1948
Dartmouth, well into its third century, has matriculated its freshman class of 1983. Autumn in Hanover! What a time to be there. These young men and women will have the same opportunities that we '48s had to sit in the stands on the home side of Memorial Field and drink in Mother Nature's riotous billboard of fall colors on Velvet Rocks and Balch Hill, while today's edition of the Big Green knocks heads on the field below. Do you remember those fall days, those colors, in Hanover? For me, it's one of the memories of "place" that remains so much a part of the Dartmouth that most Dartmouth alumni so well remember.
Memory of place of course also provokes memory of people. Every one of us had friends in the class whom we often saw when we were together as students in Hanover, but whom we have lost track of since. One of those for me was Rog Tenney. During the latest Alumni Fund campaign I had a chance to call Rog. It was the first time we had talked in many, many years. I had thought he was still in Rockford but 1 finally located him in Milwaukee. He had left the car business in Rockford and had built a home in Lake Geneva, Wise., some 15 years ago, while getting himself into the investment real estate business in the city to the north. Now he is building shopping centers, apartment houses, etc. Rog and his wife both sound enthusiastic about life and the old boy certainly hasn't lost his sense of humor. I'm extending your greetings to your old friends of campus days, Rog. They'll be glad to know you're back in circulation.
Rich Varadian '75 advises that Shant Chebookjian and his son Richard '75 have formed Bostonian Hot Tubs and Spas Inc. in Waltham, Mass. The firm, which Shant serves as president, specializes in the marketing of namesake items as well as, one assumes, those new rage items such as saunas and Jacuzzis. Contact Shant at 24 Mallard Way if you're in the market.
Have just seen Jim Randolph's first issue of GEO, the slick new American magazine that had its origins in Germany. The collector's edition was impressive for its good paper, very excellent photos and photo printing, excellent articles, and just plain exciting motif. The Himalayan mountain photography was breathtaking. Congratulations, Jim. Your classmates will do well to check on the magazine.
More on the theme of picking up old friendships. Dave Anthony and Fritz McTarnahan, both of whom originally arrived in Hanover as part of the initial '48 contingent in March of 1944, talked on the phone with each other a few weeks ago. First time in 25 years, Fritz said. They had roomed together in old Crosby the summer term of 1944, then both went into the service. When they returned in 1946, they again roomed together, first in Mass Hall, then in North Fayer, before Fritz moved into a fraternity and Dave off campus. Dave and Pat and their offspring have lived in Tulsa for many years, where Dave is with Cities Service. All three children are college graduates, one son has just gotten his law degree, and another boy is in his third year of med school. Dave and Pat may see Fritz next summer in Tucson, where Fritz has a number of enterprises going, including two new lube stations to serve motorists who pick up gasoline at selfserve outlets.
I am indebted to Keith McLoud for the following items. First, he sends greetings to Sam Katz and wonders if Sam remembers the time the two of them downed an entire bottle of Drambuie across the table from each other in Newton Center, Mass. The second item regards one of Keith's spills on skis. This is a subject that has been mentioned before in these notes. On this particular occasion, according to McLoud, he was skiing at Park City, Utah, with a Spanish-style bota of red wine on a line around his neck. You guessed it. He took a spill, the bota broke, red wine sloshed all over him, and it took some time to convince the ski patrol that he really wasn't a bloody mess. "Oh, he broke his bota!" apparently became the theme song all over the mountain.
Quite a few '48s now live in Houston. BobDouglas, a purchasing manager for Gulf Oil, has been here for many years. He and Ginny now have only one young son of their six children still at home. Lan Macartney and his wife Carla and their last two children have been here close to a year, Houston being Amoco's headquarters for the foreign exploration work which Mac carries out in Latin America and the Orient in the search for oil. (He and DaveAnthony may get together as both are connected with a joint Amoco/Cities Service venture in offshore China.) Ray Richard, his wife Gloria, and their family have just moved back here after something over a year in Kuwait. Ray runs a prefab building manufacturing business, Kirby Building Systems Inc., for a Kuwaiti entrepreneur, and he also carries on one or two business enterprises of his own. (He left Bud Munson and family in Kuwait, where Bud is treasurer of the Kuwaiti's overall interests.) Moose Concannon and Cathy arrived this past spring in Houston, where Moose represents Young and Rubicam in advertising work for Gulf Oil's refining and marketing subsidiary.
By the time you read this, the Cornell game and the '48 get-together in Hanover will be long gone. Hope the former was as satisfying as the latter certainly was. Ciao for now.
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