1945

There is a slowdown on news this month although I could write volumes about a rainless golf vacation in Scotland with Joe Donahue '46, Walter Reilly '47 and our chauffeur, a Brown '45. The warmest clothing used was a sweater and only one day of 12 provided more clouds than sun. For those of you who are golfers the courses included Turnberry, Troon, Prestwick, St. Andrews, Carnoustie, Royal Dornoch, and Gleneagles. Dornock involved some extra travel but was well worth it since it has to be one of the most beautiful courses in the world.

Geoff Maclay called recently from Logan Airport in transit from Nantucket to Milwaukee. He and Edie had attended their daughter's wedding in New York and had enjoyed a few days at their retreat on this island. He reports that he is so busy with various projects in Wisconsin that he does not have time for the mini-reunions. He also was concerned about the low percent age of applicants from Wisconsin who were accepted in the class of 1992.

In a race which has been resolved by now but as of now we do not know the winner, John Butler was running for a vacancy on the Oregon Supreme Court. John was appointed to the Oregon Court of Appeals in 1977, has never been defeated for reelection, and "has a reputation that is more scholarly than political" according to a clipping from an unnamed Oregon paper. His opponent was described as being "about as political as a judge can be within the canons of judicial ethics." The winner will be announced later. At Dartmouth John and Lee Kreindler were among the few '45s involved with the editorial end of the Daily Dartmouth during the period from 1942 to the start of V-12 in July 1943 when the Dartmouth Log came in to existence.

Eliot Mover has been a faithful correspondent and recently sent me an excerpt from the May 1945 column which quoted a letter from Eliot describing his experiences as a naval officer on an attack transport in the Southwest and Central Pacific. Does anyone know who was writing the 1945 news in the year of our "graduation"?

Although the secretary was checking on a tuition investment at a parents weekend at Denison and missed Class Officers Weekend April 30-May 1, most of the other officers, Cliff Jordan, John Osborn, Vic Smith, George Barr, and Bob Paulson (with wives) were there. A lot of meetings plus sociability are packed into a 24-hour period and there are generally helpful results. It was my understanding that Vic and Vesta entertained the officers plus local classmates but I have not seen the list of attendees.

The College received a little publicity recently when the Trustees voted to defer fraternity rush to the second semester of sophomore year. It was my understanding that to achieve class solidarity sophomores would be encouraged to have that semester as the off-campus semester so that they could attend the summer semester as a class.

On that note we leave with a request for more news and (as the temperature hits 90° for the seventh straight day) best wishes for a happy autumn.

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