1948

As is customary at this time of year. Dartmouth once again graduated another group of fine young men who will take their place in the worldin one eapacity o ranohter thus enlarging the Dartmouth family. It is my hope &at during the past year the class of 1948 was drawn a little closer together either by your secretary or the activity or efforts of some other college organization individual or classmate. In any case it does appear t based on certain attitudes and incidents I have noticed recently we are approaching the maturity level necessary to accept our responsibilities as a middle age classin this Dartmouth family.

""Recently, Dudley Wright moved, although he is still living and practicing law in Santa Ana Calif., which is near Los Angeles. Dud and Ann have an attractive daughter who was just eighteen and entering fall Dud Jr. is sixteen and has three younger sisters, Joan, thirteen Polly, seven and Stacey, nine, whom he has learned tolerate.

Jack and Kathy McKeon moved last spring from Glen Rock, N.J., to a lovey home in nearby Wyckoff. Jack is an engineer with the General Electric Co. in their Paterson office. He is marketing manager in the gear, motor, and transmission components department. The McKeon girls, Nancy and Paula are now twelve and eleven and the boys Dave and Tom are eight and

Another of our Thayer School classmates in the news recently was Ed Tarca. Ed is with the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., next to Los Angeles, after having been a member of the technical staff of Lear-Siegler. Ed was just appointed the manager of the Test Planning and Operations Support Section at the company. His efforts will be directed toward developing the complete scope of activities assigned to his section. He and his family live in Torrence. Anybody have an ice jam in his river last winter? Well, our class has one of the leading experts in the country on ice conditions in Ernie Marshall. Ernie, a native of Laconia, N.H., where he still summers, is living in Detroit and working on his doctor's degree at the University of Michigan where he was formerly on the staff of the Geology Department. He is now with Corps of Engineers in Detroit. During the spring, when the worse ice jam in 100 years developed on the Mississippi, Ernie was called as an expert on the problem. His studies have taken him to both the Arctic and Antarctic.

After a short sojourn in Cincinnati, Bob MacKay is back in Connecticut as the assistant to the president of the Bonnie Curtain Co. Previously he had been General Manager of Wellington Curtain Co. Bob and Hilda have four children and are living in Harwinton, Conn.

It must be quite a change for Tom and Claire Rafferty and their three children to move from New York to Jackson, Miss. Tom is in the wholesale lumber and building business down south.

The Ray Richards have moved from Illinois to Columbus, Ind. Ray and Gloria have two sons, Bruce almost eleven, and David, nine. Bud and Rickie Gold moved to a new home in Upper Montclair, N.J., where there is a large Dartmouth contingent already. They have a daughter and two sons. Bud is a broker with Hirsch and Co. uptown.

With the Metropolitan Opera moving to Lincoln Center next winter, stage director Nat Merrill wants to be nearby .and therefore has taken an apartment on West 79th Street in New York. I imagine Nat will summer in Europe this year as usual.

Everything about the subways isn't bad these days as I enjoyed meeting and visiting with Dirk Kuzmier on his way down to court. Dirk's law firm is one of the largest trial firms in the City specializing primarily in accident cases. Dirk and Daphne live in Dobbs Ferry and have two daughters. Dirk offered a very nice invitation to visit him at their summer home in Amaganset, Long Island, and I hope the surprise won't be too great when he sees us there some hot day during the middle of July.

Even though the old plea might sound trite, I want to say that it is not too late to send in your gift to the Alumni Fund if you haven't done so previously. We have just about reached our goal and we are counting on that small amount needed from the lastminute gifts to put us over the top. I hope you will mail your check and this will be the one that does the trick for us.

As this is the last issue for the summer, I hope all of you have a pleasant vacation until you hear from me next fall.

Have a nice summer!

Former class president Bob Zeiser '49(c) accepts '49's annual Gold Pick AxeAward from classmates Bert Rodman (l)and Jack Kilmartin for his service toDartmouth in club and class activities.

Secretary, 110 Old Farm Rd. Pleasantville, N.Y.

Class Agent, 546 Cumberland Ave., Teaneck, N.J. 07666