1948

Finally managed to track down the one remaining '48 we know of in Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona not previously contacted by this scribe: Phil Kelly in Odessa out in the western part of Texas. Phil, then a young man from Boston, originally arrived in Hanover in 1943 as a Marine in the V-12 program. After active service with the Corps he returned to the campus as a civilian before receiving his degree as a math major in June '48. Since then Phil has lived an active life in such widely spaced points as Missouri as a teacher, Korea as a Marine once again, Boston University where he earned a master's in math, Hawaii as a teacher (in Punahou School) and in his own data processing firm, and for the last eight years in Odessa where he continues in the data processing field. Phil and June were last back in Hanover for a visit 20 years ago, and they have a son at Texas University in Austin. Phil roomed in Topliff, on E. Wheelock across from Davis Field House and the tennis courts, for quite a while, and he was a Phi Gam. One of his good buddies was Gene De Felice '47, a fellow teacher who Phil says now owns and operates a fine restaurant in Norwood, Mass., that merits the attention of any '48 in the vicinity who wants a first-class meal with Dartmouth flavor. Phil, located on Buffalo Ave. in Odessa, would like to hear from any of his old friends, '48 and otherwise, who remember those undergrad days in Hanover with the same pleasure as he.

His friends will be saddened for Dr. DickBredenberg and wife Huldah, for the recent loss in Japan of one of their sons, Leif, from a cerebral hemorrhage. Dick, a professor of Education at Eckerd (formerly Presbyterian) College in St. Petersburg, has spent considerable time as an exchange teacher at the University of Nagoya. The tragedy occurred over the Christmas holidays when the parents with three of their children were on a skiing holiday. That the Bredenbergs have accomplished much during their years in Nagoya was shown by the fact that over 1,000 of their friends and Leif's students attended the memorial service for the young man. Dick will be teaching in London from September through December this year, and would enjoy seeing any '48s in the vicinity.

A note from John Van Raalte advising that Dick Leggat's wife Patsy ran her class's 25th reunion at Smith this past year, means that the '48 reunion chairman in 1978 will have some pretty experienced help to draw upon in putting together our 30th. Even with such fantastic back-up as Patsy, however, our old R.D.L. is going to have his work cut out. Your friends and classmates, though not relishing your responsibility, Dick, are looking forward to the show in the knowledge you can also expect plenty of help from your committee. Good luck.

By the time you read this, another Dartmouth Commencement will have come and gone, in the beautiful Bema if the rains don't interfere, in the soft Hanover springtime. Doesn't seem like 29 years since the first large grouping of our Class received their diplomas from the hand of John Sloan Dickey in that ceremony in June of 1948. Hope they've been good years for all of us. And if nostalgia tugs just a bit at the old heart, would recognition of same through some kind of gesture in Bob Munson's direction be out of place? Hope I'll have more to write about in the next issue of these notes. Have a good spring.

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