1948

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Heartiest congratulations are due from his '48 classmates to Jim Nicholson of Pelham Manor, who has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the College of New Rochelle. This volunteer position will be additional to his job as vice president of CPC International. Jim is rightfully proud of what New Rochelle has done in providing wider access to education in the greater New York community. In addition to the central campus in Westchester County, where more or less traditional undergraduate, and graduate education, including nursing, is provided, the institution has a School of New Resources, which has eight campus locations in the heart of New York City where working people of all ages and classes can obtain a college education, mostly through attendance at night. These inner-city locations, each led by a director reporting to a dean of New Resources at New Rochelle, serve a student body of over 3,000 mostly working people on a non-traditional basis. Many are from underprivileged groups and classes in which minorities predominate. Many of the students in these eight locations are in their sixties, seventies, and eighties, and many are parents and grandparents. Jim reports that it is of great personal satisfaction to participate in this great educational activity of so much inherent service to a community. He deserves our respect for being an important cog in the development and maintenance of this admirable public service.

Jim also reports that he went to Annapolis for the Navy game, particularly because a young family relative is a member of the Dartmouth team. It was Jim's impression that Joe Yukica's charges played with everything they had, never quit, but were simply outmanned by a much larger opponent. Jim was pleased to run into fellow '48s Dick Greene, John Hatheway, and Jim McLaughlin. He also thanked Bud Gedney for his help in making arrangements for the weekend.

Jere Poole advises from his home in Berwyn, Pa., outside Valley Forge, that in the near future he expects, after 30 years of talking, finally to drive up to Skaneateles, N.Y., to see his old roommate and buddy, Jim Garrison. The two were participants in many a remembered escapade in Wheeler back in 1944-45. Jere, who has retired after being a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, and Darielle presently have two offspring at Penn State.

Bob Herrick reports from San Diego that on a recent visit to Honolulu he and Margie had a fun-filled lunch with HughShearer. The latter moved to Hawaii shortly after completing law school, and has been an attorney in the Islands ever since. They did not see Tom Richardson on Maui, some distance away. Bob reminds us with pride that he participated in a campaign in Hanover in the sixties which resulted in the rules provision under which formal petitions supported by at least 250 alumni can nominate a candidate for Dartmouth's Board of Trustees, a factor of importance in the recent history of the College.

The corps of '48s who have bought homes in the immediate Hanover area is steadily growing larger. Those we already know of are antiquarian Paul Fredyma, newsletter editor Barney Hoisington, agricultural researcher and teacher BobHuke, tool manufacturer Fran Hummel, financial specialist Bud Munson, and broom manufacturer Ray Richard. The latest adherent to this group is Gedney, who has purchased an old mill out in the country on the Mascoma River in Canaan. Bud ruefully points out the dangers of country living by citing the hernia earned in his first day of weeding. Perhaps to some extent offsetting this new arrival of '48s has been the departure from Hanover of '48 natives Joe Bannon, Colin Stewart,John Wood, and your writer.

In closing, twofold congratulations to acting head agent Bud Elliott, firstly for his citation by Alumni Fund Chairman Joel Portugal '58 for his outstanding service in the most recent campaign, and secondly for his assumption of a permanent relationship with Michelle in a partnership hopefully productive of much satisfaction for both.