1948
By now every member of the class will have heard from Warren Daniell about plans for our 35th reunion next June 13—16. We'll be reuning with '47 and '49, and the program appears to provide plenty of opportunity to renew some of the friendships each of us enjoyed while we were on campus so many years ago. The opportunity to have a good time will not be lost by anyone who overcomes doubts and decides to be on hand! Consider the return to Hanover and well-remembered haunts of yesteryear. You can be sure that Warren, his committee, and the College itself all want reunion to be a great time, and you can be equally certain that much work is being done by some dedicated volunteer classmates to make it so. Send in your green card! Hope to see you in Hanover in June!
It is this scribe's guess that Bud Gedney and frau and perhaps other family members will attend. Bud, in advertising in Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., wrote recently, "John VanRaaalte spent the evening of July 4 with the Gedneys, and we did a lot of reminiscing over a keg. Son Chip '74 (our 25th reunion bartender) is a senior media planner and son Barth is now at Tulane. Daughter Lisa got married last summer, and daughter Amy works for the Bank of New York but lives at home. Grandson Scott has a long way to go before he has to be concerned about the class of 2002 or whatever ouch." Bud, you can look forward to some more good reminiscing in Hanover in June.
One of our fellows mighty happy to be back in circulation is attorney Dave Kadyk in Tampa. Some nine months ago Dave started losing his balance occasionally. This difficulty, apparently caused by a small blood clot on the brain, complicated a much more serious aneurysm, or ballooning of an artery near his heart, which led to emergency heart surgery. He was knocked out for three days, in bed for nine days, and out of the office for three months! Dave sounded well on the phone, however, is once again playing an easy game of tennis with wife Bev, and expects to be back at full throttle in the office shortly. He modestly mentioned that he has succeeded in giving up smoking. Glad you made it, Dave.
When we talked in July, Bill Matthews still had his head in the fog from the tremendous wedding he and Mary had just held for their middle daughter Betsy in Huron, Ohio. Bill said the affair put the Matthews household in bankruptcy, but it was pretty obvious that he had had enough fun at the fling to make it worthwhile. With two other daughters and a son, Bill and Mary may be able to direct further similar events in the future, undoubtedly to Bill's great satisfaction.
Charles "Jim" Randolph has certainly bad an interesting career to date in the field of magazine publishing. He was with Dow Jones, with the French firm Hachette, and he published Business Week for many years. He also started the fabulously successful, slick magazine, GEO, for Gruner and Jahr, the German publisher. Later he put out the new Inc. in Boston. Jim has just gotten into the news again by reactivating his old Randolph Consultants at 75 East End Avenue in New York, and he is once more on the lookout for new publishing worlds to conquer. Jim merits congratulations for a job well done.
Also a consultant is Art Schoen, who left the Atomic Energy Agency in Washington three years ago to join a consulting firm in a nearby city in Maryland. He was in the middle of a party for his 56th birthday when we talked, so I don't have much information other than that it was a helluva party, judging from the buzz in the background!
It was a pleasure to hear from the old warrior, Bob Russell! Year in and year out Bobo has been one of those Dartmouth alumni who can be counted on to put their shoulder to the wheel in any way that our alma mater needs. Although he and Barbara call Sangerties, N.Y., home most of the time, the Russells are strongly attached to their Maine beach-front getaway house in the summer. They understand Ed Oullette lives in the same community but have been unable to find him. Phil Gahm and family may not be too far away in Medomak. Other resident '48 Down East Mainiacs are NormSaunders and Sam Wilkinson in Portland, Phil Shepard in Yarmouth, Walt Baker in South Freeport, Tom Crook in Standish, and Jim Graham in Freeport, so one thinks the Russells will have plenty of company during future summers. John Hatheway and Pat stopped by on a trip to Nova Scotia in August last year, and one guesses there are many other '48 summer visitors to be seen at least occasionally along the beautiful rock-bound cost of the Pine Tree State.
Hope you managed to see Joe Yukica's charges in one or more of gridiron shows this fall. As of this writing the team has won only three games. Yet excitement still prevails over the slim possibility that they may once more achieve a tie in the Ivy race. I believe all of us who enjoy football are awaiting with anticipation the results of the current study of Ivy League football by a committee of four Ivy presidents, including our own President McLaughlin. We can be sure the study will be carefully done, as McLaughlin was a football star in his undergraduate years. The. conclusions will merit deep thought by all alumni interested in the future of the sport in the Ivy League. A sports world governed by T.V. and its commercialistic tendencies, in combination with recent N.C.A. A. actions, has made such a review a necessity if the old values and continuing student and alumni interest are to be preserved.
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