1943

In the hotly-contested balloting in May for Trustees of the College, members of the class split their tickets. Out of 498 eligible alumni in the class, 331 returned ballots for a 66.5 percent turnout. Classmate Bob Field received 61 percent of the class vote, while opponent Steve Kelley '81 won 39 percent. In the overall results, Field won by about 58 percent, while Kelley received about 40 percent. A little more than one percent of all 44,039 alumni returned defective ballots.

In the other contested election, a majority went for challenger Dan Provost '41 with 168 votes, or 53.3 percent, while 147 '43s voted for incumbent trustee Ron Schram '64. Schram won reelection in the all-alumni voting with 57.5 percent of the vote. Field and Schram were the candidates nominated by the Alumni Council and backed by the Alumni for Dartmouth organization, while Provost and Kelley were sponsored by the Committee for a Strong Dartmouth. At the subsequent Board of Trustees meeting, George Munroe was elected vice chairman of the Board. His term as Trustee expires next year.

Incidentally, George will retire next February 1 as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the Phelps Dodge Corp. He'll stay on the board as chairman of the finance committee.

Chuck Feeney, president of the National Baseball League for the past 17 years, will retire from the post next month. He'll be replaced by A. Bartlett Giamatti, the former president of Yale. The College gave Giamatti an honorary degree in 1982.

The man who ran the Tall Ships operation during the Statue of Liberty centennial in New York during the July 4 weekend was none other than Emil"Bus" Mosbacher, onetime America's Cup skipper and U.S. chief of protocol some 15 years ago. Bus was embroiled in controversy over the participation of the Chilean vessel Esmerelda, which was alleged once to have been a torture ship. Owing to Bus's discreet efforts, the dispute died down and there was no disruption during the ceremonies.

As of mid-July, and with the counting still in progress, members of the class had donated $121,141 or 93 percent of the class goal, to the Alumni Fund. That's more in dollar amount than last year, but still about $8,860 under the $130,000 goal. The contributions came from 318 class members, a 64.5 percent participation. That puts us tops in participation among classes of the 19405, but only third in rank among the "Green Derby" classes. Final results haven't been tallied as of this writing.

Mini-reunion chairman Don Taylor reports that eighteen '43 couples have signed up so far for the October 4 weekend in Baltimore and environs, including a Chesapeake Bay boat trip and the Dartmouth-Navy football game. That means the number of reserved rooms has dwindled to two. The annual mini-reunion in Hanover this year will be October 18, the football game with Harvard. Time to mark calendars.

Betty and John Hyde have bought a house in North Woodstock, N.H., and plan to move as soon as they sell their present house in Concord, N.H., where they've lived for 35 years. John reports the new abode is within casting distance of trout stream.

Paul Parker, who retired not long ago as executive vice president and chief administrative officer of General Mills in Minneapolis, has been named president of the Minnesota Opera. Paul says he took the job because he couldn't find a job in baseball.

For the third successive year, the BobLimings and Bodie Mosenthals staged a '43 picnic at Bodie's place, Mosewood Ridge, in Corinth, Vt. Details in a later edition.

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