1944
They're still chuckling in Hanover, N.H., chuckling and praising. Ezz Hale is the reason. Seems some 420 class officers and their wives (we can still call them wives and not spouses because there are as yet no married female graduate class officers) came to Hanover May 2-3 for an annual outing called Class Officers Weekend, and friendly Ezz was chosen to be the presiding officer at the large joint meeting for all present. And with good reasons.
What Ezz did, see, was to be urbane and witty and just about the best damn master of ceremonies Hanover has seen since Doc Fielding '43 was a pup.
Others in the '44 power-elite were Class President Phil Penberthy, with Ad and a lot of cigars (which is what he sells); Newsletter Editor Merle Hagen, with Cindy and his bushy mustache (which is what he grows); and Secretary Fritz Hier, who writes this stuff, with Joan, who edits it. Missing were Treasurer BillCraig and Bequest Chairman John Berry, absent for a galloping reason. Yup, it was Derby Day and Lexington won out over Hanover.
Just a couple of weeks earlier, April 18-20, almost 950 mothers and fathers surrounded Hanover in connection with Parents Weekend, and among them:
Rog and Bette Antaya (insurance in Maryland) to see son Doug; Bob and AnnConroy (CPA in NYC) to see son Curt (as well as son Bob '74 and daughter Kim '76); Fred andTrudy Daley (real estate in the Hanover area) who only had to walk across the street to see son Rich; Bill and Hope Fead (toiletries manufacturer in N.J.) to see daughter Kelly; and Harryand Mary Morse (otolaryngologist in Pa.) to see son Dick.
Beyond setting a minor world's record with three youngsters on the campus at the same time. Bob Conroy decided to get into the numbers game with trucks, too. He says he just took over a trucking outfit in Wisconsin with 500 to 700 machines, depending on which day you do the counting.
After 19 years and 448 basketball games as Yale head coach, Joe Vancisin resigned in April to become executive secretary of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He had been president of the NABC in 1973-74. Joe's lifetime record at Yale included 207 wins and 241 losses, two Ivy League champion- ships, and finishes in the first division 11 of his 19 years. He has also coached the Yale freshman golf team and directed the Yale Golf Course. Further, over the years he conducted basketball clinics in such neighborhood places as the Sudan, Argentina, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
And just so he doesn't get rusty behind a desk, Joe will be manager of the U.S. Olympic basketball team for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Tickets, anyone?
February 23 was the 30th anniversary of that famous photograph of marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and it prompted insuranceman Al Barrett, who was there, to write an article for the Baltimore News American. "For every survivor of the battle of Iwo, 30 years have not dimmed memories one bit," Al writes. 'I can remember every detail of those desperate days when I served as a platoon leader in the same Fifth Marine Division as the men who raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi." Two of the 6,821 Americans who died that February 23 were Al's Dartmouth buddies, Steve Holmes and BillMackoff.
That Lake Placid construction man and designer/builder Mo Distin is a fellow on the go and he does a lot of his going piloting his own Cesna Centurian airplane and often accompanied by wife MiLi. He landed long enough for us to chat with him recently, just back from a visit to their new hideaway spot in Florida, near Sarasota. Not many people there - "not yet, that is." Incidentally, the 1980 Olympics are scheduled for Lake Placid. Tickets, anyone?
We had a splendid visit with Wareen Kimball's ball's parents, Wee and Elsie Kimball '11, down in Hopkinton, N.H. Father and son have a hundred farm together, with Wee busy trimming trees and building ponds in residence and Warren commuting as many weekends as he can from Pleasantville, N.Y.
Just what you'd expect, for heaven's sake: John and Jeanne Weeks' Kathy '76 elected secretary-treasurer of the Class of 1976; Boband Fran Riebow's Rob '76 elected president of Sigma Nu fraternity; the Conroy's Kim '76 chairman of "Food Day at Dartmouth" last April; Jack and Priscilla Haffenreffer's Jack '76 a high scorer on the lacrosse team - including a five goal effort in a humbling of Holy Cross.
That's it. Have a lovely summer. Blessings.
Fran Dougherty '44 and wife Julia line upfor inaugural ceremony at The Citadel,Charlestown, S.C., where Fran was theCollege's delegate earlier this spring.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
Head Agent, Lawyers Cooperative Publ. Co. Aqueduct Bldg. Rochester, N.U. 14603
