1944

Lovejoy HillCornish Flat, NH 03746

It was great talking to John McAllister in Arvada, Colo., which is just outside Denver. John retired five years ago as president of a lumber and mercantile company where he'd spent his whole working life. "I'm having a wonderful time," he says, "puttering around and watching my lawn grow." He says he sees lots of Wally Olin with whom he went to high school, and occasionally BobPeterson, one of our California doctors, South Laguna, to be exact. John also stays in touch with Art Scharff, who is in Branford, Conn., and doc Ed Price, who is in Omaha.

Doctor/professor Joe Buckley was only a step from the phone and the stethoscope when we called him in Edina, Minn. He is head of anesthesiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he's been for 34 years, and he is eyeing retirement in June 1988. In the meantime, he remains an avid golfer, traveler, and hockey buff namely, the Minnesota All Stars. Joe's first wife died four years ago and, happily, he is set to remarry in April. Soon thereafter, the Buckleys will be off to the Far East, where Joe will be a visiting professor for a spell in Taiwan.

We missed Joe Dryer by .an eyelash (and an airline ticket; he was off to an appointment in New York), but wife Nancy filled us in from home base in Palm Beach, Fla. Joe eased out of stockbroking about three years ago and became a consultant. "He is forever on the phone," Nancy said, "putting companies together and being very entrepreneurial." She mentioned a splendid Christmas reunion in 1986, with sons and families in from as far away as London and New York.

Joe Drummey, down there by Plymouth Rock, in Plymouth, Mass., was just back from a hop up to L.L. Bean, in Freeport, Maine, when we called. "Joe Crowley '43 and I went up to check things out. We're still deer hunters, an interest that came from our undergraduate,contact with Ross McKenney. I retired in December 1985 and am leading a wonderfully easy and uncomplicated life."

That very nice, quiet, unassuming fellow, Dave Eckels, retired quietly and unassumingly January 31 after 20 and a half years working for the College. His most recent title was director of stewardship, which in English means that he worked in the alumni office and was responsible for writing to donors and acknowledging all non-Alumni Fund gifts to the College. Dave has also been treasurer of class reunions for the past many years and a most pleasant fellow checking the faithful into reunions. He had a major disc operation in 1968 and has been in a wheelchair since. But you wouldn't know it when you talk to him and he smiles at you. Dave's wife, Patti, will retire in June, after 20 years as head of the Hanover Town library.

The luck of the Irish, or in this case, the Scandinavians. Homer Bogart's wife, Skaidrite, won a local raffle in Chicago, and off they went to Germany and Austria for two glorious weeks - Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck - those kinds of tough places. Boge says he's pretty well over his heart problems.

N.B.: the word from Florida is that George Ives is wielding his gavel as the new president of the Sarasota Dartmouth Club.

And a last-fall flash: Al Barrett and DonBurnham were honored at a banquet October 3, the evening before the Dartmouth-Navy football game, Al as goalie on the 1943 hockey championship team, and Don for his extraordinary record in long-distance running.

Nice news from the University of Cincinnati: its College of Business Administration has established a professorship in real estate in honor of West Shell Jr. West was founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a real estate agency bearing his name, the largest in the city. "This (endowment)," said West, "is an investment in the real estate industry. I love this business and I love Cincinnati; both have been very good to me."

Maybe you knew it; I didn't: our great and good freshman football player and highly decorated World War II pilot, J.Averell Clark, was a nephew of Tommy Hitchcock, the great, good, and immortal polo player.

We noted recently that Jack Jenness had retired from the labor relations field in Long Island to the relative quite of Rye, N.H. Retired, hah. His latest flyer reads "John Jenness Associates, Consultants in Human Resource Management," and then it tells you that he is chairman of IMS, the Boston Institute for Management Studies; the vice president of the Redford Group, Inc., in New York; and a multi-faceted wheel with the AARP (the American Association of Retired Persons).

Our local newspaper ran a nice feature on Henry "Bunny" Merritt, who lives in Hartland, Vt. A builder and carpenter most of his life, Bunny retired two years ago, and he is now general chairman of famous roast beef dinners put on for nine successive Saturday evenings by the Hartland Brick Church. "It has become a very popular community affair," says Bunny. "We feed some 450 people a night and the proceeds go to church upkeep and repairs."

That's it. Blessings.

Members of the class of 1944 who gathered at arecent wedding are, left to right, Bill Craig, father of the bride George Bruce, Chuck Glines,and Alex Gillespie.