1948

These notes are written precisely 46 years to the month after a large proportion of the class of 1948 first met on the Dartmouth campus on a July day in 1944 to begin the first term of what was to become a long and endearing relationship with each other and with our College on the Hill. Crosby, Richardson, Wheeler. Do the memories still bring a pull on the heartstring?

Great to hear of old member Dick Donovan, the Lowell native and attorney who was a top White House aide to President Kennedy and formerly president of both the Massachusetts and the New England Bar Associations. In addition to his family law practice Dick has been associated with Nike, Inc., the athletic footwear manufacturer, for the past 12 years where he helped lead the company's expansion overseas. On July 1 Dick was appointed president and CEO of Nike, reportedly "the only job I've had which has impressed my kids." Dick and Nancy"s 11 offspring deserve the pride they have in Dad, and his classmates join them in saluting their old man.

Dartmouth Professor Bob Huke and wife Eleanor, leading authorities over many years in the improvement of rice strains in the Green Revolution of Asia, where 1.1 billion people find this food a mainstay, have done it again. They have authored Rice: Then and Now for the International Rice Research Institute to emphasize the immense work still to be done for the poorest farmers whose land won't produce the improved strains. Bob, who has had an illustrious career in Hanover as an eminent teacher of geography, was among those retiring Dartmouth professors honored by the Alumni Council in May for productive careers well done.

Bill Attwood and Ed Rutherford both live in West Chester, a suburb of Philly. Bill reports both these retirees do volunteer work together in operating the can/bottle recycle plant in West Goshen, the proceeds from which go to charity. A tip of Eleazar's mug to these '48s for their good works.

Bob Bartley read last April of Bob Sebilian's interest in the V-12 Colloquium and wrote Bob from Newark, Del. to ask for further data. The major sent Bart The Navy V-12 Program by James Schneider, which contains a nostalgic write-up on Dartmouth's WW II V-12 program and a description of Marine Corps participation in 40 of 131 of the navy V-12 schools. Among the famous members of Dartmouth's V-12 contingent listed in the book are Ron Spiers, former U.S. undersecretary of state at one time affectionately nicknamed "Mr. Asbestos," and Wid Washburn, still director of the Office of American Studies at the Smithsonian, both loyal sons of Eleazar.

A recent issue of the Dartmouth Medical School magazine contains notes by Tom Huffman of Longmont, Colo., secretary of DMS '50, which point out that his class of Dartmouth doctors will hold its 40th reunion in Hanover September 21-23. The event will also in effect be a mini '48 reunion as other 'SO M.D.s include Lou Clarke, Bill Coleman, Bill Cummings, Sam Katz, Ed Kelley, Bill Pace, John Price, and John Turner. The late Keith McLoud will be missed, and the group will also find nostalgic memories of the DMS dean of their time, Sy Syvertsen, one of the truly colorful doers who trod the pages of Hanover history. (His former students will not forget how Sy used concentrated sulfuric acid in an attempt to clean the outhouse at the old Moosilauke Summit House and almost burned down the mountain doing so!) For Bill and Jan Coleman the reunion coincides with their retirement and move from Pittsford, N.Y., back to God's country on gorgeous Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H. Hope many more of you get back to New Hampshire and the Hanover Plain this fall when gridiron coach Buddy Teevens hopes to lead a worthy aggregation onto Memorial Field.

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