1948
These notes are written in July, but when you fellow '48s read them in September our alma mater on the Hanover Plain will be into what I calculate to be Dartmouth's 218 th academic year. The bright golden days of autumn will be smiling on the campus green, on noisy, active Main Street, on the still beautiful Dartmouth Row, on the vista walk past the Gold Coast dorms down toward Tuck, on sparkling Rope Ferry Road out to the Hilton Field links, on Memorial and Chase Fields, on the gorgeously blue Connecticut, and on the surrounding hills which blend so perfectly to make "The Place" which meant so much to us as young men of Eleazar some 40 years ago. Hanover may be somewhat different now from what we knew then, but those of us who have visited the little town in recent years know that the good things of its beauty and character which were there 40 years ago are for the most part still there now. It's still a great place to be.
Which should be just one of the reasons that as many of us who possibly can do so owe it to ourselves to be in Hanover for the '48 40th next June. The dates are Monday, June 13, through Thursday the 16th. BudGedney and Ginny, now permanently resident in Canaan, are taking charge of arranging details of the program through Dave Orr '57 of the College's Office of Alumni Affairs, and they are capably backed by Pat McAllister Reed of nearby Eastman, by class treasurer Gil Shattuck, who is within easy reach at Hillsboro, N.H., by Joe Smith, not over 80 miles away in Dover, by Sam Wilkinson, who lives just outside Portland, Maine, and by our president, Earl Chambers in not-so-distant Providence.
The 40th reunion class is always given pretty special attention in Hanover. Bud tells me the College and the committee are dedicated to making the event one which each '48 will afterwards remember with much pleasure and nostalgia as a relaxed and wonderful few days where old friendships were cemented and old acquaintanceships confirmed as friendships. Do make your plans for next June. It's the Granite State in '88!
Do note, too, that our very able social chairman, Bud, is planning a '48 get-together after the Harvard game in Cambridge on October 17 and one of his marvelous mini-reunions in Hanover the weekend of the Yale game, beginning October 30. You'll likely receive details from Barney on these fun events.
At this time it is altogether fitting that his classmates acknowledge the fine job done by class agent Bud Elliott and those who worked with him in the 1986-87 edition of Eleazar's Alumni Fund drive to raise operating funds for our Dartmouth. Full results are not in as of this writing, but we do know that the '4B goal of $59K was handsomely exceeded. We'll have final information next issue.
The following bits of news were picked up during the past few weeks. Milt Kurtz, who lives so far out on Long Island that he sees few other '48s, is still manufacturing good men's shirts after almost 40 years. He now has his '82 daughter working with him. Bing Aspinwall still owns and operates Station WPBR, Palm Beach Radio, and still sees brother-in-law Pentii Siiteri during the latter's many trips back east from his lair in California. Personnel executive Don Drescher and Joan have left Pittsburgh and are now back in their longtime home in Short Hills, N.J., this after Don retired June 1 from Beacham. "No more travelling, no more ruined weekends!" gloats Don. Bill Hartwig, who is in Milwaukee, was a mine of information. He enjoyed discussing the situation in Hanover with Professor BobHuke at a Dartmouth meeting in Wisconsin when Bob provided interesting insights on the Hanover scene. Bill reported that M.D. Tom Huffman, a resident of Longmont, Colo., skied last February with Bill's brother Jack '49 at Vail. And Bill particularly enjoyed talking of the $36,000 mountainside house at Vail designed and built for Jack in 1962 by 1948's architect-skier, Colin Stewart. Bill says the house fits in beautifully between a $650K mansion below it and a $1.5 million "castle" above. "Colin did a job!" he said. Embattled Ron Spiers, whose State Department trials and tribulations regarding security were reported on earlier, has since been dubbed "Mr. Asbestos" by the Washington Post due to the verbal fire capably absorbed by him at hearings on "The Hill."
More next month. Have a great fall.
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