1943

The class of '43 has just finished another very successful and enjoyable mini-reunion. If you have never attended, or haven't been to a mini for some time, put it on your 1990 calendar now! It will be on the weekend of October 15 th and Yale will be our football opponent. It will also be Dartmouth Night, which is always a stirring event.

We had a total of 81 classmates and wives to enjoy a beautiful weekend in Hanover, and each other's company.

"Val" Vallarino from Panama won the prize for coming the longest distance. It was the same prize we awarded to our first great grandfather.

Bob Krumm sent a note after the reunion, remarking on how many of the '43s in New Hamp dorm made it to the mini. Vallarino, Proctor, Delany, Stockwell,Krumm, and Tower were on that list. We talked about New Hamp's "Touch Football" championship, with Roger Fenwick '41 throwing those marvelous forward passes, and Bernie Curry '42, with his substantial frame, holding off the entire defensive line.

Val said that he cut off Coca-Cola deliveries to Noriega and his army during the recent coup attempt, but that wasn't enough to bring the general down.

Add Dick and Lucy Proctor to the Beh-ringers and Towers as Dartmouth '43s who married Skidmore '46s. I guess we just liked younger women.

We got a phone call on the Cape from Eddie O to see if he could use our house in Brooklyn, Conn., to meet a Bill Donovan, a cousin of Our late classmate Tim Donovan. Brooklyn was the only town between Hartford and Providence that both of them recognized. Our yard was nice and tidy when we returned, (no beer cans or pizza boxes), so I guess their reunion was well controlled.

Fred Stockwell sent me a copy of his report to the College on '43 doings for the 1988-89 year. We can be proud of our Alumni Fund record, and extremely proud of our class project. We adopted the East Wheelock Dorm Cluster, and our contribution was their successful "Fall Formal." In appreciation they invited the local '43s (25 attended) to a spring barbecue. Two members of this dorm cluster, Chrissy Kirkmire '90 and Ben Burkhart '91, attended several of our mini-reunion functions. When you meet outstanding students like these, you don't worry about Dartmouth's future.

Also in the report was a notice that our class is falling behind in the number of duespaying memDers. This should be improved immediately.

As previously reported, Eddie O was given the Newsletter of the Year Award, and our class had honorable mention as Class of the Year.

Robert (Popular Bob) Clark received the Granite State award from Keene State College for outstanding achievements in his community. Popular Bob, I am sure, is much too modest to have me list all his contributions, which number over 20. Even that number didn't include his sound investments in South American Bonds while he was treasurer of the Class of '43.

Both Ben Edwards and Dick Koester informed me of the recent death of JimFrench. Dick was Jim's roommate for two years in Streeter, and they had remained close friends ever since. I regret to report the death of Bill Schumacher on September 27 at Maine Medical Center, Portland. And John O'Donnell has forwarded the newspaper notice of the death of ArthurMason Brown on October 29 at the Clover Health Care facility in Auburn, Maine.

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