1948
The 1975 football season will be long gone and the winter clearly present in Hanover by the time these notes are read by any '48 brethren. The driving wind will be blowing across the still dark campus as today's shivering student leaves his dorm for that run across the now frozen ground sprinkled with leaves off the old elms for that deadly eight o'clock. It'll be cold, cold. That Hanover winter once again! Makes the blood of this old alumnus tingle to think of it. For me there was something about the oncoming slam of the northeast wind, the exhaled breath turning to vapor in the shivering cold, the wildly swirling snow flakes being tossed among the buildings and across the green that during our student days in Hanover made this '48 eagerly grab the winter, the winter that helped make Dartmouth the place so many of us alumni sons of Eleazar remember so well.
Hope the foregoing license won't offend anyone. South Florida is so far from Hanover and the climate so different in these winter months that the contrast seemed worth noting. Hanover and its winter seem a long way off when I look at my neighbor standing on the bank of the canal behind his house with his 9-iron in hand, by each swing lifting another of the myriad land crabs back into the water, thereby reducing the intensity of the annual invasion of these singular creatures at this time of year. Also helps his handicap, he says. Not exactly characteristic of Hanover at this or any other time of year.
Not as much as hoped for, but am able to pass on some news about '48s this month due to data received from various sources. Some of the following haven't been seen or heard of by this writer in a long time, so it's a pleasure to be able to mention them after such a long absence of news.
Rick Landon, who with Jim Schaefer was so instrumental in putting together one of the early '48 reunions and who has, to my uncertain knowledge, been a Long Islander since he went down from the hills of Hanover, is no longer a Bethpage resident. Rick, some kind of publishing or journalism tycoon, has now established his residence in Lynbrook, a bit east of Kennedy International. Other '48s whom memory (probably incorrectly) or my 1966 Alumni Directory advise me live or used to live within roughly a 20-mile radius are Ira"Murphy" Robins (manufacturing), ArtHendler (engineering). Dr. Milt Siegel (medicine), Irwin Wodar (food), Wally Howe (the arts), Bob Rubino (office machinery), and Bill Wheeler (engineering). Plenty of classmates, too, live somewhat further away on the island, such as Dr. Bill Ivins (medicine) in Huntington, Zeke Carroll (insurance) in Locust Valley, and Jim McLaughlin (merchandising) in Port Washington (where the famed Macartney boys grew up).
Jim Woods, a businessman of many talents whom I last saw in Pittsburgh one day many years ago, now makes his home in Basking Ridge, N.J. Still much traveling, Jim? Al Gilbert now has the impressive word ISLAMABAD as a part of his State Department address in Washington. (As this is written, Al, your boss, Mr. K., is still a center of attention in the news due to Mr. Ford's shake-ups this past week in his own executive organization. Hope you're finding the situation as interesting as so many others apparently do). Ed Shipper, whom this '48 last saw at a chance meeting at Milan's Malpensa airport in about 1958 whence we took a short flight to Rome where Ed had an interesting business project, has recently moved from his longtime home in Florence in the far northwest corner of Alabama to the town of Decatur, about 50 miles to the east. Ed, I believe, is still the sole '48 Alabaman.
If you like New England, his classmates will want to congratulate insurance man FredMaloney. Fred earlier this year moved to the lovely town of Dennisport on Cape Cod. One of the finer transfers this traveler has heard of, Fred. Another traveler of note is Walt Henry. This contractor can now be found in care of Flyvor in Valdez, Alaska, the southern terminus of the trans-Alaska pipeline from the Prudhoe Bay area. Walt, you may run into Howie Hilton of Tampa, Fla., who informed us some time ago of his work for the project and his occasional trips to the largest state.
Maury Murphy has lived in North Little Rock, Ark. for many years, but recently moved within the city to Ridge Road. To the best of my knowledge, Maury and Carl Evans of Camden are the only two '48 Arkansans among a total of only 33 Dartmouth men from the state back in 1966, a figure which may have grown since then.
Other '48s may be as interested as I was to learn of the Dartmouth Educational Association, a non-profit corporation organized by a number of alumni in Massachusetts in 1896 to raise money "for the purpose of assisting needy students pursuing courses of study at Dartmouth." The DEA grants loans which are repayable by the student as he can after he leaves college, not until which time interest begins to accumulate at 7%. Annual dues have always been $10 to alumni who wish to join, there are now about two thousand members, and funds out on loan now exceed $100,000 annually. The 1975 organization handbook lists 19 '48 members. With the increasing cost of an education at Dartmouth and the great need to ensure that qualified young men and women can go there in spite of a lack of the financial means for doing so, the Association obviously provides a desperately needed and worthy source of funds. If you wish to join, send a check for ten green ones to the DEA in care of its V.P., Carroll Dwight '22, 48 Fairgreen Place, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02167. The kind of Dartmouth cause where your dollar will be used again and again for a fine purpose.
Lowell Thomas, celebrating his 45th year in broadcasting, was International Skier of theYear," at the second annual Samsonite International Ski Film Festival in Denver. R,Samsonite President Dick Hanselman '49, and l, Harry A. Leonard, the president ofLeonard Co., producers of the annual Ski Shows/Expowinter. Lowell Thomas Dart-mouth connections include the Classes of 1946, 1977, and 1979.
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