1944

Question: Would a revisionary Russian '44 Class Notes writer from the University of Minsk or Pinsk call his Alumni Magazine column Glas Nosts?

Moving along, can any of you match this? Charlie Jack was born and raised in Pelham, N.H., and after the war and graduate school spent his working life in Pennsylvania. He retired a couple of years ago and where else but back to the family homestead in Pelham, N.H. And guess what? He was born at home in 1922, and he's now sleeping in the very same bed in which he was born. Who says you can't go home again?

Charlie is a great skier and last winter he was one of the regular members of the '44 Ski-For-Free group which, at the suggestion of Don Pfeifle, gathered most Thursdays at nearby Mt. Sunapee for downhill strokes on the slopes. Sunapee as a state park provides free skiing for senior citizens, and all of us old mountain goats qualify nicely. Others in the group include Rod Morgan,Bob Mcaughy, Eric Barradale (he had to pay; he lives in Vermont!), Jean Allen,Dick Whiting, and Fritz Hier. And some wives.

Another local, Jim Elliot, with wife Liz, were new to downhill and concentrated on cross-country. Jim also got his feet wet in New Hampshire politics, though he got doused in his run for selectman at Sunapee. "But I enjoyed the involvement," he said. The Elliotts also managed a couple of weeks visiting kids and grandkids in the Florida Keys and getting a "nature fix" in the Everglades.

Friendly Bob Callan sent diamonds of information about his former baseball mate, the late Al Barrett. Al's prep school, Gilman in Baltimore, dedicated benches, a cup, and a plaque to his memory. Al was a baseball captain at Gilman ana later president of the alumni association and an alumni trustee. His grandson, Allen M. Barrett III, age 3, threw out the ball at an alumni varsity dedication game.

Dick and Carol Ranger were featured in the Los Angeles Times last December, pictures and pushups included, for their devotion to fitness programs. In retirement in Dana Point, Calif., they have a daily regimen of calisthenics, aerobics, swimming, running, skiing, and biking. "Why feel rotten if you can feel good?" they ask. Dick had a hip replacement a few years back, but it hasn't slowed him down much. "I'm not supposed to ski a lot," he says, "but we get up to our local mountains about twice a week a two-and-a-half-hour drive and then come home to cut the grass and tend the flowers. Hard to beat."

The Young-At-Heart four marriages to report: Bob Eshbaugh married Mary Boyster last June in Ossining, N.Y.; Bob Rader married Doris Stoltz on March 10 in Villanova, Pa.; Gil Gabriel married Terry Van Tell on May 5 in New York; and Don Lindell married Peggy Williams Engelhorn on April 28 in Saint Michaels, Md. Peggy, incidentally, is John Engelhorn's ex-sister-in-law, and John and Don were Dartmouth fraternity brothers. All in the family.

Ach du liebe, more deaths. TommyDouglas, one of our stellar football players and a son-of-a-gun for Dartmouth, died of a heart attack March 17 while playing tennis with his wife, Sue. Carl Spaeth, also a heart attack, died May 15 at his home in Michigan. And Dave Brown, of cancer, May 31 in Darien, Conn. Our sympathies.

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