1943

That "Wearers of the Green" extravaganza honoring Dartmouth athletes past and present, sponsored by the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern Massachusetts on April 27, turned out to be a mini-reunion for '43s. Seventeen of us were there at Boston's new Westin Hotel for what surely was one of the biggest all-Dartmouth events ever staged.

Honored were members of Olympic teams, all-Americans, world and national champions, members of Halls of Fame in seven sports, and those who are or were professional athletes. The classy 64-page souvenir booklet distributed at the affair also listed team captains in 32 sports.

Those on hand for the ceremonies were Andy Caffrey, Ted Driscoll, Duke Dushame,Nancy Elliott (an adopted class member), Trustee Bob Field, Bud Hall, Phil Harmon,Frank Hartmann, John Koslowski, FarmerMead, Bodie Mosenthal, Trustee GeorgeMunroe, Eddie O'Brien, Jug O'Connor, FredStockwell, and Jim Wells.

George Munrqe was one of the speakers at the dinner, and he and Duke Dushame were the two '43s present who received gold "D" lapel pins for their past participation in one of the categories above. George was an allAmerican basketball player and later played for the Boston Celtics. Duke was a member of the national championship hockey team.

Stan Priddy was the only '43 listed in the booklet who participated in Olympic competition. He was a member of the 1948 U.S. Olympic hockey team at St. Moritz.

In the ail-American category, in addition to George Munroe, Larry Noble was recognized as an ail-American swimmer in 1941 and 1943.

In international-class sailing, of course, Bus Mosbacher walked away with the honors, having won eight consecutive titles from 1950 through 1957 and having successfully defended the America's Cup in 1962 and 1967.

Talented '43s dominated the national championship Dartmouth hockey team. In addition to Duke Dushame, other '43 members of the team were Harry Gerber,John Krol, Bob Pelren, Stan Priddy, and BillRemsen. Remsen died in 1953 and Pelren was slain in 1982 in the Virgin Islands.

Another Dartmouth national championship team in 1941 and 1942 was the sailing team. In addition to Bus Mosbacher, other '43s on the 1941 team were Warner Willcox,John O'Day, Dick Livingston, and John Walton. In 1942, Bob Wight and Denny Taylor joined Mosbacher and O'Day to win the championship.

Individual national champions cited in the "Wearers of the Green" booklet included BobMeservey in skiing in 1942 and Robert E. Williams in track the same year.

The '43 team captains listed included JohnKoslowski in baseball in 1942, Stan Skaug in basketball in 1943, Bob Williams in crosscountry in 1943, Bud Kast in football in 1942, the late Harlow Cutting in golf in 1943, BodieMosenthal in lacrosse in 1943, Bus Mosbacher in sailing in 1940, 1941, and 1942, Whitey Meigs in soccer in 1942, Guy Mallett in squash in 1943, and Art Cohen in tennis in 1943.

In other '43 news, a new book by John Reps received a rave review in The New YorkTimes Book Review section on April 15. The book, entitled Views and Viewmakers of Ur-ban America, is a collection of lithographs produced between 1825 and 1925 of American cities and towns. John, a city and regional planner who teaches at Cornell, was extolled in the review as "a man of prodigious energy" who catalogued in the 570-page book "a significant record of what the nation looked like for a century."

Jim Kerley, a structural design engineer at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has produced an illustrated paper for the Thayer School of Engineering's publication on the accomplishments of its graduates, explaining how engineering problems were overcome in designing test equipment for the space shuttle. Jim, who has won several awards for his design of space shuttle components and who holds more than two dozen patents, solved some of the noise and vibration difficulties at less than half the cost quoted by a space contractor who had said he couldn't guarantee the results.

Conrad Young, president of United of Omaha insurance company, has taken on the additional post of senior executive vice president of Mutual of Omaha, of which United is a principal affiliate.

Charlie Donovan, a transportation consultant in Pottstown, Pa., was a panelist at the annual meeting of the Textile Traffic Association in Atlanta in March. Charlie is an expert at assessing the impact of transportation deregulation.

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