1948
We of the class of 1948 need to acknowledge with thanks and pride the work done by '48s in behalf of the class and the College. President Lloyd Krumm, during whose term of office '48 provided funds for the highly visible and effective landscaping outside the Blunt Alumni Center, has been a hard-working leader. He has given special attention to increasing class meetings and participation in College events, in an attempt to pull our divided class together. By the time you read this, the fall class cocktail party and dinner in New York, which Lloyd hopes can become an annual affair, will have already happened. Additionally, the '48 luncheon and executive committee meeting will have been held in Hanover the Saturday of the Cornell game. These events will be held again in 1982, and the presence of all '48s is earnestly solicited. Bring your wives, dates, relatives, friends, offspring, etc.; you'll meet old buddies, and your effort should mean a good time.
Lloyd also suggests that '48 residents of and visitors to the New York area try to attend what should be a gala affair, a Dartmouth dinnerdance at the Grand Hyatt on Tuesday, December 1, in honor of David McLaughlin '54. It promises to be a marvelous opportunity to hear Eleazar's 13th successor as president discuss current affairs at our College on the Hill. Lloyd hopes that a good '48 turnout will join him there. Watch for the notice on this.
Congratulations to Dick Leggat, who has been appointed to chair the Alumni Council's nominating committee. The 66-member Alumni Council serves as a sort of sounding board, research body, and discussion forum between the College administration and the wide body of alumni. One of the nominating committee's first functions will be to nominate an alumni trustee candidate to succeed business magnate Ralph Lazarus '35, who steps down from the board next June after long and devoted service. Classmates are urged to forward any suggestions for nominees to Dick to help ensure that the widest possible input is received from alumni. His committee has a tremendous responsibility, and your opinions are earnestly solicited.
In discussing alumni participation in current Dartmouth matters, one is impressed by the number of '48s who have positions in alumni organizations devoted to coordination between the College and its sons and daughters. Classmates who have served on the Alumni Council in the past are Russ Carlson, Warren Daniell, John Hatheway, Bob Huke, and Lloyd Krumm. Officers serving the many, many Dartmouth clubs and associations around the world include Herb Bender, president of the Mid- Hudson Dartmouth Club of Poughkeepsie; Fred Comstock, vice president of the Society of Engineers; Bob Merriam, Ferd Obreeski, Hal Shea, Pete Smith, and Lou Springsteen, all responsible for job development, education, or liaison work in their respective Dartmouth clubs. The two most distant servants of the cause seem to be Bob Neuburg, who is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Peru in Lima, and Dave Karukin, who is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Thailand in far-off Bangkok.
In the all-important field of enrollment work, 48 serves the College through five district enrollment directors, who are responsible for in- terviewing and evaluating candidates. These enrollment workers are dedicated to the effort to ensure that Dartmouth gets the best young men and women the nation can offer in its freshman class each autumn. Pete Smith handles the very active district in the Boston suburbs around Sud- bury; Lou Springsteen covers highly-active Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey; Lanny Brisbin operates in the Huntington area of West Virginia; Fred Loomis covers all of Wyoming from Cheyenne; and Harry Shaw has the Mojave Desert area in Southern California.
All the above '48s, plus others, work in many ways, often putting in long hours and extensive personal funds in helping keep alive Dart- mouth's spirit as inherited by today's alumni from the generations who went before us. As the Indian yell seems no longer to be accepted prac- tice in Hanover, you may wish to honor the above hard-working '48s with a loud Timber Wolf (or Woodsmen or Viking or Artichoke) yell. These symbols were suggested by a student poll conducted by the undergrads in Hanover last spring; the poll, as reported in The Dartmouth, unsuccessfully sought to find a replacement for Eleazar's Indian yell. So choose your own salute for our brethren!
I recently had the great pleasure of talking with Bob Foster again after so many years. The last time we-had spoken was one afternoon back in 1951, when he stopped by to see this Yank at Oxford, where I was doing some graduate work. This time neither of us could remember the story in back of the only Cockney yarn either of us knew the one ending with,"The 'orseman knew 'er!" Bob, with fellow insurance magnate Paul Liscord's advice and help, joined Travelers 32 years ago, and he has happily remained there ever since. He and his wife Sally have seven children, five of whom are still at home in Windsor, Conn. He sees Bob Sherman, also with Travelers, fairly often at the office in West Hartford, as well as other '48s when he's in Hanover.
We were sorry to lose lan Macartney and Carla and family when they recently left Houston for Denver. Mac wanted to be back in the hills again, closer to his beloved Continental Divide-area home near Tensleep in Wyoming. In Denver, he'll be working for Hamilton Brothers oil prospectors who are looking for the black liquid and natural gas in many parts of the world. It is an exciting profession, which Mac has enjoyed since he left the hills of Hanover in 1948.
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