1943

Even if you're not a sports enthusiast, the autumn football season is a beautiful time to socialize outdoors, renew or solidify old friendships, and view the fall foliage. That's why mini reunions are structured around football games.

As this is written, six days before the October 20 class of 1943 mini reunion in Hanover, Don Taylor reports that he's expecting a "fabulous" turnout of about 50 class members, plus 47 assorted spouses, friends, and relatives.

Charlie and Barbara Cusack are coming all the way from Oregon, and Jack and Lu Meleney plan to make the long trek from South Carolina. Don reports further that Bob andPauline Field are expecting at least 70 persons for brunch at their house in Etna Sunday morning

I recognize it will be nearly Christmas by the time you read this, so watch for a rundown of the festivities in the January issue.

Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire cohosted a reception for members of the New Hampshire Legislature and other government officials prior to the Dartmou thUNH football game. John Hyde and I were there, and we soon linked up with Bob Field, who, as a trustee of the College, was one of the greeters.

Dick and Lucy Proctor were at the game from their recently purchased home at Eastman. They're planning to return to Florida for the winter right after the mini reunion. Mike and Connie Thurston came over from Maine for the game, and I sat next to HalLindley from nearby Orford, N.H.Higher up in the stands were Frank and Margo Hartmann, also over from Eastman. Frank reports he's now totally retired from his position with the Meadowlands sports complex in New Jersey.

I didn't see Chuck Feeney at the UNH football game, but there was a report making the rounds that he'd left the football game with Pennsylvania the previous week because, he said, "I can't stand the sight of blood." Remember? The score was 55-24, and we didn't win it.

Paul Young, our longtime class president, is now a representative of Investors Diversified Services American Express in Hanover. Paul retired last year as president of Dartmouth Savings Bank, and he's now utilizing his financial know how in personal financial planning. As of mid October, Paul and Ruth were planning to take a ten day Caribbean cruise in November aboard the QEII.

When Eddie O'Brien and Bill Maeck were in Hanover last summer for a crash course in computers, one of them took the picture that accompanies this column of the plaque in the gallery of the new Rockefeller Center in Hanover. Those who don't get to Hanover might not know that the gallery was the gift to the College of Bus and Pat Mosbacher.

The famed Exeter Theater on Exeter Street in Boston's Back Bay, operated for 15 years by Ed Lider, has been sold to a developer, and the landmark building will be recons tructed into office space.

President Reagan has named Herb Marx to a Presidential Emergency Board to arbitrate a labor dispute between the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen and the Port Authority Trans Hudson Corporation (PATH) which operates commuter trains in New York and New Jersey. Herb, a professional arbitrator and our class secretary for many years, is head of the New York branch of the American Arbitration Association. The three member Emergency Board already has sent its report to the White House.

The lower lobby, or gallery, of Rockefeller Centerwas the gift of Bus Mosbacher '43 and his wife,Pat, as evidenced by the plaque displayed there.

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