1934
Now, happily, the snows are melting. Brooks are running full. Robins are on the wing again. Early-blooming forsythia is spreading yellow gold across the winter-impoverished countryside. At long last, spring is here (so says the calendar). And none too soon, for the past winter's mornings were getting bleaker by the week for those trying to find the proud Dartmouth name in the winning column of college basketball and hockey scores.
Winter had its happier compensations the winter sports team which won the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship, and the varsity swimmers who, despite disastrous meetings with Yale and Princeton, bore the stamp of greatness.
But the cruel crucible of defeat molds greatness, too. So, we also salute the young men who lost, but who never ceased trying. At the top of our list, we proudly place the name of Stan Smoyer's son, Bill '67, an outstanding young man and leading scorer of the never-quit varsity hockey team - the great Eddie Jeremiah's last. Eddie holds a very special place in our esteem for he was one of those who, in the happy long ago, ignited our desire to become a part of the Dartmouth fellowship.
Just as spring brings new hope, so did the freshman basketball, hockey and swimming teams kindle bright hopes of happier winters ahead. They rank with the '7O football team as among the best in years. Look ahead!
The last batch of winter mail brought news from afar and from home'—from the Maharani's Palace in Udaipur, India, to the Church of Christ in Hanover. Long-distance correspondent of the month was Class Chairman Rollie Morton whose postcard picturing the Maharani's Palace bore these tidings: "Italian Airline was great from Teheran trip around the world ... seeing interesting places and people." Dot and Rollie planned to spend the Easter holidays in Hawaii with sons, Gordon, Dick and Jim. No word from Rollie on how he found things at the Palace.
A newspaper clipping reported that "Miss Susan E. Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wilson Jr. of Hanover was married on January 3 to Norman E. Heitner Jr., of St. Louis, Mo., in Church of Christ at Dartmouth. ... The bride was escorted by her father."
Hanover Gazette proclaimed the engagement of Robert Alan Brown, son of Barbara and (Class Treasurer and Hanover selectman) Ed Brown, to Miss Frances Ann Sice, Merrimack College '65, an elementary school teacher in Charlestown, Mass. They planned to be married before spring. Bob is a graduate student in physics at Harvard.
Note from Bob Offenbach in Quincy, Mass.: "After threatening for many years to leave the retail business, I have now done so. My new business affiliation is with Management Recruiters, a nation-wide executive placing agency which recently opened in Boston. It's a fascinating business, and I expect to thoroughly enjoy it. Helene and I had dinner recently with Bill Reid and wife Debby... . Son Rick '66, doing graduate work at Rutgers, is engaged to Bonnie Maries, Rutgers '68."
From Lexington, Mass., our roving reporter, Bill Emerson, reports: "... Attended the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston. 1934 was not very well represented. I did see Sylvia and Win Watts and Frances and Jack Lynch. It was particularly good to welcome Bob Offenbach to New England. ... A couple of weeks ago I was in Pittsburgh and had lunch with Merrill Heald. I hadn't seen him since graduate school. He was at Harvard Law the same time I was at M.I.T. Merrill is an attorney with U.S. Steel. For some time he was with U.S. Steel's subsidiary, Geneva Steel, in Utah. At that time, he spent many vacations fishing in my favorite spot in Jackson Hole, Wyo. He reported superb fishing which well I know. His oldest daughter, Judith, is at the University of Wisconsin and No. 2, Pamela, is at the University of West Virginia."
Our New York private eye, Hank Werner, and Jerry Danzig have another common interest. Their sons - Tom and young Jerry - are schoolmates at Hotchkiss.
SORRY ABOUT THAT - Stan Abercrombie's name inadvertently was omitted from the March Birthdays' list. So, belatedly, a happy one to Stan.
HAPPY APRIL BIRTHDAYS - George Beal, Dick Benedict, Bob Bennett, Sid Bernstein, Ben Blair, Ralph Brabbee, Linden Bridgeman, Jack Cavanaugh, Chuck Cotsworth, Jim Cowan, Mert Cushman, Line Daniels, Bill Fischbach, Fran Ford, George Fugitt, Joe Furst, Moe Gallup, Rip Healey, Jake Hekma, Chuck Hirschey, Curt Howard, Fred Huston, Paul Johnson, Carroll Jordan, Pete Kaiser, Stan Karstedt, Bee Kempff, George Kimball, Randy Klinefelter, Junie Kneisel, Hank Kraszewski, Dave Luck, Les Lummis, Lach MacKinnon, Paul Magnuson, Ed Marceau, Bob Marcy, Chris Maxam, Rollie Morton, Vince Muti, Dana Redington, Johnny Roberts, Howie RosenKen Silcock, Bill Stein, Van Thorne, Wally Welch, Bob Wood, Arne Yensen.
REUNION NOTE - Despite the many demands on his time. Art Leonard has agreed to take on one of the most demanding jobs of all - chairmanship of next year's Class Reunion. Art is urging all 1934s to check off their 1968 calendars now and set aside time to attend 1934's 34th in June -1968, that is. Among his many achievements, Art is president of Rodgers Liquor Company, Inc., of Albany, N. Y. Business must be all right. His garage is populated by Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Cadillac.
Charlie Brown '35 (rt.), newly electedvice president of International ExecutivesService Corps, visits with DavidRockefeller, current chairman of IESC.
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