1938

YA GOTTA HAVE HARTY!: Thanks to the good offices of his nephew Mark Harty '73, we're able to play catch-up on an overly modest classmate. Phil Harty, who recently retired as president of the Exolon Company of Tonawanda, N.Y., an international abrasives manufacturing company, is still very active as a senior director of and consultant to Exolon. Interestingly, having gone through the Harvard B School route, doing his thing for the U.S. Navy in WW II, marrying Ann Piper, and fathering Hilary and Althea, and serving as VP sales of the company, Phil succeeded brother William Harty '39 as president.

Tennis and squash teammates at Dartmouth will recall Phil's prowess, but they (and we) may have missed his latter accomplishments: three-time winner of the U.S. National Squash Doubles Championship and two-time winner of the Canadian National Doubles Championship. One lingering question: how can a guy this smooth have made a career out of manufacturing abrasives? Aye, there's the rub. GOOD FELLOWS GET

TOGETHER: For the past four years, if not longer, a group of 10-12 classmates and other Dartmouths have regularly six or more times a year visited Whitey Mays and his Notre Dame fellow patient, Joe Garrity '42, at Rocky Hill, Conn. The most recent gathering, at this writing, was a Christmas luncheon that included Dick Holt, Hank Mac Duff, Dick Francis, Fred Pickering, Art Soule, Roy Duckworth, Red Heath, and Dave Camerer '37. In spirit, if not necessarily in fact, there must have been a song by the fire, some beechwood and a bellows and, of course, a cup (at least) of fellowship.

MORE ABOUT MINI MINIS: Like the group mentioned above, other classmates manage to mix and mingle in informal gatherings during the year. For example the Northern Golfers names not immediately available, but you know who you are! number eight to 12 classmates and putter around some seven times a year. Down Florida way a group of 12 to 14 '38s meet annually. (How many foursomes can you get out of 14 golfers?)

There must be other such get-togethers, from coffee klatches to chowder-and-marching societies, news of which would be interesting .to all. If you are a member of one, or know of any, be sure to get the information to mini guru Dick Francis after, of course, you've let this column know!

DARTMOUTH UNDYING: The winter issue of the Alumni Magazine carried the obituary of Y.P. Dawkins, written by John Scotford. What it couldn't really report was the inspiring thoughts and recollections advanced by his son, Young Parran Dawkins III '72 at the Rollins Chapel memorial service for Dawk. Actually it is a message that couldn't really be "reported," but should be repeated. Space does not permit a fall reprise, but here are excerpts that say it all:

"It is appropriate that we gather in Rollins Chapel to remember Y.P. ... because Dartmouth resonates with those things in which he placed the greatest value: integrity, loyalty, laughter and love. His character was largely shaped among these kind and enduring hills ... The greatest legacy any of us can give my father is to recognize how good we feel when we are honest; how much grace and strength we find in loyalty; how other people's smiles embrace us when we laugh; and how much we can be rewarded when we give our love away. Young Parran Dawkins found these truths in his family, his work, and especially his College. And perhaps it is that, finally, which we mean by the phrase, 'Dartmouth Undying.' "

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