1948

Another autumn. Already the hardwoods on Velvet Rocks have taken on their bright hues of red, yellow, and everything in between. Already Dartmouth men and women are gathering once again in all the places in Hanover where people congregate, including the home team stands of Memorial Field where the colored expanse of the aforementioned Rocks and Balch Hill spread out so beautifully across one's vision. Already the air is beginning to take on a certain crispness late in the afternoon that makes the footballer, soccer player, cross-country runner and student hurrying back to the dorm from the lab know that winter can't be far off.

The writer was lucky to spend a late September weekend in Hanover this fall and experience once again the glories of that season. The leaves had already begun to turn (early this year due, I suppose, to the dry summer), and thus that Dartmouth quality that someone has called place was fully visible to the receptive eye. It was a marvelous experience for me to be in Hanover in the autumn, the first time in many years. One of the pictures I saw which many of you may recall was the view upriver from the Ledyard Bridge when, the water completely motionless, everything above - the hills, the colored foliage, the pines - was fully and brightly reflected in the blue medium below. A picture I will keep until the next time.

Tried Jo phone Walt Cairns from Boston, but couldn't get through. Walt and Mary Lane live in Marblehead with their fine family, and Dad runs a part of famous Arthur D. Little in Cambridge. A recent photo of the group was taken on top of one of the White Mountains, showing that Walt hasn't completely abandoned his old love of the mountains for climbing and skiing in favor of Marblehead's sailing.

Stopped by for a weekend with the family this past summer to see Dirk Kuzmier,, wife Daphne, and their two daughters at their place toward the eastern end of Long Island. The Kuz has a great old place on the beach that has seen a lot of weather in its day. Dirk hasn't changed, still gets a friendly laugh out of life, works hard at his tough profession of being a lawyer in New York City, and is a great friend. No one hit the beach much while we were there as the publicity surrounding Jaws had just begun in earnest. Guess no one who saw it will forget long Dirk on his tiny Shetland pony at Class Day in 1948 when he served as Class Prophet.

Several members of the Class have had moves within the past year. Frank Stern, not so long ago a resident of Bridgewater, Mass., is with the Planning Board Office of St. Lawrence County in Potsdam, N.Y. We're not sure from the limited data we have, but Frank and family apparently now live in the nearby town of Mexico. Captain Gene Finke, with the Defense Communications Agency of the Department of Defense in Washington, now lives in Arlington, Va., after many assignments elsewhere for Uncle Sam. Dick Bredenberg returned from his academic year in Nagoya, Japan, some time ago and is now director of Teacher Education at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla. Contractor Sumner Sollitt, according to cards received from the Alumni Records Office in Hanover, is still in Chicago, but now at 307 North Michigan Ave. Pete Headley, in the brokerage business and formerly in N.Y.C., now watches the tape in Virginia Beach, Va. (Long way from Old Wheeler Hall, Pete). Dr. Jack Mahoney still performs the delicate work of a surgeon in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but now lives on Rio Vista.

John Van Raalte reports the College is particularly anxious to have all alumni fill out the questionnaire that was recently sent out from Hanover. 'Nuf said.

Short of news this time. Perhaps the mails will bring in more information on you fellow '48s before the next edition of these notes is due. Hope some of you wives will pass on news of your husbands to their classmate friends by means of a card to yours truly. Dedicated thanks, if you will.

Three generations of Scharrers in front ofDartmouth Hall at Commencement '75:Dick C. '46, Ric G. '75, and Oscar B. '13.

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