1941

It is up-cheering to type the word "April" at the top of this piece of copy-paper and realize that by the time these words reach you, spring will be in the air. As I write, though, it's mid-February, and what's in the air is snow and sleet. Judging by newspapers and television, most of you, wherever you live, even some of you Deep South types, must be ready to join in wishing this winter would hurry into history.

So let us think upon spring, and most especially let us think upon the loveliness of June in Hanover while we perfect our plans to gather on the Plain for kegs and conversation on June 10. Are your reservations made? (And to change the subject only slightly, is your big, fat reunion-year Alumni Fund contribution on its way to Hanover yet? An early gift or pledge saves a lot of postage and is a big help to Stace Hill, Dan Provost, and all our other classmates who are beating the drum.)

Back to February, now, and the midwinter gloom isn't eased any by news of another death in the class. Jim Jacobs died in January out in Arizona. You'll find an obituary in this or an upcoming issue.

Town and Country magazine, it seems, periodically publishes lists of the physicians considered tops in the nation in their specialties. Barbara Blough of the Dartmouth Medical School's Office of Alumni Affairs went prowling through the most recent of these lists. Thanks to her report, filed with the Alumni Magazine, I can tell you that '41 is represented twice. Ranked among the best in their fields were Dr. Albert (Bob) FergusonJr., orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. William J.Dignam, reproductive endocrinologist. According to our most recent records, Bob is in Pittsburgh and, I think, on the Pitt med school faculty; Bill is in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and teaches at UCLA Medical School.

"I'm still on the job as broker of pulp and paper/' writes Larry Norton from Richmond, Va. His comments tie into the retirement panel that Monk Larson is organizing for the 45th. "I'm still on the job because I enjoy it and because I am traveling far less than before. Our youngest produced his first child (our sixth grandchild) in Atlanta but has since moved to Exeter, N.H., which will give us an excellent excuse to visit Hanover soon."

The secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern Pennsylvania, better known to us as R. Jordan Gotshall, went to Hanover last November for a conclave known as Club Officers Weekend. Gotch reports: "Our classmate David Chittim was elected vice president of the Dartmouth Club Officers Association. As I understand it, he automatically becomes president next fall."

Dave lives in Cohasset, Mass., and has long been active in the South Shore Dartmouth Club, e.g., recruiter, interviewer, liaison officer.

Sam Pratt was the logical choice to represent Dartmouth at the inauguration of the new president of Ohio Wesleyan last fall. Sam is an English professor at Ohio Wesleyan, so his attendance was easy and inexpensive.

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TAKEOFF! 41's exhilarating 451h Reunion June 10-June 12. 1985