1946

Reg and Nancy Pierce report that Bill and Carroll Bowers stopped by in Etna, N.H., on the way home from visiting with Bill's daughter Casey in Burlington, Vt. It was Bill and Carroll's seventh wedding anniversary, which they toasted with New Hampshire vintage Zhenka martinis. Bill and Carroll moved to Jaffery, N.H., from Larchmont, N.Y., and built a splendid colonial home there. Bill is selling big-ticket IBM hardware in eastern Massachusetts, but in the off hours spends his time chopping wood. Carroll enjoys her work in a snappy clothing boutique.

Al Holmes now has established permanent residence in the Upper Valley. He has purchased a lot in Quechee, Vt., and is about to build. He is working hard promoting the New England Open Golf Championship Pro Am, benefiting Hitchcock Hospital.

Speaking of golf, big changes have taken place at the Hanover Country Club under the aegis of Bill and "Izzy" Johnson, the Dartmouth golf coaches and home pros, and our new greens keeper, Steve Lyon. The course has never been in better condition and the improvements continue. The fairways have been reshaped and cross cut. A clover control program is underway. Traps have new sand and the greens are much improved. As a result, golf activity has increased about 20 percent in each of the last three years. Daily play averages 125 to 150 golfers, about half of whom are daily fee players. Starting times are in order every day, but despite increased play, it is not difficult to get on the course at most times. Try it out! Just watch out for all the joggers who pay no attention to the golfers and think golf courses really were made for runners.

Saturday, August 11 seemed to be a '46 special, as I was struggling and failing to save bogie on the fifth hole, I saw Monk and LoisMartin of Rutland, Vt., finishing the first. John and Marion Copenhaver, Art Naitove,Jack Ulrich, and Ed Scheu also were on the course. There also was a high-powered foursome that included Bob Kimball and Alden"Whitey" Burnham. Both have just begun to take the game seriously and both hit the ball a "ton," from time to time. Kimball has a swing that reminds one of Arnie Palmer .... plays with a 19 handicap which had better start descending rapidly. Bob is particularly fond of the famous Girl Brook Ravine over which one plays on both the sixth and 18th holes. Nerves of steel! The "Whites" is a very disciplined golfer. After all, he has been in athletics for his entire lifetime. He shoots in the 80s more than just occasionally, but still is trying to figure out why one's body will ignore orders from "on high." So am I. As my ever-enduring wife Ruth has been known to say, "how can you guys have so much fun making yourselves miserable?"

While still on the subject of golf, I wonder how many of you happened to hear the story about Bill Spoor which made the "Today Show" on NBC-TV. It seems that Bill, having never before set foot on a golf course and "not knowing a sand wedge from a putter," encountered the usual difficulties surrounding his first hole of play, and then promptly got a hole-in-one on the second hole played. Nothing to this game!

Walt and Mary Snickenberger were in town from Dallas in June and Walt played his share of golf in Hanover during that visit as well. They were fortunate to go along to Tokyo last fall with the SMU football team which had been invited to play its traditional game with the University of Houston in Tokyo as guests of a Japanese electronics firm.

Walt had a visit with Art Young when in Dallas recently. He also reports seeing PhilStruhsacker, who has left his real estate operation in Arizona and has joined The Saver's Bank of Littleton, N.H. As a result of that bank's recent merger with the Dartmouth Savings Bank, Phil now makes frequent trips to Hanover.

Pete Millard, who teaches at the Yale School of Architecture, was in town this summer for a meeting with Ed Scheu, Rod Morgan '44, Bob Searles '42, Paul Glover '45, and others, all good friends of Bob Heussler, to consider the possible publication of memoirs left by Bob when he passed away suddenly. Pete was Bob Heussler's closest friend over the years and had designed the beautiful home Bob had built in South Strafford, Vt.

Hope we will see a big turnout for the minireunion at Kimball's for the Harvard game. Best regards. Please keep in touch.

Hayes Hill Etna, NH 03750