1954

Let no one say that the '74 football season was a complete loser for Dartmouth. While the team set no record, our class certainly set a record for the size of the group that got together for the Harvard game in Hanover. The ex- ecutive committee meeting at the Woodstock Inn on the Friday before the game was the best attended in recent memory. The class dinner at the Woodstock Inn Friday evening was a roaring success. The class area on Saturday overflowed with '54 tail-gating enthusiasts. The "Seaver Peters Special" end-zone seats were overflowing with cheering '54 families. And the Tom Dent Cabin echoed the excitement of the over-flowing '54 group at an after-the-game cocktail party. All in all, it was a tremendous weekend for the group, unfortunately marred only by the 17 to 15 Harvard victory.

Well over 50 classmates and their families attended all or some of the events over the weekend. And we have to thank Dave Mandelbaum, John Gillespie, and Bob Levine for organizing a great mini-reunion. So much went on in the executive committee meeting and during the weekend that it would be impossible for me to completely detail it in the limits of this column. Therefore, I will leave the complete summary to Jim Love in the class newsletter.

Let me just touch upon a few thoughts. For the first time in my memory, the class gathering included a number of Dartmouth parents. I don't mean that the parents of our classmates were there; I mean that our classmates were the parents of Dartmouth students. Tom Tyler,Dave Gleason, Bob Adnopoz, Dave McLaughlin,George McLaughlin, Herb Hillman, all had the opportunity to visit their student offspring.

It was refreshing, at least in my opinion, to hear Dave Gleason assure us, in the executive committee meeting, that many of the good parts of the old Dartmouth that we knew still exist. He told us he had been invited to a cocktail party at Psi U with his son the night before and assured us that a good keg could still draw a crowd. I saw evidence myself, that while the Dartmouth student of today may be educationally more sophisticated than his predecessors, his system of priorities has certainly not eliminated having fun. As I sat next to my sons in the Kiewit Computer Center watching them play football and golf against the computer, I noticed a student concentrating on what appeared to be a problem in probabilities on the screen of an input terminal next to my noticed that an oval diagram would appear on the screen with dots in various positions. The student would then call up on the screen a listing of names which corresponded with the letters that he had assigned to the dots in the oval. I must have watched him for about 15 minutes, and I couldn't figure out what he was doing. 1 finally asked him, and he explained it very easily. He was in the process of using the computer to program a horse race to be used for Casino Night at his fraternity that night. It was being done graphically so that the program could be printed out and input on a portable terminal that was to be taken to the fraternity house. The terminal would then relay the horse race through a giant television screen that they were adapting in the fraternity house. If that same fellow could have worked out a program for the football team, we would have been all set.

Besides the already mentioned, those seen scurrying about from event to event during the weekend included Norm Ross, Ed Kidd, Leo Murphy, Howdy Russell, Steve Mullins, Art Rauch, Dick Barker, Jim Love, Mort Heafitz, Charlie Myserian, Tom Kelsey, Bob Buchanan. George Voss, Dick Trowbridge, Aaron Margolis, Jerry Goldstein, Tony Kane, Bob Boyd, Stearns Martin, Shelley Woolf, Neil Sibley, Seav Peters, John Pope, Ron Jabara, Dick Leary, Dick Grassey, "Rough Dog Lewis, Pete Kenyon, John Steel, Luke Case, Ed Winnick, Bruce McAllister, Dave Theilsher. Pete Barker, Phil Christophe, Jim Clark, Die Page, Bruce Mclvor. All in all, it was a hell of a crowd and a great weekend. If you weren't there, you've got to join us at the next one.

Merry Christmas and a happy and health) New Year to all! Have a ball!

Secretary. Alperts, Inc. 100 Highland Ave. Seekonk, Mass. 02771

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