1944
We have a mixed bag for you this month, a bit of this and a bit of that; such things as recordbreakers and a new vice president or two and academic delegates and wheels turning and fellows going back to nature and things like that. Plus a real bonus: an up-date on certain members of the immortal "B" team football squad of the fall of 1940, and if that doesn't bring on the goosepimples I don't know what will....
The record-breaker is a '75er name of Jim Robinson from Cohoes, N.Y. who ran a 4:09.6 mile January 27 in a meet against Yale, thus eclipsing Don Burnham's mark of 4:10.2 set 31 years ago in 1942. How about that! The only other college record anywhere in that league is still held by Bob Williams '43 who in 1942 ran the 1000 yards in 2:12.6, a feat no other Dartmouth has accomplished since.
My office at the College is responsible for finding alumni around the country to represent us at inaugural ceremonies at other institutions. Thus it may not surprise you that Bill Gatlin (radiologist) wore the Dartmouth Green at an investiture at the U. of Tampa October 6 and Dave Sanders (investments) did the same January 31 at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. Coming up in May will be Rog Antaya at the installation of a new president at Western Maryland U.
Two full turns of the wheel. First, Dr. S. MarshTenney has been named acting dean of the Medical School until a new dean is found. Marsh was dean back in the '50s when he led the school through a significant period of expansion. He subsequently returned to teaching and is chairman of the Department of Physiology.
Second, after a lapse of three years, Dick Ostberg has re-joined Sylvania as Director of Per sonnel and Industrial Relations for GTE Sylvania's Lighting Products Group, with HQ in Danvers, Mass. Oz says he's most happy to be back in New England, away from commuting and with a challenging assignment. I guess it's challenging: he'll be buzzing around among 24 plants, half of which are unorganized.
Former Congressman Clark MacGregor, who managed Nixon to his landslide victory, has been named a vice president of Connecticut's giant United Aircraft Corporation, the eighth largest government contractor in the country. He stays put geographically, assigned to UAC's Washington office.
Jim Bodine has a new title on the door: vice president and general manager of Johnson and Johnson's Dermatological Division. That also puts him on the management board of the firm's Domestic Operating Company. Before he joined J & J in 1970, Jim was with Borden, in its pharmaceutical and cosmetics division, for 14 years. Before that lie was with Merck and Co. Jim and Betty still live in his home town of Gladstone, N..I.
With that, we've arrived at what you've all been waiting for. What with the bowl games long off the tube, I thought some of you footballers might be lonely. I therefore contrived to keep the subject in front of you by bringing you up to date on that grand and gutsy 1940 "B" Squad football team, Hall-of-Famers one and all. How the names roll off the tongue: Geer, Rehurek, Sweet, O'Connor, Ager, Coombs ...
For $100, can anyone in the house remember our record? For $1,000, can you come up with the scores? Confident that my money is safe, I'll tell you: we were three and one. We lost the openerto KUA 6 to 7; beat Tilton 22 to 0; beat Vermont Academy 19 to 6; and wound up shutting out New Hampton 26 to 0. I remember New Hampton was the Friday of Harvard weekend and hitch-hiking to Bean Town afterwards for our first Dartmouth Harvard weekend (the varsity won 7 to 6; and I lost - 10 beers in some back alley). Do. you remember our coach? Yup, Eddie Jeremiah.
I wrote to a bunch of those "B" fellows and have a first installment of responses in. From watchcharm guard Ham Bates (Chester, Conn.) comes word that he is still a v.p. and manufacturing knitting needles and related items; one married daughter, a second an insurance specialist, and a son in Nichols College. In November 1972 he became president of the Chester Trust Co.
From fleet "Osc" Goedecke a report that he is still district manager for RCA in Dallas; a married daughter, oldest son a senior at Rice, another a freshman at Colorado College; a third in a Dallas prep school; and Oscar IV, a 7th grade tiger who plays football, baseball, and soccer. "Had a splendid RCA trip last October," he writes. "To Madrid and Barcelona and finally get to a bull fight after years of throwing it."
John "Bronco" Hughes is v.p. of Harrigad Roller Co. in Baltimore, with a married daughter (Syracuse '66) John Jr. Dartmouth '70, now an Air Force pilot, a boy at Ohio Wesleyan '74, and one at Denison '76. „
From Medina, N.Y., Whitey "Tighten"Vosler tells of having to re-build his entire lumber yard after a leveling fire in 1971, but that it's finally finished. "The hours spent with freshman football " he writes, "were among the most memorable and enjoyable times I had at Dartmouth We weren't stars, but the camaraderie was great!"
There were 32 members of that team who appeared in - our 1944 Green book picture. Records here show that three are deceased: Steve Holmes was killed on Iwo Jima in February 1945 and TedWilken was killed over Germany in September 1943 Jack Lawrence died last year.
Old files turned up this fact about Tubby Crawford who was only at Dartmouth one year and who'hasn't been heard from since: as a Marine trainee at Penn State in 1943 he became the second athlete in the college's history to win five varsity letters in one year - football, track, soccer, hockey, and boxing.
That's it for this installment for "B" Squad derring-dos. More next time if I hear from fellows like Ager, Baird, Brewster, Geer, Coombs, Turner, Sweet, Rehurek, McPherson, O'Connor, and the like. Blessings.
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