1946

We received a nice note from LowellThomas along with an interesting color brochure about his Talkeetna Air Taxi operation which he says "is beginning to shift into high blower with a group of Russian mountain climbers coming soon, as well as others from Germany, France, Japan, etc. Most will challenge 20,320-foot Mt. McKinley." Lowell still is doing much of the mountain and glacier flying for the business, which keeps him "from growing old mentally and spiritually." He is so busy during May, June, and July that he is now doubtful about making reunion. He says, "until I'm too old to fly, winter is my time to come back to Dartmouth."

Fred Garfield reports from Pittsburgh that he has taken early retirement after 36 years with the Koppers Company, Inc., and "is looking forward to new career opportunities."

Jack Whitman has sent us a news clipping about Len Wilson's recent appointment as executive vice president and chief executive officer of H.P. Hood, Inc., in Boston.

Dan O'Connor of Canton, N.Y., received the Paul Harris Fellow award from Rotary International last fall and has been elected governor of the Rotary district that covers upper New York state and parts of Ontario and Quebec. He also has been reelected as a trustee of the Silver Bay Association (YMCA) and continues as chairman of the department of religious studies and classical languages at St. Lawrence University.

Chuck Sweeney writes that he cannot make reunion in June because it conflicts with his fifth family wedding in the last six years, with two more still to go. Two sons recently have taken over the day-today operation of his 25 restaurants, known as Shoney's and Captain D's in the Richmond area, so he now has become the chairman of the board.

Dick Fitzgerald writes from London that he will not make it back this June, but expects that he will return to the Hartford, Conn., area later in 1986 as he retires from Price Waterhouse. He says, "I have met many Dartmouths in my regular travels around the world over the past 10 years. Will miss seeing old Don Foukal,Fred Garfield, O'Brien, and many others."

Leo Lellelid reports of his interesting work: "I have served as a pastor/teacher for 31 years in Madagascar, and subsequently in lowa and now in Missouri, ministering to the people in the Ozarks, just north of the Arkansas border. Our six children are scattered about, with three in Minnesota, three in Madagascar, and one in Tanzania."

Frank Aldrich '45 has managed to keep in tpuch with Norm Potter and KeithDeCourcey over all these years and was nice to send in their correspondence. Norm served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and then went to Harvard Business School. After various merger and acquisition activities in Australia and Brazil, he has now settled on an island on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. He is setting up a new agricultural base and is experimenting with crops of peanuts, watermelons, cantaloupes, and honeydew melons. Norm's letter to Frank Aldrich signs off with a series of recollections about the athletic exploits of Keith DeCourcey.

He recounts that Keith was the first college javelin thrower to exceed 200 feet and "one of the finest all-round athletes I have ever known. I bet him once that he could not throw a golf ball 100 yards, and he threw it from one end zone to the other and over a ten-foot fence past the goalposts at the other end. Then, just to rub it in, he repeated the throw which went 30 yards farther into some tennis courts on a hill beyond. Keith and his son are now into bow hunting for deer and bicycling. They think nothing of doing 150 miles a day in mountainous Oregon."

Keith recently retired after 24 years as football coach at Centennial High in his hometown of The Dalles, Ore. After only one season at Dartmouth, he went on to Oregon State, and then to the University of Washington in the V-12, playing in the Rose Bowl in 1944. After the war, he returned to the University of Oregon and wound up playing in the Cotton Bowl in 1949. Although he received offers to coach at the college level, he preferred high school football and won several state championships in his 30 years of work.

This is my last column. Many thanks for all your help over the past six years. Walt Snickenberger graciously has agreed to assume the tasks as your new class secretary. Please give him the same fine flow of news that you have given me. Best wishes. Please keep in touch.

On February 15, 50 Dartmouth hockey alumni participated in the Third Annual AlumniHockey Game at Thompson Arena, which was scheduled as part of the First Alumni WinterFestival. The game and postgame dinner were made possible by the generosity of the Friendsof Dartmouth Hockey. The players were divided into odd and even graduation years. TheEven outscored the Odd on a hat trick by Ross Brownridge 'BO and two goal performancesby Mike Choukas '51 (Choukas was traded to the Even just prior to the game) and MarkArdagna '82. Paul Guibord '36 chipped in with two assists. Peter Lavery '83 and ChipBettencourt '81 had one goal each.

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