1944
That was an exceptionally fetching grin we saw on Main Street in Hanover on April 15, the more remarkable because it was income tax day. But for Rod Morgan it was retirement day, and he was relishing. Rod had been working for the engineering firm AMCA for the past four years and decided it was time for June and him to do some things for themselves. "We're not sure we can afford it," said June, "but we added up our sums and decided it was worth a try."
We were not at all happy about a typo identifying Mike Ives in one of the reunion photo newsletters this past winter. We wrote Mike with an apology and received this gracious reply: "The typo resulted in correspondence from Buz Duffield, whom I hadn't heard from in 40 years, as well as a welcome call from Bud Pegler's widow, Nancy. So I should thank you for the error."
Mike said he regularly attends the bimonthly meetings of the Sarasota Dartmouth Club, where he and Ernie Rice are the only '44 regulars.
Merle and Emmy Lou Hagen headed west in March for two weeks of sight-seeing in California and one week of trying to keep up with Bob Miller in Tucson. A California highlight for Merle was lunch aboard the QEII with his old navy C.O.; in Arizona it wasn't quite so leisurely, where the Hagens had to huff and puff to keep up with Bob as they hiked around the countryside.
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall (or to have had a tape recorder) in Delray Beach in February, when Gene Zins, Ross Higier, and Roger Feldman had a "wonderful reunion." That brief word comes from Doc Gene Zins, who has left New Jersey permanently for Florida, as far as we can determine; and both Higier and Feldman are already happy retirees.
The New York Times social page informs us that John Aloysius Carroon Jr. was to wed May 24, and, of course, he is the son of JohnAloysius "Pinky" Carroon Sr. I mean how many Aloysius Carroons are there, even in Manhattan?
So we called the Carroon residence to offer congratulations and were lucky to catch Pinky and Rosemary home. They were on the way to the airport for a three-week hop-skipand-jump around Europe - London, Paris, the Chateau country, etc. Pink, who is an international insurance broker, is beginning to feel retirement symptoms; Rosemary, a member of the advisory council of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, figures she's good for another 50 years on the job.
We were pleased to see that Bill Stahl had become '44 class notes editor for the Dartmouth Medical School magazine, and we're not at all shy about quoting from some of his copy. There were two photos in one issue, and a slimmer, trimmer group of meds you never did see. One showed Sterling Suddarth, George McElfatrick, and Charlie Regan at a Hanover get-together, and a second featured three couples, Brad and CarolCampbell, Bob and Virginia Lindsay, and Lou and Alice Savage. The latter photo came from "Rod" Lindsay, who reports that he retired from the U.S. Public Health Service in 1976 and settled in San Diego. Unbelievably, all five of his and Jenny's children live in the San Diego area, so there is lots of time for kids and grandkids. Rod is also busy working in outreach programs for both adults and children with physical or emotional disabilities.
There is also word on the Ted Mortimers. Ted is still going strong at the Case Western Reserve Medical School (he is a specialist in immunization), and wife Joan is a faculty member in the department of psychiatry at the same institution. Daughter Joanne is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Loyola in Chicago, son Ted is in computer science, and son Stanley works for Intel in Albuquerque. We East-Coasters should know that the Mortimers summer in West Hampton Beach, Long Island.
A final, personal note. Lots of kids want to be (or their parents want them to be) president or king or Prince Charming or whatever, but I've always had loftier ambitions. I've wanted to see the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest. Not climb it, understand, just see it. And, by golly, that's just what we're going to do.
Wife Anne and I have plunked down our deposits with what we hear is the best trekking outfit in the business, and we'll be off next fall - November 9-December 1 - on a 23-day trip, 16 of them hiking into Everest Base Camp. Anyone want to go? The thought occurs that it would be a large extra treat to have a couple of '44 couples, etc., make up a nucleus. If interested, give me a buzz (I don't get any percentage; I just love mountains). An Everest trek ought to be the best walk ever, or at least, the best since we all walked down the aisles.
The 1985 Alumni Fund advises that it hopes all of you will shake loose a few coins for the cause. Well, bills, actually. The larger the denomination the better. Deadline is June 30; don't miss it.
That's it. Have a lovely summer. Blessings.
Lovejoy Hill Cornish Flat, NH 03746
