1948

Reunion chair Bud Gedney reports that the optional final big event in next June's Fortieth will be a bus trip to the Ravine Camp at Dartmouth's Moosilauke for a totally informal '48 luncheon. This will take place in the marvelous log structure built by Ross McKenney so many years ago on the picturesque hillside above Jobildunc's Baker River at the foot of the towering mountain, a fitting locale in the New Hampshire hills for the final event of our reunion. For some it may be the first return to this beautiful spot since a freshman class picnic in the summer of wartime 1944. Remember? Be there!

Ed Curtis, resident of Hollywood, Fla., for the past 30 years and proprietor of a personal finance firm, expects to be in the Granite State in '88. Ed is well remembered for the Harry James-like trumpet he crafted so magnificently as a member of the old Barbary Coast in our days on campus. Ed was really good and loved to play, but regretfully says he hasn't blown a note since Ort Hicks '49 organized a reunion of the old danceband during the joint reunions of some ten years ago when they played, among other places, on the lawn in front of the Gold Coast. (Bob Pillsbury, today pianist of the incomparable New Black Eagle Jazz Band, was also a participant in this group.) Instead, Ed today plays golf fairly often on the huge choice of courses in his neighborhood, shooting a respectable 85 most of the time. He also sees old friend, Dr. Jack Mahoney, occasionally from nearby Fort Lauderdale. Ed reports that Jack is taking full advantage of his daughter's presence on the campus to be in Hanover as often as possible, no doubt revisiting the scenes of some of his youngerday escapades.

Charlie Zoolalian, the Newburyport native, first saw Hanover as a civilian freshman in July, 1943, but by late '44 was a marine at Parris Island and Quantico before being shipped off to China. Back in the States in August '46 he married Katherine, with old North Fayer roommate HomerYoung in attendance, and returned to Dartmouth for his final two years. Charlie became a teacher, obtaining practice in the Lebanon public school system as did many other '4Bs including Herb Bender and Bob Welch. Going to California in 1949, he spent 35 years as a teacher, counselor, and writer in the Montebello area until his retirement in 1985. Since then Charlie has been busier than ever, particularly as a consultant and counselor to a local American school of some 550 students. Charlie still has much of a successful career before him, and was pleased to obtain the phone number o0f his old friend, Marty Ullman, in Laguna Niguel.

CONGRATULATIONS. To stockbroker Dick Russell for achieving his dream of building a new home 4,000 feet high in the mountains of far western North Carolina near Cashiers, quite a change from his sealevel residence for ten years at Amuay Bay in Venezuela and thereafter at Jupiter on Florida's east coast. To attorney and aviator Dirk Kuzmier, who bought himself a Mooney 252 with turbocharger, a four-place single-engine plane which is one of the fastest, equipped with Loran navigation system guaranteed to keep Dirk knowledgeable about his location at all times (Dirk says he expects to find the West Leb airport next June, contrary to four years ago when he got a little off course heading east somewhere east of Provincetown). To Joe Smith, now of Dover, N.H., who says he's just made his final retirement. "Yup, retired from the navy, retired from IBM, now retired from real estate. But I'll see you at reunion next June." Your old friends count on it, Joe.

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