1944

When you live around Hanover, local news, rightly or wrongly, tends to predominate. So it is that those seen at this fall's Memorial Field football encounters are the ones appearing here in bold type. Those less bold, say in Dallas or Denver or Dubuque, go overlooked and unrecorded. So it is during the football season ...

We've had Holy Cross, Penn and Yale in Hanover at this writing and they have brought so many '44s to Hanover that I couldn't begin to cover them all, even with our computer facilities. Some of them, at random: Dan and Arlene Donovan (investment banking) report a trip last year back to the old sod, Ireland, where they traced Arlene's ancestors back seven generations. Bob and Eleanor Sundblad combined the Penn fracas with Parents Weekend at Colby Junior, where daughter Joan is hitting the books. Bob has changed engineering companies and is now chief engineer and general manager of Tibbetts Engineering Corp., with headquarters in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Also up for all the home games from nearby Laconia, Perry and Betty Craver report that two of their five children are in Hawaii. Son Perry Jr., '68, is a Lt. (jg) communications officer with the Command Group, and because he is at sea most of the time, his sister Sarah, 16, is spending this year in Hawaii to be with Perry's wife. Incidentally, last year. Perry Sr. was elected Councilman for Ward 4 in Laconia.

Bachelor Andy McDowell (Eastman Kodak in Rochester) was seen sharing his tailgate deviled eggs with a very attractive girl named Kitty; and widower Bob Miller, Tucson lawyer, was right alongside with an equally smashing blond. Bob had his freshman son Kim hovering nearby; Andy obviously did not.

Bill and Pricilla Orr (Cadillacs in Longmeadow) obviously didn't come to the Yale game in a VW; and what I inexcusably forgot to mention last month was that Bill was the star and oldest player on the field at the September Alumni Varsity soccer game. The varsity won 2-1 but Coach Beim was heard to say: "One more Bill Orr out there and we would have lost 20-2."

Merle Hag-en and his new bride, Cindy, were very much in evidence at home games, up from Henniker, N. H. where Merle is now a professor of business administration at New England College and with tailgate equipment and supplies that would be the envy of any Abercrombe catalogue.

And speaking of weddings, John Shapleigh, St. Louis physician, was married October 23 in New Canaan, Conn, to Mrs. Kimmy Thayer in a small family ceremony. How small is easily discerned: John's three daughters and a son were there, as were her four daughters. That one out-numbered Shapleigh son was John '71, who served as his father's bestman and who is back at Dartmouth for his senior year after having taken a year off.

Your friendly executive committee held a momentous meeting in the Indian Room of College Hall the morning of the Yale game. The motion that members should get paid time-and-a-half for lost tailgating-time was defeated, but anyway, on hand were: President Phil Penberthy, Treasurer BillCraig, Newsletter Editor Merle Hagen, and Secretary Fritz Hier, along with members-at-large George Bruce, Chuck Glines, BillMcElnea, Art Saul, and Joe Vancisin.

Joe, Yale's basketball coach for l0, these many years, was wearing non-partisan blue and green socks and wondering about coeducation, at either Yale or Dartmouth. Apparently there aren't very many girls six-ten and with a good hook shot. One who missed the meeting because he just happened to have been vacationing in south Carolina at the time was Bird Partridge.

Bud and Nancy Pegler, tree merchants out of Darien, Conn., were enthusiastic about the recently announced Eastman Pond project south of Hanover, and were counting coupons. Their son Wes, a senior at Proctor Academy in N. H. with a draft lottery number of six, was counting days.

Pediatrician Russ Burdge and Helena were explaining his longer-than-usual hair by saying that it was necessary in order to swing with his kid patients.

Other news from all over has NeedleAllen promoted last May to president of his company, Paribas Corporation (investment banking). Dr. Al Cook has been named chairman of downstate Medical Center's new department of neurosurgery and promoted to full professor . . . Downstate being on Long Island. GordieRoss writes that his son Chris '71 has been accepted at Boston U. School of Law. In addition to attendance at Hanover ball games, Jack and Priscilla were front-row-center at the College's September alumni seminar held in North Truro, Mass.

Another tragedy to report: Junius Hoffman's son, Michael, 17. died in an October farmhouse fire in Woodstock. Vt., the only one of a dozen or so weekending youths to perish. Junius, a professor of law at the University of Arizona, was in Bogota, Columbia, as a visiting professor 1970-72.

That closes it out for this month. See you in '72. Blessings and Happy Holidays.

Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N. H. 03755

Treasurer, 815 E.Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419