1942

Duckboard season again as the basketball team ends an 11-1 EIL season with another title, setting a new team scoring record in the process. "Rubbers $1.00" in a Ward and Baird ad in The Daily D pushed spring footwear. The Third Annual Invitational Meet produced eight new track records, but Coach Harry Hillman expressed disappointment with the turnout. "Was the 65¢ admission too high?" Was Hoppy misquoted or not when he reportedly said, "Germans are dupes of every dictator who comes along"? John Wister won the Intramural Foul Shooting Contest and Joe Palamountain and Tom McElin posted their eighth straight debate victory in a talk with Holy Cross. That was the slopping around, March 1940.

January telephone calls along the Carolina Coast indicated that '42 Big Greeners came through Hugo pretty well. Alan Bede in his first year in a new home in Wilmington, N.C., reported that Hugo's high winds and tree damage were nothing compared to a record 15" of snow Wilmington had to put up with in the Christmas season.

Further south at Kiawah Island, S.C., transplanted Maniac John Tiernan said he sustained little damage but the island lost 80 percent of its trees. Kiawah's third golf course hit by the storm had just gotten back into play when I talked with John. John, incidentially, has gone back into business again after having retired once. He and a partner now sell waste-burning machinery to small communities and John is excited by the prospects.

The Dick Maxwells on John's Island south of Charleston got their wind from the mainland on the backside of the hurricane and suffered only a small hole in their roof. Unfortunately, I have to report that Dick had been hospitalized for ten days when I called, awaiting an operation in his continuing battle with a cancer he has had since 1983. The Maxwells moved to South Carolina in 1980 when Doctor Dick retired from active practice.

Press clippings from (1) my local paper, (2) from the College clipping service, and (3) from a bashful Dutch Schaefer brought these tidbits:

An AP story in The Burlington Free Press told of the National Geographic's research and conclusion that Admiral Robert E. Peary had discovered the North Pole. The story carried this quote from our own Edward Peary Stafford (the explorer's grandson): "Doubters still willing to dispute Peary's claim should join the Flat Earth Society."

The clipping from the College reported that Kent Barclay, retired from a long affiliation with Ford Motor Company and a resident of Vero Beach, Fla., since 1983, was elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Vero Center for the Arts.

And the clipping from Dutch told of a June 9 hole-in-one on the 17th hole of Westfield, N.J.'s Echo Lake course and a November 8 hole-in-one on the 7th hole of the same course. Dutch editorialized: "Modesty almost prevents me from notifying you that in five months I have equaled what Lee Trevino has taken a lifetime to accomplish." Your editor's comment: "Did you get $400,000 for yours, Dutch?" What a jealous spoilsport I am.

Finally the sad news, too much of an item in these lines these days: the deaths of classmates Rod Bolin in Chicago on April 14; of Don Wright in Plaistow, N.H., on July 27; of Chuck Kingsley in Huntington, N.Y., on October 8; of Herb Osborne in Omaha on November 21; and of Stew Asimus of Apopka, Fla., on December 4. The class extends its deepest sympathies to the families of these departed classmates.

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