1941

The new season starts in sorrow.

Bill Lee, once of Gamma Delta Chi and the Ledyard Canoe Club, died in Pennsylvania last spring. You'll find an obituary in this issue or the next. And in July Chuck Bolte sent word that Mary had just died of a brain tumor, undetected and unsuspected. She blacked out in the afternoon and died within hours without regaining consciousness. Charles and Carol Mclane drove down to Dresden from their Maine summer home for the services.

"Some of her Wellesley classmates and I have agreed," Chuck writes, "that the most fitting memorial would be a scholarship fund at Wellesley to aid students from Maine. Contributions can be sent to Mary Elwell Bolte '43 Scholarship Fund, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass."

There is, happily, plenty of pleasanter news to turn to now. So much has piled up in the inbasket over the summer, in fact, that it will take a couple of months to work through it all. Only thing I can see to do is go way back to last May and start dishing it out chronologically. Even- tually we'll be caught up.

In April Dr. Jack Selby represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of Lauro Fred Cavazos as president of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Tex. Jack is a surgeon there in Lubbock. At about the same time, BillFreeman, senior vice president and treasurer of C.B.I. Industries, Inc., was elected a director of L. E. Myers Cos. Group, a Chicago builder of electrical transmission, distribution, and substation systems. (I'm guessing that C.B.I. Industries is some present incarnation of Chicago Bridge & Iron, where Bill started work in 1946 "as the only history major in the engineering department.")

Dr. Harvey Dwerken has been on a sab- batical this year — from Western Reserve School of Medicine, presumably, since that's where he was teaching at last report — and spent it revising his textbook.

Last spring you read in this very column that Dr. Frank Munsey, the peripatetic pediatrician, had gone off again, this time to Saudi Arabia. A note from Frank adds more: "Married Heidi Marsh in August 1979, picked up a few kids, and now have a total of nine children and three grandchildren. Itchy feet pushed us over here for a two-year pediatric contract, after an unplanned three-month visa-problem stay in Germany. So far it's quiet here in Khamis Mushayt. Drop in if you're in the area!"

That, I believe, wraps up the news about '41 physicians, except for a fine story about Dr. Dave McGaughey, which I'm saving for next month. Back to us laymen.

Jim McLellan revealed that he has retired in July of '79 and was, at time of writing, getting ready to sell their house in Denville, N.J., and move to Nova Scotia.

Also transplanted is Bud Rothermel: "Barbara and I are now in Atlanta after all those years in Chicago and enjoy it very much. Our three sons also live here. I sold my Chicago in- surance agency, formed a corporation here, and two of the boys are with me in this new venture direct-mail advertising, insurance, real estate, and a little of everything."

From Swathmore, Pa., Bob Fry writes that the Penn-Dartmouth game in Philadelphia last November triggered a mini-reunion at RayWelbourn's home in Swathmore. Joining Bob and Ray were Ed Pierce, down from Darien, Conn., and Bill David, up from Westminister, Md., where he teaches political science at Western Maryland.

We have the latest on Dana and Bunny Chase and family in Longmeadow, Mass., my old home town, thanks to a note from Bunny: "Our two youngest sons, Steven and Robin, graduated from Dartmouth and our two oldest from the University of California and University of Washington. Daughter Sue is now a senior, graduating in June '80, and daughter Meredith, the 'baby,' is a freshman at Dartmouth. We have two grandsons and two grand-daughters."

All that, I fear, has only brought me up to May 27, which is the date on a letter and clipping from Sue Hall, which you'll read about next month, along with an update on ChetWilliams and his new book on how to speak Chinese and lots more.

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