1942

Now the countdown to our big FIVE-O in 1992 has begun. Over the next four years each of us will have our own 50-year milestones. For all of us September 1988 commemorates the 50th anniversary of our matriculation and our coming together as a class on the Hanover plain.

For those who may have forgotten, it also marks the 50th anniversary of the BIG NORTHEAST HURRICANE of 1938, which greeted us just as we were moving in to start our Dartmouth careers.

When 50 years near, one starts "going back to things."

In May I enjoyed a glorious, rain-soaked four days celebrating my 50th reunion at Exeter. Jake Davis, Dan Hagge, Alex Hooker, and Trum Huntington were other Dartmouth '42s on hand.

Jake, with a lot of help from a son, still runs Cape Cod Wind Indicators at Harwichport; Dan has retired from the insurance business in Wisconsin; Alex has retired from teaching Spanish as a full professor at Ripon College and now divides his time between winters in Venice, Fla., and summers in Wisconsin; and Tram has moved from retail book selling to publishing his own list of books under the Parnassus Imprints title out of Orleans on the Cape.

In the course of doing some work on the history of our Exeter class, I was in touch with John Garretson, a cranberry grower at Marshfield, Mass., and Deke Holmes, who is retired but still dabbling in mining in Sacramento, Calif.

The report also turned up Tim Crane, who has retired from research with Eastman Kodak and now lives on Nantucket Island. I couldn't run down Harry Monroe, last reported to be a night editor with the Washington Star.

In June it was our belated 45th in Hanover. Dick Lippman has promised to bring you great details of the fun-filled and interesting three-day get-together, but for the record the class elected the nominating committee's slate of officers to serve us for the four years leading up to the 50th Reunion in 1992.

A.d Winship will serve as president, assisted by Jim O'Mara as vice president. Ted Arico and yours truly return to the slots we held when the class graduated in 1942. Ted will be treasurer and I will serve as secretary.

The class scored two great coups in getting Lipp to return as newsletter editor and Warren Kreter to assume once again the head class agent's job in which he distinguished himself during the ten years leading up to our 25th Reunion. Guy Swenson continues as bequest chairman, Bob Kirk will represent us on the Alumni Council, and Bob Searles will be in charge of minireunions the next of which, Bob writes, will be October 14-15, the weekend of the Harvard football game. A class meeting on Friday afternoon starts the program, followed by an early dinner at the DOC House and Dartmouth Night festivities on the Green. There will be a pre-game luncheon at Leverone Field House and a Saturday night dinner at the Norwich Inn. Lipp has promised full details in a newsletter.

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