1939

The Cornell game in Hanover was the scene of the formal acknowledgement by the College of Bob MacLeod’s entry into the National Football Hall of Fame. A nice reminder of those halcyon years, those golden fall days in the late thirties.

Lou Oberdorfer was made a member of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Carter. Lou is a former assistant attorney general in the Kennedy administration, having headed up the tax division of the Justice Department from 1961 to 1965. More recently he has been a member of the prestigious Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering. To quote the Washington Post, “He became the first person nominated by the Presi- dent to fill a vacant seat on the increasingly im- portant federal bench here, a court that deals with a wide range of major legal issues, from en- vironmental to employment discrimination cases.”

Jack Goldman was elected to New York Life’s Agents Advisory Council this fall at a conclave of that company in L.A. Jack joined the company in 1965 and has earned significant honors since that time, including qualification as a life member of the insurance industry’s Million Dollar Round Table.

September 24 was the date of the marriage of Junie and Marty Merriam’s daughter Frances Abercrombie Merriam to Charles Marsillio Jr. On hand for the ceremony were Bob and JeanField. Bob reports that Junie, recently retired from Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company, is now vice president, finance, of Sugar Refining Corporation of America. The Fields spent six weeks in Europe this past summer covering “pretty much the same ground as on the trip I made with Hank Bagg in 1939.” They took the Queen Elizabeth 11 over and back and loved it. Bob reports seeing Ray Merrick at Cape Cod Dartmouth Club affairs, they being two ’39ers entering into an active Dartmouth life in that neck of the country.

Your scribe and wife are just back from a pleasant week with Bert and Sally MacMannis in sunny Bermuda. This served as a refresher for our prexy, who returned to the Stamford Hospital (Connecticut) to undergo a hernia operation on November 1. Bert is one helluva cruise director, but at the moment he isn’t worth /'a damn at hefting the bags.

Bill WebsteLhas asked me to pass on the word that he has been hard at work producing a massive slide presentation of old and new pic- tures of the Class. He is readying this for the 40th reunion. He advises that he has developed a technique which can take old black and white or color prints (as well as color slides, of course) and turn them into very acceptable transparen- cies. So you lads with some vintage pics need but send them along for inclusion in the big show. Web’s home address is Box 148, Old Saybrook, Conn. 06475.

A successful Women’s Crew Regatta (won by the Big Green ladies) was run on the Connec- ticut River on October 8 in the vicinity of Holyoke, Mass. The annual affair is sponsored by the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce and the National Blank Book Company, whose president is none other than our own LouOldershaw. Lou was quoted as saying that he sees the regatta as “an excellent way to promote the area and bring attention to what Holyoke is doing to preserve and develop the en- vironment.” How deserving for President Oldershaw to have Dartmouth number one!

Bootie Hoskinson is still at his labors with the National Geographic Magazine in Washington, D.C. He and wife Teddy are proud of their sons, Hillary Jr. (a junior at St. Albans School) and his brother Ted (a master there, teaching a fourth grade class). Ted is a graduate of Tulane. Boots still maintains his golf handicap of 12 and is reputed to take regular money from his weekly foursome in the D.C. area.

Random tidbits gleaned from fall reunion: Trudy McLaren is a runner-up in ladies golf championships at Huntington Country Club, Long Island. One of Houston’s top orthopedic surgeons, Bud Richardson, and wife Marybelle have recently returned from trips to Alaska and Scotland. Dick Brooks is into more and more design work. We saw some scarves selling at Trimingham’s in Bermuda. Doc & Chip Tower are off for Nova Scotia following our fall reu- nion. Rog & Patty Harrison visited Bermuda a week before our trip in October. Moose Dudis, now known as Dr. Roger D., has pretty much given up his practice in obstetrics but hangs in as a gynecologist.

Until our next, which will be a combined January-February issue this year, we wish you all a very merry Christmas and a sackful of good toys.

President Kemeny (right) accepts the plaque proudly bestowed upon the College byformer gridiron star, Bob MacLeod ’39, recently tapped for football’s Hall of Fame.

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