basketball title all in one weekend.
And we've got our fingers crossed that the basketballers will make it through the first round of the NCAA eliminations and thus earn admission to the NCAA Regional Tournament here in Charlotte in late March. If they make it. 'twill be the first Dartmouth team to show here in many a day, and our local Dartmouth club is waiting breathlessly. Wish I could hold this here to write the outcome but, deadlines being what they are, it must go now.
Also from Hanover, in case you're interested, the "vox clamantis in deserto" of Frank Smallwood drifts down from tunnels in the snowdrifts. Seems that Hanover had well over 80 inches of snow between January 9 and March 1, so that things were getting a bit deep. Also, the mercury was hitting such depths as 29 below.
Frank also writes that the Waldorf-Astoria Dinner for President Emeritus Hopkins in February was all that accounts elsewhere will tell you that it was, and that a solid '51 delegation was on hand for the affair.
At the dinner with their wives were: Arno Arrak, Nels Bellesheim, Bob Bowler, Bill Duke, Harold Johnson, Jerry Mitchell, Julie Olney, John Per-Lee and Dick Pugh. Also there,'but batching it, were Smallwood, Reed Badgley, Mike lovenko, Dave Krivitsky, Dave Leslie and Hank Sanders.
To digress on the weather again for a moment, may I report that we even had much more than our share of snow and ice down this way recently. And it came at a particularly inopportune time because it prevented Jack and Betty Sutton from getting out of the hilly moonshine territory up around North Wilkesboro, N. C., to come to Charlotte for a visit. But Betty writes that Jack is in business for himself — John J. Sutton and Co., manufacturers' representative for building supplies - and travels the Carolinas and Tennessee.
A Wah-Hoo-Wah is in order for Dick Dunn, who's been appointed city manager of Oberlin, Ohio. The Oberlin City Council announced that he was chosen over 35 other applicants because of his ability to "provide intelligent, progressive leadership in the solution of problems which Oberlin must face within the next five years."
Dick goes to Oberlin from Oak Park, Ill., where he's been assistant city manager for some time and gained something of a reputation for his work in personnel, administration, budgeting and handling of traffic problems. After Dartmouth, Dick received Masters' degrees from both the College of Architecture (in planning) and the School of Business and Public Administration at Cornell.
From elsewhere we learn that Bob Tyler has been made administrative vice president of the Tyler Refrigeration Corp. in Niles, Mich. Bob's been with the firm full-time since graduation in '51, and has spent some time with an affiliate organization in Caracas, Venezuela.
We're happy to pass on the news that Herb Robbins and Barbara Feinstein were married in Brooklyn last January and honeymooned in the Virgin Islands. Barbara is a senior at Brooklyn College, while Herb's with the Associated Merchandising Corp. in Manhattan.
Down from the Boston area comes the news that John and Sheery Hatch are the proud parents of Christopher Howell Hatch. Chris was born last August and will be a bouncing baby by now. Also hear that: MugsMansur is contemplating a ermuda-in-the-spring junket. Joe Welch is chairman of the Red Cross Drive in Newburyport, Mass. Don Smith (the Hanover Smith) is off touring the nation (San Diego, San Antonio. Dallas, Houston, Detroit and San Francisco) in the interest of the Army Medical Corps. Bill Woolner's with the Taylor Exploration Co. in Houma, La. How about some news from the rest of you?
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