1942
Japan's gain is our loss! On August 15th our good class secretary, Dr. Stu Finch and his lovely wife Pat, and daughter Polly returned to Japan. Stu is taking a two-year leave of absence from Yale School of Medicine to become the chief scientist at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (formerly Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . So, until our next Reunion which is the 35th which takes place in June, 1977 an attempt to fill Stu's vacuum on these pages will be made by that hot bed of inertia, that enthusiastically noncommittal, flaming middle-of-the-roader fellow who moves at a frenzied snails-pace, Dick the Lipp (known to Lindy Di Fabio as Fra Lippo Lippi). Call me interim secretary. Call me secretary pro tem. Just don't call me Ishmael!
OK, now for the news of which there is none because this changeover all happened fairly quickly. As a matter of fact both November and December columns are being written at the same time (October 5) so they can be turned in at Hanover during the Penn game weekend, because after that Debby and I are off to Morocco and Paris and won't return until after the deadline for the December issue. What I can do is report on our informal class reunion in Hanover during the Penn game weekend of October 10-11. The executive committee meeting on Friday afternoon, October 10 was well attended by all the class officers: Pres. WarrenKreter, Treasurer Jim O'Mara, Head Agent Buzz Cassidy, Newsletter Editor Dick Smith, and Bequest Chairman Guy Swenson. As a matter of fact quite a few of the members-at-large of the executive committee and other classmates squeezed into Ad Winship's office in Crosby Hall to participate in the proceedings. We talked about our alumni giving (which is in a slump), our 35th Reunion which is in 20 months from now and under the eager and able guidance of Reunion Chairman Bob Kirk, and we talked about other things which either this column or Dick Smith's newsletter will soon tell you about. Friday evening we spent at the DOC House on Occum Pond. The cocktail party followed by the dinner was great. If you weren't there we're sorry. Hope you can make it next year. It was a beautiful setting, a cool evening, and we all made up for a lot of lost time renewing friendships and picking up an old and new changes and happenings since we saw each other last. It's wonderful how uncommon our common bond is. The next event on the program was Satuday's tail-gate party on Winships's back lawn. Everyone had something to eat and/or drink and once again the class spirit resounded across the New Hampshire hills and Monadnocks. Then to the game where for a delightful change we all had terrific seats - 35-40 yard line. As you know we won which made it even more delightful. From the game we all split up into many different dinner groups and to a man it was declared to be a great reunion. Here is a list of us who were there (most came with wives and many with children, but since I don't know all their names, I'll just mention the class members): Hunt Allison, Dick Baldwin, Frank Bartlett, Sam Bell, Ira Berman, Al Bisson, Harry Bond, Al Britton, Sid Bull, Dick Burns (with 8 members of the family), Buzz Cassidy, George Clark, Paul Costello, Art Cox, Dick Deverian, Alan Dingwall, Bud Dutton, Roy Eldredge, Chick Emslie, Bob Encherman, Jim Erwin, Alex Fanelli, Wally Farr, Cliff Fuller, Mai Garfink, Davie Heald, Bob Hickey, Bert Keirstead, Bob Kirk, Warren Kreter (with Bob "Capt. Kangaroo" Keeshan and wife, Jeanne), Dick Lawton, Dick Lippman, Ed McLaughlin, Scottie Mathews, Bill Miller, Jim O'Mara, Proc Page, Dex Richards, Dave Sargent, Dutch Schaefer, Bob Searles, Dick Smith, Army Stambaugh, Charlie Sturz, Guy Swenson, Jack Tobin, Tom West, Charlie Weinberg, Don Williamson, Milt Williams, Ad Winship. There they are all 44 of them, and if I left any out let me hear about it and I guarantee the names will appear in this column. As a matter of fact I'm so desperate for reasons to put your name in this column I may even manufacture some news out of whole cloth. What I'm getting at is ... if I don't get some real news from you your class news column will end up as some kind of Grade B fiction. Seriously, folks, keep those and letters coming. You'd be sincerely amazed at how much your classmates really want to know what you're doing! Oops, guess what! . . . Just received a page of news from Stu in Japan ...
"John Brill is assistant general counsel to the Metro System of Washington, D.C. He has contributed considerably to the development of Washington's new subway system which will open soon. Daughter Ann who attends George Washington University is one of the many beneficiaries of this modern transit system.
"A. Camp Hopkins Jr. recently was honored with the National Distinguished Service Award of the Order of the Arrow by the Boy Scouts of America. Camp was one of 21 other men and boys from throughout the nation who were given this award for "distinguished, outstanding, and devoted" service to the Order, a national brotherhood of scout honor campers. His citation notes the fact that he has been active with the Order since 1950. Camp's position continues with management with the General Motors Acceptance Corporation in New York City. He also has worked with Dartmouth programs in the Union County area, and has been active with the Cranford United Fund of Cranford, N.J.
"My last contribution as class secretary to the Alumni Magazine is a personal one. At the present time I am again in Hiroshima, Japan, with my wife Pat and daughter Polly where we will be located for two years. I am on leave of absence from Yale Medical School in order to become the Chief of Research and a full time director of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. Our studies are entirely concerned with the late medical complications of exposure to the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. I feel very strongly committed to the program in Japan and, from previous experience, know that I will be unable to do justice to the position of class secretary while I am in Japan. It has been an education and great honor for me to have rekindled my associations with Dartmouth and many members of the great Class of '42 during the past few years. Pat and I hope to see all of you at our next reunion."
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