1943

The contest over two seats on Dartmouth's Board of Trustees turned into a nationwide political campaign. As secretary-treasurer of the Alumni for Dartmouth group, backing the reelection of classmate Bob Field and Ron Schram '64, I had the fringe benefit of contact with several classmates. Dick Proctor wrote from Winter Park, Fla., expressing his concerns. Also communicating were KellyCoffin from Miami Beach, Fla., Jim Elleman from Mendham, N.J., Dr. Bob Alesbury from Yarmouth Port, Mass., and head agent Fred Stockwell from Grantham, N.H.

Bob Alesbury reports that he's retired from his gynecology practice in New Hartford, N.Y., and has moved permanently to Cape Cod.

Fred Stockwell, who suffered torn knee ligaments and cracked ribs when a teenage schussboomer crashed into him on a Maine ski slope in February, used his recuperation period to organize the Alumni Fund campaign among classmates. When Fred was able to get around with a cane, he and Marj took off for two weeks in England in mid-April.

Class president Fred Lent also was a ski trip victim, though of a different sort. He went on an annual ski journey to Europe with Connie and Mike Thurston and discovered he had a hernia. Fred returned to Chicago, underwent a corrective operation, and is reported recovering well.

Despite these mishaps, all of your class officers, including Lent and Stockwell, showed up in Hanover the first weekend in May for the annual Class Officers Weekend. Treasurer Bob Clark came up from Keene, N.H.; newsletter editor Eddie O'Brien drove his GM car from Wakefield, Mass.; mini-reunion chairman DonTaylor sauntered over from Grantham, N.H.; and bequest chairman Bob McQueen trekked north from New Jersey, all in the interest of finding innovative ways to communicate with 494 classmates.

A welcome note arrived the first week in April from Sue Driver, widow of EdDriver, who died last year. Sue, recuperating from a fall, wanted the recipe for bourbon French toast which Paul Young sent to me three months ago. The recipe was dutifully dispatched.

Elsewhere in this issue you'll find the obituary of Pete Heggie, longtime executive director of the Authors Guild in New York, who died March 28 at his sister's home in Brewster, N.Y. Ed Brock, a professor of political science at the Maxwell Graduate School of Syracuse University, delivered a 20-minute eulogy at the memorial service April 2 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. Pete and Ed were close friends for more than 40 years.

Incidentally, Ed Bock's daughter, Ariel, is on the faculty of the drama department at Dartmouth. Pete was her godfather.

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