1942

March 1939. Our first bout with a Hanover spring and duckboards. Inside, the basketball team beats Princeton and wins the EIL title, but hockey loses to McGill and with it the International Intercollegiate Hockey League title.

It's March, but in 1939 it's also Dartmouth Night. The Daily D writes editorially: "The local participants (as opposed to alumni in the field) will turn thumbs down the slightest tinge of sincerity coming from the rostrum and condemn it as slush, drivel, or propaganda whose sole purpose is to lay down a gas screen while unseen hands are digging deep into the pockets of alumni." That's the way it was, 50 years ago. March 1939.

Nowadays there were random talks on a recent Sunday morning:

With Leo Caproni in New York City. Cap has run into the mandatory retirement age (70) at New York Technical College where he has been professor of marketing and sales promotion; but, he is expecting to continue teaching a couple of courses as an adjunct professor. Leo reports that one of the fun projects that he has had at NYTC (a part of the City University of New York system) was conducting 22 students through a summer program in Germany, Italy, France, and England.

With Jerry Tallmer, also in the Big Apple. The erstwhile editor of the Daily D says that he is still writing and editing, just what he had been doing for the last 40 years. He is still with the New York Post, "having survived ten years of Rupert Murdoch." Jerry's portfolio at the Post is drama. As a longtime journalist, Jerry was upset by the unrest caused in Hanover by The Review.

With Dick Godfrey in Tarpon Springs, Fla. Dick, now retired from Ford Motors, reports that he lives alongside golf courses all year long, during the winter months in Tarpon Springs (a delightful Greek fishing community) and during the summer months in Northern Michigan. He reported that brother-in-law Charlie Brown, 1942's ex-prexy, has had a rough time with arthritis in his hands (which has cut into his golf) and with eye trouble.

With Ted Lapres in Margate City, N.J. Teddy is still busy practicing law in Atlantic City and is preparing to go back to Normandy in June for the 45 th Reunion of his Ranger battalion which scaled the cliffs in the D-Day invasion in 1944.

I couldn't get through to either Jack Zimmer, Florida tycoon out of Casselberry, or fellow retiree Jim (Charley Murdoch) Mulligan, wintering in Fort Pierce, Fla. Jack's wife said he was fine, attending Sunday morning services when I first tried him and giving a Sunday drive to an elderly friend at the time of my second attempt. Murdoch's wife, Jim-she (as opposed to jimhe), reported that Jim, who long ago retired after a career with the Stanley Works, is going from one tennis court to another. The Mulligans summer on Cape Cod and Jimshe promised that never again would they come back to Hanover and not sit with the Class of 1942 (as they have done for the last two Octobers).

The mailbag brings news that Camp Dudley in Westport, N.Y., has named its new A-Hut Athletic Building for Charlie Sturz, whose death on May 14 last year was reported in the summer issue of the DAM.

And the sad news of the death of Charlie Close of a heart attack in November.

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