1948

The round-world trip last year of Bill andMarge Scott deserves farther attention due to the off-beaten-track places they visited and their extensive hiking on foot. In Nepal on the roof of the world they trekked in the Himalayan foothills opposite fantastic Annapurna and were near Everest, sorry not to see the latter due to unbroken clouds. Few Americans ever visit the island of Phuket off southern Thailand in the Audaman Sea or Samui off the east coast of Malaysia in the South China Sea, the latter still undeveloped. Bill says both have unbelievable beaches, but admits he was more enthusiastic than Marge over the topless aspect. Sometime after Tiananmen Square our wanderers spent three days tramping all over Canton without difficulty. In Australia and New Zealand they "spent four weeks crisscrossing both gorgeous islands by rental car an3 foot. Great trip! Worst trouble we had was remembering to drive on the right side after we got to Hawaii." The Scotts are part of the '48 summer gang in Hanover via their house in Lake Morey. They normally live in the Lexington of Paul Revere fame where Jack Boggia and RogZorn must be neighbors.

Walt and Mary Lane Cairns are another couple enjoying retirements of active adventure. Last summer they raced their J-40 with crew in the Marblehead to Halifax Race, finishing third in the fastest PFRF class, then just the two of them "spent eight wonderful weeks cruising Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the coast of Maine." Newfoundland is next. Walt still gets 30-40 days of skiing each year, a sport he grew to love when we '48s Were in Hanover, and also plays hockey and tennis, hoping "the old legs keep moving at least for a few more years." And don't forget that this veteran of 1944 Wheeler days —when he won everlasting renown with others for protecting the job of Chief College Warden Nelson K. Wormwood has climbed all but one of the AMC list of 48 White Mountain peaks in New Hampshire higher than 4,000 feet, a feat many other '48 mountaineers such as Gordon Mann, Ed Nadeau, PhilViereck, and the late lan Macartney would salute for its satisfaction and just plain hard work.

Almost certainly the most decorated '48 of Uncle Sam's armed forces is former marine major Bob Sebilian. Bob, of Hopkinton, Mass., volunteered early for the marines in May 1941. He fought on Guadalcanal with the 3rd Marines in 1942, and in November 1943 won the Silver Star in the bitter Battle of Piva Forks on Bougainville. One year later found him in the V-12 at Dartmouth, assigned there due to his "malaria/filiarasis and the low mosquito count in the Upper Valley." Bob was an active undergrad, became Chi Phi treasurer, majored in government, received his degree in June 1947, and his commission in August. Back on active duty he witnessed part of Mao's takeover in China, then went to Korea where in August 1950 action he received "an explosive gunshot wound while attacking up a draw between Hills 109 and 117, Naktong River town of Obong-ni" in the Pusan perimeter, for which he received the Purple Heart. Bob earned 13 other decorations and medals before retiring from the Marine Corps in 1964 to become a broker. Now residing near Washington, he supports the National V-12 Colloquium, and will join his and our pal, Old Sarge GeorgeMacGillivray, in seeking Dartmouth's notification help for the next reunion (prob- ably 1993) sponsored by this group of exmembers of the 70,000 WW II V-12, of which Dartmouth trained more than any other institution. The major, as with so many of Eleazar's sons, was disillusioned when our College rejected NROTC, and now hopes that action of years ago is not representative of Hanover's outlook today. Amen!

Your scribe's optimism last month about Dartmouth's current basketball team may have been premature. In what hopefully was a misprint the Houston paper last Sunday morning showed that Princeton had edged our hoopsters 54-28 the night before. Next year maybe?

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