1944
Fall and football are synonymous, of course, and we've seen a number of the troops in the environs of Memorial Field in past months more often than not, unfortunately, under umbrellas.
Munching deviled eggs together at the soggy Princeton encounter were McDevitts, McLaughrys, Craigs, Pfeifles, and Costa.
Joe and Ann McDevitt were east on a golf junket, accompanied by two of the handsomest daughters you ever did see. Mary is in graduate school at Yale and Shauna is a senior at the U. of California at Santa Barbara.
Mike Costa had hit Hanover from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to which he retired (from the food business) a few years back. He is keeping out of mischief by dabbling in real estate. "Pretty bad timing," he said, "given current high interest rates and the sluggish housing market."
Our mini-reunion for the damp Holy Cross confrontation was less populated than usual, but we did share back-slaps with B. Joneses, Bushes, Richardsons, Feads, Zrikes, Sorgs, Mayberrys, Leopolds, Vancisins, Hales, Haffenreffers, Closes, Hiltzes, Frosts, McLaughrys, Behrles, W. Martins, Winklers, Barneses, Zarods, H. Hugheses, Bogart, Shearer, Whiting, Orrs, and Rangers.
Seeing Win and Cappie Martin was a happy py "first" first sight of them in 10, a hundred years. They have been overseas, mostly London, Africa, the Near East, almost since Hannibal made it over the Alps, in the employ of Arthur D, Little company. They make Weston, Mass., home base now, but have just built a second home in Grantham, N.H., just down the road. Win still spends some 40 per cent of his time out of the country; when home, he keeps on his toes teaching in the Arthur Little master's degree program. Wife Cappie is a master craftsperson; daughter Sandy is a professional painter; and son. Winslow Jr. increased his smarts at Connecticut College and the University of Chicago.
Had a nice chat with Bob Hirschfield out in Bay City, Mich., where he is still masterminding the family scrap-iron and metal yards. He and wife Binky were just back from a vacation. Two of Bob's four daughters are married, two not. Bob said he'd seen Whitey Myers and that Whitey's golf game was definitely up to par these days. He had, in fact, qualified for the U.S. seniors tournament, held this year at Detroit's Oakland Hills course.
Four '44 youngsters arrived on campus this fall as freshmen: Carl and Christina Eldrldge's son George; Joe and Dorothy McFarland's son Joe; Bob McLaughry's daughter Linda; and Charles and Ruth Sporleder's daughter Sigi.
Way out yonder, two of our stalwarts represented Dartmouth at inaugural ceremonies. Rick Bradley, professor of physics at Colorado College, was our delegate at the October 2 inauguration of a new president there; and DickSholl wore the green for us at an October 3 inauguration at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Professor Warner Mills of the Beloit Government Department played an active role in the Beloit ceremony.
It's old news, but all should know that Dickand Carol Ranger finished their three-and-a- half-year sojourn in Brazil and are now back at Ford headquarters and their old house in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
We reported earlier that Frank Martell had been elected president of the bar association of the District of Columbia, and a story and a picture to prove it appeared in The DailyWashington Law Reporter. Front page, no less. Frank assumed his new post June 9.
Hank Best informs us that his old buddy Jack Beckwith has left his hospital management post in New Hampshire and moved back to Rhode Island. "Lives just six houses from us in East Greenwich," reports Hank.
If you knew her, you wouldn't be surprised to hear that Julie Miner '76, Mary El and Tom's daughter, is an architect with the firm of Moore Grover Harper, P. C., in Essex, Conn., and that's the outfit that won the assignment of designing Dartmouth's new Hood Museum. Julie got her master's degree at Yale.
That's it. Blessings.
"Three relics and a ruin" was how this triumvirate of '44s described this picture ofthemselves posing in front of the Parthenon. From left to right are Fritz Hier, BillMcElnea, and Bob McLaughry, who cruised the Greek islands last summer on McElnea'scompany yacht.
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