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Because of the time lag between when these notes are due and when they appear in print, I'm not going to go with the football season in this column this fall. Suffice it to say that we have a great squad, a great coach and a great school playing the game. We will, of course, try to keep track of and report on those '44s whom we spot in the stands or in the environs before or after.
Like Don Pfeifle who came into the office the Friday of Holy Cross in Hanover to say that here he was, and that Maryann was downtown shopping and that they, in fact, were in a new condominium in Sugarloaf, Me., thus giving them six-month-a-year residence at the site of their former ski lodge and the rest of the season in a Maine cottage on the water. It's not New Hampshire, but it sounds like the next best thing.
Talked to Bob Callan this fall and luck to get him: he was on the way out the door to a golf match, putting his 6 handicap or. the line in a Peabody, Mass. tournameir that must have had Nicklaus and Palmer checking their score cards. Also on the long-distance, a call to John Kimmey, a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and logging his 15th year there. His oldest son is in law school and three other offspring in various stages on the educational ladder. John says he's involved in all of the usual academic activities—teaching, research, committees, etc.—and churning out the textbooks in order to help pay the bills.
Doc Craig Macbeth has nice instincts: He pulled up his New Jersey roots to be where his kids were. "As we grew increasingly impatient with the hustle, bustle, and frantic life of N. J., we found ourselves with a son and a daughter at the U. of Arizona, a son at Northern Arizona U. and another son at Colorado State U., so we decided to join 'em. Have gone into general practice with another man here in Tucson... home outside of town... not far from Bob Miller, Chuck Richardson, et al."
Bill Davies spent the summer where the action—and the tragedy—is. As of July 1 he became Secretary for Special Promotions for the Council on Church Support, United Presbyterian Church, USA, and his first assignment was a trip to India to see the East Pakistan refugee problem first hand. And a terrible view it was: 8½ million refugees, the lucky living in culverts, the rest in the open air; and untold thousands, kids first of all, on the starvation list. The world must give millions and millions of dollars to help save a race, Bill says.
It was, of course, Carl Eldridge mentioned in an October 2 NYTimes article in which a district court found NBC guilty of invading the privacy of a South Dakota rancher. Carl said "no," this decision would have "a chilling effect on the freedom of the press in this country."
For the second month in a row, it is my very sad duty to report the death of a classmate: Jim Donnelly died September 30 after an illness of several months with a brain tumor. Class representative at his funeral was a close friend and fraternity brother, Fritz Witzel, who himself experienced enormous personal tragedy last June when his 20-year-old son, Richard, was killed in an automobile accident. Is there any way to say the sympathies...
Some late reports: Monte Basbas says he will not run again this fall for mayor of Newton. Nick Manitsas was nominated for promotion to Brigadier General, U. S. Army, effective September 1, 1971. Peter Weston, a teacher at Oxford Academy from 1953 to 1971, is now with the Atlantic City Friends School, a private day scrool, and he also lost a young son a few years back.
So let us end on a happy, concluding note. Paul Jones must certainly have a "first" going with both a son and a daughter at Dartmouth this year. His son. Cameron, is an entering freshman and a daughter, Kristin, is spending her junior year here in Hanover instead of at Wellesley.
Bruce Thomson and Earl Owen, both from Lynchburg, have a variation on this theme. Bruce is married to Earl's sister and Bruce's son, Tommy, is a freshman. Also here as a junior year exchange student is Earl's daughter, Mary, from Wheaton Ipso: first cousins. And just to further cousin the picture, Earle's older brother, Bob '38, has a son Alex, also in the freshman class. So, three cousins.
Not to be out-done, Bud Welch from out Milwaukee way has contributed his daughter, Kathryn, to this year's Dartmouth exchange, thus making three '44-daughter beauties on campus. To those of you who think that only fellows should go to this place, let me simply say that I for one have no intention whatsoever of looking in the other direction as Kristin, Mary and Kathryn walk by.
Incidentally, there are currently 40 sons of '44 on campus: 13 freshmen (listed elsewhere in this issue), 14 sophomores, 13 juniors, and ten seniors.
That's it. Blessings.
Members of the '44 Brain Trust, who attended Alumni College in August, gather atthe Hopkins Center. From the left, they are Dick Pleasants, Connie and Walter Burke,loan Pleasants, Bill and Marilyn Gatlin, and Don Dunbar.
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