1949
The natural beauty of a Hanover winter was again revealed to Barbara and me as we pushed our cross-country skis around the Dartmouth golf course. Participating in the D.O.C. annual cross-country ski clinic, we joined some 150 students, guests, and alumni intent on learning or upgrading their skills in this burgeoning cold-weather sport. Several inches of fresh powder on Friday night literally put the frosting on the weekend. The only '49er in evidence was Sam Smith taking a break from his Alumni Fund activities. Our class "ran into" Sam on about the ninth hole. He said he was teaching his wife to ski, but she was the one out of sight and over the hill.
My rhyme of several months ago has won few plaudits but has encouraged a literary few to respond, upon my promise to hereafter stick with prose. Bob Rooke, after admonishing me for missing the fall mini-reunion, reports that Randall "Hunt" Bright and Shirley are back in Rome, N.Y., with over 30 years at Revere Copper; that their two sons have completed college, and that the oldest, Randy, is in the auto business and Geoffrey is an Air Force of- ficer. Hunt reports also that he is fully recovered from a serious illness. Returning from Florida this past spring, the Brights visited Jack Flanagan in Pittsburg but no news was enclosed! (Bob asks that Lee Bronson answer his letter)
Another new voice responding to my plea was that of Edwin Snoke of Trenton, Mich. Ed sent,along several photos which indicate that he is "into" biking, placing seventh in his class in the motocross championship races for the season at Delta. Racing YZ 250 G's around the states of Michigan and Ohio, he is ranked 36th in his Michigan class but hopes to move up in 1981. This year he also plans to sponsor a young racer and hopes to take him to the nationals. Ed's stationery indicates a specialty in obstetrics and gynecology but his letter is signed "Slash," alias E. C. Snoke, M.D.
Our class president, Al Wagner, is a regular contributor to these columns and this month offers some news on Ken Soule. Ken and Martha pulled up stakes in Albany a couple of years ago when Ken assumed the position of commercial lines manager for the Travelers Insurance Co. in Portland, Maine. He is a director of the Maine Guarantee Insurance Fund, active in the local Dartmouth Club, and still pursuing his long-time political interests as a member of the Republican town committee.
A formal announcement from Marv Durning has him leaving his position as assistant administrator for enforcement in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Marv has returned to private practice with offices in both D.C. and Seattle.
Al also sent along some additional press copy on our new U.S. senator, Salde Gorton, which stated that in his three terms as Washington's attorney general he tried more cases before the Supreme Court than any other attorney general in the United States and won more than 70 per cent of them. Slade unseated six-term senator Warren Magnuson last November by a 54 per cent to 46 per cent plurality.
Under a Barrons caption of "A bearish eye scans office markets" we find a lengthy analysis of the New York City office and housing market. " 'Everyone', says Charlie Urstadt 'is very optimistic.' Which is why he is not. Jay is chairman, president, and C.E.O. of Pearce, Urstadt, Mayer and Greer Inc. He's also a longtime student as well as participant in the property markets. He worked for William Zeckendorf, in real estate for Alcoa, as New York State housing commissioner under Nelson Rockefeller, and other posts in both the public and private sector. It would appear that Jay is concerned that New York may be repeating the debacle of the early seventies and becoming overbuilt."
From Minneapolis we learn that C. Roger Bailey was recently elected senior vice president in the individual services department of the bond and trust group of Northwestern National Bank. Rog has been with Northwestern since his graduation in 1949.
Keep those letters coming!
The 30th Reunion for the Class of 1950
a touch of class
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