1943

The class exceeded its $120,000 goal in the Dartmouth Alumni Fund drive that ended July 16. Head agent Fred Stockwell reports that contributions from class members in the last few days of the drive pushed '43 into second place in the "Green Derby" competition with six other classes from the decade of the 1940s.

According to the College's Alumni Fund office, the '43 total was $121,109. College officials counted 313 participants from the class, for a 62 percent participation rate. In March, '43 was sixth in the Green Derby competition with a 16.6 participation rate. We did the same thing last year pulled it out in the final weeks of the campaign.

Fred turned the trick by mustering 55 class agents nationwide, 22 more than last year. Judd Waldron in Portsmouth, N.H., handled the New England region and Charlie Dorkey in Ardmore, Pa., handled the rest of the East. Phil Harmon and Mike Thurston contacted classmates in Maine; Bodie Mosenthal covered Vermont; George Graham, Ed Lider, and Don Taylor solicited in New Hampshire; George Van Petten took Rhode Island; Tony Rud, Bud Miskell, Farmer Mead,Don McCorkindale, John Koslowski, and Bill Glovsky covered Massachusetts; Larry Noble, Bud Hall, John Jenkins, BinTower, and Dr. Koo Delany handled Connecticut.

New York was covered by Pres Moore,Mort Pechter, Fred Coldwell, Herb Marx and Tuss Hand. Dick Bugbee, Bob Ehinger, and Bob McQueen, and Don Kersting took New Jersey. Pennsylvania was represented by Jim Hooker, Charlie Donovan, and Smed Ward. Other areas: Florida, Kelly Coffin, Dick Proctor, DaleRuedig, and Dr. Bob Craig; Minnesota, Jim Oppenheimer; Michigan, John Conn; Ohio, Bill Chilcote; Washington, D.C., and Maryland, Dick Lansburgh, BobGray, and Carl Batter; Virginia, BanLloyd; South Carolina, Jack Meleney; Delaware and Virginia, Bob Moyer; the midwest, Norm Probstein from Missouri; class president Fred Lent handled Illinois; the far west, Art Bucknam, Dr. PaulHarvey, John Troster, and Con Young.Frank Hartmann and College Trustee BobField were listed as "special agents."

The class and classy event of the summer was a '43 get-together at Bodie Mosenthal's place in the wilds near Corinth, Vt. Barb and Dr. Bob Liming cohosted the gathering, which attracted more than a dozen '43s and spouses. It was a carbon copy of last year, with a slightly smaller turnout. Those on hand were Connie and Mike Thurston, Marge and Fred Stockwell, Jennie and A1 McBean, Freda and Fred Richardson, Leslie and Don Taylor, Lucy and Dick Proctor, Bob Scott, JohnConn, Fred Wall is and Electra and TomGerber. Bill Craig '44 handled the cookout and Rick Proctor Jr. '72 and wife Karen were there with Dick's two grandsons. Oops! I skipped Hal Lindley, who was

there with friend Marge Boley. A good time, with tennis, swimming, beer, food, and amiable conversation.

Lorraine and Eddie O'Brien have moved from their digs near New London, N.H., temporarily, to Wakefield, Mass., staying with their daughter Patty while they house-hunt. Eddie's new address is P.O. Box 2032, Wakefield, MA 01880.

The class mini-reunion this year will be the weekend of November 1-3, with Yale as the Saturday football opponent. Minireunion chairman Don Taylor says "great plans" are in the making for the weekend, and a block of rooms for class members already has been set aside at the Chieftain Motel. The deadline for ordering football tickets from DCAC is October 11.

The University of Nebraska awarded an honorary degree of doctor of arts and letters in May to Johnny Reps, a professor of planning at Cornell. John was cited for his "exceptional achievements" as an educator.

We hear, belatedly, that Frank Hartmann was elected president of the American Senior Golf Association last April. As of this writing, Frank was reported to be in Belgium defending his title in the King Leopold tournament for seniors.

Had a nice letter a few days ago from Hex Harrigan in Sarasota, Fla., about some problems in journalism that interest us both. Hex says he's planning to start thinking next year about retiring.

And speaking of retiring, Ed Lider says he's going to retire completely from his theater chain this year and move permanently to his and Dotty's place at Eastman in Grantham, N.H.

It is sad to report the deaths of two classmates on the same day, June 29: Hank Garlick, of cancer, at his home in Youngstown, Ohio, and Dr. Bill Wierman, of heart seizure, at his home in Denver, Colo.

Obituaries will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the Alumni Magazine.

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