1944
No question about it: our '44 fall reunion in Hanover October 10-11 was a winner. We beat Penn 19-14. Great group, undaunted by the rain, tail-gating by the Sphinx before the game. A merry band of executive committeemen met in mirthful session Saturday morning. And 85 of the faithful, after drying out the seats of their pants before roaring fires at the DOC House, settled in for several hours of drinks and dinner and camaraderie. Memorable.
Noteworthy was Dave Eckel's report on the progress of the class project, i.e., the placement of handrails on buildings throughout the campus to aid handicapped persons in getting up and down stairs. As reported elsewhere, $2,500 has been appropriated for this enterprise, with class dues going up $5 per year to help defray the cost.
Early class reactions have been splendid. CarlKoenig, Pennsylvania engineer, wrote: "Congratulations to the guys who thought up the 'railing' for the physically handicapped. More than happy to contribute."
"I think the class project is excellent," said Bill Paine, Houston realtor. "I now have six grandchildren; one daughter is still not married."
"The project sounds like a great idea!" wrote Maine shoe manufacturer Paul Jones. "Our oldest son Cameron '75 graduated in June, had his next big day August 30 when he married Sara Anderson (Wheaton '75), and is now living in Sachem Village and finishing off (or rather I should say hopefully they are 'finishing' him off) at Thayer School."
New York City's Ed Fitzgerald: "A great idea. Very considerate. I made the August 1, 1975 issue of Business Week for developing a consulting firm consisting of 22 Cornell Hotel School graduates and myself (about the right Cornell/Dartmouth proportion). They are early to mid-thirties graduates approaching retirement or already retired who want to keep busy without punching a clock, so to speak. Very interesting and hopefully ultimately profitable. Hope to make a reunion one of these days and take the question mark out of the 25th Reunion Book."
Budge Griffin, our man at Union Carbide, who was in town for the Penn weekend, and eschewed sleeping in a fraternity house for a sack with us in Cornish Flat, said of the handrails: "Wonderful idea."
Boge Bogart and Skai were at the DOC House Penn weekend and report that "Someone has a better London Fog coat than I. He inadvertantly picked up mine that night after dinner. I hope someone is looking for an old one."
On the road, or the airwaves: NY adman Marsh Clark off with wife Vallory for a two-week cruise in the Mediterranean, followed by two weeks of visiting branch offices in Milan, Brussels, Paris, Duesseldorf, Copenhagen, and London - a nifty little collection by any standards. Marsh has been elected executive vice president in charge of international operations for Needham, Harper and Steers, International.
And sanitation engineer John Lovewell, signing in from Surabaya, Indonesia: "I guess I'm about as far as you can get on this earth from Hanover, but my thoughts are frequently there. Sorry to have missed the 30th Reunion, but I seem to be traveling in recent years. I expect to be in the states the summer of '76 and may not spend so much time overseas from here on out."
Ski chalet owner Chuck Foster, from Stowe, Vt.: "The rigors of running a small business get to me more and more often. All is well except that business is not as robust as we'd like it, and the short supply of time and money prevent us from getting down to Hanover."
Hotelman George Cummings, after having had the Mt. Washington Hotel fall out from under him and an interim assignment in San Juan, is happily back on the mainland. To be precise, he is managing the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn., "Right on Rt. 95" and is as pleased as can be. He says he's doing a fantastic businessman's business during the week, and he's never met so many great people as those around Bridgeport. As for son Richie, age seven months, "He's going strong and keeping Laura and me young."
Don Campbell has left the Hanover plain for a New Jersey field, Bloomfield, to be exact. He's been named professor and chairman of the education department at Bloomfield College, an establishment somewhat in the news these days. It fired 11 tenured professors a couple of years back and New Jersey courts are now saying that wasn't a nice thing to have done.
A couple of '44 Vermont sons have found the lure of the Green Mountains more than they could stay away from. Jack and Jane Shearer's son Mark '72 has returned to join Shearer's Chevrolet Co. in Burlington, after a stint at General Motors and an August 1974 marriage to Leslie Rand, daughter of Buzz and Polly Rand of the Hanover/Norwich Rand clan. And Merilyn and Mel Friberg's son Peter '73 joined the family granite business in Barre after two years of sales with New England Telephone Co. and marriage to Sally Sawyer. The Friberg's oldest daughter, Nancy, a Cornell graduate, has kept Dartmouth in the family and is now at Tuck going for her MBA, and second daughter Carolyn is a sophomore high above Cayuga's waters.
A final, sad note: Gus Pratt's wife Mary Louise died in September.
Don't forget to send in your Alumni Directory questionnaires.
That's it. Merry Christmas. And blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
Treasurer, 815 East Schantz Ave. Dayton, Ohio 45419
