1960

I feel like I'm right back in Hanover today. Minneapolis is in the throes of another of her well-known spring snowstorms, just like the ones at Dartmouth that always seemed to come out of nowhere the day after the first home baseball game.

I've just read a recent sports bulletin sent out by the College reviewing the winter sports season through Carnival weekend. The swimming team seems to be the only consistent winner as the rest of the teams have run into considerable opposition. I wouldn't be so bold as to say that '60 could take credit for Dartmouth's fine athletic showing in recent years, but I must say this year's collapse has shown that our classmates in many cases comprised the core of some of Dartmouth's best athletic teams in years.

Here are those war stories I promised you last month! Ryan Ostebo, Ed Johnson, and Dave Petrie were all commissioned Marine Corps Second Lieutenants after a twelveweek course at O.C.S. in Quantico, Va. The Marine Corps has just transferred Sam and Rita Bowlby from Quantico to Camp Barstow, Calif. Roy Eisenhardt and Eric Anderson were at a small going-away party for the Bowlbys which was probably the noisiest Marine Corps function since the Battle of Belleau Wood.

Pete Easter and Doug Hamilton are in the final phases of a six-months' training program at the Army's Transportation School, Fort Eustis, Va. Dune Knapp was selected "soldier-of-the-month" for his battle group at. Fort Davis. Keep that rifle clean, Dune!

Borden Powers completed a twelve-week course at the Artillery's Missile School, Fort Sill, Okla. Andy Paul, Nathan Witham, and Frank Bell have all completed an eight-week orientation course which is required of all newly commissioned officers at Fort Benning, Ga. Brian Brigham is in the Navy's Preflight Training School at Pensacola, Fla. Our final story comes from Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., where Dave Haight completed the data-processing equipment course. Dave is probably a retired veteran by now as he finished this course in November.

McBee, you left town just in time. I've got a card here from Denny Goodman and he says you owe him $3.30. Pay up! Denny just got out of the Army. I'll bet it didn't take him long to let his fellow mud shoes know what he thought of that organization.

I'm glad to see there's still someone in the class with a little initiative. Jack Sommer's wife gave birth to a boy on January 17, and they named him Scott Finlaey. I hope that middle name is right, Jack. I'd like to put my own plug in here and announce that Sally and I are expecting in September. It really isn't fair to announce an impending birth but, what the heck, I ought to have some privileges.

It finally happened! I figured it wouldn't be long before I made a mistake. Russ Burgess (with two S's) married Ann Adams Wheeler, not Ann Adams. Jim Pollard corrected me on that one and passed on this additional information to me. Dave Chevrier is at Andover-Newton Theological Seminary and Bob Brusic is at Harvard Divinity. Fred Graybeal is studying geology in Tucson, Ariz. Don Black is at Northwestern Law School. Ray Pong, Charlie Lund, and Ray Dilworth are all at Boston University. Art Cochburn and Tony Roisman are both in Harvard Law School. Dud Weider is in Med school at Tufts.

Art Needham writes that Bruce Henry is at the University of Wisconsin in mathematics. He's rooming with "Osh" Hayward. DaveZehr is still in Hanover, having an assistantship in Zoology. Dave, apparently, is quite a gun enthusiast; so if any of you want to wheel and deal in the gun market Dave may be the guy to talk to. Speaking of guns, I've got an old Torino rifle that looks like something out of the Spanish-American War. Anybody interested or knows anything about it, let me know.

On the international scene, more news for this up-to-date student directory I'm developing here. Pete Klaren studied Spanish for two months in Madrid, Spain, but is in U.C.L.A. now. He ran into Dune Mathewson in Munich. Dune is studying at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Bob Kahn,Dave Hull, and Hap Dunning are all at the University of London. Dennis Cherlin is at Oxford.

This list of names and addresses ought to be sufficient for anyone traveling in the United States or Europe to scrounge a night or two off several classmates.

One closing thought for the month: don't forget to support the Alumni Fund. It's not so much the size of the contribution but the degree of participation that counts. It seems to me it would be an injustice for a few to pay for what the whole class owes.

600 University Ave., S.E. Minneapolis 14, Minn, writing for Tom McBurney, Secretary

Secretary, Route 5, Christmas Lake Excelsior, Minn.

Class Agent, 302 Woodbury Hall, Hanover, N. H.