1944
The snows of yesteryear may well be depleted by the time you read this, but as it's being written (February 2) we're surrounded by the white stuff in Hanover. And it's cold: minus 20 and the like every night. Burst pipes and frozen automobiles are the order of business every morning as we crunch into our respective offices on the campus. But fie on you who bask in Miami and Houston and Los Angeles: we like it this way.
We have two Christmas letters to catch up with. The first from Dick Ranger (district sales manager, Ford Motor Co., Autolite) out of Tustin, Calif., who reports on a 20th wedding anniversary trip to Mexico, highlighted by snorkeling, fish- watching, beach-exploring and eating; and a summer camping expedition that included the Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce Canyons, Salt Lake City and the Grand Tetons, with climbs, swims, fishing and river rafting. Son Rit is a '74 and a football team manager.
The same call of the wild calls WaltBlackadar (physician and surgeon in Idaho), who seems to have spent all spring repairing his kayaks and half the summer racing them: the high water runs of the Salmon River in Idaho in Jnne; the Gallatin River in Montana in July; and organizing a two-week trip for 28 kayakers down the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in August. He says he has just bought a condominium at San Valley and that all '44s are welcome!
And speaking, as we were, of condominiums, I must correct an error in the January issue, where I mistakenly identified RalphBogan skiing in Squaw Valley. Wrong: Ralph waxes his boards out of Vail and will be there this February and March, reachable through The Lodge.
After four years in California, DonConies has gone back again to Wheaton, Ill., where he had lived earlier for ten years. He says that he and the family have traveled to Europe, Mexico and Hawaii in the past three or four years. They hope to get to Alaska in 1971, thus rounding out visits to all 50 states. Son Don Ill has been traveling in a somewhat different direction, namely Vietnam, where he is in the Navy with the "River Rats"—River Patrol Boats. Daughter Judy graduated from high school in January and will work until going to college in the fall.
Jim Bodine switched jobs Dec. 1, 1970. He still mows his lawn in Gladstone, N.J.. but is now divisional general manager, Dermatological Products, for Johnson & Johnson, in New Brunswick. "After commuting to N.Y.C. (four-hour round-trip) for 25 years," he says, "I'm enjoying the 20 minute drive to work." Jim's two oldest daughters are elementary school teachers, one in Phoenix, Ariz., and the other in Bridgewater, Mass. Center of family activity is a summer home on Cape Cod.
Roger Clark has a new Chicago address: 100 East Bellevue Place. In educational film production, he writes: "Delighted to see Dick Morse home safe and sound; and hope he's changed the locks on his house door."
Seen at the January American Alumni Council meeting in Hartford, Conn, was Hap Bush. He says he decided to give up the frenzy of the insurance business for the calm of the college campus (Ha!) and he is now vice president, Finance, and a trustee at Hartt College of Music, a division of the University of Hartford. Hap and Mary have an apartment in town, but get away from it all weekends to an old house they bought on a mountain in Blandford, Mass. Says he can't see a house in any direction for eight miles. In Massachusetts? Daughter Mary is married to an intern at the U. of Pennsylvania and made the Bushes grandparents last fall; son Charlie is a sophomore at the U. of Syracuse.
A familiar face popped out at me from a full-page ad in the Jan. 10 issue of The New York Times. It was a plug for Buffalo, N. Y. ("Big-league in so many ways") and signed by the president of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, none other than Claude Schuchter. Included was a statement from Claude, signed under his other hat, president and chief executive officer of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company.
On the campus, Hank Marshall's son, John already a Senior Fellow and general manager of the College radio station, has been named the new student member of the Alumni Council. And a call came in from Bud Welch (Yellow Pages in Milwaukee) seeking info on how his daughter, Kathryn, could transfer from Vassar to Hanover under Dartmouth's junior year program.
Yours truly also had two other recent queries from classmates: one from BillTrier, asking for data on buying a cap and gown to use at U. of Arizona functions (he is associate professor of surgery there); and Bud Baker wrote to see if there was a possibility of coming up with a Dartmouth hockey jersey for a 16-year-old son who has a hankering for the game. I mention these two items simply to stress the point of my being on hand here in Hanover and happy and anxious to do what I can, humbly, for '44s at any time, whatever the request. Just don't ask me to get you a date for Winter Carnival ...
Scheduled to be on hand for the Dartmouth Alumni Ski Weekend, March 6- 7, are Charlie Jack and family (agricultural chemicals in Ambler, Pa.) and Warren Leopold (Buicks in Freeport, N.Y.). And already signed on for next summer's Alumni College is Bill Gatlin, wife and two children, out of Tampa, Fla., where Bill is chief radiologist at St. Joseph's Hospital.
That's it for this time. Don't forget the advice of the humorist Josh Billings: "Do not put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today."
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
Treasurer, 815 E. Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419
