1948

This is written on an October Saturday in Texas, a long distance from Hanover, where today Joe Yukica's charges are slated to take it on the chin on Memorial Field from a class Colgate 11 who tore Lehigh apart last weekend, the week after Lehigh humbled that same Princeton who overcame Dartmouth 10-3 on opening day in Hanover. Here's hoping our boys, their quarterback injured and probably out for the season, can give a good account of themselves against the Raiders in the same way they reportedly made Hanover proud against powerful Holy Cross last week, losing that one by only 17-14.

Those '48s.who believe that seeing unique Hanover is a significant factor (my own experience tells me it is often the factor) in arousing the interest of outstanding student-athletes in often far-away Dartmouth may wish to consider the Sponsor Program, a non-College budget pool of private monies contributed by

alumni and friends to cover the cost of airfare for 48-hour visits to Hanover by such qualified young men and women. The program meets NCAA and Ivy League rules. Write or contact Whitey Burnham at Room 115, Alumni Gym,

Hanover 03755 for more data, or phone Lloyd Krumm in Franklin Lakes, N.J. How great to hear from Charlie McCarthy after so many years! Charlie is a partially-retired country gentleman in

Conway, N.H., right at the edge of the White Mountains, but he still provides highly technical consultancy on a regular basis to a firm in Maine which produces coaxial cable connector components. Charlie, who grew up in North Andover, Mass., gets much fun from the presence of several of his six kids in the Conway area. He also sees fellow townsman Gordon Mann fairly often when they "chew the fat" on Main Street. Gordie's retired life to date has been far from the usual mold. He retired from

teaching at Kennett High in Conway in 1983 where he had been head of the math department as well as coach of basketball and other sports. He was awarded a New Hampshire Coaching Hall of Fame citation for his more than 25 years of excellent work with kids. Strangely enough, however, Gordie didn't take up his present all-absorbing interest, mountain hiking and climbing, until 20 years ago. Since then he has participated or led hiking trips to several parts of the globe and has taken Kennett High and friends' boys along much of the time. In pursuing this sport he has also become knowledgeable about the life and culture of some of the out-of-the-way areas of this world. He now knows his own White Mountains like his hand, has hiked over many of Colorado's peaks (including 20 of the "fourteeners") almost every summer for the past 20 years, and for several weeks this spring traversed the wild, isolated high country of Peru's Andes. (He missed Bob Neuberg in Lima.) In 1978 he took a leave of absence and spent an unbelievable year in the Alps of Switzerland, then the Himalayas of Nepal, followed by the South Island scenery and peaks of New Zealand. Gordie wishes only that he had found the mountains earlier. He sends highest regards to old roommates and buddies Bill Atwood, Bob Cormack, DickGreene, Norm Laird, Hank Mueller, and Mouse Taylor, with best wishes to each.

Pleasant surprise: While dialing the radio a few evenings ago, I was delighted to catch an announcer's following words: "That rouser you just heard was by New England's famous New Black Eagle Jazz Band. Those people really know how to stomp!" The group's stroker of the 88 keys, our own Bob Pillsbury, can be proud of the mark his group is making.

Dirk Kuzmier, whose ability to ride a Shetland pony today is questionable but who has long been a successful trial attorney with his own firm in New York City, recently was invited to become an independent counsel with Kreindler and Kreindler on the 18th floor at 100 Park Avenue, an invitation he has accepted. Look for Dirk when you're next in the Big Apple. He's lost none of his marvelous sense of humor and still holds his own on the ski slope.

Many thanks to Bob Herrick for his sensitive obituaries for Walt Palmunen and Ken Schaefer, whose families and friends miss them deeply.

Classmates should note with pride the fine citation of Bob Cormack and associates of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest New Hampshire on page eight of the September issue of this magazine. This was for work they did in collecting whole blood in an attempt to save a life in Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover.

Plea: Can anyone in the class provide any information on the whereabouts of the '48 movie so well taken and put together by Ted Tischler and the departed Bob Blum? It was seen during at least one '48 reunion, but no trace remains. Can anyone help in tracking it down?

In closing I just heard that Colgate edged us, 54 to 28. Help! Give Whitey or Lloyd a call.

The class of '47 had a harmonious minireunion in October following the HolyCross game. Barbershoppers Don Evans,Frank Weber, and Ham Chase, left to right,were among the participants in a Saturdaynight songfest at the Norwich Inn.

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