1943

About the time you read this, College officials will be counting the ballots for the election of two trustees. A group of conservative alumni is challenging the reelection of Bob Field and Roland Schram '64. The group, led by S. Avery Raube '30 of Florham Park, N.J., and George Champion '26 of Greenwich, Conn., is backing the candidacies of Daniel E. Provost '41 and Stephen G. Kelley '81. The challengers distributed a list of 233 alumni supporters, including three '43s, TedDriscoll, Ray McMahon, and ChickWebb. The ballots were to be distributed in April and were expected to be counted the third week in May.

John Hyde spent three weeks in the Southwest and Mexico in February and March. It was a combination business, sight-seeing, climbing, and fishing trip. John picked up his former roommate JimEvans in Bisbee, Ariz., and they spent four days in Mexico fishing (successfully), camping, and viewing the spectacular countryside.

Chuck Feeney was a contestant on the television quiz show "Jeopardy" the last week in February. It was shown on Boston's Channel 7 on February 25. The president of the National Baseball League didn't win any money, but he received several gift prizes.

Class treasurer Bob Clark reports from Keene, N.H., that Jim Wells' sales of Indian-head embossed sweaters, in green and white, have brought $650 into the '43 coffers in the past year. And in the year before that, Jim's sweater sales added about $800 to the class treasury.

I talked to "Popular Bob" just a few days before he left for two weeks at his condo in Sarasota, Fla., in the same neighborhood as Bob Grant, whom Bob Clark said he expected to see. The chancellor of the '43 exchequer said he also expected to see Jim Olsen in nearby Bradenton and to play golf with ChuckFeeney who, at this mid-March writing, is monitoring baseball spring training. I ticked off the names of four other '43s in the Sarasota area for Popular Bob to look UP' ...

Bob also disclosed he's negotiating with Hud King to return to England in July to observe the 47th anniversary of Tabor Academy's victory over Kent School in the Henley Regatta. Tuss Hand and LarryNoble were members of the Kent crew, and Bob said he intended to persuade them to join the observance.

Ed Lider, who retired to his home at Eastman last year, has passed the New Hampshire real estate examination and plans to go into the real estate business in the Hanover area as an associate in the firm headed by Bob McLaughry '44.

Mike Frothingham reports from Rye, N.Y., that he's retired from Ted Bates Worldwide, a big New York advertising agency and that he's devoting some time to recruiting for the Executive Service Corps.

Alan Grant sent a green card to newsletter editor Eddie O'Brien announcing that he's retired from a career of city and county planning, pursued mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. A1 reports he enjoys retirement.

Finally, I had a couple of moles removed from my neck in March. The surgeon who did the job was Dr. BergerCarlson, with whom I shared a zoology laboratory table 46 years ago. We chatted amiably about Dartmouth's problems throughout the operation.

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