1941

LIFE BEGINS AT THE FORTIETH! June 15-18, 1981

Headlines from The Dartmouth, May 1941: Fraternity Hums Start Monday . . . Weisker '41 Wins First Prize in Art Contest . . . Key Weekend Starts as 719 Girls Crowd Town for Festivities .. . Twist Wins One-Act Play Award . . . Enlistment in Naval Reserve Class Opens . . . 3-2 Win Over Harvard Puts Green in League Lead. Sexton Leaves 7 Cantabs Stranded . . . Herman '4l Wins Grimes Prize for Writing . . . President Hopkins Awards B.A. Degree to 500 Seniors in 172 nd Graduation Ceremony.

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This is the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE you'll get before the Great Gathering on the Hanover Plain, so I'll seize the occasion to holler " '41 Out!" one last time. There's no last-minute word I can give you, because it's only March 30 as this is being written, but all the early signs promise one of our biggest and best. You will have been getting all the up-to-date stuff from Chairman Jordan Gotshall's mailings and Steve Winship's newsletters.

Just one thing: If you're coming, have you sent in that deposit yet?

Ed McMillan phoned the other evening with the line-up for the class panel that he's staging. The topic: "How to Manage Health, Wealth, and Time in Retirement." George Herman, '41's professional moderator, will moderate, and the panelists will be Dr. Harvey Dworken,Gus Broberg, Stace Hill, and Monk Larson. That'll be Wednesday afternoon in 105 Dartmouth.

Reunion gift chairman Dan Provost reported in mid-March that his early canvass had produced gifts and pledges of $150,000 toward the quota we set of $250,000, which is about eight times what we had in the house last year at the same point. That, of course, was before the regular Alumni Fund campaign had started, so what goes on between the time I'm writing and the time you're reading will really tell the story. Still a long way to go but if Head Agent Stacy Hill and his troops, and Dan's ongoing efforts, continue to get that kind of extra response from us all, maybe '41 can do itself proud for once.

And so back to current events. The bad news first:

Walter Philip Buck Jr. died February 3 in Wichita, Kan., leaving his wife Shirley and a son and daughter. Phil left school before graduation, worked briefly for the Beech Aircraft Corp., and served with the Coast Guard in the Philippines during World War 11. Since then he had been with Bucks Inc. store in Wichita until recent retirem ent.

And Bob Thomas's wife Barbara died March 11 of cardiac arrest in Falmouth, Maine, where she and Bob had retired several years ago. Barbara was Wellesley '42 and was very active in community affairs in Falmouth. Carl Krogh, who notified us on Bob's behalf, adds that "there was a memorial service in Falmouth and a second one in Abington, Pa., a week later. Bob is doing fine."

The sympathies of the class go out to all. We have news about daughters:

As you may have noticed in a recent College newsletter, AI Van Wie's daughter Susan, class of '77, is now heading the Campaign for Dartmouth regional office in San Francisco. She'd previously been at Dartmouth as a teaching assistant in the History Department and a rural education intern in Bradford, Vt. (Al's son Dave was also Dartmouth, class of '79.)

A new book by Joanna Stratton, Lydia andClif Stratton's daughter, rated an up-front review in the New York Times, a full page in Newsweek, and selection as a Book-of-the-Month alternate. It's Pioneer Women: Voicesfrom the Kansas Frontier, an editing and annotation by Jolie of memoirs that her great grandmother began collecting almost a century ago from and about the wives and daughters of early Kansas settlers. Jolie, meanwhile, finishes Stanford Business School in June. (A subsequent letter from Lydia says "Clif would have been delighted" and brings us up to date on herself and the other kids: "My work now takes me to Seattle and West Texas a good part of the year; am now completing renovation of a commercial building in Seattle's historic district. Cynthia decided her C.P.A. work would prove limiting and so is acquiring a baby and a law degree at the same time, before starting tax practice with a Houston firm. Jerry decided to forego Wall Street and try Seattle as a lesspressured place. He's joined the Perkins Coie firm there.")

The only winter-travel note I can provide is that Bob and Barbara Harvey spent February in southern Portugal. Played golf, ate grilled sardines, and found the same drought that drove us off Block Island last fall is afflicting the Algarve. We left before the water ran out. See you in Hanover in June.

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