1948

Many thanks to Lloyd Krumm, now residing in Eastman, near Hanover, for notifying me of my horrendous error in calling Dick Donahue by the wrong surname, "Donovan," in September. One thousand apologies for my dumb slip. When I called Dick in Beaverton, Ore., where he is the new president and CEO of Nike, the sneaker-maker, he laughed and said, "I was just about to phone to tell you I've changed jobs, but not my name!" Dick then described the exciting life of movement this well-known attorney is leading in his new vocation of manufacturing ana selling Nike shoes worldwide. "The shoes are really moving," he said, "a sign of the world's new desire for fitness and the rise of basketball as a widely popular sport almost everywhere. For example, at a Nikesponsored rally with Michael Jordan in a Paris arena a few days ago, it was standing room only inside, with thousands outside who just couldn't get in!" Dick added that all the BB games at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona are already sold out. Clearly, our traveler enjoys successful international mar- keting. It was a pleasure to pass to Dick the phone numbers of surgeon Dave Miller in Portland and investor Don "Mo" Morrison in Ashland, the only '48 residents in Oregon. Although now based in Oregon, Dick still calls Lowell, Mass., home. He and Dick Leggat grew up there only four doors apart. (The latter's son Rob may start as fullback for Buddy Teevens' eleven this fall.)

To the anonymous '48 who sent an article from the Boston Globe about a Dartmouth man disappeared from Newport, N.H., with ill-gotten gains stolen from others: please note he is not a '48. But we understand the hunt is on for him, and justice.

All classmates should lift a mug to Chief Class Agent Ax Axelrod and his assistant agents who somehow, some way, succeeded in surpassing the '48 goal of $49,000 in funds raised for Dartmouth in the recent Alumni Fund drive, this in spite of the large number of '48s who gave zero or less than one could normally expect. In noting this, one hopes that the new process of selection and election of alumni trustees for the Board, and the other measures finally adopted last May to make the Alumni Council more expressive of alumni opinion and thinking, may eventually make alumni less doubtful that their voices are heard in Hanover. Our own Earl Chambers, member of the Council's executive committee, is one of those who feels charged to make the new arrangements responsive to alumni, and thereby better serve our College on the Hill!

Unhappily we report the death on July 29 last year in Fort Pierce, Fla., of WaltSchubert. We were notified by his wife, E. Jo, to whom Walt's '48 classmates express their deep sadness at the passing of a good husband and friend. Likewise, the many close friends of normally irrepressible Don Drescher in Short Hills hope he soon overcomes the awful shock and extreme depression suffered from the sudden, absolutely unexpected loss of Joan on February 1. We're with you, Don, and hope you receive more phone calls from old buddies!

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