1948

The hard-working Class of 1948 president John Van Raalte just provided the good news that Dick Leggat has agreed to take on the tremendous task of being chairman of 1948's 30th reunion to be held in Hanover some 15 months from now in the summer of 1978. Dick, always modest about his own accomplishments, is one of those fellows who always gets things done - and with a minimum of noise or fanfare. The Class can be enthusiastic over the work John has done in persuading Dick to take on such an awesome task. The choice is made even better by the fact that Dick and wife Patsy, who normally live on the south shore at Cohasset below Boston, spend much time in and near Hanover where Patsy grew up. (Her dad was the Dr. Jack Bowler '15 who helped found the Hitchcock Clinic a number of years after he won the "honor," in a draw with two other undergrads, of being the first Dartmouth student to do a somersault on skis off the old jump in the Vale of Tempe.) Dick and Pat now have a place near the Skiway in Lyme Center, they have a record of three undergrad daughters following their dad's footsteps at Dartmouth, and these facts may give Dick an even better opportunity to see to the myriad details that organizing a reunion must involve. Dick will have the help of a committee of classmates, but all of us '48s can know with certainty that he has taken on a very tough job for which all of us can thank him in advance.

Talked to another New Englander a few nights ago, Carl Ward, whom I have not seen since '48 was on campus. Carl has worked for Ma Bell in Springfield, Mass., for 28 years, and was just about to pull stakes with his family in being transferred to Boston. Carl is the father of three, and is now a grandfather. He recalled living down on W. Wheelock, in an off-campus house with five other guys, and mentioned BudThorne, Don Gilmore and the departed ArtKosse as old friends.

Although both are now '49s, the Class will remember Ed Leede and Tom Mullins of our days in Hanover. Ed is an independent oilman in Midland, Tex., who with wife Margaret Anne expects to be in Hanover for a few days in February for the Dartmouth Horizons program. Tom finished Tuck in 'SO and has since been with General Motors, mostly Detroit, in a number of capacities involving stockholder relations and some pretty imaginative, progressive aspects of public affairs. Tom reminisced over rooming with Bob Russell in Wheeler during the period July '44-February '45, being absent with Uncle Sam from the latter date until his return to Hanover in the fall of '46. He roomed with Lloyd Krumm in Richardson through the spring of '47, and then occupied a suite with, I believe, Lanny Brisbin,Jack Bobbitt, and Dick Weaver the following year in - again I'm doubtful - good old Topliff. (How those days gradually fade!)

Just saw a note from class agent Bud Munson which indicates the Trustees have reached a decision, after contacting various Dartmouth constituencies, which seems to mean little or no change in the size of Dartmouth and little or no change in the three-to-one men/women ratio. Probably fuller information will have been made available by the time you read this. Hope you got your oar in if you had a position on the matter.

In closing, please note that I'd like to get more '48 names into these notes and less of my own stilted prose. Please give yourself and your friends a break by helping me out with a little news. A postcard will do. Anything. Many thanks.

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