1943
Dartmouth replaced Westerns on TV this past month. Remote from the Hanover scene, we vicariously enjoyed the Carnival capers on CBS, especially the shy buss given the Carnival Queen by the young Dartmouth Dean. Wonder how Neidlinger would have handled it? Dartmouth undergraduates have brilliantly excelled at this writing on the General Electric College Bowl series, making parents and College proud with their good press. And we share '44's pride in Jack Riley's tremendous coaching of the Olympic hockey team. Jack used to make dry runs with an imaginary hockey stick on the Atlanta Naval Air Station operations desk, amazing Southern friends who had never heard of hockey. The red light went on every time!
Sid Hayward '26 spreads nostalgia in "The Bulletin," bi-weekly college publication:
Duckboards are down now, stretching first in neat, long, straight lines across the diagonal paths, but soon thrown into a zig-zag pattern as leaping students jump from one tilted board across the waterway to the next. When Baker bells ring and classes change, the rumble of duckboards fills the air, one up-tilted end slamming down under hurrying feet, another uneven edge slides into its echoing neighbor....The mud season isn't quite here, but close. Soft sugar snows fall to hasten the hanging of sap buckets on maple trees. Sudden dips in temperature down towards zero often occur right after someone remarks: "Well, winter is almost over." Walks, duckboards, and steps coated with morning and evening ice bring out some prehensile instinct - which seems perfectly natural after a period of residence up here — to walk across bare ice by gripping it with your toes. This helps - all the way through rubbers or just curl down the metatarsal arch and adjoining phalanges to get a better grip Anyway, when duckboards go down, can spring be far behind?"
Your secretary is pleased to hear of Francis W. Gramlich's promotion to Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. His philosophical fortitude was tested one year when Walt Powers, Tom McManus and I sat at his feet in American Philosophy 20 - three youths not only searching for truth but worrying about the draft as well. Powers, McManus and Donovan - how philosophical can you be?
Our class is saddened by the death of Richard D. Lamb on January 20, in Weston, Ore. His widow, Margaret, and three children, Gordene, Richard, and James survive. A complete obituary appears in the In Memoriam Section of this issue. Meanwhile, those of you who knew Dick might want to write his widow at 132 SE Seventh Street, MiltonFreewater, Ore.
From the press releases ... "The '43 Directory" calls him Captain; the "Hanover Gazette" T/Sgt... but anyway it's our own Sid Hazelton transferred from Harlingen AFB, Texas, to a tour in Japan. Tokyo Dartmouth Club note: The Hazeltons will live in Yoto, Japan, and you couldn't find a finer member!... George Kimball has been appointed western U.S. supervisor for the Canada Life Assurance Company in Redwood City, Calif. He joined the company in 1955, managing its San Francisco group insurance office and was made western training supervisor in 1957.... American education takes a giant step with the announcement of Maurice Dampier's candidacy for the Gilbertville, Mass., school committee. Vice-President of Ware Knitters, Inc., Maury and wife Jean have resided with their four children in Hardwick for the past seven years
Keep your Dartmouth class directory up to date with these changes:
Charles M. Cahn Jr., 8203 Pumpkin Seed Court, Pikesville 8, Md.; George Lowden, 3011 Manchester Road, Shaker Heights, Cleveland 22, Ohio; George T. Shimizu, 1618 West 146th Street, Gardena, Calif.; John G. Troster, 45 Laurel Street, Atherton, Calif.; Holden Waterbury, 501 Vi Sacramento Avenue, San Antonio 12, Calif.; David E. White, P. O. Box 1623, Wheaton, Md.; T/Sgt. Sidney Hazelton, 67th Tac. R. W., APO 328, San Francisco, Calif.; William J. Holliday, 111 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Ind.
I like Wooster School Headmaster John Verdery's 4 D's of an alumni group: The deceased, the disappeared, the destitute, and the disinterested. Just to keep you among the interested, I'll sponsor a contest for '43's Writer of the Month. All you have to do is write me a letter on any Dartmouth subject. It could be your most unforgettable Dartmouth character, a Dartmouth vignette, a reminiscence of Hanover hilarity. Include with it a brief biography of yourself and the latest family status. The winning letter will be published in this column, and the winner will receive a unique Hickok gold tie bar not available for purchase anywhere. All material submitted will be published here in part or completely in the "Newsletter." Let's hear from you.
Secretary,1445 Cherry Lane Pottstown, Penna.
Class Agent, Apt. 6-N, 315 Central Park West New York 25, N.Y.
