1944

Our hearts and garden hoses went out to those suffering from this summer's drought, all the more because we have no drought whatsoever in terms of class news.

First of all, the Seductive Slate of class officers for the next six years, voted into office at the June reunion. Bill Craig gives up treasury to become president; Bill Hale gives up reunions to become co-vice president along with Dick Whiting; lobsterman Stan Barr assumes treasurership; Ben Jones goes from president to head agent; Win Martin and Fritz Hier give no respite as they continue as newsletter editor and secretary, respectively; John Berry stays on as bequest chairman; Dick Mayberry is our newest alumni councilor; Bill Orr and Jack Stephenson swing into action as mini-reunion co-chairmen; and Mary Bush graciously graces our memorials/widows activities.

There are also 32 members of the executive committee; check your newsletters for those names.

While on the subject of B. Craig and B. Jones, it should be noted that each has been a recent recipient of Dartmouth's prestigious Alumni Award, Bill last December and Ben this past June. And Bill Craig has also added another notch to his long list of niches (or vice versa): he has just been elected chairman of the DCAC, a 16-person advisory group overseeing Dartmouth athletics.

We are, or course, still basking in the afterglow of reunion. From a few of those unable to share our euphoria: John Weeks writes that instead of Hanover he and Jeanne, "Grabbed the opportunity to ride a small steamer around the British Isles to see some of the things we had been reading about for a long time, like Iona and Hadrian's wall and the Kings College Chapel at Cambridge."Jim McClintockhad a double conflict—watching his oldest son receive his master's in architecture from U.C.L.A. and his own 30th medical school reunion. Bob Colwell, White Plains, N.Y., said his fiancee Nancy had a church commitment, a 200th anniversary, and she was a wheel on the committee. "After three years," he said, "she is now wearing an engagement ring. No date for nuptials at this point, however, one step at a time..."

Dave Sanders, Waltham, Mass., was still nosing a grindstone: "I've been a self-employed broker/dealer for some years and like to think I have the best of all worlds. Work as hard as I want, take off whenever I want, and make money, too. It doesn't really work that way as there is always so much to do that my damn conscience won't let me let up. It's lucky I like it."

Rog Arnold in Jacksonville, Fla., said he'd had some heavy heart problems and his doc didn't think a trip to Hanover would solve them. But Rog is exercising regularly and "feeling good."

A reminder of our fall mini-reunion: September 23-24, Lehigh game. Details in a coming newsletter.

And ever a reminder: Ralph Antonides died sometime in March; Paul Livingston April 23; Delbert Jackson May 14; Bill Hinson June 12; and Ham Bates's wife, Martha, July 2. Our sympathies.

That's it. Blessings.

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