1938

"Though 'round the girdled earth they roam" continues to apply to some members of the amazing class of '38 and some of our classmates continue to be amazing.

For instance, the following is gleaned from the Honolulu Star Bulletin: "David S. Pallister, a retired Air Force colonel, was named a city and county 'Good Guy' by Mayor Frank Fasi. Pallister, whose home overlooks the Lanikes area on the North Shore, has pulled out many swimmers and surfers who have been caught in the tide. He goes out in his dory and pulls them ashore, often before the Honolulu Fire Department rescue teams reach the area."

Dave's Air Force career began in World War II and lasted into the sixties. Dave and Bea have a son and a daughter, and Dave also has a law degree, gained between service in World War II and Korea. Now he enjoys retirement in Hawaii. Saludos to you, Dave.

Nearer at hand, Bob Hallock was among five recipients of honorary degrees at the 63rd commencement exercises of Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. Following his graduation from Dartmouth, Bob entered the insurance business, interrupting that career for service in the Air Force, from which he retired with the rank of major. Bob is a trustee of the Worcester Hannemann Hospital, the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, and the Worcester Natural History Society. He is a past trustee of Worcester Junior College and the Memorial Hospital Foundation. He is a vice president and trustee of the Worcester Mechanics Association and a corporator of the Worcester Art Museum. Bob is a member of Aleppo Shrine Temple, Melha Shrine Temple, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester Historical Society, and Worcester Biology Foundation, and is president of the Worcester Club. He is the owner of the Hallock Insurance Agency in Worcester, Congratulations, Bob, on a worthy career of public service.

It was noted in this column a couple of months ago that the football season "could have been better-and it could have been worse." As of writing, the same evaluation would seem to apply to the men's hockey and basketball records. But the women's hockey team is well over .500, and its performance against Bowdoin was a pleasure to witness. I know because I was there, in the company of Art Nissen '34, a Damariseotta neighbor, and a stalwart defenseman on the Big Green hockey varsity from 1932-1934. Furthermore, and as one knowledgeable about ice hockey and how it should be played, Art declared himself plenty impressed with our women's skill, both as skaters and as hockey players.

In goal for the Dartmouth sextette for the first period, and maintaining a shut-out, was Janice Ellis. The "Big Green Sports News" says (in fact it says it twice, in successive issues), "Senior co-captain Janice Ellis (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) anchors the Green defense. A two-time All-Ivy goal-tender, Ellis owns an impressive 2.09 goals-against average." Not mentioned by the "Sports News" is the fact that Janice is the daughter of gourmet restaurateur Squee Ellis. Following the game there was a reception at the Bowdoin alumni center, kindness of Bowdoin and the Dartmouth Club of Maine, at which Janice and her teammates were very gracious and charming to a wide age-spectrum of alumni. And then the young women had a bus ride of almost 200 miles back to Hanover, with the rest of Winter Carnival ahead of them. Ah, youth!

Speaking of youth-ours, that is-I suggest that any of you who still have a copy of the October Magazine around and haven't yet read John Scotford's article on the Grid-Graph would enjoy it. It's a good story, and it took me back, as did the line-up, featuring '38ers Davis and Schildgen and Hollingworth.

A note from Carl von Pechmann not too long ago mentioned having gone with Bud Walls to call on Whitey Mays at the V.A. hospital in Rocky Hill, Conn. Whitey was then still very very handicapped following the massive stroke he suffered last May.

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