1944
Freshman Parents Weekend is always a campus event of magnitude, and adding to its splendor this past April were Joe and Dorothy MacFarland visiting daughter Mary, and Gregory Rabassa on hand to squeeze daughter Kate's fingers.
Three other parents of freshmen didn't make it to Hanover: the Dick Pleasants from D.C., the Whizzer Whites from Michigan, and CarolWang, widow of Shih Wang, from Hong Kong.
The MacFarlands didn't have far to come: just up the road a piece from their summer home on Lake Sunapee. But they did log a few kilometers during the past — year - from Brazil to Sunapee to a house in New Jersey to Brazil, again, and eventually to Melbourne, Fla., where they bought a small house for the winter seasons. "We would have bought a con- dominium," said Joe, "but they wouldn't allow dogs. And dogs we got." Joe has had a minor heart problem, and that prompted early retirement after a lifetime of business ventures in Brazil.
A nice note from Dorothy, Warner Mills's wife, saying that the professor (of government at Beloit College) was spending some time on his "backside" because of a nagging back problem. The old back hadn't prevented the Millses from attending the marriage of son Barry last fall, high up in the Grand Tetons. The photo they sent looked like K-2.
From out there in Pasadena comes word that Dave Merrill has been elected a director of Beverly Enterprises, an operator of health-care facilities. Dave, a practicing physician specializing in internal medicine, has been chief of staff and a director of Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.
Merle Hagen's newsletter has already mentioned the fact that Win Turner has retired as Senate counsel in order to enter private practice in D.C., but we thought we ought to run a photo of the fellow. Win put in almost 30 years of government service, 18 as counsel to the Senate subcommittee on governmental affairs, and nine in the executive branch. With two girls in college and a boy in junior high, Win figures he'd better keep the income incoming; thus the private law practice in Washington.
A sports note of note: Brian McCloskey '77 has been named assistant hockey coach at Princeton - and that's got what to do with '44? You dummies. Brian's wife is Buzz and JeanBensinger's daughter Peggy '77.
Hap Bush sent us a flyer concerning his business consultants business, Bush-Ryan Associates, operating out of Springfield, Mass. It says Hap is your man for acquisitions, sales of a business, financing, mergers, valuation, consulting, and anything else you'd care to get into. Or out of.
Touches of class at Class Officers weekend, even if all the troops didn't get weekend passes to Hanover. On hand were president Ezz Hale, newsletter editor Merle Hagen, reunion chairman Tom Miner, and secretary Fritz Hier. Deralte Fritz hat auch dieses Jahr, zur dritten Mai,die Ledyard Canoe Club Reise an die Seegepaddled. Great fun, as always.
Incidentally, the Class of 1944 won an honorable mention in the class-of-the-year competition — thanks largely to the super efforts of prexy Ezz.
It was fun, too, catching up with LeRoyBriggs after all these years. Friendly CarlKoenig down in Lynchburg put me onto the fact that Roy had retired after years of teaching math and surveying at Hancock Junior College. I ferreted him out via the phone in Capitola, Calif., right there next to Santa Cruz. Roy says he's having a great time, dabbling in real estate, running five miles a day, playing golf, and being busy with the local Parents Without Partners organization. Twice divorced, he has one grown daughter. He lives at 1455 45th St., in Capitola, and says he'd be delighted to see any '44s when they're in the area.
We Sherlocks here this winter thought for a moment that we had located one of our lost brethren — Murray Mondschein. There he was big as life in the New York Times, picture and all, showing antique jewels to a customer in his shop on Madison Avenue. Alas, the wrong Murray Mondschein. We telephoned and the jeweler Murray said he'd never even heard of Dartmouth.
We always try to wind up the June column with a plug for all of our hardworking alumni fund helpers out there in the vineyards. You remember, pull out your checkbook, write in a ten, and then add as many zeros as you can before writer's cramp sets in. Worthy cause, worthy college, most worthy class.
That's it. Blessings.
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