1944
The fun fall season is almost finished. Four home football games and assorted '44s in and around the stadium, with the Big Gathering November 3 watching us do in Yale on the field and ourselves at the DOC House afterwards. And our October 31 outing for '44 Dartmouth offspring at the Tom Dent cabin down on the Conn. River.
There were too many faces at the football frays to mention names, but we will tick off some of the '44 undergraduate ones who came for Halloween eve hamburgers, hot dogs, beer and pumpkin pie . . . yes, pumpkin pie:
Bob Allen '75, son of Art, So. Orleans, Mass., Kent Allenby '74, son of Dick, Falls Church, Va.; Margaret Ann Bensinger '77, daughter of Alex, Stroudsburg, Pa.; John Bird '77, son of John, Birmingham, Ala.; Ellen Close '77, daughter of Tom, Norwich, Vt.; Mark Davis '76, son of Dick, Needham, Mass. John '74 and Brian Graf '76, sons of Fred, Keene, N.H.; Tom Higier '75, son of Ross, Gloversville, N.Y.; Dave Howe '76, son of Dick, Beverly, Mass.; Cam '75 and Dave Jones '77, sons of Paul, Falmouth, Maine; John Penberthy '74, son of Phil, Rowayton, Conn. Ted Pratt '76, son of Gus, No. Middleboro, Mass.; Jim Regan '74. son of Jim, Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Rob Sholl '77, son of Dick, Janesville, Wise.; Tommy Thomson '75, son of Bruce, Lynchburg, Va.; Connie Vosler '76, daughter of Whitey, Medina, N.Y.; and Chris '74 and Mark Wiley '75, sons of Bob, Laconia, N.H.
On the hosting side were Patti and DaveEckels, Barbara and Don Campbell, Ardis andTom Close and yours truly.
Incidentally, about those Wileys: there have been two other '44s with three offspring attending Dartmouth (Gus Pratt and Dick Sholl) but never before three on campus at the same time - Chris '74, Mark '75, and Suzanne '77. "Poor Dad." Chris says, "he'll welcome any contributions to the Wiley Welfare Fund . . ."
Among other "multiples" this fall are two each from the Bob Conroys, Fred Grafs, PaulJoneses and Joe Dammans.
While we're rattling off statistics, there have been 116 Class of '44 sons and daughters matriculate at Dartmouth, from the classes of 1966 through 1977, and certainly another dozen or so have been admitted but chose to go somewhere else. So, 125-30 of 'em . . . not a bad record.
The collegiate football season being over, is it interesting to note (I don't know) that no '44 son has ever won a letter in Dartmouth football? Or very many letters in any "major" sports: none in hockey or baseball; two in basketball (ClevePenberthy '70) and Jud Burnham '70); one in skiing (Jason Densmore '73). And so on. So we wore jocks and they wear brains . . .
(If I have slighted or overlooked any Dartmouth athlete son, I trust his irate father will set me straight.)
Ab Davis has moved down the road a piece in his native Connecticut, from Orange to Madison, the latter being on the water. "For 25 years," he says, "Pat and I have wanted to live on the ocean front, and with all of the kids grown up and away (with the exception of the youngest boy who is a senior in high school,) we felt it was about time to find our dream house." Ab is vice president - marketing for Southern New England Telephone.
Cap'n Bob Gifford, who retired from the Navy Supply Corps last year to a house in London, fills in a detail or two. "No gainful employment at the moment," he writes, "but we're doing everything our stamina can take and the old 9 to 5 routine didn't permit, especially traveling. Most of the past year has been spent getting our home in shape, although we did manage to sneak off twice to our Shangri-La in southern Portugal. Despite devaluations, inflation, strikes, power cuts and an occasional bombing, we're surviving and enjoying in fine shape."
You chubbers won't be surprised to hear that there was a fine article involving WaltBlackadar in the September issue of Relax magazine. Titled "Alaska's Devil River," it is the story of three doctors who challenged Alaska's wild Susitna River in kayaks. Only Walt succeeded in making the treacherous run, the first person to ever do so. Nor surprising, the author refers to him as the beginning of the story as "probably the best big water boater in the U.S."
Sounds as though Dr. Ted Mortimer has more than just his little black bag packed - he's constantly on the go from his Albuquerque habitat where he is professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico. On a couple of recent jaunts he ran into Prof. Warner Mills of Beloit College in Wisconsin and Ed Price in the lobby of the Conrad Hilton in Chicago. Warner teaches political science at Beloit and one of his classes is SRO: a history of the American presidency "Ed," said Ted. "is a pathologist at a hospital in Denver and having a great time. Except for a few gray hairs, he looks much the same "
Washington barrister Karl Sorg, whiskers and all, was on the Host Committee for the American Bar Association meeting in that city; and all the while his married daughter karen was changing hometowns, from L.A. to Montreal where her husband is a computer analyst
Would you believe the DCAC had requests for 151 tickets in the '44 section for the Yale game in Hanover? And that 80 of us packed into the DOC House for as splendid a post-game performance as I can remember.
In the Lost-and-Found Department, someone left a dandy raincoat at that very same DOC House and I am guarding it jealously. If it isn't claimed by Easter I will don it myself; my old Boy Scout poncho is getting threadbare and leaking around the shoulders.
Healthy, handsome, hyper-active Ed Craw ford Hills sent me an item from his high school alumni association which was apparently tryins to get rid of him before his time. Seems"the school wrote to his son Peter asking him to attend Homecoming in his "deceased" father's place.
Sadly, however, I do have two more deaths to report, both on the doctor-front. Dr. Fran Murphy died October 4 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Dr. Paul Carroll died recently in Ohio. Class sympathies to the survivors.
That's it. Blessings.
Drs. Bob Wiley '44 (I) and Sey Ochsner of'38 were at this year's meeting of theAmerican Association of Medical Clinicsin Los Angeles. Dr. Ochsner serves on theMed School Advisory Board. Ob-Gyn isDr. Wiley's field at Laconia (N.H.) Clinic.
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