Class Notes

1945

SEPTEMBER 1987 John E. Leggat
Class Notes
1945
SEPTEMBER 1987 John E. Leggat

The best way to put in perspective the brevity of summer is to realize that as this is written, the 4th of July was less than a week ago and when you read this the minireunion will be over, a new college year will have started and there will be 16 weeks to Christmas.

This fall's mini-reunion has an early date, September 18-20, to look for better weather, more modern accommodations and the opportunity to attract more classmates. We hope a lot of you will take advantage of anticipated warm late summer weather, and if you have to miss it, make a sincere effort to show up in 1988.

Bill Hale '44 forwarded an item from the April American Way,, the magazine of American Airlines, with a picture of an obvious Dartmouth 1945 sweater, the wearer of which was identified as Jack Hemingway. Others shown with Jack in a photo taken after World War II were Rocky Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. The magazine was publishing excerpts from Jack's autobiographical Misadventuresof a Fly Fisherman. He commented, "I spent the first fifty years of my life being the son of a famous father (Ernest) and am now spending the last fifty as the father of famous children" (actresses Margeaux and Mariel).

Vic Smith did not enjoy the dollar success of 1986 in his Alumni Fund endeavors, but as of June 26, 24 more classmates had given than on the same date last year. It is too late to count in the 1987 total, but if you are a LYBUNT or sometime giver who missed, your gift before the end of the year will provide a good start for 1988 as a tax deduction.

Sam Cutler, Moose Rowan, GeorgePierce and the secretary finally achieved good enough weather for a golf game at Vesper Country Club outside Lowell. Moose is amazingly adept at choosing a date for golf which produced a horrendous rainstorm not only for that day but for a week around it. The first two are enjoying retirement while George is still working hard. Afterwards, Allon Pierce joined the golfers and Ruth Leggat in Westford for dinner and an evening of scintillating conversation, including a taped replay of the radio program give-away to which George was listening at work and as a result won $1,000. Joan Rowan was in North Carolina and Gertie Cutler en route from Detroit and were missed.

The spring status report of the Global Economic Action Institute (courtesy of Frank Aldrich) contained excerpts from a speech by John Holdridge, former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia. John reported on political and economic conditions in the countries of East and Southeast Asia. Highlights included his concern about potential social and political upheaval in South Korea, and praise for Corazon Aquino and the belief that a centrist government would emerge if she could solidify her position quickly and receive external aid enough to revitalize the economy. Also he expressed strongly that the U.S. should continue aid to the area and avoid protectionist measures.

We offer personal and class sympathies to the families of the following classmates who recently passed away: Alan Buchsbaum, George "Sandy" Daniels, Jerry Peacock and Cam Cray; also to Richard Welch, whose wife Christina died recently.

This is the last of the 800-word columns; by vote of class secretaries, future columns will be limited to 500 words. But that does not mean you have to hold back on news; in fact a large increase in same will be most welcome. I hope that you all had a great summer. If you have not been in Hanover lately, a visit would be most worthwhile. New buildings such as the Rockefeller Center, the Hood Museum, the Berry Sports Center and new dormitories have created a new look on campus. John "Tod" Leggat Jr. '83, whom many of you remember from reunions, thinks so highly of it that he is returning to Dartmouth as a med school freshman in the fall. Au revoir until October.

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