1957

Fresh out of Tuck School in August 1958, I sailed to Europe on the HollandAmerica Line's Maasdam. On board were Bob Langworthy '51 and his wife Shirley. Because slow expenditures would lengthen our stays overseas, we were glad to discover a cheap (11 cent) drink that we named a Dutch boilermaker: a shot of Bols genever from a ceramic bottle and a glass of draft Heineken. We tried, but no one could drink a dollar's worth of the concoction in an evening. Several weeks after landing, I met a Swedish girl, my future wife, on a train in London; and the Blocks and Langworthies have been close friends ever since, Dartmouth and the boilermakers notwithstanding.

Before reaching Nebraska, we visited with Hanny Mason in rolling, wooded Des Moines, lowa, which could easily be mistaken for the Northeast. Hanny designed a new house, now nearly finished, and he hopes that the guest bedrooms will be used often by wandering classmates.

Another Dartmouth-emhiazoned garment sparked a conversation in Jackson, Wyo., with Bill Briggs '54, breakfaster at the next table in Lejay's Sportsman's Cafe. He turned out to be head of the local ski school and sometime banjo player in a country and western band.

After driving through the Tetons and Yellowstone Park, we visited with Bob Langworthy's parents at the "Buckaroost," their log cabin in the Absaroka range near Big Timber, Mont. Bob's father is perpetual president of the Buckaroosters, an annual gathering of barbershop singers and marfarita connoisseurs that has included Paul teller, our era's Glee Club director, among numerous Dartmouth-related members.

Adrian's classmate Todd Cromheecke and his family have a cabin in Michigan right beside the great lake. On the way home, we stopped there for a night and dinner at a local roadhouse where drinks are half price when a freight train rumbles by.

Dartmouth connections in various forms added a lot to our trip; if you have a chance to do something similar, we can recommend it.

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