1945

Again, a most enjoyable fall reunion to report. The Holy Cross weekend found some 75 classmates, families, and guests assembled for the festivities. The main business transacted by your officers was of course the details having to do with the Terrific Twenty-Fifth. Paul Caravatt and his energetic group have things well under control already just under 200 classmates have signified their intentions to attend - and by the time this is in print, your mailings will have started. As usual, the Class took over the Shady Lawn Motel in White River, and a new take-over was found to be most satisfactory as a goodly share of the junior high school parking lot across from the football stadium was the site of the '45 pre-kick-off tailgate party. Saturday evening found us in Hopkins Center with '35 for dinner, a program of undergraduates who are working in various fields of antipoverty endeavor and then a dance to the music of the same Dartmouth Five plus Two group that will entertain during the 25th. On hand were Mary and Nick Sandoe, Jane and Moe Frye, Vesta and Vic Smith, Laura and Paul Caravatt, Shirley and Joe Michael, Floss and Johnny Brooks, Helen and Ellie Mover, Jean and Frank Hutchins, Mary and Bill Woods, Marge and Bob Paulson, Gina and Griff Strasenburgh, Ginny and Harry Hampton, Ash Van Duzer, John Robinson, Paul Glover, Nonie and Scott Parrot, Emmy Lou and Gordie Sleeper, Jean and Steve Hull, Molly and John White, Ruth and John Leggat, Joan and Moose Rowan, Allon and Shorty Pierce, Nancy and Jack Skakle, Barb and Ted White, Doris and Ed Pirie, Pat and Al Ungar, Zoe and Paul Newman, Jane and Tom Yates, Ruth and Don Sisson, Rosalie and Don Cutter, Elizabeth and Dave Hewitt, Jim Edson, Betty and Cliff Jordan, Mary and Stan Newton, Rickie and Don Cole.

Bob Cate brings us up-to-date with "Having spent sixteen years abroad since '45 first stormed Hanover 28 years ago, I am pleased to report that I am having no trouble in re-adapting to the U.S. In fact, our enjoyment of our Mustang, air-conditioned apartment, swimming pool, charcoal-grilled lamb chops, etc., is positively sinful. However, to help keep us tightened up, we are both going for the Ph.D.: I at N. C. State University in soil science with split minor in economics and statistics, and dissertation on the economics of fertilizer use; Kitty at Chapel Hill in anthropology with minor in political science, and dissertation on the structure of the Brazilian urban lower class. Nothing like mini-skirted coeds to keep one young, or at least feeling so. We are going to try to make the Reunion, if course work permits, not to mention my job, which still entails travel, e.g. a two-week jaunt to Belem, Recife, and Rio early this month - still with International Soil Fertility Evaluation and Improvement project."

Now living in New Hampton, N. H., Larry Blood tells of joining the staff of New Hampton Boys' School as business manager, having left Chevrolet in May to get away from New York City and back to New Hampshire. Larry figures that the 25th Reunion should be an easy commute - trust that this sentiment is echoed by many!

Carter Lockwood writes of his new venture: "My wife and I have opened an Amer- ican arts and craft shop with a gallery in Lake Placid, N. Y. We are representing over 300 craftsmen including the old skimeister, Bob Bourdon '38. We do a few things ourselves, refinish furniture and decorate and decoupage many boxes and lamps. Our four sons and a daughter are in five different schools, with our oldest boy, Win, now being a certified ski instructor and attending Colorado College."

Bob Pease has a new job. He is director of commercial development for Lederle Laboratories, a division of American Cyanamid Company. His responsibilities include developing and coordinating the long-range planning efforts for Lederle with particular emphasis on the study and evaluation of potential acquisitions. Possessing a Ph.D. from N.Y.U.'s business school, he formerly served on the faculty of Rutgers and was employed by Cresap, McCormick & Paget; Schering Corporation; and, most recently, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company.

From Fort Lauderdale and a new home, Bob Ross tells of seeing Jack Holmes last spring. "Business is fine, the family the same . . . and the Ross clan plans to be at the-25th en masse."

Here and there. . . . Don Ash, still with Gulf Oil, has left London and has a new address in Pittsburgh. .. . Maury Baruth writes of attending the recent American Bar Association meeting in Dallas and seeing Lee Kreindler. Maury has been elected a director of the Capitol Mutual Commodity Fund. . . . Sibyl and Dinny Waterman tell of a September trip to Greece as well as a son (Dart. '68) in his second year at U. of lowa Law School, a daughter in her junior year at Skidmore and two girls still at home. . . . Paul Samek is now in Los Angeles where he is the Pacific coast territorial dress buyer for Sears. . . . Jim Knowles is vice-president and manager of the trust department of the Central Valley National Bank, Oakland, Calif.

. . . Tom Ashton tells of two Dartmouth softs, '72 and '73 and a daughter, class of '72 at Connecticut College. . . . Bob Sanders is the sales manager of Sylvania Electric's Ipswich (Mass.) plant.

Until next month.

Secretary,: 55 Cottage Farms Rd. Cape Elizabeth, Me. 04107

Treasurer, 60 Chestnut Ave., Larchmont, N. Y. 10538