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The following commemoration was read by class bequest chairman Dave Hilton in the presentation of the "Spirit of '51 Award" to Pete Bogardus in October 1985 during the class mini-reunion in Hanover: "Pete, while your home in California may be as far away from Hanover as one can get in the lower 48 states, you are as close to Dartmouth as anyone can get in every other way. From your first day on the campus, you took full measure of the opportunities every undergraduate has available. Your aggressive line-play for four years on the football squad upset the best-laid plans of every opponent. The social center for freshman activities that your room on the second floor of New Hampshire Hall became most Saturday nights made Mr. Wormwood a routine visitor at midnight when several guests usually needed him to escort them home. You tried your hand at acting with the Dartmouth Players, you helped rally the choral efforts of "A Band of Brothers in DKE" for the Interfraternity Hums, and you developed your entrepreneurial talent by selling more white bucks to college students than all of Hanover shoe stores combined. Always a prominent member in our class activities during undergraduate days, you continued that role in the years following graduation.
"Settling in Mill Valley, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, you have become a central figure in all sorts of Dartmouth activities in your re- gion. Your active enrollment work has di- rected many of the area's finest football players. The success in raising annual or capital funds for the College is perennially enhanced by your enthusiasm and hard work, whether making the calls or directing the campaign. You served as president of the Northern California Alumni Association, and as a personal project, you created an annual alumni gathering for a football game, which in the San Francisco area means a Stanford rather than a Dartmouth game. At a time of ebb in our class history, our spirit was immensely improved by the initiative you took to start up a class newsletter when you found we were the only class of those around our time without one. The College has called you to serve on the Alumni Council to provide direct communication with one of its ablest supporters on the West Coast.
"Your many years of active support and dedication to class, college, and community are fittingly recognized by the 1985 Spirit of '51 Award."
It is with deep regret that we report the loss of the following members of the class: Charlie Benson, Al Karcher, and Bill Leshure. Details will be in the obituaries in later issues.
Once again I had the most delightful visit at our corporate Christmas party in Chicago with Karen Jarvis, daughter of Charlotte and Jock Mclntyre. Karen reports that Charlotte is doing well and is looking forward to participating in class activities in 1986.
Sam Chu writes that he returned in November 1985 from another two-month trip to China, his fourth trip since 1975. In conjunction with the Jerry Mitchell family of the Dartmouth Travel Bureau, Sam was asked to be the lecturer on the Royal Viking Star ship for the Dartmouth Alumni China cruise. Seventeen alumni attended that cruise, including former New Hampshire governor Lane Dwinell '2B and his wife. That cruise was so successful that Ohio State University, Sam's employer, asked him to do another lecture trip in the fall of 1985, which several Dartmouth grads attended again, including Arlene and Ady Berger, now a successful builder in Miami. As an aside, Sam and his wife, Lucy, take a great deal of pleasure in having helped to find fellow classmate Peter Ling (now known as Wusun Lin). Peter never returned to Dartmouth in our senior year because he went back to China at the end of our junior year and was never allowed to leave. Despite the tenacious efforts of the Alumni Records Office, Peter's name was in due course reluctantly consigned to that list of some 300 alumni categorized as "lost." Sam and Lucy have gone back to China to several of Lucy's high school reunions (Peter's wife was a classmate of Lucy's at Shanghai High School). At one reunion Wusun Lin (as Peter Ling is now called) surfaced and had a nice visit with Sam, catching up on their separate lives of the past 35 years. Wusun is now the deputy editor in chief of a weekly news magazine, the Beijing Review. He is also chief advisor to Dr. Wang of Wang Labo- ratories. He returned to the U.S. and to Dartmouth not long ago where he was given a royal welcome by the College.
Woody Klein has been named by IBM as editor of THINK magazine, the company's employee publication. He is a corporate director in communications at IBM's world headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. Previously, Woody had served in a variety of communications management positions, including managing editor of THINK (1973-1976).
THESPIRITOF'51IS COMING BACK.
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