1948
By the time '48 brethren read this we all will know whether Dartmouth's 100th gridiron team has had a successful season in terms of its overall won-lost record and in terms of its record among the eight Ivy League institutions who all ostensibly follow the same rules as to eligibility, spring practice, length of pre-season practice period, etc. In view of the current tight finances at the College, the reader may be as glad as I was to note that the season has been expanded to ten games from nine. Perhaps you are also pleased that for the first time in 39 years the Big Green played a team in the South, William and Mary at Williamsburg. It didn't promise to be much of a game, William and Mary having lost five' and Dartmouth two before their encounter, but in spite of our team's loss, I suggest the game gave Dartmouth a boost in many alumni who live in the area turned out and participated in events planned in connection with the game, events that I hope heightened alumni interest in their old alma mater.
I was a kid in Hanover when, in the 1941 season, Dartmouth beat William and Mary 3-0 in Hanover. Dartmouth then lost to Frank Sinkwich's Georgia Bulldogs 35-0 in Athens, a defeat which, in appearance at least, may have justified the Big Green's failure to go south of the Mason-Dixon line again until now. The reluctance is more reasonably explained by fundamental differences in institutional policy and emphasis toward the game of football. Recognizing the practical problems, I, for one, hope that future editions of Big Green gridiron teams may yet travel even further afield for some of their games, as in the distant past, and hope my '48 classmates will join in cheering the Tnlieee for the initial step in this direction with William and Mary.
Believing that personal thought and opinion such as the above belong in these notes, I solicit comment from '48s, either for or against the position taken. Your thoughts and ideas are sought by the administration in Hanover. This column can be improved, too, to the extent you bother to expound on the matter in black and white. Get on your high horse and write.
One of the more ardent followers of Dartmouth's football fortunes over the years has been Paul Liscord. He misses very few games in Hanover or elsewhere in New England, an interest made easier by the location of his home in Contoocook, N.H., a village not far from Concord. Paul first arrived in Hanover after the service and a year at Trinity College in Hartford. After leaving Hanover he went into insurance, stayed with the Travelers for 20 years, and now is in his third year with a partner in Liscord & Ward, Inc., in Concord. As controlling actuaries they are consultants in mainly non-life casualty lines such as autos and homes. Paul thinks he'll "start winding down in a couple of years" and would like to hear from old friends from Hanover days.
One of the many '48s who has found his niche in an area far from his boyhood home is Dr. Ed Keliey. Ed grew up in upstate New York, arrived in Hanover with the V-12 in 1944, got a degree from the College in June of '48, and completed two years at Dartmouth Medical School before transferring to Harvard, where he earned his M.D. and went on to become an orthopedic surgeon. He and his wife Ruth, a Wellesley graduate, have a boy, now 19, and live on the West Coast where Ed was president of the San Francisco Medical Society for two years. He has his own practice and operates mostly in St. Luke's Hospital. He particularly wants to be remembered to his old comrade Dr. Keith McLoud of San Diego, with whom he shared many a consultation in the old days.
Jack Redden, one of the few Ph.D.s in our class, has led a life full of interesting changes and accomplishments, mostly (but not only) in South Dakota, where he is one of about 30 Dartmouth people in the whole state. Jack arrived in Hanover as a Marine in the summer of 1945, got his degree in geology three years later, and went on to Harvard for two more years of advanced degree work. He got to know Cheyenne lawyer Fred Loomis there and sends his regards. Jack spent time with the U.S. Geological Survey, the South Dakota School of Mines, and taught at Virginia Tech. He was always good with his hands and built his family's own home in the Black Hills. In 1964, Jack was instrumental in founding a new school, Wright State College, near WrightPatterson Field in Ohio, and taught there several years before returning to Rapid City where he's a consulting geologist, mostly for mining enterprises in the U.S. and Canada. He and Harriet have three daughters. Jack hasn't been back to Hanover since 1952, but fondly remembers old friendships formed there.
Classmates visiting Hanover should not fail to stop by the old Crosby Hall, now rebuilt as Blunt Alumni Center, to see the outside planting and foliage that your class gift made possible. Also note the plaque. Lloyd Krumm, Barney Hoisington, and other '48s who worked on the project deserve our thanks for finding such a visible way for our small class to be remembered in Hanover.
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