1944
Up feeding the trout in our pond this morning, and there was a blue heron munching away - on salamanders, I suppose (and hope). A first; we've never had a heron before. Then two nice plump pheasants on the stone wall as we started down the hill. Amid the fall colors. Nice.
Mobile Oil's Art Scharf has to qualify as our number one world traveler. He's been overseas almost constantly since 1946: England, Cyprus, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, Sudan, Egypt, and France. Now he's been moved from Paris to San Juan. His kids are not exactly stay-at-homes, either: Mike is a parachutist, alpinist, and corporal in the French Foreign Legion; David is a towboat engineer in Alaska; John is "a bit of everything" in Oregon; Joanna is a ballet dancer in Puerto Rico; and Veronica is in school in San Juan.
That Rick Lewis will do anything to get publicity. He stepped in front of an errant drive in the U.S. golf amateur in Richmond and got klonked in the face with the ball. He was taken to the hospital for x-rays (negative), and returned home in time to catch the act on TV. "You wouldn't believe the number of calls after Jim McKay identified me as the guy that got hit," Rick said.
The magazine Paper Age carried a four-page interview with Boge Bogart last March, "How Industry's Paper Marketing Problems Look From Inside Perkins-Goodwin Co." Boge is senior v.p. of P-G and head of the paper division.
Miami U. (Oxford, Ohio) put out a nice little story to mark Dave Scotford's 25 years at that school. He is a professor of geology and has been department chairman for 14 years. He, too, has a couple of kilometers under his belt: he has taught, done research, or visited in Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, Denmark, and India, and has been in 49 of the 50 states. And in case you didn't know, he specializes in the metamorphic rocks of Maryland and New York.
What Marty and Ja Densmore specialize in is commuting - between N.H. and Colorado. In addition to the brick factories they run fireplace and gift shops now in Lebanon, N.H., Essex Jct., Vt., and Aspen, Colo., and are dividing their time between Leb and Aspen. They've also gone into the mail order business, so write for your catalogue today.
A couple of changes: Herb Storfer has left the perfume trade and opened his own placement bureau in N.Y.; and Jack Beckwith is moving in the right direction, namely north to N.H. He became director of the Wentworth Douglass Hospital in Dover in mid-June.
Barbara and Bill McElnea had a nice summer respite, cruising around Maine waters in an 86-foot dinghy.
We gave George McElfatrick, a V.A. surgeon, the wrong wife in a recent reference. He remarried in 1968 to Ada Gray Bowling, R.N., from Wilson, N.C.
An up-date on the Professor's kids (MerleHagen, that is): Doc '68 got his masters degree in hospital administration at Duke in 1974. He is now a Lt. (jg) and he and Marcelle are at the Groton, Conn., submarine base. Daughter Donna and her husband George Hicks have moved from Tennessee to Hampton, Va., where George is curator of the Ft. Monroe military museum. Mark is a junior at New England College, majoring in math and playing varsity soccer.
Joe Garry called from his dude ranch at Lake George to say that he was expanding to tennis courts. Presumably not on horseback . . .
Dartmouth dean and v.p. Leonard Rieser represented the College at the inauguration of the new president of Middlebury College November 1.
A nice long letter from neurological surgeon Gordon van den Noort recalling the highlights of our 30th Reunion last June. Gordie and Isabel have made all six of our five-year reunions, a record probably few can match. Their 13-year-old son Jeff spent every waking hour in the Kiewit computor center. "I had to drag him away each night at midnight," Gordie said.
Pediatrician Frank Behrle had some reunion memories, too. "First, the contrast between food and facilities at the student dining hall today compared to our old Commons. Second, an early morning jogger of the new era stressing a Dartmouth T-shirt as she bounced along Mass Row. Third, the sardine-packed dance floor as we oldies responded to the Big Band sound. And finally, Charlie Spallino's great talent for providing the right drink at the right time in endless supply out of a variety of hidden pockets."
Mark Peisch, associate dean of the N.Y. Medical College, writes: "Last spring I saw two classmates. (1) Barbara and Frank Parker had us for dinner in their lovely Scarsdale home. It was a real pleasure to see this most distinguished representative of the brewing industry again. (2) Bud Stahl addressed a surgical conference and spoke to students at our Westchester campus. Bud is not only a highly esteemed surgeon, but a very gifted teacher as well."
Harriet and Hardwick Caldwell, Lookout Mt., Tenn., swung through Hanover after a week-long conference in Lake Placid, and got caught up on things at the College and environs - even the Hotel Coolidge, where we had dinner. "Excellent," they both agreed. They stayed for the Holy Cross game before heading down toward Connecticut to visit daughter Charlotte and her husband (he teaches at a prep school). The four other Caldwell offspring are off and away or away at school.
Hats off to John Berry, nominated for a three-year term to the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Five other '44s have been so honored: Buck Mansfield 1958-62, Bill McElnea 1963-66, Wayne Eves 1964-68, Rog Antaya 1968-72, and Jack Jenness 1972 to the present.
Another '44 passing. Bob Campbell died last June in Upper Montclair, N.J. Our sympathies to his wife and son.
That's it. Blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
Treasurer, 815 East Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419
