1934
The wildly exciting U.S.A. hockey win over the U.S.S.R. team at Lake Placid (remember, these notes are being written in late February) has put me in mind of the most wildly exciting hockey game I ever saw. It was played in Davis Rink: in Hanover, exactly 46 years ago-on February 24, 1934. The combatants were Dartmouth and Princeton, and Dartmouth won 9-7 in two overtimes, after a scoring duel in which the lead changed many times from period to period. Sacrilegious though it may be to say so, this reporter submits that that hockey game approached in excitement the fabulous 33-33 football duel played with Yale a couple of years earlier.
That in turn reminded me of how overwhelmingly the class of 1934 dominated the membership of the Dartmouth hockey team our senior year. The reason was that the ten 1934 team members were hockey stars of the first magnitude.
Where else but behind a Howie McHugh would a fine goal tender like Stan Neill have to wait in the wings? Where else but behind IkePowers would a Don Crowther play understudy, and where but behind Art Nissen would there be a powerhouse like Jim Walter? Bob Bennett and Hafey Arthur owned their spots outright, without having to look back over their shoulders, but I think it is more than New Rochelle chauvinism that has me remembering Roald Morton breathing very hard down the neck of the great Frank Spain. Yes, on the great 1934 hockey team that suffered only two collegiate losses all season, there were only three non-'34s, and I'll bet my .seat at the Moscow summer Olympics that you can't name more than one of the three.
Irja and Bill Wilson spent the winter in Liberia, West Africa, courtesy of International Executive Service Corps, a non-profit organization which provides volunteer assistance in foreign countries. Bill's project is with a company that operates two hospitals one in the mountain town of Yakepa, where iron ore is mined, and the other in the port city of Buchanan, from which the ore is exported.
Bill wrote from Yakepa: "It's a fantastic operation-ten million tons of ore a year, with advanced technology that makes for incredible contrasts with the rest of the area, which is populated by tribal units in mud-hut villages. We live in a very nice company bungalow, which looks down a valley toward beautiful mountains in the country of Guinea. Every morning stately, colorfully-dressed native ladies from Guinea come to town on foot with large baskets on their heads filled with wonderful fresh fruit. The hospital project is well under way. Irja and I have been accepted as a team. Both hospitals are modern and medical care is quite good. Though management techniques in the mining companies are sophisticated, this hasn't been the case in the hospitals, and it's where we hope to be of help."
If you should run into George Engel, don't bother asking him why he wasn't at our 45th class reunion last June. We know why he wasn't. George was retiring from the University of Rochester, and that event was formalized into a three-day program in early June called the Engel Retirement Celebration. It was designed "to honor George Libman Engel for his 41 years as a scholar, teacher, physician, and researcher in the broad field of biopsychosocial medicine, which he has helped to define." George spent 34 of those 41 years at Rochester. In 1946 he was appointed to the faculty of psychiatry and medicine and charged with the task of developing research and teaching programs in settings beyond psychiatry itself-a discipline that came to be known as psychosocial medicine.
Short takes. From Isobel Brennon in Kennebunkport, Maine: "Glad to send dues to the class of '34 I'd feel lost without news of Barn's 'old' classmates via newsletter and Alumni Magazine. Glad to hear reunion was so successful." Gardner Brown has moved from Osterville, Mass., to Box 248, West Dover, Vt., "home town for three ski areas, two of which we view from the. house, along with Mt. Snow championship golf course. Winter here is something that can be enjoyed." From FrankLepreau: "Had an exciting and educational time in October, when I was invited by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to deliver a paper on surgery in the tropics. It was our first trip to England, so Monny and I had a good vacation, also visited one of the country's best hospitals."
Address changes: Stew Anderson from Riverside, Conn., to 5303 Kenwood Avenue, Chevy Chase, Md. Herb Hawkes from Orleans, Vt., to 6120 Santa Valera, Tucson, Ariz. Bob Offenbach from Quincy to 33 Claudette Circle, Framingham, Mass. Dick Renshaw to P.O. Box 68, Gatlinburg, Tenn. The rest are all Florida: Dick Schueler from Tequesta to 2440 S.E. Ocean Boulevard, Stuart. Bob Thompson to 600 Atlantic Drive S.E., Lantana. WinWatts to 84-A South Harbor Drive, Vero Beach. Bill Stein from Greenwich, Conn., to 6750 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Sarasota. DonCrowther to P.O. Box 216, 303 Quail Point Drive, Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach. Because of a recent report moving Don to Madison, Conn., we judge this to be a winter location.
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