1948

As the following is set to paper in late August, it is only three weeks to the opening of Dartmouth's 100th season of football. On September 20 Penn will appear at Memorial Field in Hanover for the 48th encounter between these old rivals. Those of you who have been there on a crisp fall afternoon can well imagine the scene from high up the Dartmouth side of the stadium: the green open-ended playing field below you, the intermittent fields and houses stretching eastward cross country to the foot of the hills beyond the stadium, the bright red and yellow autumn hues encountered as the eyes climb the hillside and over the hardwoods to the top of Velvet Rocks and thence across to Balch Hill to the north. A scene, I believe, which few sons of Eleazar ever forget.

It is noted with apprehension that in SportsIllustrated's issue of September, Dartmouth was picked to win the Ivy League title this year, with Yale the most fearsome competition. The article pointed out that the Big Green has scored only 13 points on old Eli in the past three seasons. It did not mention that Dartmouth won two of those three games.

Congratulations once again to Ken Young for his great job for the College and the class in the 1980 edition of the Alumni Fund. This time Ken and his class agents didn't win the Green Derby covering six classes, 1941 through 1943 and 1947 through 1949, but that he spent long hours on the phone and did a prodigious amount of jawboning is shown by his achieving participation by more than the goal of 57 per cent of the class whose giving almost reached the $45,000 objective. Shades of another great agent in our past, Russ Carlson, who, like Ken last year, won the derby for '48 a number of years ago.

Two other fellows who held the thankless agent job for many years were Bobo Russell and Lou Perry. Bobo gets up to Hanover from his New York State residence now and then, but Lou tells me it has been a while since his feet have trod Main Street from the Inn corner. Lou, who went out into the world from Hanover in February 1948, left Associates of North America some time ago and now works for Uncle Sam's Post Office department in Bergen County. He was a good friend of Bob Tracy while in Hanover, and got to know Don Drescher afterward. Said he ran into Earl Chambers a while ago and also has seen Al McKee who collects wooden duck decoys and other Americana from his home in Millersville, Penn. He also mentioned Milt Kurtz, JimMcLaughlin, Larry Pederson, and Milt Siegel.

Talked with Herb Shulman a few weeks ago, the first time since he passed through London a good many years ago when the Drurys lived there. Herb is chairman of Tri-State Container Corp. in the northeast corner of Tennessee at Johnson City, a firm which manufactures a tremendous assortment of corrugated boxes. Herb also gives much effort to small Tusculum College and strongly recommended Jean Kemeny's It s Different at Dartmouth as being delightful and thoughtful reading for the Dartmouth man.

Don Ryan, resident of the Windy City, sounded great, mighty proud of his wife and kids, full of good memories about his alma mater where so many Ryans, included two of his boys, have become sons of Eleazar. Has been a futures trader in the grain market on the Chicago Board of Trade ever since Tuck. Sees Don Casey of Wilmette, a lawyer in the Loop, about once a month.

Tried to phone Judge Ed Nadeau in Glens Falls. Unsuccessful. Recording came on to the effect that the judge would be in his chambers the next day. Congratulations on your hardearned position, Ed, and good luck.

Bill Matthews, who became a mechanical engineer at Thayer in '48 and married his Connecticut girlfriend Mary in 1950, has worked more than 32 years in the Hyatt Bearing Division of General Motors. The Matthews now live at Huron, Ohio, on Lake Erie, have had four children, and are now grandparents. Bill is concerned lest the current recession last a couple more years, as are we all, and sends out his best to his old friends.

Have a good autumn. Hope you can arrange to see Joe Yukica's Big Green in action this year as outstanding donnybrooks are forecast which, win or lose, should put us alumni on the edge of our seats as of old.

The class of 1948's recent gift to the College, the garden adjoining the new BluntAlumni Center, passed inspection by class president Lloyd Krumm (left) and news-letter editor Barney Hoisington (right) at the building's dedication in June.

The class of 1948's recent gift to the College, the garden adjoining the new BluntAlumni Center, passed inspection by class president Lloyd Krumm (left) and news-letter editor Barney Hoisington (right) at the building's dedication in June.

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