1944

It's agreed that Jack Riley and cohorts and Bill Harrison were the prides of the class those eons ago. And what a thrill it was, for the nation and Dartmouth, to see Jack, now Olympic hockey coach and deep down underdog, pick up the third and last gold medal for the U.S.A. on Sunday!

Cincinnati isn't a hockey town, but this week, Jack's hockey team stole the luncheon conversation from Oscar Robertson twenty to one.

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has named Dave Scotford as the new chairman of its Department of Geology. Dave has been a member of the faculty since 1950, the year he got his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins. He became associate professor in 1955. In addition to teaching at Miami, Dave has spent the past two summers in Colorado doing field research for the Shell Oil Company. He has also done field work in New York, Maine and Wyoming, and has written quite a few articles on structural geology and petrology.

Going into the Olympics the U.S. team was choice for the third or fourth place. Only a single voice in the Olympiad of nations, that of Jack Riley, predicted that the U.S. would hit the top. He worked with a soldier, a fireman, a couple of carpenters, two insurance peddlers, and a TV ad salesman, and came off with one of the greatest sports spectacles in years.

We were at a sedate restaurant the evening of the game with Russia. The management had condescended to bring in a TV so the game could be seen. When that third goal was made there was more noise than the afternoon Bobby Thomson poled his ninth inning two-out homer. And I imagine oxygen sales are moving briskly since that last period demonstration in the Czech game.

I received a card from Bill and Liz Craig who were at Squaw Valley for the games. They tell of running into Boog McLoud at the slalom gate, but the inability to get to see Jack Riley because of the crowds.

Also a card this week from John Eaton who just failed to make the team and took consolation on the slopes at Stowe with eight members of the Hinman tribe, Jay Densmore, and Bud Schen.

With an election year upon us we should soon be getting some news on Stan Zarod. Announcement has already been made by Dr. Lou Savage of Lynn, Mass., that he will seek re-election to the Lynnfield School Committee. And in Scituate John McManus has made known his candidacy for the School Committee. John, an executive with New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and his wife Marie are members of the Scituate Chamber of Commerce. Still with the politics Monte Basbas was re-elected president of the Massachusetts City Clerks Association. Monte is a former commander of the Newton post of the American Legion and a past commander of the Boston University Lodge of Masons.

Art Saul, vice-president and sales manager of Avery and Saul, Cambridge, has been appointed general chairman of a two hundred thousand dollar building fund campaign to erect new facilities for the Arlington Boys' Club. The club has been awarded a three hundred thousand dollar grant contingent on Art's success in raising the two hundred grand locally. Quite a responsibility! Art had been president of the club in '56 and '57.

The main reason Bill and Rusty Hirons were unable to make reunion last June is that as we started they were just pulling into Den Haag where Bill is helping set up a du Pont subsidiary for the production of orlon. The accompanying photo of Bill, Rusty, Molly Lynn, and Allen illustrates latest house-wear fashions in Den Haag. They're all set to make up for reunion with any '44s passing through.

Dr. Marsh Tenney was named Dean of Medical Sciences and of the Dartmouth Medical School by President Dickey. Marsh will continue to have full administrative responsibility for the Medical School and its related activities and will combine as chairman of the department of Physiology.

Jack Riley '44 (r), coach of the undefeated U.S. Olympic Hockey Team that won a gold medal at the winter games at Squaw Valley, is congratulated by Captain Nikolai Sologubov of the Russian team in the U. S. dressing room after the Rileymen had defeated Czechoslovakia, 9-4, in the final game.

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