1946

Would you believe, one day after the last issue went to press we received a full run-down of all of the matters considered by the Class Executive Board at its meeting last October 21, held (as always) at Bob and Jackie Kimball's in Hanover. Many items, of interest to all of the Class, were covered.

Plans for the GTHES (Greatest Thirtieth Hanover's Ever Seen), which will take place in the off-year of 1975, were described by Jack (The Austerity Kid) Whitman. There will be one or more major pre-reunion parties, at a big home game such as Harvard or Yale during 1973 and again in 1974. It was at this meeting that the Payoff Game, which all of you have now learned of with enthusiasm, was put under way.

Treasurer Don Furber was authorized to contact the officials of Baker Library, in order to set up an endowment whereby all deceased members of the Class to date, and each of us at that time in the future, will be remembered with a book as a memorial at Baker. By unanimous acclamation Bob (Our Man in Hanover) Kimball was elected as the class liaison officer to the College.

The next few years will see a greater flow of communications to each of us from various class officers; Head Agent Jim (Senator) O'Neil will have an Assistant Alumni Fund Agent, to help shoulder his burdens and to keep those cards 'n' letters rolling out and the green rolling in.

Newsletter Editor Reg (Yankee Farm Boy) Pierce is putting into operation a plan whereby each newsletter will originate from a different region of the country; some of you have already been contacted to take part in this diversification program. Bill (The Jersey Giant) Schulting will act as chairman to set up an organization of the class widows and will report at the next meeting.

Recognizing that our classmates frequently perform services of great value to the Class or to the College, which are otherwise unheralded, we have established the 1946 Silver Pick-Axe Award, whereby the Class will show its recognition to its unsung heroes. Some time in the near future you may expect to receive a request for your suggestions as to an appropriate recipient or recipients, with the supporting facts.

It's a bit tardy to report, but for those of you making plans to attend future college or class functions, among those seen on the Hanover plains during the Princeton and Brown weekends last fall were: Ham and Nancy Bailey, Jack andJean Whitman, Frank and Pat Ettari, Jim andArie Lynch, Bud and Molly Scheu, Don andMargaret Furber, Harvey and Dottie White, Billand Yummy Graulty, Gus Gillaugh, Bob Hunt,Stan and Teddy Feldberg, Jim and Jane Barnet,Bill Schulting, Dick Bliss, Jim and Jean Von Rohr,Dick Scharrer, Reg and Nancy Pierce, Shipwreckand Nick Kelley, Jack and Nona Sayers, John andPolla Strauss.

From Fred Carey, in Whitman, Mass., comes word that his three daughters and three sons have been as active as ever. Two of the boys were married in 1970 and each is now the proprietor of his own business; one daughter is at Vermont College, one at Northeastern and one doing graduate work at Tufts. The youngest son, age 16, is a local high school hockey whiz.

Marshall and Stevens, Inc., one of the country's largest appraisal and valuation consulting companies, has promoted Bill Hagelin to area vice president for the Eastern U.S. Bill, who went on to the University of Pittsburgh, has been in the appraisal field for 17 years, specializing in real estate and intangibles, particularly mergers and acquisitions. He and Lee are the parents of four children, ranging in age from IB to five, and live in Southport, Conn. Son John is a member of the Class of 1976.

We were delighted to receive a letter from Lowell (Sonny) Thomas, on his stationery as a Senator of the Alaska State Legislature, of which he is Majority Leader. Sonny reports that in September a number of Dartmouth alumni gathered at his home in Anchorage, to greet Trustee David Smith '35, the first occasion of a visit from an active trustee of the College that anyone present could recall. Sonny mentions that one girl from Alaska is already attending Dartmouth, and his daughter Anne will matriculate with the Class of 1977. We fully expect Sonny and Tay at the GTHES; who will try to beat them for the distance record?

Having a son who reads each issue of the LongIsland Fisherman more avidly than Playboy, your secretary has become a devotee of NelsonBryant's column "Wood, Field, and Stream" in The New York Times. Nelson's ability to create for the reader the exact atmosphere of each day which he describes is unparalleled; we can't think of a more relaxing way for a harried commuter to start the day.

Keep those cards 'n' letters rollin' in.

Secretary, Private Lane Locust Valley, N.Y. 11560

Treasurer, Bear Hill Rd., Sherborn, Mass. 01770