1944

As I write from wintery Hanover, "thinking snow" as it were, it occurs to me that you skiers should keep in mind that Don Pfeifle is the owner of Sugarloaf Inn, Kingfield, Me., and Frank Burns is proprietor ot the Skylight Lodge, Manchester Depot, Vt.

And then there are those who bed down in the Hanover area and schuss out of Jim McFate's Hanover Inn Lobby. One such in January was Leo Leopold, who with wife and a parcel of kids were testing their Heads at the Dartmouth Ski-Way, Loon Mountain, and others. In place of Glühwein at outward pubs, they shared apres-ski beers with Bob McLaughry and Wemo Epply, local residents.

Secretary's note here: as any of you check into the Hanover Inn or any other hostelry in the area, whatever and whenever, do give your Class editor a buzz. He'd not only like to see you, but it would help this column.

Jay Downing has filed from Meeting Hill Farm in Littleton, N. H., with wife Mary, an elementary school teacher, and children Mary Ann, 23, and Thomas Jay, 19, a student at the U. of New Hampshire. Besides being a Dartmouth Club president and a foreman for N. E. Telephone, he is owner and manager of Downings Garage, with a Ford dealership, and a breeder, raiser and trainer of beef cattle. Automobile owners and deep-freeze owners, take note....

Jack Buck confirms a move north from New Orleans to Baltimore, where he is a manufacturers representative for what I take it is still Pontiac. He logs wife Judith Ann and children George, 15, Cynthia, 14, John, 12, Ronald, 10, and Gordon, 2.

Word from Don Decker in California, Stockton, moves him from Chile to the University of the Pacific at Stockton, where he is on the faculty - Chairman, English as a second language, Elbert Covell College. Beyond his M.A. from the U. of Michigan he has a Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. and has taught Spanish at Occidental College and the U. of California at Davis from 1960 to 1963. He has held his present position since 1963. He lists hobbies as nine years' travel and residence in Latin America. ; Buen pasatiempo!

As the skipper of a 4½ foot plastic dinghy on our little pond in the woods, I felt kinship (along with the pleasure) hearing from Sherry Dowsett. Beyond real estate and land development (president of Pantheon Co.), he is commodore of the Kaneohe Yacht Club in his home city of the same name. Not surprisingly, Sherry says deep-sea fishing and tennis also occupy his leisure hours.

Law book publisher Ezz Hale reports dining recently "in the depths of the Pentagon" with our man in brass there, Colonel Nick Manitsas whose title is still Executive to the Assistant Secretary of the Army. Nick, who left Dartmouth for a B.A. from West Point, still thinks fondly of his days in Hanover, according to Ezz.

International banker, Dick Keys, has been elected first vice president of Bankers Trust Co. in N. Y. With Bankers since 1956, Dick's horizons have been far ever since. He has been assistant vice president in the Latin American Group of the International Banking Dept. and head of the Asian Group.

No one, I'm sure, will be surprised that a recent review of a novel, "Bomarzo," in the New York Times concluded: "It has been rendered into English by the most talented of all translators of Latin-American fiction, Gregory Rabassa."

In his Reunion Book write-up, Bill Barrett said that he hoped to foresake Pennsylvania for "a return to New England." Not a man to tarry, he's gone and done just that. He and family are now in Southport, Me., where he is selling pre-fab Presidential Homes throughout the eastern half of N.E. Says he'd love to see anyone who gets within shouting distance of the Boothbay area.

From Charleston, S. C., comes word from Fran Dougherty, president of Dougherty Marine Products, a home-grown outfit which distributes marine hardware and accessories in seven southeastern states. Fran was runner-up National Marine Distributor of the Year in 1969 and says that Charleston, his wife's home town, is a marvelous place to live. "Wonderful for sailing, golfing, hunting and fishing, all of which I enjoy. Getting a Thistle sailboat for the coming season. Interested in and working for local opera and the state Republican party; neither organization very popular, but struggling." The Doughertys have three children, Renee, 21, at Boston U., Frances, 18, at Erskine College, and Park, 13. Fran invites one and all to Charleston in April when the city celebrates its tri-centennial.

I have a long, important letter from JohnP. "Jock" Brown, which unfortunately is too long for this column. He and his wife and four children are living in Berkeley "in a big house which we can't quite afford, doing copy-editing jobs, a half-time job with the Free Church of Berkeley founded by my students, and currently am trying to whip their prayerbook into shape." Jock has four books out: "The Displaced Person's Almanac"; "The Liberated Zone: A Guide to Christian Resistance"; "The Lebanon and Phoenicia: Ancient Texts illustrating their physical geography and native industries"; and "Planet on Strike: The Seabury Book for* Lent." He is also currently working on a series on the common HebrewGreek vocabulary, "which is really a study of the shared features in ancient Mediterranean civilization," he says.

Finally, on a sad note, Bob Cummins has written to tell of the death January 6 of J. Gardner Chamberlain, apparently as the result of a heart attack. He was chairman of the History Department at Cornwall Academy in Massachusetts. I know the Class sends its sympathy to his surviving mother and sister.

At the Sportsman of the Year Award dinner honoring Bus Mosbacher '43 in NewYork, Table 43 (naturally) included mainly his classmates. Seated (l to r), Bob Field,George Mason, Charlie Donovan, Brereton Hall, Hugh Lena. Standing (l to r), DickClark '39, Herb Marx, George Munroe, Frank Hartmann, Ed Lider, Mike Diaz.

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