1948

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While we think of sport in Hanover, it is a good time to point out that many Dartmouth alumni actively support the Athletic Sponsors Program. Sponsors enable alumni and interested outside supporters to finance trips to Hanover by secondary school student athletes who otherwise might never really know of or consider Dartmouth for their college educations. Many high school scholar athletes feel Dartmouth is what they're looking for when they see Eleazar's place. The Sponsors Fund enables such visits to take place, and enables coaches and others who spot worthy candidates in high schools around the country to have a chance to compete against closer and often better known colleges. Several '48s (Earl Chambers, Bob Douglas, LloydKrumm, Norm Laird, John Park, Jim Schaefer, Ken Young) support Sponsors, and coach Buddy Teevens of Dartmouth's football team clearly needs this kind of help. Those interested should send their checks, made out to Dartmouth College, to Sponsors Director Whitey Burnham at the Alumni Gymnasium, Hanover. You'll be interested to note that former coach Joe Yukica, now in real estate in the Upper Valley, is a sponsor, trying to aid his old Ivy championship team quarterback Teevens to field a good squad next fall. Interested? You'll enjoy the reports you'll receive, too.

The saddest aspect of writing these notes is the notice delivered to me of the death of a '48 classmate. Fully realizing that Father Time must take his inexorable toll from among us, it nevertheless greatly hurts to see it happen. It is so utterly final. In recent months notices have reached me concerning the deaths of Bud Gold, Jim Graham,Charlie Herterich, Chris Matthews, LouPerry, Bill Pettit, Bill Standen, and VinVayo. And now I have learned Tom Tormey passed away in San Antonio on November 10 from causes unknown to us, and '48 class prophet Dirk Kuzmier flew his little apparently disabled Mooney 202 monoplane into the side of Dorset Mountain near Manchester, Vt., four days later. All these men are a substantial portion of our old class, and those of us who remain on this side miss their lasting friendships and those of earlier departees.

Abe Abrahamson of Amarillo phoned a few days ago when he came through Houston. Said he still sells insurance and enjoys life on the prairie in the Texas Panhandle. Occasionally he sees Dr. Noel Levy who still flies out of and practices medicine in Amarillo, the latter financing the former. Noel separately reported he still loves flying. Pleasure to talk with Dick Loomis for the first time in almost 40 years. Dick retired from Rhode Island Hospital Trust in 1981 and has since been using his investment skills in serving civic organizations and personal foundations in the greater Providence community. He and Cynthia are enthusiastic sailors in the waters around Narragansett Bay.

An interesting sidelight on the career of attorney and FBI man Harry Shaw, when he was in security with Lockheed, was protection of the U2 beginning in 1954. "Gary Powers largely terminated that problem in 1959," says Harry, now retired but working in real estate in Palmdale.

Reminder: register for our 40th! June's not far off. "It's the Granite State in '88"