1948

It is a warm, late-January night in Houston; the outdoor temperature is a contemptible 68°F; the nearest snow is probably in northeast New Mexico some 700 miles from here; and Hanover's sometimes sparkling, sometimes vicious winter seems an immeasurable distance away. Hope this reminder will cause '48 readers to break into their present routine for a minute or so to think back on some of those fine January and February days in Hanover over 30 years ago. We were the beneficiaries then of a great tradition of outdoor winter life that still is kept up, I'm happy to say, by Dartmouth men and women today. It's a long way back, but some things haven't changed that much. The decrepit old '48 can still feel at home on the campus.

Which may be an easy way to lead into an enumeration of some of those '48s who today still satisfy their pride in the College on the Hill by working for the Green in some of their spare time. Reading a recent list of alumni officers issued by the College, I was struck by the number of '48s who are in its service.

Today's members of the Alumni Council, probably the largest and most important single alumni reference and advisory organization, include lawyer Dick Leggat, elected by the region comprising New England, Quebec, and the eastern provinces, and engineer WarrenDaniell, the representative from the Thayer School, who is also a member of the allimportant enrollment and admissions committee (where freshman admissions practices are considered and weighed). Past '48 Alumni Councilors have been banker Russ Carlson, ; businessman John Hatheway, teacher Bob;Huke, and class president Lloyd Krumm.

Any number of '48s are officers and contributors in local alumni clubs and associations around the world. Civil engineer Fred Comstock, for example, is treasurer of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers, an old group founded in 1903. Among the multitude of regional Dartmouth clubs, teacher Herb Bender is president of the Mid-Hudson Dartmouth Club of Poughkeepsie. Pete Smith is liaison officer (enrollment work) of both the Alumni Association of Eastern Massachusetts in Boston and the Sudbury Dartmouth Club in Framingham, not to mention his being enrollment director of District 17. Art connoisseur Ferd Obrenski is continuing education officer of the Alumni Association of Long Island, while insurance specialist Hal Shea is job development and career advisory officer of the Club of Central Vermont in Montpelier. (Hal, do you still love skiing as you used to? You're certainly in the right place if you do.) Education professor Al Barrow is secretary and liaison officer of the Washington Club. Abroad, South American resident Bob Neuburg is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Peru in Lima, while Dave Karukin, retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Marines, is secretary of the Dartmouth Club in Bangkok, Thailand.

Other '48 district enrollment directors, who look for promising high and prep school students as candidates for Dartmouth and who arrange for their alumni interviews as part of the admissions process, are man of the cloth Lou Springsteen in the Bergen-Passaic area of New Jersey; Lanny Brisbin in District 253, which is the Huntington, W.Va., area; surgeon Jack Mahoney, who covers Florida's Fort Lauderdale area; lawyer Fred Loomis, who is responsible for one of the largest areas in the country, the state of Wyoming, from his home in Cheyenne; and security specialist HarryShaw, who patrols District 935, which is the Mojave Desert area in southern California.

When we look to Hanover itself, we of course find Barney Hoisington, who is director of financial aid of the College, the all-important position from which he dispenses financial assistance to students on the basis of a sole criterion - need. Also a fixture in the community is the aforementioned intensive farmer and geographer Bob Huke, who is spending the current academic year in Asia on a project concerning the availability of water to major rice producing areas.

The class can be proud of its members, the above and many others, who continue to support the welfare of our alma mater.

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