1928

While watching on TV the wonderful achievement of the three Americans who won gold and silver medals in the slalom and in downhill races in the Olympics at Sarajevo, we recalled with pride that Charley Proctor was a member of the American Olympic team that competed at St. Moritz in 1928 and was one of the first Americans to invade European ski competition.

Charley captained the Big Green ski team in 1927 and 1928 and won intercollegiate titles in jumping, downhill, and slalom. He also captained the golf team. He had to take a semester off in order to train for the Olympics.

He put on his first runners cut out of pine boards as a four-year-old in Hanover, where his father, Charles A. Proctor '00, ws a professor of physics and a well-known authority on skiing.

After graduation, he spent several years manufacturing ski equipment and writing two books on skiing. Charley then moved to Yosemite National Park as superintendent of the commercial division of the Yosemite Park and Curry Company and director of winter sports at the park. He held high offices in the Far West Ski Association and served on various Olympic committees. In 1959 he was elected to the Ski Hall of Fame at Ishpeming, Michigan. Proctor Mountain and Durrance Mountain at Sun Valley, Idaho, were named after Charley and Dick Durrance '39. Charley retired in 1971, and he and Mary moved to Santa Cruz, Calif.

Our president, Rick Rickenbaugh, of Denver, will attend the Dartmouth Regional Alumni Conference in Los Angeles on March 16 and 17. Jerry and Rachel Sass will also be among those attending. President McLaughlin will be the speaker. The Sasses are also coming east to attend the Boston alumni dinner on April 27.

Brian Fusonie, grandson of the late A1 Fusonie, was one of five students whose picture appeared in The Boston Globe of March 3. High school students from across Massachusetts were honored at the 34th Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards ceremonies in Faneuil Hall. Over 500 gold keys and 240 blue ribbons were awarded, but top recognition was given to the above-mentioned five, whose art work was nominated for Hallmark Honor Prizes. Each of 60 regions submits five nominees and national judges then will select one Hallmark Honor Prize winner for each region. Brian will be entering Dartmouth in September un- der the early decision plan.

A card received March 1 from Roy Myers says: "Greetings from Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia at al. on the S. S.Illiria on an American Museum of Natural History tour. Super first class and most interesting. I'll be back in New York in March, with lectures scheduled in April, then a quiet summer, maybe!" Roy was the tour lecturer on these countries which he knows so well.

Art and Freda Nightingale of Juno Beach, Fla., report being "reasonably healthy" and quite happy in their retirement setting. They travel a lot and keep active. Their next trip is on the Mississippi Queen this summer, with a few days at the New Orleans Fair.

Getting back to the Olympics one other '28er, the late Jerry Cetrulo, participated as a member of the U.S. fencing team in 1932. At Dartmouth he was captain of the fencing team in his junior and senior years and was national intercollegiate fencing champion. He graduated cum laude from Dartmouth (the youngest member of our class) and after a year at Dartmouth Medical School was graduated from New York University Medical School. Although he was a busy surgeon in Newark, N.J., he coached fencing at Seton Hall University from 1938 to 1942 and his teams won 87 consecutive victories and 15 Eastern intercollegiate championships. Jerry's father, Gerardo, was a champion fencer and taught all eight of his children to fence. In 1939 he coached the Dartmouth fencing team; in 1948 another son, Dean Cetrulo, became the second member of the family to become a member of a U.S. Olympic team.

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