1938

"The Amazing Class of '38": I believe it was Scotty himself who coined that phrase, and over the years he has certainly been one of the class's achievers who have made the adjective apply. Now he's been joined in recognition of artistic accomplishment by a member of the next generation - the daughter of another member of our class.

The University and College Designers Association is an organization founded in 1971 which draws its membership from graphic designers employed by colleges and universities throughout the country. At its recent 1979 conference held at Hilton Head, S.C., the association honored John R. Scotford Jr. and Kate P. Emlen, former promotional design manager of the Hopkins Center and daughter of Bob and Co Emlen. Kate was given a silver award for the poster she designed for a showing in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery of the work of Ivan Albright, noted Woodstock, Vt., artist. She also received an award of merit for her poster publicizing an Alvin Ailey dance performance at the Hopkins Center. She is now working as a free-lance graphic designer in the Upper Valley, living in Lyme. Scotty was given a silver award for a poster he designed announcing the Dartmouth crew schedule. He has won merit awards in the past from the UCDA, and this is his second silver award. Hearty congratulations to them both, and to Bob and Co Emlen for having such a smart and talented daughter.

Ev Wood's summer-long tenure as director of the information booth on campus in Hanover was mentioned at some length in last month's class notes column, and also in a recent issue of "Pace Setter." Presented herewith is a recent photograph of "Amazing 38's" distinguished World War II Navy pilot/Pan American Airways pilot/varsity skier/bird hunter/trout fisherman/ombudsman to the community's many visitors.

It is good, as is not infrequently suggested in these columns, to hear from, as well as about, classmates. My thanks to our hard-working and conscientious head agent, Dick Holt, for his note and enclosure. The latter was a letter to Dick from Gus Hennessey which should make any of us who occasionally feel sorry for ourselves, or at least regretfully conscious of our aches and pains and other signs of the aging process, very humble. Reading Gus's medical saga, from June 1978 to the present, makes Job's trials seem like the porverbial piece of cake. Gus's troubles, which included several separate hospitalizations, ran the gamut from (and this is not to mention all of them) severe lumbar sacral strain ... to infections causing critical weight changes ... to intravenous feeding ... to heart and eye damage ... to open heart surgery ... to a cataract operation on one eye ... to another on the other one month later ... to (the final entry in Gus's letter) "an entirely new life ahead - sound in body, sight, and mind - with God's help, yes - but you have to work right along with Him." Thank you, Gus.

The Holts attended the Yale game, and Dick reported seeing Ed Perrin, John Adams, Roy Duckworth, Baron von Pechmann, Bud Walls, Jack Donovan, Dave Duffy, and Whitey Mays there. Dick didn't say "et uxores," but I imagine a number of spouses were also present. Dick did say, "It was my 50th year of Yale games (except for two during World War II)." That's quite a record. Can anyone surpass or equal it? Not I - but the Yale game I remember best was our sophomore year, on November 2, 1935: Dartmouth 14, Yale 6. How sweet that was!

Who saw whom at the Harvard game this year? That must have been pretty sweet, too.

The New York Times devoted a long column - a very long column - to an account of a conference of 1,600 political scientists from East and West in Moscow earlier this fall. HalBerman was mentioned at some length.

Very soon after filing last month's '38 class notes, I received the sad news of Bob Jones's death in Baltimore. Bob died from a viral disease, complicated by emphysema. His obituary appears in this or a future issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINK. My deep thanks to Jane for her kind acknowledgement of my sympathy note.

Charlie Hathaway made it to Maine last summer, but not quite to Damariscotta, for which I'm sorry. But I'm grateful for his card and also for his mention of his visit with Al Boerker in Bristol, N.H., in September, whereof he reports: "Al and Claudie are great." The Hathaways were heading for Florida the end of October.

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