1948
This '48 had the great good fortune this past June to be in Hanover for a few days. It's a great pleasure to report that the soft spring beauty so characteristic of the Hanover area is still present in all its quiet breathlessness, just as it was during those days so many years ago when we '48s had our brief stay at Eleazar's College on the Hill. To be sure, there have been some changes on the campus and in the community during the more than 30 years since most of us departed, but in my opinion the changes are acceptable and have left largely intact the jewel-like setting we knew so well.
One of the more specific pleasures for me was to drive north on the Vermont side of the Connecticut from Norwich up to Fairlee while watching the parade of beautiful hills over on the New Hampshire side above the blue, greenbordered ribbon of river below. There were Balch Hill (the ski slope of our day, now closed in by pines and houses), Oak Hill (the. tow back in operation and the slope recently refurbished by the town in memory of Johnnie Boardman '51, who as a Hanover lad had spent so many happy hours on its surface), Pineo Hill (where generations of Hanover lovers-of-the-outdoors have sought out the partridge on its wooded slopes), the long shoulder of Moose Mountain as it slides into the steep cliffs of Holt's Ledge, with the Winslow Ledges beyond, the high humpback of Smarts Mountain (above the two still-isolated ponds called Reservoir and Cummings at its base on the southeastern side), succeeded by Black Hill and the gnarled, knuckle of Mt. Cube prior to the long flat across Armington Pond country that raises eventually to the shadowy and massive Moosilauke in the distance. Take a look if you're in Hanover this fall. Still magnificent country.
It is with apologies to their families and to all Dartmouth alumni that I report my mistake of a few issues back in crediting the magnificent "Dartmouth Undying" to Richard Hovey. The latter wrote great Dartmouth songs, but I'm indebted to 1921 class secretary Harold Geilich for noting, "Our beloved classmate, Franklin McDuffee, wrote 'Dartmouth Undying.' When one passed him on the campus, a beatific smile would light up his face as he greeted you. This soft-spoken man exuded happiness and joy. . . . That song expresses the innermost feelings of peace and contentment that lived within Franklin. He was a frail man — perhaps that tells the story of how he happened to die so early in life (age 40)." Many thanks, Mr. Secretary. "Who can forget her soft September sunsets. ..."
Classmates will already know from Barney Hoisington that 1948's 35th reunion will be held in Hanover in June 1983 and that president Lloyd Krumm has gotten Warren Daniell to take on the tough job of chairing our reunion. Warren has unselfishly and capably done much work for our class, for the College, and for Thayer School since our undergrad days on campus, and he hopes his fellow '48s and families will turn out in enthusiastic numbers next June for an occasion he and his committee will work to make much fun for everyone. We will be reuning with '47 and '49, and the '48 dorms will be Hitchcock and Russell Sage.
This issue may not reach you in time for you to do anything about the following news, but as a prelude to next June's 35 th, a '48 pre-reunion get-together will be held this fall in Hanover on October 16, the Saturday of the Harvard game. A full day of activities is scheduled, on which Barney will have sent you details.
Heartiest congratulations go to Russ Carlson from the class for his receipt of the Dartmouth Alumni Award from the Alumni Council for his work in behalf of Dartmouth College. Ever since he left Hanover, Russ has taken on one task after another for the College, and all of us owe our thanks to him.
Congratulations also go to class agent Ken Young and his 29 assistant agents, whose work brought to the College in the 1982 edition of the Alumni Fund a total of $54,044 from their '48 classmates and widows, 115 per cent of the $47,048 class objective. In a difficult financial period for Dartmouth, the work of these '48s is worthy insurance for the College's continuing service to this planet.
T. T. Metzel, our popular classmate who owns the Great Expectations Bookstore in Evanston, advises that he fairly recently made an exciting trip deep into Manchuria for the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. "We went almost all the way through to the Amur River," he said, describing it as an outer-world area near the Russo-Chinese border seen by few Americans. He also reminded me of his old WDBS character, Thwing Neely, who pronounced his name with the same silent "h" that applies to the "p" in swimming.
Enjoy the autumn and try to get up to Hanover for a game!
Russell Charles Carlson '48 was presented with an Alumni Award at the Alumni Council banquet in June. He was praised as exemplifying the qualities of competence and conscience often cited by President Dickey: in his career at the Onondaga Savings Bank in Syracuse, N.Y., where he is chief executive officer; in his "awesome" range of community service posts from president of the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce to member of the Syracuse Board of Education and board member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra; and in the "impressive scope and effectiveness" of his work for Dartmouth including as a club secretary and president, class officer, and Alumni Councilor.
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