1945

'45s were conspicuous by their absence, as the football season opened against Penn at Memorial Field in Hanover. Along with me high above the 30-yard line were Frank andDora Aldrich, who were watching their first football game in a number of years, having returned just this spring from another long stint in South America. Frank, who has meandered all over the southwestern hemisphere at the behest of The First National Bank of Boston, thinks he may be stateside for sure this time, but he recalls thinking that once before. Frank ran into Jim Drum a number of times in Caracas, where Jim was an executive with the Ford Motor Company. Frank further reports that Jim and Pamela are settled down now in Chatham, N.Y. How about a more complete report, Jim?

Shirley sat down lower with our guests, friends of long standing of whom we speak often, Jim and Ruth Reider, formerly of Weston and now of Lincoln, Mass. The Reiders both graduated from Penn, where their college romance blossomed into marriage. Although the vision of an undergraduate body at Dartmouth liberally laced with females is somewhat spectral to many of us (including me, although I admit to this with some trepidation after having read the analysis of the hypermasculine myth in the September issue), I know we have some classmates with offspring who fit into what we might call the "Reider Syndrome." Let's get up a list here and spread the word around. Those of you who have had a son or daughter who met his or her match and eventual spouse while both were undergraduates in Hanover, drop me a note or card listing the name and class of the bride and groom (maiden name in the case of the former). I am writing this column just days after receiving the September issue, an indication of lead-time problem. Now you all have my address and my first plea for news. Tell us all. I promise nothing will go beyond this magazine and George Barr's newsletter. Hank andLorraine Blansfield, you scoundrels, you didn't tell me that you have a daughter in the class of '84. And Dick Owen, you were supposed to come to the 35th. Tell us something about that busy and varied schedule of yours, as a jurist and composer, that kept you away.

It's not a matter of keeping those letters coming, fellows; it's a question of getting them started.

Geoffrey G. Maclay '45, president of a major realty company in Milwaukee and member of the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame, was presented with a Dartmouth Alumni Award in June in recognition of his service to his community, the country, and the College. Maclay's citation called attention to his contributions to education, conservation, sports, and alumni activities. It also mentioned his provision to the College of "two rather special students, son Geoffrey G. Jr. '69 and son Tod J., "81."

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