1931
We open with the very happy news that 1931 will be represented in the class of 1988 at Hanover by (at least) Kristen Steck, granddaughter of Betty and Bill Steck. She has been granted early admission and, as Bill wrote it, "you never saw a happier girl in your life." Kristen is a senior at Cleveland Heights High School and was the only girl in the Cleveland area to receive early admission. Her achievement was announced at a meeting of the Cleveland Dartmouth Club, attended by her father, Bill Jr. '59; her uncle, Pete '64; and another relative, from '31!
Bill likes the new fall mini-reunion plans and expects that he and Betty will be hack with us over the October 20 Harvard game, Dartmouth Night weekend.
Mel Levison checks in with two address changes one for his Levison Sales Company Inc. (351 Larkfield Road, P.O. Box 345, East Northport, NY 11731) and the other for his home (93 Markan Drive, Northport, NY 11768), which must be right handy to the office. The move is from his previous (also) Long Island address in Hewlett. No other news, but he must be keeping busy.
On December IV, a dedication ceremony was held at the base lodge of Suicide Six ski area in Woodstock, Vt., to honor Wallace"Bunny" Bertram, who was hailed for rigging "the first ski tows in the United States at Gilbert's and Suicide Six hills in Woodstock." U.S. Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont attended the event and paid tribute to the contribution our late Bunny made to the state's economy as "a pioneer who made 'ski tow' a household word." Lynne, Bunny's daughter, and the senator unveiled a glass case in the lobby of the lodge, containing a portrait of Bunny, his Skiing Hall of Fame citation, other pictures and trophies, and Bunny's auto license plate, "SKI 6."
It was noted that Bunny had also pioneered in establishing the NASTAR-type races in which skiers compete on the basis of elapsed time, in setting up the first youth ski racing program in the country, and as president for many years of the Woodstock Ski Runners, one of the first ski clubs in the U.S.
Chuck O'Neill sent us a copy of his alwaywise-and-witty New Year's letter from Greens Farms, Conn. (He says his new address may soon be Failing Powers, Conn.) Two gems from it stand out. The first is that two authors whose last names begin with "O" and end in double "1," with six letters to each name, published books in 1949. With customary modesty, Chuck observes that Orwell's 1984 has drawn more attention than O'Neill's Morning Time, which, you may remember, dealt with post-Revolutionary American history. He also reported that in 1983 an international agreement was reached on the exact length of a meter the distance traveled by light through a vacuum in 1/ 299,792,458ths of a second. Now you know.
The annual Christmas letter from the DanaHowes reported that Helen and the good doctor had a summer's travel that took them to Mount Rushmore, S.D. (totally fogged in), Yellowstone Park, and back home to Los Alamitos, Calif.
They keep in touch with Mary Robinson, Chuck's widow, and say she is well and doing some secretarial work.
Jim Lyall contributes what he called a "farfetched coincidence," saying he was going through some old family papers and came upon a re-issued passport for his grandfather and grandmother that was issued in Paris and signed by the U.S. vice consul there, one Edward Tuck, whose generous donation to the College made possible the founding of the Tuck School. The date was October 23, 1865, On family matters, he also notes that his mother's father was the founder of the proprietary Packard's Business College, a pioneer in that field and thought to be something of a model for the Tuck School when it was founded in 1907 as the first graduate-level business administration school in the U.S. Jim attended the Packard School in 1932 to pick up some business skills that landed him his first job after graduation at $25 a week. (The rest of us were getting $15 to $18.)
Well, the 1984 Alumni Fund - our 53rd is now in full swing, and sending in your timely and bountiful check right now, or at the earliest, will not only add momentum to the class arid total effort but will make the job of Don Stoddard and his stalwart aides just that much easier (so they can concentrate on more laggard prospects). Let's come through with the traditional '3l response to the College's needs we're certain to do it!
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