1948
Information forwarded by Dartmouth's Alumni Fund people in Hanover and by Bud Munson, who has undertaken the awesome job of trying to get us '48s to support this yeare's edition of Eleazar's annual appeal to his sons (now daughters also), indicates there are at this moment 16 members of the Class domiciled here in the state of Florida. Not a bad proportion of a scoring base of 434 members which the Fund considers to be the total number of men in out comparatively small class. Over the past month I've had the opportunity to be in touch with a few of them and wish to pass along the following information.
Dave Kadyk lives in Tampa, a fast growing city on the Gulf side of the state where he earns his living as a lawyer. Dave specializes in trail litigation in civil law cases, mostly of the personal injury variety. He came to Tampa after completing law school at Ann Arbor, liked the place so much he stayed on. He and spouse have four sons, of whom the oldest is graduating from Colorado College this spring. Dave occasionnally sees other '48s on his trips about the state as well as in the Tampa area. Among these have been both Howie Hilton and Warren "Mouse" Taylor in and near his own city.
Dave reports that Howie, who originally hailed from the Chicago area, as did Dave, has his own advertising agency in Tampa. Howie and wife have three children, two of whom are currently in college. If memory serves, Howie went to Annapolis after a period at Dartmouth and was a close friend of another Chicago boy, Tom Davis. Mouse, who was last seen by Dave about two years ago, lives in nearby Clearwater where he is a manufacturers' representative What lines do you handle, Mouse? Believe you were one of the more distant travellers to reach Hanover for the 25th last summer.
The Florida area always seems to receive quite a few of the Big Green's current group of undergrads during each spring vacation. The Dartmouth Club of Miami entertained Coach Bill Johnson's golf team at a chicken and beer picnic at an alumnus' home in early April, and another group of about 15 who had canoe paddled for a week through the Everglades spent a couple of nights camped on the lawn of another alumnus in the Miami area. Dave advises that the Tampa/St. Pete/Sarasota Dartmouth Club entertained the Dartmouth lacrosse team while the latter played and won five games at the University of South Florida during the same period. And there's some likelihood that the beaches of Fort Lauderdale saw a few Dartmouth men during the same period in the annual spring student invasion of that area.
Dr. Dwight Burley resides in Cora! Gables where he and three other medicos have their own clinic. Dwight came here after Temple Med School and has been busy with his family practice and other outside activities ever since. Has four offspring, the two eldest of whom are in Tulane and the University of Virginia, the letter being a Phi Bete. Dwight occasionally hears of his old '48 buddy, Dr. Jack Mahoney, who is an orthopedic surgeon in Fort Lauderdale.
Three members of the Class in the investment business who now live near each other in Florida but who have had little or no contact are Dick Russell, Ed Curtis, and Dave Packard. Dick and family live in a small community, Tequesta, on the east coast about 65 miles north of Miami. His two sons and two daughters range downward from 21 years of age. One is married and one about to be. Two are still in college. Dick's a vp and director of Raymond James & Associates, well known brokerage firm in the area. He was one of the married '48s as an undergradat Dartmouth, and came to Florida in 1959 after 10 years with Creole in Venezuela. Has seen action with the Dartmouth Club of Palm Beach. Ed Curtis is also in the investment business, located further south than Tequesta at Hollywood. Sorry not to have any word on Ed at the present moment, but hope to reach him later. Dave Packard is apparently also connected investments and brokerage, but he has just arrived in Coral Spring, Fla., according to the Alumni Records Office, so again I'm without much information.
Another '48 in addition to Hilton in advertising Pete Swinscoe of Fort Lauderdale. Again no direct news as this is written. Spoke to Scane Bowler in Clearwater some time ago. He's insurance executive who moved down to Florida a few years ago from Cleveland and still manages to get back to Hanover once or twice a year. Dick Bredenberg, normally of the west coast at Eckerd College in St. Pete, is currently on a university exchange program and teaching ub Nagoya, Japan. The northernmost '48 resident of the state, following the departure of Al McMichael from Pensacola, is John Warden who is engaged in work involving scientific instruments and photography. He's located at 0rmond Beach, near Orlando. Ev Aspinwall is in the radio or TV industry in Palm Beach, and Jim Wellington is with the Department of English at the University of Miami here in Coral Gables. Have tried to locate Jose Suarez, whose address was reportedly near mine in Miami, but no luck. Anybody have any contact with Jose lately? Hope I'll be able to talk with all the above later.
A letter from Charles Darrow, secretary of Dartmouth in Central New York, reports that your former chief Class Agent, Russ Carlson President of Onondaga Savings Bank in Syracuse, on April 25 was named first vice president of the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. Also named were 11 - yes, 11 - other civic activities in which Russ is engaged. What do you do with all your spare time, Russ?
In closing, I'm sad to report that in the 1974 edition of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund as of April 29 the class of 1948 was in almost the worst position of all classes. Of 434 men only 65 or 15 percent had contributed. Only $7,160 or 32.5 percent of our $22,000 objective had been reached. Guess whoever said we were a pretty wellbroken up class knew what he was talking about. Come on. We ought to do better than that. Dig for at least something if you can't afford more and send your check to the Fund in Hanover. How about making it a little easier, too, for Mud Munson in doing so. Bud and his fellow '48 agents are working and putting in much personal time for the Fund, but they can't do it all themselves. If the overall Fund is to meet its big $3.75 million objective this year, each class has got to meet its quota.
Secretary, Gulf Oil Co.-Latin America Box 910, Coral Gables, Fla 33134
Class Agent, 3 Hemlock Hill Westport, Conn. 06880
