1941
Your secretary's repeated pleas for some news finally hit pay dirt with at least a couple of classmates. I hope this is the start of a trend which will snowball.
The first to take pity on Old Dutch was Red Taft whose letter follows:
When your column is almost one half address changes, including one of mine, you are in trouble ... real trouble. So, if you want to use any of this and you are willing to correct the typing and spelling errors, go ahead.
My ex-wife (Hugh Murphy's sister) is still living in Longmeadow, Mass., with our 15-year-old son, Mark, who is a sophomore at Longmeadow High. My oldest daughter is married and living on the West Coast. My oldest boy is in his sixth year in the Air Force, is a Staff Sergeant, and now is in the Airmen's Education Program at the University of Wisconsin where he is studying meteorology. He graduates in 1969, then to OTS and a career Air Force Officer. My daughter, Betsy, who was with me at our 25th is in her first year at Colby Jr.... She loves it and is commuting weekends to Hanover. Can't complain, as she made the dean's list the first semester. She will be here with me in Ft. Lee this summer. My apartment here overlooks the Hudson River and is only about three minutes from the George Washington bridge ... as close to New York City as I can get and still avoid our fellow alumnus Rocky's taxes.
Several weeks ago I had dinner with Ed and Norma Marlette in their lovely home in Snyder, a Buffalo suburb. Ed is still busy as head of the Marlette Plating Co. and is active in his industry's trade association. He is also still supporting the U. S. school system as even though his oldest daughter is out of college and teaching in Buffalo, his boy is a senior at Dartmouth, he has a girl in college in Massachusetts, a boy in Buffalo private school, and one going to the same school next year. When all these kids are out of school, I expect he will buy the Buffalo Bills from Ralph Wilson!
Have finished my second year with Realemon and like it very much. Do not travel as far as I used to but working the 11 large Eastern markets keeps me pretty busy. Get to Syracuse frequently, and either see or talk to my freshman roommate, Bill Morrow. Bill is a partner in the Syracuse Heating Supply Co. and his brand new plant is only a few blocks from my representative's office. He has a girl in college with four more kids at home in a very nice and large home. Besides being very active in enrollment, he seems to get in a lot of golf and skiing.
Speaking of golf, we ought to take a poll as to how many play. I never have, as I still like the water too much. My son, Jerry, in the Air Force is a scratch golfer and plays whenever he can get the time. I should have said he is married and has a daughter, 5, and a son, 9 months, so his time is a problem.
En route to see my daughter at Colby last month, I stayed with Dick and Louise Whittier in Northampton. Dick has a great collection of Benny Goodman, etc. records, so with the help of some good Scotch we went back a few years in time. Remember, every radio in every dorm was tuned in to the old Camel Caravan? Dick's boy is a senior at Dartmouth too. Unless the place goes coed in the next year, it doesn't look like any of mine will be there.
In my travels to Syracuse, I get to go through Casenovia, a lovely town about 20 miles from Syracuse. Tom Dunlevy opened up a nice floor covering store in a new shopping center there and I have stopped in to see him several times. Last year, he, Bill Morrow and their wives had dinner with me in Syracuse. Tom lives there and I can tell you it is a nice place to live.
A friend of mine in Minneapolis sent me the enclosed clipping about Bob Krieger's son, Bob. Bob Jr., who is just 15 (he is a day older than my son, Mark) is really some hockey player. I first saw him play when he was about 9 or 10, and last time about two years ago. As an old time hockey fan, it was easy to see that in his chosen sport he was going to be as great a star as his dad was in college and pro football. For a sophomore to score 23 goals in 23 games is something up in Minnesota. My friend said that later the Edina team lost but that Bob Jr. made All-State. I don't know what Abe Oakes can do to get him away from the University of Minnesota. Maybe he can kidnap him and hide him away as did Blaik with Krieg and the other Minnesota boys in our class!
In February I was in Boston the night of the alumni dinner, so I went over. Despite the fact that both Dickey and Blackman were the speakers and that Bob O'Brien was the incoming President of the Boston Club, the only 41's I saw were Ed Larner, Ed Pierce, and Ez Crowley. Our Boston group could do better.
The clipping about Bob Krieger to which Red referred was from the "Minneapolis Star" and read in part as follows: "There were prep stars all over the ice as Edina's hockey team qualified for the 1968 State High School Hockey Tournament with a victory at Williams Arena. "Bob Krieger, a school record scoring sophomore, and Rick Fretland were two of them Wednesday night as the Hornets defeated Richfield 7-1 for the Region Six championship.
"Krieger, son of Bob Krieger, former Minneapolis West High and Dartmouth College star football end, scored the third goal with 10 seconds gone in the third period. It raised Edina's lead to 3-1 and broke up the contest. 'Krieger has now scored 23 goals for us in 23 games,' Coach Willard Ikola said. 'That's the most any sophomore player has scored in the ten seasons I have been coaching at Edina.'"
The second communique was from NickCarter. It was a handsome Kodachrome post card of the liner "Statendam" and had been written at sea on March 20. It reads as follows: "Greetings! Doris and I are ending up a 70 day Pacific-Orient cruise aboard this great ship. You would love it. Food, booze, service and entertainment superb! Liked Tahiti, Australia, and New Zealand, but loved the Orient! Especially, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Japan. This is the only way to fly. DickCords bade us bon voyage on January 12 from Los Angeles. Wish he and Virginia had gone along. Bob Krieger, Don Norton, and I will see you all for the big 30th! How about some Western Big Green news?"
Nick, the question at the end of your card is an echo of what I have been saying in this column for the last six months.
The Class's Nobel Prize winner was mentioned in a recent column by Joshua Lederberg in the Washington Post which read, in part, as follows: "The enemies of science alternately abuse its exponents for being deaf to moral considerations and for interfering in ethical problems which do not concern them. Both of these criticisms cannot be right.
"I was reminded of this quotation from J. B. S. Haldane by a telephone call I received a few days ago from Dr. OwenChamberlain, a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley and a 1959 recipient of the Nobel Prize. He referred to the insistent rumors that President Johnson was contemplating the use of tactical nuclear weapons to save the situation at Khesanh. He was deeply alarmed at this prospect and, anticipating that I might share that alarm, asked me to join in a group statement about it to the President and to the press."
The Tuck men in the Class have no doubt received the letter from Karl Hill telling of his retirement as Tuck School Dean effective this June, and I am sure the announcement was received with considerable regret. You may not have heard, however, that it was recently announced that Karl will become Dean of the School of Business Administration at Washington University in St. Louis on July 1.
A recent report from the Alumni Fund showed that only 41 '41ers had contributed as of 4/1. The amount received was $6,229. or only 14.6% of our Class objective of $42,530. This performance puts us in a dismal tie with 1944 for 4th place in the Green Derby Group V which includes the Classes of 1939 to 1946. To save postage, when you are writing those long, newsy letters to Old Dutch, why not include a check for the Alumni Fund? He will be glad to forward them to Bob Thomas.
The mail bag is empty again. I hope a few more of you will follow the example set by Red and Nick and forward something for the next issue.
Address changes received in the past month follow: John W. Bates Jr., Apt. 15-E, 2300 Riverside Dr., Tulsa, Okla. 74114; Albert A. Hutton, 1100 West 9th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44113; H. David McKinney, 52 Osborne Ave., New Providence, N. J. 07974; Edward H. Stone, 41 Morrison Rd., W., Wakefield, Mass. 01880.
Secretary, 9 Oak Drive Bedford, N. H. 03102
Class Agent, 942 Woodcrest Rd., Abington, Pa. 19001
