1943

Three days before the blockbuster New Hampshire presidential primary, we took in a political lecture by Government Professor Dick Winters, a steak dinner at the Hanover Inn, and a Dartmouth-Cornell hockey game. We shared all three events with Fritz Geller and his wife Nance, who came up from Keene with the Southwestern New Hampshire Dartmouth Alumni Club. Between Professor Winters's lecture (he predicted President Reagan would win in November) and dinner, we had a delightful reunion with George and Nora Graham, who live in Hanover and are active in College affairs.

Between periods of the disastrous hockey game, we ran into Bud Hall, Bodie Mosenthal, and Don Taylor in the Smoyer Lounge of Thompson Arena. They reported that Ted Driscoll also was in Hanover that day, doubtless to visit his son who works for The Valley News in Lebanon; that GeorgeMunroe was in town for a meeting of the College's trustees; and that Chuck Feeney came up from New York to spend the weekend at his place in Brook Hollow.

The hockey game was the last home contest of a pathetic season, worst in the history of Dartmouth hockey. Cornell had a band in the stands. There was none for Dartmouth. Instead of cheers, many fans, presumably students, shouted obscenities. It was a bad scene. The coach, George Crowe, had resigned the previous day.

One faithful '43 hockey fan who didn't make the game was Eddie O'Brien, who was on the road for General Motors, producing a couple of films in Florida, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, and California. Eddie tells us the films will feature General Motors enterprises other than manufacturing cars.

During the '43 40th reunion in Hanover last June, Dan O'Connor was looking for a spot on the program to play a tape he'd produced with limericks about classmates interspersed with Dartmouth songs. Now Dan has retired as a film writer-producer-director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, and he still has that tape. So arrangements have been made to play it at the class mini-reunion in Hanover next October 19-20. That's reason enough to make the mini, but another feature of that fall get-together will be a playing of the special tape of the Doc Fielding show for those who didn't hear the original, and for the renewed enjoy ment of those who did.

Adopted classmate Nancy Elliott, the College's director of Alumni Records, reports that Kelly Coffin has retired as general agent for Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Company in Coral Gables, Fla., and is setting a swift pace on the social circuit. "I've already worn out two tuxedoes," Kelly is quoted as saying. He's planning to spend some time in New Hampshire in June, perhaps to take another crack at the New Hampshire Golf Championship, which he once missed by only one stroke.

Retired doctor Bob Liming left by plane for Hawaii after a recent hockey game in Hanover to visit his oldest son, who's a Navy pilot. Bob, who was in the Army medical service during World War 11, has accepted a Navy courtesy and will return to Long Beach, Calif., aboard the aircraft carrier Pelielu, from which his son operates.

Rhodes Scholar Jerry Blanchet reports from Washington, D.C., that he's scouting around for a way to promote Dartmouth interests in the nation's capital. Jerry says he frequently sees Russ Sherburne, who works for the Navy in nearby Arlington, Va.

We received an invitation the other day to join the Dartmouth Educational Association, an organization we'd never heard of. It turns out it was founded in 1896 to provide low interest loans to needy Dartmouth under- graduates. Though it works quietly, the group boasts as members 34 1943 classmates, and five '43s are life members.

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