1945
Back in December Shirley and I took the College up on an invitation (for reasonable consideration) to New Hampshire-and Vermont-area alumni for a steak dinner in Alumni Hall and tickets to a hockey game at Thompson Arena. The steak was good; but the hockey game turned out to be like the non-banks we hear so much about a nonhockey game. One might say it resembled an exhibition of puck handling by Harvard. Barbara and Dick Hinman were the only other '45s in attendance; but in the arena there was a two-seat gap between the Hinmans and the Wasons, supposed to have been occupied by a mystery '45 and spouse, who were perhaps willing to sacrifice their steaks rather than shatter their memories of Dartmouth's past hockey glory.
All is not bad news in the world of hockey, however. With an early January UNH 6-5 defeat of Northern Michigan on its ice, CharlieHolt notched his 400Th career win as a coach, his record becoming 400-221-18 overall and 334-195-14 at UNH. Previously, he had coached six years at Colby College (not the one you might be thinking of). Charlie joins only a half dozen other college coaches with 400 career wins. His Wildcat teams have qualified for the E.C.A.C. playoffs for 14 of his 16 years in Durham. Ah, there's joy tonight on Hat Trick Hill!
(Hi there, Lloyd Nintzel. Welcome to active membership in the class of 1945. Drop us a line and tell us how life is treating you there in the Big Apple.)
And there's news from my star reporter, Frank Aldrich, who enjoyed lunch recently at Bank of Boston with William T. "BookieJoe" Ashton, whose son, Bob '73 (Tuck '76), is "one of the bank's more promising young executives coming up the ladder already a full VP." "The Book" and Jane are contemplating a permanent move from Saratoga Springs to their waterfront home on the eastern shore of Lake George.
In December I showed up at the door of George Barr's home in West Leb and, holding Betsy at gunpoint, demanded of George: "Your green postcards or your wife!" To his everlasting credit and unlike Jack Benny George did not hesitate and handed over three newsworthy cards forthwith. So here goes with the news, right? Wrong. It appears that I have mislaid (lost?) the cards. So that's the end of that, right?
Wrong. I am now taking applications for a new class position: bodyguard to the secretary.
P.O. Box 39 Atkinson, NH 03811
45 40th REUNION JUNE 10-13, 1985
