1932

Two newspaper features involving classmates are at hand this month. We are grateful to RegAbbott in Manchester and Don Rainie '40 in Concord for clips of the interview piece with BillMorton in The New Hampshire Sunday News Manchester), and to Jim Moore in Plandome for catching the Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Washington on the case, currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, of Defunis v. Odegaard.

Interviewed with wife Peg at their place in Etna, Bill reported in a mere 10 pounds over his best playing weight as a quarterback. He went on record as still favoring the old kind of game where a player played both offense and defense. Senior year, the article recalls, Bill played a full 60 minutes on successive Saturdays against Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Stanford. And he doesn't go for the way today's coaches send in most of the plays, "i had one play sent in in three years, he said. "A boy learns a lot calling his own plays. And I think a quarterback in the thick of things on the field is in a better position to call a play than is the coach." Another quote: “In any sport, in life itself, you must have competition to come up with your best game. Play someone as good as you are, or better, and you will play better."

The case of (Marco) Defunis v. (Chuck) Odegaard, on which the Washington Nine may have rendered a decision when you read this, was brought by the former following rejection of his bid for admission to the University of Washington Law School in 1971, when Chuck was university president. Arguing that he was because the university had established a quota lor the admission of racial minority group students, Defunis claims that he was denied equal Protection of the laws in violation of the 14th Amendment. Early in the litigation the plaintiff obtained an order that gained his admission to the law school pending outcome of the case. So even as 'he Supreme Court heard arguments, he was completing his final year as a law student.

Bill Lieson retired as board chairman and chief executive officer of the Valley Bank in Springfield. Mass., on January 1. Retired, and pressed forward. He was planning to teach a course in money and banking at Western New England College in Springfield and, "the gas authorities being willing," to take two graduate courses in economics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

Bill enclosed a card from Jim Tomlinson, who has similar plans, Jim having written from Buffalo: "I plan to teach business law at Niagara University next semester. I am now working part time at General Abrasive Co. for the next three years. I passed the bar exams in New York in 1944 but never practiced."

That long commute from Westchester County to Branford, Conn., finally got to LarryCollins, and in October he moved to Old Lyme. Ev Hokanson, working hard at collecting your class dues (which, you know, pay for your subscription to this Magazine) has sent along the news notes many of you wrote with your checks, and from these we have gathered a passel of news:

The Leon Warners sold their house in Minnesota last fall and are now resident in Berryville, Va., where they are "trying to make our lives a little simpler," including raising cattle and fox hunting.

Sid Wright, "after 28 years as a newspaperman, 11 in California as a small-town newspaper publisher and 17 in Honolulu as a reporter on the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, will retire in May. By 1975 expect to be on the Big Island, near Ahualoa, on a 15-acre combined pasture and macadamia nut ranch."

From Bud Templin in Elkhart, Ind.: "five married children, nine grandchildren, one 96-year old father, one 91-year old mother-in-law. Try to keep up six acres where we live in the country. We take two vacations a year (1 overseas). Still working after 41 years in the retail music business. Never a dull moment."

From Pete Sawyer in Ashland, Me.: "Still active in northern Maine woodland management. With the squeeze on fuel oil our wood stove in the kitchen takes on added value. Ron Olmstead helped me drag in my bear kill this fall. When in Augusta, see Ernest Johnson, Maine's State Tax Assessor for more years than I recall."

More next month. No mail re who was the bad guy in the Rover Boys if it wasn't per Keller's recollection - Noddy Nixon, and if it wasn't, who indeed was Noddy Nixon? We have some good people working on it.

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