1950

News about this year's football team recently arrived. After sounding the usual cautions about bad bounces, injuries, and the sudden appearance of supermen on rival Ivy teams, this season promises to be another good one. A wealth of talent, including a majority of last year's starters, has returned. Each game will probably be climactic, yet another championship may be the eventual reward. We shall be looking for you from time to time on Saturday afternoons.

The team that will now rampage out of the New Hampshire hills is the Big Green. Actually, the name is not new. Close followers of the team have seen or heard this nickname often in recent years. BobKihnarx's report on the Indian symbol clearly and concisely reasoned in favor of understanding in eliminating even the possibility of caricature. The team's performance will not be affected.

Just to keep you posted, again: all but the oldest player on this year's team were born after June 1950. This comment reflects less upon your age than upon your relative maturity. Youth has its own viewpoint. Consider the brash young graduate student who told me about the tough time he had beating a "really old guy" in a five-game squash match last winter. The guy was JimMelville.

The news reverts to last spring. First, the dashing of hopes. Just when my skiing was rounding into veteran class form, a note from Tom Tomasi indicated that he was considering a little racing on the veteran's circuit. The slopes more than the courts remain the source of his relaxation and inspiration. Alternatively, he labors as professor of medicine at SUNY in Buffalo. Tom is in charge of the arthritis and immunology section with 20 doctors, the largest university-based group in this field, working for him. He teaches, supervises research, and attends a few private patients. Within the past two years Tom has given lectures at numerous universities, including the Chester Jones memorial lecture at Harvard and the Heidelberger Lecture at Columbia. Home is a recent acquisition, a small farm just outside Buffalo, where he hears about Bill Dann and Nelson Graves but seldom bumps into them. My problem, Tom, is that fourth gate and . . .

Another note from upstate New York, this one from Canandaigua where DickMcSorley rests occasionally from forays throughout the country as marketing manager for the Mobil Chemical Co. His current assignment is to introduce a high quality laminate tableware (Mobilware) produced by the Plastics Division. After three years on the water in Marblehead and recently on a 200-acre farm in the boondocks, Dick and Edie have designed and built a V-shaped ranch. You go straight up, a great trick on those hills in winter, to six acres overlooking 15 miles of Canandaigua Lake. The lake affords wonderful summer sailing. In winter Dick helps out with the Bristol Mt. and Killington ski patrols. On his recent journeys Dick has seen Don Hall in Philly, Marshall(Mike) Mitchell in Pittsburgh, HankBarnes in Florida, and Tom Buggies in Boston.

Mai Decker, the new vice president and director of advertising for the Kenton Collection, both lives and works in Westport, Conn. His line requires him to extol the virtues of luxury since the parent firm includes Cartier, Georg Jensen, Ben Kahn et al among its name stores. Having an office so close to home allows Mai more time with wife Frances and their two or four children, a number that changes with the days of the week. Mai reports seeing Sam Vitt regularly and hearing from AlexHoffman recently.

Tidbits here and there: Cul Modisette and John Brotherhood were prominent in the arrangements for the testimonial dinner honoring Charles J. Zimmerman '23 by the Dartmouth Club of Hartford. Ed Tuck reported that among the '50ers attending the fete were: Larry Smith, Web Gault,Sherry Marchant, and Monty Miller. Anyone else was lost in the crowd. Reporting from San Francisco, DaveTaylor wrote that Pete Irving is alive and well, a physician and surgeon attending patients and contesting ski slopes in the Tahoe area. Dave has also talked to BobKarnan, who evidently is seriously ill. The peripatetic Scott Olin noted that Herband Carol Ray are relocating in Mexico City to take over as head of that city's branch of the First National Bank of Chicago. Ray King complained that sticking pins into dolls during a trip to Haiti does nothing to dispel federal tax forms.

The new senior vice president in charge of the personal banking services group of the Northern Trust Company, Chicago, still lives in Winnetka with his wife Mary and their four children. Jay Buck may also sing a note or two, although the news release is silent on that score. He is active. The hours at the bank are stretched into activity in numerous civic, professional, and community affairs. In a business vein he is a director of the Chicago Economic Development Corp. and its financial affiliate. His human interests have led to his directorship of the Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum. There is no report of recreational gambits.

The Class is well represented in the conduct of the College's business. The latest honor is the election of SandyMcCulloch to serve for two years as chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. It would be becoming to reward Sandy's personal efforts with the staunch backing of the entire Class. Our new Head Agent, replacing Bob Kilmarx who will be assuming other tasks as a Trustee of the College, is Jack Harned. Jack will be seeking you out for support as agents and for contributions to 1950's best year ever.

October wends its way. By the time you read these notes I can only say: see you at the Yale game (in New Haven). Victory will hopefully come with less suspense than last year's game afforded.

Bob Kreplin '49 of the Naval ResearchLaboratory has won the E. O. HulburtAnnual Science Award for his role indeveloping highly refined instruments forastrophysical observations. He is head ofthe Solar Radiation Section of the UpperAir Physics Branch in NRL's SpaceScience Division, and has three otherNRL awards to his credit.

A conglomerate merger for Pete Henderson '51, whose marriage to Jean Masseyadded four children to his three. Front row, from left: Martha Henderson, 7; CharleyHenderson, 10; Guy Massey, 8; John Henderson 12; back row, Scott Massey, 14;Tim Massey, 17; Stephanie Massey, 16; Jean and Pete.

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