1943
Fresh from a spring weekend in Hanover and the annual Class Officers meeting, I can report that all's well with the College. Main Street's only change is the installation of traffic lights at the Inn corner. Hopkins Center is fabulous - busy all the time with student activities - a cultural and intellectual center for all North Country people in its varied attractions. I'm convinced it's the greatest advancement for the College since the construction of Baker Library.
Bus Mosbacher, Jack Meleney, Kelly Coffin, and I represented your interests. Bus doubled as the Class Officers' representative on the Alumni Council with a formal report and on Saturday night as guest lecturer before a packed Alumni Hall on the Cup races. Pat and he christened the new fleet of the Dartmouth Yacht Club Saturday afternoon.
Kelly, trim as the fighter pilot he was, jetted in from Atlanta, leaving Jane to their new home. A most adaptable guy, Kelly is very enthusiastic about Atlanta, its golf courses, and its social life. Amen to all that.
Forehanded class, we are pleased that Jack Meleney has accepted the responsibility of Reunion Chairman for our 20th Reunion in June, 1964. Discussing his programs with the idea of attracting as many '43s as possible, Jack has fine ideas to interest everyone. Let's all get behind him right now and cooperate completely. When you read this column, remember this important gathering is just a year away; so plan your vacation, your budget, your baby sitters for the very young ones, your other obligations, and be there in Hanover. Let no four-ball tournaments at Brae Burn keep you away this time, Johnny Koslowski.
Hanover highlights The unbelievable Leverone Field House, half of it made into an auditorium by tremendous cloth drapes, jam-packed with people (about 3000, I guess) listening to the U.S. Navy Band perform a magnificent concert. People came from all over New Hampshire and Vermont—a most exciting event. ..." class officers and wives were driven to and from the concert in Dean Thaddeus Seymour's antique Packard phaeton, carrying about ten people without a spring flex. Dean Seymour, a most unusual person, combines tremendous youthful enthusiasm with a profound understanding of youth. Everyone in town knows and respects him. . . .Ad Winship '42 and wife Kiki entertained us in their lovely home with '41 and '42 class officers. While those '41s and '42s are much older than we, it was good to see Ez Crowley '41, Guy Swenson '42, Warren Kreter '42 and other antiquated guys.
Phil Jackson's creations are visible all over the Hanover campus. The Leverone Field House is his masterpiece (illustrated in Fortune this month). Now Phil has struck off on his own, founding Jackson Construction Company, and as a starter walked off with a new college construction contract. Good luck to you, Phil. We'll send prospects as we hear about them.
Had some brief news about Walter Powers from his father, illustrious chairman of '06. Walt's health has not been the best, including broken bones in one foot, stomach and eye troubles. lust seems to be working too hard. We hope things will brighten for Walt, an active member of this class. . . . George Munroe frightened the '44s in the Fund drive by leading the Derby one week; he's determined to put us over. Let's get behind him. George and Helen couldn't make the Hanover meeting. Seems that Helen tried skiing for the first time and broke her leg. We missed them both.
'43 wives were an added attraction. Lil Meleney, Pat Mosbacher, Ruth Donovan, and Ruth Young proved that we know how to pick our women along with our college. Paul Young, who has made arrangements at Norwich Inn for our fall gathering on Holy Cross weekend, Oct. 18, dropped by briefly after attending Fathers Day with his daughter at Pine Manor. . . . Saw Dick Pierce in Norwich. . . . Met Tony Farrell at Mass in the little chapel of St. Francis of Assisi in Norwich. Tony operates a large dairy farm in Norwich and is a representative in the Vermont legislature - a liberal Republican, he tells me.
If you've never seen the excitement of championship yacht racing, I can tell you how to get a 16 mm. sound and color edi- tion of Bus Mosbacher's Weatherley races free for showing at your club or civic group. An excellent production stressing the team- work of these great racing machines. If in- terested, write me. But you must tell me some news about yourself before I return the info.
Dacy Stevens, another English major turned lawyer, lives in Port Chester, where he also practices and is town judge in Rye, N. Y. We all remember Dace's trumpet, from which he retired officially back in 1953. Dace has written a beautiful Christmas ballad which he wants published and recorded. Any takers? Might be a welcome relief from "White Christmas." Write him at 219 Westchester Ave., Port Chester, N. Y. . . . Chester Roche is quite active in the Monadnock Council, Boy Scouts of America. Chet is superintendent of Collier-Keyworth Co. in Gardner, Mass.; he and his wife Betty 10 are raising two boys, Craig 13 and David 10. Chet is also on the Gardner school committee.
Bruce Bergquist '55, English teacher at The Hill School, tells me he peruses all the class alumni columns and occasionally shows them to his classes for their literary flair. If he is looking at this column for triteness or cliches, he'll never find them here, not by a long shot. He can bet his life on that. This is sincere stuff. Ask Ernie Sauls.
From the halls of academe located across state in Easton comes word that Lafayette College has advanced Bob Bradford to the rank of associate professor. Bob, a member of Lafayette's Department of English, earned his A.M., at Columbia in 1948, then taught and did graduate work at Syracuse University for the next five years. In 1953 he joined the Lafayette faculty and in 1957 was awarded his Ph.D. by Syracuse. Included among the work Bob has published is a paper on Thoreau which he read last year at a meeting of the College English Association and which was published last year in "American Literature." Bob's wife Mary Jane is an assistant in biology at Lafayette. They have three children.
This should finish us for the year. Have a safe summer and plan to participate actively with this class next year. We'll need you.
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