1943

Bodie and Barb Mosenthal and Dr. Bob and Bobbie Liming hosted a '43 mini-reunion June 30 at the Mosenthal stockade in the jungles of central Vermont. Eighteen class members, plus some neighbors and friends, turned out for an afternoon of sports, picnicking, and memorable fellowship. That's nearly 3.5 percent of the class. Bodie and Barb's daughter Bambi fashioned a map for the occasion, so those who were expected eventually arrived. They included Fritz and Nancy Geller, Eddie and Lorraine O'Brien, Ray and Judy Colby, Mike and Connie Thurston, Hal Lindley, Pete and Jeff Geer, Bob and Pauline Field, Kelly Coffin, Van and Ginny Lloyd, Ed and Dotty Lider, Paul and Ruth Young, Dick and Lucy Proctor, John and Betty Hyde, John and Fran Goode, and Don and Leslie Taylor. Neighbors Bill and Liz Craig '44 and Howie and Lil Hoots '45 also were on hand for the event that was dubbed Bodie's "first annual" bash.

Hud King writes from Atlanta that his name was omitted in accounts of,the "Wearers of the Green" all-Dartmouth sports dinner in Boston last April. Hud was captain of the Dartmouth crew in the summer of 1942. Unfortunately, team captains weren't awarded the coveted "D" lapel pins, and Hud's specialty wasn't recognized at Dartmouth as an intercollegiate competitive sport until 1955. Hud recalls rowing for the Tabor Academy crew at the Henley Regatta in 1939. He was on the team that won the Thames Challenge Cup, beating out a crew from Kent (Conn.) School which included Tuss Hand and Larry Noble.

The Alumni Fund office calls it the "Green Derby" competition among the classes for contributions to, and participation in, the annual Alumni Fund drive. Our class pulled off a minor miracle this year, thanks to the efforts of head agent Bob Ehinger. Members of the class contributed a total of $117,381 to the 1984 campaign, more than $15,000 over the class goal and the highest dollar amount of any of the seven classes (1938 through 1945) in our group. However, our participation index ranked us near the bottom of the group only 284 contributors out of a possible 518. Nearly 46 percent of the top-ranking total was collected in the final two months of the 70th anniversary drive. Incidentally, the class of 1944 is not included in our "Green Derby" group. Do not ask me why. Another report, from Dartmouth class treasurers, shows our class had the highest participation of class dues payers, 81 percent, of all classes in the decade of the forties.

Longtime class secretary Herb Marx has passed along a letter from Jim Heenahan in New York about a coincidental contact with Dartmouth benefactor Sig Larmon '14, a classmate of Jim's late father. It seems an electrician for Jim's construction firm in Stamford, Conn., moonlights as a limousine driver and heard about Jim's Dartmouth affiliation. The electrician told Jim he often drove a famed Dartmouth alumnus to a retirement community in Stamford. It turns out the alumnus was Sig Larmon, a retired advertising executive whom Jim had never met, though Larmon attended Jim's father's funeral 25 years ago. Jim reports he drove to Stamford to visit Larmon and "it was as if we had a lifetime of friendship."

Dr. Bob Craig in Fernandina Beach, Fla., has identified one of the "unknowns" in the picture of a group of classmates provided by Hal Lindley, which ran in the May issue of the Alumni Magazine. Dr. Bob says the person in the top row, next to Hal, is John Milnor '42, who, like Bob, originally was from Hawaii. That leaves two faces among the ten in the. picture still unidentified, the student with a pipe in the first row, and the squatter in front.

Add head agent Bob Ehinger to the list of '43 retirees. Though he's pulled back from his vice presidential chores with AT&T, he still does some consulting.

As this is written in the dog days of August, football ticket applications linger on the desk. The class mini-reunion this year will be October 19-20, the Harvard game in Hanover. Don Taylor is the mini-reunion chairman. By the time you read this, it'll be too late to apply for tickets, but not too late to tell Don you'll be on hand for the festivities. He and Leslie live at Eastman in Grantham, N.H., and his phone number is 603/863-3938.

RFD 7, Box 34 Concord, NH 03301