1941

Nine months and counting. Nine, a mere nine, until june when we shall be Together Again! June 7-9 is the time, the time to bury the hatchets and pass around the Dartmouth peacepipe on the campus Green of Hanover. There is only one time to enjoy a 50th Reunion don't miss it. (Next month, October 12 14, is a warmup mini.)

Fifty years ago we were "safe at last in the senior class." September 1940 unfolded with football practice getting started on the seventh with captain Lou Young back from a summer of working as a timekeeper in his dad's construction company. In Minneapolis Don Norton tuned up for quarterbacking by loading freight elevators. Others at hand from '41 included John Kelley and Monty Winship as well as, now deceased, Ray Hall, Bob Krieger, Bob O'Brien, and Jack Orr. Elsewhere on the sporting turf, prominently involved, were Jake Gidney in soccer and Lee Trudeau in cross-country. Soon the College bustled with returning students, and none more so than we seniors could "make the echoes ring for Dartmouth."

Freshman had to be oriented, and the late Bill Durkee chaired Palaeop's committee performing that function. The DOC claimed 1,200 members and Mort McGinley headed them up while Line Wales served as summer camp hutmaster. The Daily D, edition of September 18, 1940, returns to mind other names and faces, surely to be remembered if not to be seen again at a 50th Reunion: Bob Thomas, interfraternity council president, Bill Clark, fresh from making the semis golfing in the national intercollegiates, ana Skip Beck, awarded the Class of 1926 Fellowship. Pete Jacobsen copped the Brooks Cup for debating, and other prize winners were Jack Brister (English), Pete Glenn (Latin) and George Kruger (math). And our senior fellows numbered seven: Chuck Bolte, Pete Keir, Ed Little, Bill Lowry, Dick McCornack, Larry Thompson, and Ted Wachs.

On Thursday, the 19th, we took part in Dartmouth's 172nd convocation, Charles Hadley and Tim Takaro received scholarships of $500 each from the Justin N. Smith Fund, and The D reported "Nazi Bombers Smash at Elite Sections of London." The Co-op advertised its offering of a Dartmouth sweater for $7.50, and the Nugget featured "Lucky Partners" starring Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers. Tom Qakes managed the paper, Snuffy Smith did same for varsity football, and managing fraternity and dorm intramurals were Jim Jacobs and Ray Hayes, respectively. The class of 1941's gift to intercollegiate tennis was three-fold: Fred Leopold, Stacy Hill, and Buzz Willis. Responding to Look magazine, which solicited views on then current female fashions, Bob Feller, Jacko's art editor, referred disdainfully to "sloppy Brooks sweaters."

We were 2,417 strong, the student body all told, including 700 peagreeners. At the convocation we heard Hoppy say, "It is to patient men of clear vision and flexible minds that true liberalism has to look for its protection and development. It is particularly true among the intelligentsia of the world that men kill the things they love." Amen.

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