1948

Other '48s who, like me, couldn't be there, are looking forward to Barney Hoisington's next issue of "On and Off the Campus" in the hope he will spell out what happened in Hanover on October 13 in this year's edition of the old tradition of Dartmouth Night. We also look forward to his news of '48 participation in this event as well as in the class cocktail hour and buffet luncheon at the Inn prior to the Yale game the next day. Lloyd Krumm is making a real effort to have a '48 luncheon in Hanover every fall before a big game, an effort which can only be fun for those '48s and friends lucky to be close enough to attend. The torchlight parade and spirited gathering ceremony under the lights in front of old Dartmouth Hall the evening before can warm the cockles of many a '48 alumnus's heart. I'd like to be there next year, and hope that many a classmate will feel like doing the same. The presence of Joe Yukica, a first-rate person whom I was privileged to know in the early 1960s in the Pittsburgh area during his initial years at Dartmouth, and who has returned simply because he wanted to do so, can add to our own pleasure in being back in Hanover.

By now you have read volunteer TomCrook's first noble effort at drawing up these monthly notes. Well done, Tom. A singular disproof of the old adage that you can't make something out of nothing. Give Tom some support, gang. Drop him a note, tell him what you think about anything at all, remind him of some event on campus during our undergrad days some 30 years ago, tell him a new joke that he can try to make printable, give him something to write about. Please don't leave him on his own so early in his career of writing about Dartmouth and his fellow '48s. Don't leave him discouraged. We both need your help.

Although he's perhaps not yet convinced it's for the best, I was glad to see lan Macartney join the small rank of '48s now resident in Texas. He and Carla and family have settled in Houston, one of the more slowly growing population centers in our nation (2000 additional vehicles on the roads every week and no additional roads), and add to the Texas families of Abe Abrahamson, Bob Douglas, Phil Kelly,Noel Levy, Ray Richard (part-timer in Kuwait) and myself. (Apologies to any '48 residents of the Lone Star State I may have missed. Drop me a postcard.)

Mac is in petroleum exploration work with Amoco International, and spends much of his time in South America and the Far East. We had a chance to reminisce a little the other day and of course names like Ted Thornton, DirkKuzmier, Dave Kadyk, Don Drescher, TomDavis, Pete Owen, and many others from those undergrad days in Hanover were affectionately remembered. Mac also recalled with laughter some of the bizarre events of that first summer term of 1944 when a large contingent of civilian '48s, many of whom knew their days were numbered before Uncle Sam would crook his finger, lived in old Richardson Hall. Some '4B with the time might enjoy himself one of these days collecting and writing up some of those anecdotes before we're all dead and the amusement potential therefrom lost to posterity.

I enjoyed hearing from Dick Bredenberg, director of teacher education at Eckerd College in St. Pete, Fla. Dick confirmed what TomCrook noted last month to the effect that he and Huldah found the utmost in hospitality from fellow '48s in the great state of Maine after the 30th reunion last summer. Mainiacs they saw in addition to Tom and Janeene were Phil Gahm and Lou, and Phil Shepard. I believe they missed the Walt Bakers. Having lived in Maine for a few months myself, yours truly can appreciate the enthusiasm of these Down Easters for their adopted home state.

I hope these lines from the sunbelt of Texas find '48s well and happy the world over, wherever you may be and no matter how deep the snow or low the temperature. In the name of Eleazar, send news so your old buddies can know what you're doing!

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