1938

A recent note from Jim Cotter includes an enthusiastic pitch for Reno Biatti, one of our freshman hockey goalies, and one of the squad members who hails from south of the border - the Canadian border, that is. Whatever the Canadian-United States blend, it is being successful, with the season record as this is written standing at 4-and-1.

Jim reports that his wife Eileen has been seriously ill for some time but that things are looking better. I'm sure all classmates join in best wishes for her speedy and complete recovery. The Cotter bulletin also mentions that Marsh Land was hurt, though he's O.K. again now, when he fell off his garage roof clearing snow. It's hard, nay, impossible, not to ask, "Never mind what he fell off of; the question is, 'Where did Marshall Land?' "

The varsity hockey team has been having a tougher time than the freshmen, but it was glorious the game 1 was privileged to see in Hanover against Yale. At the end of the first period we obviously had it made and led 4-1, but we became really disheveled in the middle frame; before many could chant Wah Hoo Wah the count was knotted 5-5, and midway through the final period Yale took the lead 7-6. Happily (and not "providentially" either, because we were then again playing very well) we tied it up and'won 8-7 in sudden-death overtime - a real cliff-dweller, as a baseball manager once described a close game. I'm sorry more of you weren't there. I'm glad I was.

Work is continuing on the new hockey rink, across Park Street from Leverone Field House. The shell is there, but a great deal remains to be done. As I understand it, the disposition of Davis Rink has not yet been decided. Certainly it houses many memories of the years when Eddie Jeremiah coached many great Dartmouth hockey teams.

As this is written. Carnival is imminent, and, as has been the case in so many years past, there is a critical need for more snow for the middle-of-campus snow sculpture and all the fraternity and dormitory efforts. By the time you read this, let's hope much snow has fallen - and melted too.

Inevitably, Winter Carnival (and Fall Houseparties and Green Key, too) is very different from what it was b.c., as in "before coeducation." I think a person can endorse coeducation at Dartmouth, and recognize its advantages, to the College and its undergraduates, and at the same time retain nostalgia for Carnivals as we knew them. 1 remember, and think back very happily to, an Outdoor Evening that included a skating exhibition by Polly Blodgett. (I think it was 'Polly' . . . might have been 'Patty' or 'Peggy'.) Anyway she skated very beautifully, to "It Was Just One of Those Things" - a good song. And some organization The Dartmouth, I think, dreamed up a great promotion, for girls to write in on the theme, "Why I'd like to attend Winter Carnival" or such as that, the winner to receive free transportation and a desirable date. The winner's bon mot, the year I remember, was "Only the brave deserve the fare," which I've always thought was a very bon mot indeed. Wonder if its author married a Dartmouth man.

And at the Sigma Nu House I remember Squee Ellis dispensing mini-packs of Philip Morris with the aplomb that has helped make him the premier restaurateur he is today - 1938 Class President Squee Ellis, that is. I also recall a great big string of great big cut-out letters, spelling CARNIVAL, strung along the wall of what was then the ping pong and pool room at the House, with two cardboard cut-out pixies perched above the letters, working to get the I V out of CARNIVAL. Bob Richman '39 was the author of that whimsy, I think.

Easing back into the present, or nearer to it, your secretary has been delinquent in not reporting a number of address changes with which the enterprising and efficient Office of Alumni Records has provided me. Their volume proves that '38 is not only Amazing but also amazingly mobile, and among the most mobile seem to be the ministers among us . . . our peripatetic preachers: viz., Roy Chamberlin, from Billings, Mont., in July, 1972, to Wichita, Kan., in December of that year, to Brookline, N.H., last year; and Bob Harvey, from Ashuelot, N.H., to Bergenfield, N.J., where he has been featured as the pedaling pastor.

Moves to Florida, which may be just for the winter, include those of Conrad Karras, to 1030 Garden Drive, Naples; Cab King to Rte 1, Box 63K, Groveland; Ed Patterson to Box 1044, Destin; and Perk Perkins to 821 North Victoria Park Rd., Apt 2, Ft. Lauderdale. Bob Lang owns the classiest addresses - both the one he left last year, Long Barn House, Long Barn Road, the Weald, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, and the one he moved to, Casa Tana, Malviera Da Serra, Cascais, Portugal.

Secretary, Box 187, Damariscotta, Me. 04543

Treasurer, 1335 Woodside Dr., McLean, Va. 22101