1950

We are always eager to blow the horn for Dartmouth and for '50. Here are a few of our many classmates who bring credit to the College and the class:

In the April issue Scotty Olin mentioned that Gene Carver was elected president for 1991 of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors, a professional affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. He will be heading an international society of professional real estate consultants who provide advice on property and land-related matters. Gene lives in Rancho Palo Verdes with his wife, Pat. He is President of Hoffman Associates, Los Angeles, is on the board of St. Barnabas Senior Center, and is a member of the L.A. World Affairs Council, the King Harbor Yacht Club in Redondo Beach, and the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco.

Also mentioned in April was Frank Austin, who is the new President of NYNEX Service Company, which makes him responsible for New York Telephone's more than seven million business and residence customers. He lives in New York City.

Barbara and Charlie Wilkinson own and operate one of the loveliest and best-stocked gift shops you will ever see. It is in Longmeadow, Mass., and is appropriately named "Cock-O-the-Walk." When you are in southern New England, make a point of visiting it. If you do not want to spend money, leave your lady at home!

As Joe Medlicott retired from teaching at Deerfield Academy in May, he was honored to be invited to deliver the Baccalaureate Address. It was about friendship and farewell, and, as we would expect, was warm, earthy, humorous, and sincere. His last two paragraphs could apply to our dear old Dartmouth, as well as to his Deerfield. I quote them in gratitude for his expressing to those young graduates what we old ones have known increasingly for some forty years:

"An old and cherished friend of mine said it best about a school both he and I love. 'In such a fellowship there is no parting; there are no goodbyes.' For no matter how long old and cherished friends are apart, they're destined to meet again. It's the memories of those who mean the most to us in life that forever keep their edge.

"This, then, is my last hurrah as it is for the members of the Deerfield graduating class of 1990. Got some good memories? Made some friends? Learned a little about devotion to others, to the bricks and mortar and traditions of this special place? I'll bet you have. A week from this very moment you'll be graduates and on your way from these endings to diverse and singular beginnings. But you'll be back in one way or another forever. Maybe not in person, but always in your thoughts."

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