1948

This will be published in time to remind you of the '48 mini-reunion to be held in Hanover on Dartmouth Night

Weekend, when we'll face Yale, November 1-3. Chairman Bud Gedney and helpers have a fun program lined up that will include the Friday evening Dartmouth Night parade, a class meeting to be conducted by president Earl Chambers Saturday morning (at which time the new and truly fascinating Hood Museum will be explored with one of its directors), plus a class luncheon at the Inn and dinner at the friendly Pierces' place in Etna. Plus the game! Mail your application in, or

give Bud a call at 914/591-9191 during business hours. If you miss the good fun, it will be your own fault, and you'll disappoint Bud, who has worked hard to shape up the affair. Bud and Ginny went to Hanover for the annual Class Officers Weekend in

May as also did Earl with Nancy, Alumni Councilor Emeritus John Hatheway, treasurer Gil Shattuck (whose daughter graduated in June), and bequests chairman Bud Elliott. On their way up the Gedneys stopped and had lunch outside the Stanley Works with Fran Hummel, who has been an executive of this well-known tool firm for many years. Fran said he has purchased a condo in Hanover. Bud said he also took an afternoon hike in the hills around the Skiway and Holt's Ledge near Lyme Center. This was followed by a steak dinner in Brundage Lodge, where it gave him a thrill of pride to see the name of 1948's own Colin Stewart in the listing on the wall of Dartmouth men who over the years have skied for the American Olympic team. (Classmates will recall that Colin, a native of Hanover and now apparently a resident of Vail, skied in the Special Slalom at St. Moritz in 1948, the thrill of a lifetime.)

Bud also advised he recently saw LloydKrumm, our active former president who has built a ihouse at Eastman, the Dartmouth-sponsored community a few miles down the road from Hanover.

Speaking of '48 residents of the Granite State, my recent list had some glaring omissions. My apologies go to Bob Eckerson of Merrimack, Paul Liscord of Contoocook, Charlie McCarthy in Conway, and Ken Pinhero in Portsmouth. Nor should I have left out Bud Munson, who now owns a place in Hanover Center!

Many of us who enjoyed those wonderful years in Hanover as students found our lives enriched by the great outdoors that stretched across the stunning countryside in both New Hampshire and Vermont as one left town and headed for the White or Green Mountains of the two states. Thus we had a fondness for organizations like the DOC or Cabin and Trail, which made some of these trips possible. And thus many of us had to be pleased when Bob Averill '72 recently initiated a little publication called "Alums of Cabin and Trail," devoted to preserving some of the memories of those outings as well as providing a focus around which interested participants over the years can maintain that interest. Among the '48s expressing their moral or even financial support for the welcome effort are EarlChambers, Bob Douglas, A1 Gustafson,Jim Garrison, Charlie Kaufman, FredMaloney, Dave Miller, Foxy Parker, PeteOwen, Dick Repko (from Africa!), Ira"Murphy" Robins, and Phil Viereck.

In closing, a little trip tip. The foregoing reference to Mount Moosilauke brings to mind one of the best outdoor natural swimming holes in New England. It's located immediately adjacent to the road in the rushing little Baker River on a climbing portion of New Hampshire route 118, the old Sawyer Highway, eight miles or so outside Warren on the way to the Ravine Camp and North Woodstock. You'll be there when you reach a turnoff on the left over the little iron bridge into the once-beautiful old Moosilauke Inn. Many of you who read this will remember some marvelous late Sunday afternoon dips in this natural swimming hole when Dave Kendall '45 stopped the navy truck on the way back to Hanover after a weekend of hot climbing. Was it so? Go back if you can. Some things don't change. Those of you who haven't tried the place have a treat in store. Enjoy yourselves.

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