1943

Jim Adams, who is getting to be my very best correspondent, sent in two letters covering recent trips and Dartmouth meetings. Jim included some snapshots of our 45th Reunion that show Alex and Mary A. Nagle, Polly Lent,Clarissa Adams, and Jackie Norton. Jim remembered that Alex used to stay at my house while visiting Mary A. at nearby Wellesley College, but didn't add that Alex charged me for the gasoline in his Packard, with no compensation for the Tower B and B.

Jim enclosed a note from Bill Craig '44 which invited him to Etna, N.H., and offered him a chance to see any old "broken down" '43s in the neighborhood. That does it! Let's challenge the class of' 44 to a world class shuffleboard contest, and we'll see who is in the best shape!

At a motel in Carmel, Calif., Jim found a note on his windshield from Peter and Judy Schwartz '60. He assumed that his license plate, DART '43, prompted the note that read, "[if] it refers to a small college in New Hampshire, we are in room #2."

Jim concludes that his birth date of April 26, 1922, makes him the youngest member of our class to graduate.

Bob Fields has gotten his wife, Pauline, another job, since he was just elected chairman of the board of trustees of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Bob and Pauline have been a great team on a wide variety of assignments, from vice president and treasurer of Dartmouth College to minireunion chairmen for the class of 1943, and many jobs in between. Congratulations to Bob, and to DHMC.

My bright-eyed investigative reporter, wife Shirley, spotted a fine picture of Smedly Glover in the October issue of Yankee Magazine. Smedly is the great, great dane of Paul and Janet Glover '45, and measures well over 7' from nose to tail. Smedly enjoys all of Dartmouth's home football games, and has his own reserved seat. Anyway, Smedly has been known to catch not one, but several of the footballs that Bob McLaughry '44 has tossed into the stands to promote his real estate business. Smed has great reach, enormous enthusiasm, and sticky paws, which has not gone unnoticed by Buddy Teevens. Buddv has had a hard time getting him through the Admissions Office because Smed's SAT's are a little off the mark.

Ok '43s, that does it! No more Mr. Nice Guy here. I am going to assign four people each month to drop me a newsy note. FredStockwell (chief of the tribe) has agreed that anyone missing an assignment will lose all merit badges, and will be listed at the bottom of the heap.

Starting with the letter A, I will expect to hear from Lee Anderson, Mercer Island, Wash., Bob Andree, Palm City, Fla., Harry Armstrong, River Forest, Ala., and Norm Askey, Miami, Fla. This message from you must be in my hands by January 1, 1991. Remember, all your merit badges are riding on this. If any of you see these four, and know that they don't read the DAM, please advise them of their new duty to the class of 1943.

P.O. Box 81, Brooklyn" CT 06234