1951
The euphoria and haze of the holiday season are dissipating rapidly in the face of the cold hard realities of early January 1962. The holidays cost more than I could afford, my personal clients aren't paying their bills, I don't know how I'll meet my January quarterly tax payment, and the pickings of Dartmouth '51 news for the February ALUMNI MAGAZINE are slim. Many of you are no doubt fellow sufferers as to one or more of the first three problems, but the last is my cross to bear - alone.
Besides, it's cold outside - the damp, bitter cold of a Philadelphia winter. Hanover winters were never like this! The snow rarely crunches here; it generally squishes, and it gets very dirty very quickly.
My only solace is a forthcoming two-day trip to Washington (on expense account) to get my brain filled with the Kennedy Administration's current thinking on trust-busting. Unfortunately, I probably won't have time to look up any of our Washington delegation during that time.
After reading Al Karcher's four-and-a-half-page holiday season opus, I also feel discriminated against. But there are things to be said for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, you know. In the first place, we do not print "Fables" but only the "truth" as checked out by ALUMNI MAG Editor Charlie Widmayer's flying squad of private eyes.
Secondly, we print pictures. Of late, our class column seems to have been specializing in shots of married classmates surrounded by well-endowed females. (If some of you weren't so greedy, maybe we'd all be married by now!) As for pictures, they must include an alumnus; i.e., no go on shots of your family, baby, or fiancee - without you.
From what I've read in the press, the Navy didn't succeed in providing Bob Brod with much warmer climate when it transferred him to Florida from Philadelphia. Doctor Bob is now on the Internal Medicine Staff at the Jacksonville Naval Hospital. This summer Bob and wife Joan became the proud parents of their second child, Bob Jr., Class of 198?
More on the subject of future headaches for Eddie Chamberlain: Pete Little and wife Sylvia added James Alexander to their brood early this fall. According to my information, young Jim is the fifth boy out of six children. This brings Pete up to BuckScott, although the proportions of the younger set are reversed.
Then there are those who are just starting down the primrose path. One of our roving correspondents reports that he recently dropped in on that one of our 48 members of the legal bar who has ascended the bench, Denver Municipal Court Judge Bob Fullertoil, and found him with a new bride, the former Sally Sloan. Sally is from Phoenix, Ariz.; attended Palomar College in San Marcos, Calif.; and was a stewardess for Western Air Lines before Bob grounded her. (What was a Denver judge doing flying around?)
Unless somebody got cold feet, CharliePackard is by now married to Marion Facius of Manhasset, N. Y. Marion was graduated from Centenary Junior College and the University of Miami. She has also done graduate work at the University of Mexico and California. Both bride and groom teach in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., public schools.
Bob Maguire is part of a multi-purpose team trained by the Experiment in International Living, Putney,. Vt., which is going to East Pakistan under Peace Corps auspices. Bob will teach international relations at Rajshahi University.
While Pete Martin has now put down roots in Yorktown Heights, N. Y., Time nonetheless sends him abroad, as it did for Pete's authoring of cover stories this past year on the ill-fated invasion of Cuba and Brazil's abdicating president Janio Quadros.
Fellow-Timer Loye Miller officially hangs his hat in Washington, where he is one of two assigned to cover "The Hill" regularly. But Loye did so well on trailing Vice-President Johnson during the last campaign that Time assigned him to accompany the Veep on his trips to Asia and West Berlin (after the Wall) during the past year.
Bob McCabe is now hanging out in Hong Kong, where he's a stringer for Time, NBC, and some business publications. Bob's wife Inger is a free-lance photographer, working mostly for Life.
Back on the old New England ranch, EdWalsh has moved up to manager of the claims and loss department of the Glens Falls Insurance Co. in Boston.
And so it goes for another month. May the New Year be a great one for all of you in the Class of 1951 and yours. But do let me know what's going on - before Charlie Widmayer fires me.
Bob Hackstaff '51 and his guest, MaryPhillips, are shown at an alumni Christmas cocktail party in Denver, Colo.
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