1950

September. Summer winds down. Chill winds chase out the steam of dog days. The sky beams, fresh scrubbed. Evenings, no longer lingering, abruptly end the day. Autumn beckons. And October. Another (college) year begins.

After the long, lazy summer hiatus, swinging into the saddle again has been difficult. The deadline slipped by and disappeared in a swirl of hazy days. My apologies to you. Now it is good to get back, good to have the chance to chat with you.

Returning. September, and returning those many years ago was also bittersweet. Summer played the temptress: hectic days of work; or play; clambakes on the beach; fires dying with the dawn; sailing with the clouds; jazz bands at the country club; long walks along the moonlit tides; no books nor papers nor deadlines. Returning. Hanover in the fall. One day back was enough: the dorm; the wonder of the younger classes; pale yellow elms, still graceful then; the campus in the waning days of summer; old friends, and new. The spell had worked her magic.

September, and remembering. That is the trouble. Memories skirt the fringes of reality. We can only remember.

Results were mixed. Our class set a stiff pace last spring in the Alumni Fund race, then faded in the stretch from first to fourth among our peer classes. Although we met our goal (thus faring better than last year), head agent JoelLeavitt still deserves better support.

Just as a Where, oh where, was about to be launched for Ray DeVoe, he appeared as an author in Financial Magazine. From his vantage point as senior vice president and economist with Spencer Trask, Ray has spent years in "The Search for Intelligent Life in Wall Street." The gist of Ray's article is his being "... amazed and amused by the recurring fads, bizarre concepts, and unrealistic reasoning that periodically sweeps the investment community." The magazine offered the lure of additional highly readable articles from Ray, who cautions about "always chasing rainbows, or plus ca change, ole buddy."

The executive committee of the Class of '77 includes Rod Larrabee's daughter Lindsay, secretary, and Skip Fauver's daughter Betsy, head agent. Both gals are great.

If you go to New York - more pertinently, if you are already there - you have a friend at New York Tel, where Fran Austin is the recently elected veep of customer services. (Must put in a call for help.)

Illinois College awarded Gene Hotchkiss, president of Lake Forest College since 1970, an honorary doctor of laws degree. Gene was cited for his leadership in establishing and maintaining high academic standards at Lake Forest while instituting challenging and innovative new programs. At the same time his firm confrontation of the demanding financial pressures of the seventies has set his college on a promising road to the future.

Herluf (Dan) Olsen, president of the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington, has been named president of the New England Hospital Assembly Incorporated for 1977-78. The assembly conducts educational programs on health throughout the six-state northeastern region. Incidentally, Dan (Herluf) is also professor of hospital administration at UVN's College of Medicine.

The honeymoon was in Bermuda for PartonKeese and Karen Eberhardt after their Quaker wedding ceremony last May. They are at home, at least when Part is not covering sports activity here and there for the Times, in Wilton, Conn.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., the New York-based international investment banking brokerage firm, has appointed Nels Graves to its Buffalo office. Prior to accepting this position, Nels had been the president of EAS Leasing of Buffalo since 1974. He is a trustee of the Buffalo General Hospital and a director and the former president of the Boys Club of Buffalo.

Another knot, last April: Frank Lion and Leslie VanDerveer. No honeymoon news on these nuptials. But Frank did report seeing BillBalderston then and now in and about Syracuse, where Bill is chief executive officer of Lincoln Bank, Central.

Tidbits here and there: Tom Ruggles and JohnKnapp at spring sing in Greenwich; among the local Connecticut crowd were Chuck Gardner and Paul Canada. New digs for Paul Van Orden, general manager of the housewares and audio (an incongrous combo) business division of G.E. are in Westport. New alumni articles in the Milwaukee Journal: "The Spooks and I," by Dave Luce. If you have troubles when driving through Dudley, Mass., call in selectman JohnCraver. A bicentennial replica of a whaleboat was built under the supervision of George W.and Ann Jewett by the Darien Historical Society. Phil Brown notes (as an M.D., scientifically): whereas you can always wear more (clothes to become warm, you can only take off so much to become cool. Rod Stinehour's Press ! merged with The Meriden Gravure Company to form Meriden-Stinehour Inc. Practicing dentistry in the Larchmont area: George Brazill.Dave Fink left Cape Elizabeth, Maine, for York, Pa. International Multi-Food Industry relocated J. Clark Bassett to the Minneapolis area.

The following space was dedicated to plans for mini-reunion '77, but it was cut by an editor's deadline. See this space next month for tales beyond belief: Dartmouth on a wild night; shuffling and stomping under torchlight; campus fire rages; the big red horde from Cayuga's waters; Blackman plies his warlockcraft. The gang was all there. Were you?

Another year begun (not well, but begun). Fare thee well. For now, farewell.

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'50's Dartmouth FreshmenFather Son or Daughter Kenneth Edelson David Frank Gilroy Daniel & John John Hetherington Grant Philemon Hoadley Jennifer Robert McConaughy Carin Robert McIlwain Robert Frederick Mitchel Pamela John Moulton Jonathon Kingsland Oakes Steven Scott Olin Dirk Stephen Pollak Roger James Pressey Katharine John Schalles John Calvin Sia Michael Aaron Stevens Hannah Robert Waterman Thomas