1948

Am writing this on a bright September 30 Sunday morning at home in the countryside southwest of Miami just after reading the local paper's sport pages containing the astounding news that this year's edition of the Big Green football team lost their opener to the University of New Hampshire, 10 to 9! Makes you wonder what Holy Cross may do to Jake Crouthamel's boys a week from now. The Crusaders trounced UNH last week by something over 30 points. Is Dartmouth's recent great winning football tradition, that begun by Bob Blackman in the middle fifties, coming to an end? Somehow, I doubt it. One 100-yard runback against us doesn't make a season, and I suspect that pride and skill and determination will lead this year's Dartmouth team to give a good account of itself. Perhaps being an underdog for the first time in a number of years will provide even more incentive.

Here in Florida the recent creation of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas as an independent country has had much publicity, this due to the commerce and tourism that flow between these two adjacent areas. It was thus with no small surprise that I recently read a welcome UPI despatch datelined Londonderry, Vt. to the effect that RonSpiers has been appointed the first United States ambassador to that country. I assume he will be resident in Nassau. Ron has been with Uncle Sam for many years, having first been with the Atomic Energy Commission as a foreign affairs officer and since 1955 with the State Department as a career foreign service officer. He has recently been director of the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in Washington. Congratulations on your new post in the Bahamas, Mr. Ambassador.

The Alumni Records Office in Hanover has sent along a few address change cards. No news other than the new addresses. Ken Saunders has moved to 1418 Woodhill Drive in Northbrook, Ill. Jack Tracy is still in the Massachusetts area, now at 115 Beeching Street in Worcester. Mort Smith, who was one of the organizers of 48's first official reunion many years ago, is now at 101 Remington Avenue, Plainfield, N.J. Fred Maloney has taken up residence at 20 Crest Drive in Dover, Mass. Two members of the Class now in California are Bob Herrick and Beech Lockwood. I haven't seen Bob since we left Hanover. He's now at 6442 Cardeno Drive in La Jolla. Saw Beech, who's with Kaiser Aluminum, a good many times in Pittsburgh when he was resident there in the early 60's. Of late he and the family have lived in Brussels, Belgium. They are now at 65 Van Ripper Lane in Orinda. Glad to be back, Beech?

Have run into a few '48s from time to time at various points around the world during my sojourns outside the States. One of these was DickRepko. Dick, wife Casey, and the kids were living in Tokyo when we were there in the mid-60's, Dick having arrived therewith Caltex, having also lived in Ceylon (where he served, among others, the tea plantations) and on Okinawa. As my territory in those days was much the same as the one Dick had covered (the Indian Ocean area through Japan), one found his tracks quite often. I'll not forget Dick's voluntarily carrying a pack of what must have been almost 200 pounds down off Mount Lafayette when we were undergrads at Dartmouth, this effort, beyond the call of duty or anything else, to enable the rest of us to take a different route and climb unencumbered over the Franconia Range the rest of the day.

Dick Donahue of Lowell, Mass., is continuing his highly productive career of public service in the legal field. After being special assistant to President John F. Kennedy in Washington in 1960-63 and an active participant in the affairs of the Massachusetts Bar Association for many years, Dick became president of the Association (1970-72) and has since been named chairman of its Committee on Administration of Justice."

Russ Carlson, who has served so effectively as '48 Class Agent, has recently been promoted to the position of president of the Onondaga Savings Bank in the Syracuse area. He has been an officer of the institution for many years, during which time he has also served in many local community organizations, including being vice chairman of the Blue Shield board of trustees and a director of a number of others. (The chairman of Russ' bank is Bill Morton '28, who, if memory serves, was the Dartmouth back who saved the Green in the great 33-33 Dartmouth-Yale classic of 1931).

I regret the comparative lack of news in this column. In an effort to obtain more news and information about the men of '48, I'm addressing this appeal to their wives. Would you ladies be good enough to drop me a line about your husbands? Your help could assist greatly in informing your husbands' classmates about their old buddies from campus days, and the news would be gratefully received by all concerned. A few gals (Pete Owen's wife, for example) have done this in the past, knowing full well that the men aren't going to write about themselves, and these efforts were much appreciated.

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