1933

These class notes are written just prior to Valentine's Day, so it's most appropriate that three happy second marriages are mentioned. In all three cases, the first marriage was sadly ended by a death, some years ago.

Page Worthington has allowed me to see a picture of Jack and Rebecca Huntress standing radiantly in front of the altar of the church where they were married last year. Rebecca was a longtime friend of Jack and his first wife, Helen, before Helen's death a few years ago.

Another such marriage, of earlier vintage, is that of Gene and Mildred Kaplan. I spoke to "Millie" recently, on the phone. Gene was out shopping or else pursuing his hobby of oil painting, on location. Gene and his first wife had a son, Joseph '62, now also a physician, and three daughters. Gene and Millie's son, Jonathan, has applied for admission to Dartmouth, class of 'B9! Think of the tuition bills ahead for Gene especially if this son also wants med school.

Then there's Chet and Sally Thomson, residents of Westchester County, N.Y. A recent newsletter out of that county's Jewish Community Center Services is devoted to Chet and is headed "Man of Many Accomplishments." He is, still chairman of the board of directors of Thomson-Leeds, a company he cofounded in 1957, a company which creates and produces pointof-purchase displays for many companies selling their products in local stores. Chet is a former chairman of the Point-of-Purchase Advertising Institute and was its "Man of the Year" back in 1969. He's current president of Westchester Jewish Community Services, which is deeply involved with nonsectarian child guidance and family mental health services. Since 1981, Chet has served on the board of directors of the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institution and on many committees of the towns where he has lived.

So much for Valentine's Day, except that your secretary started dating his current companion 52 years ago this weekend. Back then it was called "Winter Carnival."

Page W., previously mentioned, also told me the Baltimore Dartmouth Club had a dinner date with President McLaughlin on a blustery night, January 17. It was a first visit of one president to the other's hometown. About 150 attended, Dartmouths and their ladies making it through the snow, Page and Margaret, Ned and Anne Lord among them.

Ed Foley says he and Joan are well, even though Caterpillar Tractor Company has been treading a little slowly of late. I offered him a story on it from my favorite paper's financial pages. He'd already ingested and regurgitated it.

Jean Douglas reports that Walter has had a hospital visit; Elsa, Osborne reports the same about Harry. Both are home at this writing. Judge Harry is still working the bench of New Jersey's Supreme Court, despite being a bit overage-in-grade. He's valued!

Sports News (late edition): On Sunday, February 10, I went to Princeton's hockey rink and saw a team purported to be Dartmouth women beat its opponents out of Princeton by the score of 4 to 3. It was a whizbang of a game, and Old Rugged was out of his seat more than in it as those players body checked, slammed each other into the boards, and committed other forms of mayhem. I used "purported to be Dartmouth women" advisedly, because, in their pads, their face masks, and their actions, you could hardly tell. 9 Sanders, out of Anchorage, Alaska (you may have read about her in an earlier issue), spent two terms in the penalty box. Elizabeth Miles, a reformed fancy skater, was observed by her mother and dad in the new milieu. Cocaptain Estey Ticknor was a terror, taking that puck down the ice! When they'd won, the whole team piled on top of each other, making a squirming green anthill out in center of the rink, celebrating their first-ever victory over the Orange and Black.

Recently, a basketball was thrown the length of the court and swished to make a basket as the half ended. (Early edition): Back in 1930, some '33 freshman, rooming off-campus at the Blue Spruces, entered the intramural basketball tournament. Norm Crabtree, Ed Hutchings, Bill Jones, Jud Pierson,Johnny Schulte, Charlie Shafer, Dave Warden, and young Rugen made the squad. Just before the game ended, Pierson threw a onehanded shot out of left field, made it, sending the game into overtime. Just before the O.T. ended, the same guy did it again! It won the game for dear old Blue Spruces. We got wiped out in the next.

Blessings!

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