1964

Due to an abysmal lack of information and a large dose of back-from-vacation laziness, we have chosen a guest-secretary for the January column. The first gentleman who will inaugurate this - we hope - often repeated practice is Gene Veto. Gene will quote from his excellant Class Newsletter of December 29, 1964.

"The first snow of the year has fallen on the Hanover plain and the relative peace and solitude of the town has been restored as the last day of exams has come and gone. Remember the last ten days before vacation? They were always rough. Classes seemed so anticlimactic and professors charged through assignments to make up for the days they had decided to talk about the election instead of the United States' balance of payments problems. Those were the days when we resolved on the way back from the Nugget that we were going to start reviewing tomorrow night and then really do a job on finals — but somehow it never worked out that way. There were two kinds of guys I enjoyed watching around that time of year.

"One was the guy who makes his appearance in the library for the first time that year. As he walks into the library, he remembers that the G.I. room is downstairs where those funny looking pictures on the wall are. After sitting down and reading a few magazines and the Daily D several times, he casually blows the fuzzy dust off his books. The eyes of the diligent raise as he opens each new book; the loud cracking of the binding tells them that here is a guy who is just starting his courses for the term. He'd be in the same spot for the next four or five days and then exams would come and go and so would he - for another ten weeks!

"Then there was super-booker! Able to mark an entire Phil book with a single yellow marker! ... his foot tapping faster than machine-gun chatter! .. . more powerful than a cup of Hal's coffee! . . . and who, disguised as a human being, waged a neverending battle for A's and even citations. He'd come into the G.I. room every once in awhile, but only by mistake. Super-booker was usually found in the Reference Room balconies, deep in the stacks, or close to the fan in the "Fan Room." He sits down and gets to work immediately. Super-booker likes colored pencils, protractors, squeaky Hi-Liters (ech!) - the whole works. His books are so well-used the DCU won't take them next term. Super-booker is nervous, always outlining something, and clicking his pen, but he's happy. So exams come and go and so do the Holidays. Then January and marking time till Carnival. . . ."

Bits and pieces:

Paul Hale started his training at OCS at Newport about a month ago. Doc Davis also made the scene from California. With Chuck Marsh and Dave Shaefer '63 around to help out, Dartmouth should have a small but powerful alumni group.

Fritz Corrigan sends this news about: "Those of us who have taken upon ourselves to defend you students, would-be lawyers, doctors, etc. Since entering the Army this fall, Dave Osborne, Howie Seaver, FranMontgomery, and I have all been to Fort Benning, Ga., for infantry training and are now at Fort Holabird in Baltimore learning to be spies. Saw Glen Kendall at Benning. Ed Williams is just finishing up at Benning and will be reporting to Alaska and Major Hassett (ROTC instructor at the Big Green for the last four years) for biathlon. And last, but not least, Derek Denby is permanently stationed at Benning handling social details for the rest of us dirty old men from New Hampshire. (Remember, if the balloon goes up, we'll be there to protect you, Fritz.)

"Might also mention this news that HarvTettlebaum sends from the Midwest, where he is attending Law School at Washington University. Doc Cornwell there in B school, Bruce Hookerman in Med School, and BillRiggs in Architectural School. Harv says he's heard that B. Brewster Cole, known to friends and enemies as Bruce, has decided to stop "cooling it" and will marry Miss Marika Barrington, whom we all stared at around Phi Upsilon for two years. The date was Dec. 30. Bruce deserves special mention since he was originally a '59, but decided after two and a half years at Dartmouth with our class, to convert to a '64. Like any convert, he is more zealous than the natives."

Gene's doing a fine job with the Class Newsletter, thanks from the Class of '64. Also, thanks from me, for bailing me out. Happy New Year, '64s and everyone make a resolution to do something and send me a letter telling me about it.

Dave Walsh's wedding to Emma JaneMurar was a '62 family occasion; shownare Jim Murar '62, the bride, and Dave '62.

Dartmouth men at the wedding of John Ingham '64 to Charlene Frye on November14 were (l to r) William Philipp '62, Van Wie Ingham '27 (groom's father), GeorgeVan Alles '61, bride, Clifton C. Smith '62, bridegroom, Allen Muglia '60, JonGallo '63, Alexander Ingham '60, Henry Rogers '63. The groom's now in the Army.

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