1944

Apologies. Fat, leviathan apologies. I assume you've all got your 30th Reunion Directory by now, the one that got pages 60 and 61 backwards. So we jump in alphabet from Ry Robbins to Arnie Sanders instead of to John Roberts and thus all those between Robbins and Sehoenhut are out of sequence and have my apologies.

I slugged te printer with a tray of heavy type and dumped his body in the Connecticut. You won't know until spring thaw who he was. Call Al Winkler in late April; he'll know. He lives in Old Saybrook where the river empties into the Sound.

Couple of the boys on the move: Karl Sorg decided to scrap his private law practice in Wash. D.C., for a teaching and training position with Lewis U. College of Law, a brand new outfit in the Chicago suburbs. Says it's most innovative and challenging. His daughter Karen will make him a grandfather next August; Gery, 23, is with the postal service; and Linda, 21, is married and living in Ft. Lauderdale.

And then, John Vandegrift has transferred to Vandenberg, the Air Force Base, that is, in California. He's the deputy information chief for the First Strategic Aerospace Division (SAC). He says he's not yet acclimated to California's, cold after 20 years in Florida, but he nonetheless manages to get in some golf and flying on his time off.

Fran Dougherty was Dartmouth's representative at the inauguration of The Citadel's new president in Charleston, March 1. Fran got into the presidential game himself: he was elected president of the National Marine Distributing Association. Fran's wife Julia has had a busy year, first campaigning to get governor James Edwards elected and then acting as co-chairman of his inauguration. Son Park is a Dartmouth freshman, daughter Renee is married to a Dartmouth '68, and daughter Frances attends veterinary school in Georgia.

If you're in the market for a carport, patio cover, canopy, awning, or screen-glass enclosure, your man is Bud Talley down in Atlanta. He's the owner of Patio-Ports of Atlanta, Inc., a name, I reckon, with a nice swing to it. Daughters Toni and Michele are married, son Dave is a junior at the Emory School of Dentistry.

Dave Templeton is president of a firm which sells industrial gloves and safety equipment in Akron and apparently he's also a lousy bicyclist. "Saw Al Howland recently at Akron General Hospital," he writes. "I was the patient and he the administrator. I tried to check out a tenspeed bike and woke up in the hospital. Allen and I had a few laughs, but I was the one with the head in wraps and stitches, plus a busted rib." Dave is also an avid golfer and he hopes to take in the British open in Scotland next July. And if your heart's been set on owning a Jack Nicklaus Golf Glove, your worries are over - Dave makes and sells them, too.

Stick-in-the-mid Warren Sullivan writes: "Never manage to make the fall football game unfortunately because we are always in Germany and England, mostly London, every fall - business, of course. This past fall we went through seven Arabian countries trying to get some of those bucks back in book sales." Sully is president, Halsted Press Division, of John Wiley & Sons, which deals in educational and reference publications. Daughter Kathy working in Santa Barbara. The Class' only triplets: Bill is at Montana State studying wildlife conservation; Peter there, too, neuropsychology; and Jeff is hockey coach, Englewood High.

New York lawyer Herb Wolff has also been raising some dust: "During the summer of '73 we travelled through four countries in Europe in three weeks. Hope to do it again soon and at a more leisurely pace. Continue to play a lot of weekend tennis and occasionally see MickeySmith on the courts."

Waterbury, Conn.'s Hal Stein is another tennis buff, and he and wife Betty play frequently. "That and swimming," he says, "keeps us in reasonable shape." Hal is still treasurer of the Torrington Supply Co., which distributes plumbing, heating, and industrial supplies. Daughter Susan works at Le Bookstore of Alliance Francaise at 16th St. in NYC and Jeffrey is in his last year at New York Medical College.

Bill Walters continues as a general practitioner in Warren, Pa. Bill Jr. is a wildlife conservationist, via Cornell, on Long Island; Doug is a dentist; Laurie married and a private secretary; and Scott is a sophomore at Pitt. Wife Beverly, totally paralyzed from a stroke II years ago, is in a nursing home. With the kids away, Bill sold his house and moved into a small apartment.

Yellow Page president Bill Craig reports a recent Happy Hour of note in New York with Dr.Al Cook and George Bruce, advertising.

Didn't make me jealous at all to see MerleHagen tanned and fit after a month skiing in Austria, my old stamping ground. He led a 10-student group from New England College, where he teaches, for four weeks of skiing, sightseeing, and beer.

And speaking of beer, Frank Parker, our friendly Anheuser-Busch man in Scarsdale, wrote to the College asking about the possibility of getting a Senior Cane with the Indian head on it (he didn't get his during the war). The Co-op used to handle that item but hasn't for a long time; and some local research turned up a carver in Windsor, Vt., who will be glad to make one for about $17 the pop! Inflation you say?

Canes or not, we can't sign off without a plug for our 30th Reunion June 9, 10 and 11. We had 118 men signed on as of 1 February and we ought to go to 200 by keg time. A couple of people have asked about the Monday-Wednesday span and the answer is simple: there are five other major class reunions the weekends before and after our dates and with four of us reuning together (1935, 1944, 1945, 1946) there is just no way everyone can be here on the weekend. This weekday business happens to every class only once, and this is our time.

That's why. That's it. Blessings.

Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755

Treasurer, 815 E. Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419