1939
Although the season has gone by, we would remind you that in one of our recent communications in this column we referred to an impending visit to Williamstown to see the Dartmouth freshman hockey team do battle with their Williams counterparts. It was a very satisfactory visit. Not only did the Little Greens conquer, 13-2, but the manner of performance was a delight to see. The precision of their pass work reminded one of the slick working Soviet team which stuck the pin into the Canadian balloon last year. We were told by some travelers from Hanover that this team had lost a close 3-2 decision to the varsity in an informal skirmish earlier in the year, and when one figures they fashioned a 17-1 record, we can look with keen anticipation to our varsity hockey fortunes in the next couple of years.
Talking about hockey, we have been noticing some comments in this Magazine's sports columns about a Bob Nuffort. The lad comes from Wayzata, Minn., and is of course the son of Bob Nuffort of the rare old vintage of'39. We contacted Bob for some details and he writes: "My new address change which you ask about was merely the removal of an RFD designation and substitution of our street address (3922 Heathcote Rd). Same house on the same acre. Miriam and I saw Bob Kaiser and Evie in Hanover during February while we visited Bob Jr. '74.
"Our Bob really likes Dartmouth and has been doing well — a 4.33 average in his sophomore year and a varsity letter in hockey and sailing. His present junior year looks like another honors one. He was off to a good start in hockey as left wing on the Berry-Riggall line but broke his leg in the ECAC Christmas tournament at Boston Garden. He tried a comeback the last third of the season but the 6½ weeks in a cast sapped a lot of strength from the leg that slowed him down." (ed note: Young Nuffort finished the year having played in 13 games, scoring three goals and four assists.) Father Bob is still with Prudential in their North Central Home Office in Minneapolis, and reports that Al Meyer (4713 Valley View Road, Minneapolis, Minn. 55424) works in the same location, same company.
By the time you read this material your Executive Committee will have met in New York, at the Pan Am building in the offices of BertMacMannis. At least one important item on the agenda was a discussion of the ways and means of continuing our enviable alumni fund record of last year with an emphasis on gaining greater participation. We know that Hank Conkle, who more often than not makes the long trip from the hills of Cashier, N.C., to be on hand, was absent on leave. He and Dot were on a ten day vacation at Young Island near St. Vincent. Upon his return, Hank plunged into some churchly duties as a member of the nominating committee to select a new Episcopal bishop of western North Carolina, along with some business chores which find him a newly elected director of the Wachooia Bank and Trust Co. in Cashiers.
Your scribe, too, missed the meetings, finding himself also on vacation in the western part of the country. It has to do with an annual pilgrimage to Tucson, Ariz., to catch up with our youngest son Jim, in his last semester, and thence on to San Diego, and up the Coast to Seattle — a place we haven't been since the end of World War II when we were cashiered out of Uncle Sam's Navy. This last is the reason you might find this column a touch thin in that, rather than carry the deadline with us on our travels, we are dispossing of it early, and hence missing some last minute news that properly should be included. We'll make it up in our next. In the meantime, here are a few more address changes to record: Comdr. Arnold Alexander from Ft. Meade, Md. to 2570 Big Bend Trail, Maitland, Fla. 32751; Wayland Ave Avery from Santa Ana to 6477 Atlantic Ave., Apt 142-S, Long Beach, Calif. 90805; Don Collyer a street number change to 714 N.W. 2nd Ave., Apt 1, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 3331 1; Fred McBrien also from Santa Ana to the Grant Corp. Box 3000, Newport Beach, Calif. 92660; Dr. John Osoinach can now be reached at Route 7, Box 82, Jonesboro, Ark. 72401; and Dick Woodward, a street change to 2820 75th Place, S.E., Mercer Island, Wash. 98040 - hey, that's next to Seattle. Maybe we'll see him before you do.
So, until our next, which we promise to try and make meaty and lengthy - peace!
Secretary, 777 West St. Pittsfield, Mass. 01201
Class Agent, E. I. Dupont Co., Nemours Bldg. Wilmington, Del. 19898
