1939

It is our unpleasant duty to pass along the notice of another death to the '39 family. Maury Costin succumbed on February 13. He had suffered a heart attack in July, and the complications from that attack were the ultimate cause of his death. (See his obituary in this or a succeeding issue.)

There was another matter of the heart in the ckass wutg considerably happier results. Our good treasurer, Cornie (Bubbles) Miller, had open heart surgery on January 26 to replace an aortic valve with a pig valve. This, Cornie reports, prompted Dick Brooks, a neighbor of the Millers, to produce a cartoon illustrating Cornie's new love for porkies. Cornie was home by early February and declared he was prepared to make the scheduled executive committee meeting of the class in N.Y.C. on April 7, "to be sure that our president properly pays the bill."

Mass General Hospital has come up with an ambulatory care center designed to make its services more efficient. The vice chairman of the executive committee of this center is none other than Allan L. Freidlich, one of the top M.D.'s who regularly frequent that famed and excellent hospital. It was nice to see Allan pictured, looking a bit older than our 1939 vintage image, although there was no mistaking the winning smile he displayed in the hospital brochure.

We managed to get a capsuled up-date on the lives and loves of John Page, and his lovely wife Ellen. John is associated with Kidder Peabody in Harrisburg, Pa. He says he is blessed with three children, the second of which, Jonathan, was graduated from Dartmouth in 1968 and from Tuck School one year later. John says that World War II took "all the travel urge out of me. We love the nearby mountains - just 30 minutes to our log cabin, where the deer and birds abound, the thrilling song of the wood thrush or the hammering of the pileated woodpecker, and the katydids. There is hiking, lake swimming, and other amenities. Our latchstring is always out for all '39ers."

On the other side of the ledger, we hear from Russ Fette, normally billeted in St. Louis but currently in Japan and/or the People's Republic of China. Russ was particularly interested in looking over his old house in Old Peking; it is still standing, but he understands it is in poor shape. This past fall Russ and his wife Cesee visited England, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. Nonetheless, if the Fettes' current schedule works out, they expect to be in Hanover for the class mini-reunion in late September.

We had a note from Bob Elkins just after he returned from his annual pilgrimage to Jackson Hole, Wyo., where Myrt and he have an opportunity to get in some western skiing on the same mountains on which their son John performs on the ski patrol. Bob says that the reputation for excellence of this particular ski patrol for its work with avalanche control and first aid is local legend in the area. Bob had to skip two of the past 12 winters in the West to take care of a coronary by-pass in 1978 and a hip replacement in 1979. But apparently nothing is keep- ing the Elkinses from their winter runs of late. Bob's oldest daughter is married, has three sons, and is living in Harrisburg, Pa., where her husband is in his fourth year of residency at Polyclinic Hospital. The Elkinses' youngest daughter is back living with her parents in Springfield and working with a department store, after having tired of the hot and rainy weather of Houston, Tex.

We had a phone call from George Neiley, who gently noted that we had somehow mistakenly moved him from Rock Island, Ill., to Des Moines, lowa, in a recent column. We publicly apologize. That, however, was not the burden of the telephone call. George was clearing out his desk for retirement and said that he hopes to spend some time in the East visiting family this spring and summer. Then he'll return to Rock Island. But we had heard that George will receive recognition for his years of work with the Contributing Advisory of the Business Committee for the Arts based in New York City, at their annual meeting in May. Bob Howe seems to have a new address — Old Port Cove, Quay North 1020, 132 Lakeshore Drive, North Palm Beach, Fla. 33408. We can't say at this point whether this is yearround or just a winter haven, but we suspect it's the former.

Bea Haartz, as noted in "Betsy's Beat," married Milton Page, a friend of John and Bea's who was widowed.

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Of five skiing greats recently inducted into the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame, three boasted ofDartmouth connections. Celebrating the occasion with Hall of Fame banquet emcee, sportscasterBud Palmer (far right), are (left to right): Bill Brown, who led the College's winter warfareR.O .T.C. program.for many years following World War II; Larry Jump '36, who skied the Alpsin his youth, trained mountain troops during the war, and went on to help found Arapahoe BasinSki Area; and Dick Durrance'39, winner of 17 national championships as an undergraduate andlater a co-founder of Apapahoe Basin and Alta and general manager of Aspen Ski Area.

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