1948

Spring in Hanover! 'When April hit the campus in our day it always seemed to me that we students began to feel a great restlessness about getting out of town on weekends. Our long reaches for adventure and excitement found us on the headwall of Tuckerman's Ravine or on the roads to such gathering places of the female of the species as Smith, Wellesley, or Skidmore. Move around we certainly did, proably more so than at any other time of the year. There was adventure in going up the road, excitement beyond the next ridge, beauty and awe and exhilaration on the cliff face or on the mountain summit, laughter and great camaraderie in joint ventures in the out-of-doors with your close buddies, a tremendous flow of good feeling with in one on fast descents of the high snow fields or on tight swings for the gut-wrenching, heart-stopping drop over the high vertical edge of the right gulley onto the perpendicular headwall below! The spring! Do you remember?

While in Denver recently for lan Macartney's service I had a chance to talk to BillMalone. Bill's office is in the Mile High Center, where he is a busy attorney. He still spends as much time as possible in the out doors, remembers Macartney with great affection, skis on weekends, and owns a ranch in sparsely-settled southern Wyoming near Saratoga, many miles from his nearest neigh bor. He retains fond memories of his life and old friends while at Dartmouth and still sees many Dartmouth alums around Denver. Bill gave me the phone number of my Hanover High and our '48 classmate, architect ColinStewart, who participated in the special slalom of the 1948 Olympics at St. Mortiz. But unfortunately neither Colin nor his wife Connie was at home.

Also enjoyed talking with Coke and BobJeavons. They and family moved to Denver from Cleveland 27 years ago, a change which has worked out happily in spite of the distance from the many close relatives back in Cuyahoga County. Bob is owner and operating head of Alpine Capital Management, a consulting firm specializing in personal and professional financial management problems of all kinds, including pensions. (It was not until we had been out of Dartmouth for many years that Bob and I discovered that our grandfathers had gone into business together many years before in a small chemical company in Willoughby, Ohio. The world is not so tiny that we knew this as undergrads together in Hanover.)

Another '48 in financial counseling from a slightly different angle is Bob Herrick of La Jolla, Calif. Bob, having raised mushrooms and done other things for a number of years after Dartmouth, went to San Diego a few years ago and took up the insurance business with Equitable, which gets him into trusts, pensions, and other concepts and instruments of financial planning. In May, Bob and Margaret will go back to Bucks County, Pa., where Bob's class at the George School will have its 40th reunion!

I am looking forward to seeing Don Ryan at the Alumni Council meeting in June, when I will be attending my final meeting as a member. Don says he enjoyed his first meeting in December and is looking forward to representing his '48 classmates in this worthy assemblage of Dartmouth men and women. Contact Don if you have questions at 312/256- 2240. He occasionally runs into Ken Saunders in Chicago and the two have a chance for a few laughs over old times.

Class treasurer Gil Shattuck, who lives in the Granite State at Hillsboro, near Manchester, writes that he saw several classmates at the Cornell game and at the class meeting and luncheon so capably described in the news letter by Barney Hoisington. Gil enclosed a note from Rod Susen in Missoula saying he had enjoyed Alumni College in Hanover in August 1982 but had simply been unable to come so far so soon again for the 35th reunion last summer. (Rod, please make the 40th!)

They can't keep Ken Young out of the newspapers! A recent syndicated article by Ernie Roberts in The Boston Globe points out that Ken has seen every single Dartmouth football game since Coach Bob Blackman's third game (Brown) in Bob's initial season of 1955, 29 years ago! Ken has become an unofficial member of the coaching staff, travels with the team, sits on the bench at every game, buoys up the players when they are dejected, and has financed one of the annual awards given to outstanding members of the squad. Today he is a right-hand man to Joe Yukica. (Ken, would your opinion of the greatest game during those 29 years make for a fascinating discussion?)

Don't forget to support the great work Ken is doing for the College and '48 in this year's Alumni Fund effort. Please help out so kids today can receive as much as we received in our day as students of Dartmouth.

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