1947

Hi again, classmates and friends. It's early August, and we're writing for a September 1 deadline, for the October issue. Dottie and I spend a great deal of time together in a sailboat out of Vineyard Haven. On our way sailing a few days ago, I was hailed from a silver Jeep Wagoneer. Turning, I found George Cohn, and Sally, on their way to a tennis tourney. George looks really fit and we plan to play tennis soon, but I have a feeling that's his strong sport I'll need to get George and Sally into our sailboat. Sally was a vital part of a theatrical presentation during reunion, so both were unable to attend. This allowed Dexter and Audie Brooks to walk off with the doubles championship during our reunion. "Walk off' may be a poor choice of phrases, as they were extended by Tom and Barb Leggat. The three Leggat girls were with us at reunion, and what a cheering section they make.

By now, several classmates have probably recovered from summer weddings:

Bob and Pat Teaze, in California – their only daughter.

Vince and Harriet Prendeville, in Loudonville, NY their daughter. Not just an; other set of teeth to be drilled, is it Vince?

Mort and Shirley Morrison, in Auburn, MA their daughter. Probably a chip off the old block. (Note: Mort is in lumber.)

Ev and Mary Nordstrom, from North Carolina their son, married in New Hampshire.

And in the Vineyard Gazette, we saw that Steven, son of Gene DeFelice, married Elizabeth Mermann on May 21 in Guilford, CT. Steven worked on Martha's Vineyard operating a taxi, no doubt finding his bride there, since she summers in Tisbury.

Congratulations all!

Remember when we would give a "WahHoo-Wah"? Now it's give a Rouse. Both apply to Norm Fink. We received a copy of a letter dated June 28 from the dean of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. Norm, we recall, once served for several years for Penn as head of bequest and estate planning. Now a Penn alumnus has donated a faculty office room in the new Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. A plaque now placed in the office of the chairman of the statistics department reads as follows: "To Norman Fink, who taught me the art of giving. Barry L. Goldin, Wharton 1960."

Norm, your good works follow you. Norm is now with Columbia University, after four or five years at Brandeis. Norm also has a good eye for talent, since he hired a young woman named Heidi Weber to assist him at Brandeis and subsequently called her to her present position at Columbia. Heidi is Dartmouth 'll and one of two lovely daughters of Frank and Urs Weber. Their other daughter, Betsy 74, has a fall wedding planned.

Frank and Urs were very much present at reunion, and both are together for a summer in Houston, where Frank is a consultant. Urs will be back in Ridgefield, CT, in the fall for a year of teaching, while Frank commutes.

Frank also reported visiting recently with Verah and Cotton Johnson, and my wife Dottie enjoyed a recent phone visit with Verah. Both reports indicate that Cotton finds it hard to communicate and is immobile from the shoulders down, but hears records and can read Braille stories, but needs constant assistance. Multiple sclerosis is tragic. This past summer, Verah took Cotton to Brewster on Cape Cod, to the home which Cotton built with his own hands years ago and where two of four children have been married. Vee says it was Cotton's great pleasure to wear the reunion hats and see the mementos during reunion time, and we can know both were with us in spirit.

I've written many of our classmates over the past several months, asking them to tell me about themselves. I selected some who seemed to me to be in unusual, interesting situations.

I've had some very rewarding responses. I'm going to share these, with their permission, in future columns. Meanwhile, please write me to tell me of your doings; the insignificant items in life can contain a lot of interest to many of us. You'll be seeing more of this to come.

Now, as does happen, we honor a departed classmate. An obituary for Barry Marks appears elsewhere in this issue. Many, many of us remember Barry 40 years ago in the summer of 1943 and on. Such a credit he was to Dartmouth, to his family, to himself. His passing is a very great loss to the community he worked in. Well done, Barry, and rest well.

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