1941

Flash! Flash! A belated bulletin, especially for classmates in the greater New York City area. The Dartmouth organizations in that city and the College are sponsoring a two day event at the Lincoln Center November 15-16—everyone is welcome. Dartmouth men and women who have shown "the will to achieve and excel" are being awarded a special medal by President Freedman Among the honorees will be '41s Owen Chamberlain and Bill Cashel. Congrats to them and thanks, as we classmates bask in their reflected glory.

Closer to the Hanover Plain, we learn that Bob Rainie and brother Don Rainie '40 were honored in Concord, N.H., on September 18 for their excellent service since the 1960s to the Havenwood Retirement Community. The new Sheltered Care Unit was named The Rainie Unit after the good doctors. A fund was also set up in their name to benefit the expanded Health Services Center. Way to go, Slip! The class knows that you and Don deserve this recognition.

The peripatetic Bruce Brown writes from Seattle that he is doing his best to keep certain airlines solvent with trips to Alaska and around the lower 48, including visits to Hanover to attend meetings of the board of overseers of the Hopkins Center and the Hood Museum. And thanks to Bruce, we were able to obtain more information on the career of SpiderPaul, that revered legal champion of the homeless and less fortunate, who died in Seattle in April.

Another fast-moving traveler is GeorgeSimpson, that handsome unattached doctor from Asheville, N.C. After our Hanover Hurrah in June, he did some sailing in Maine, visited Nova Scotia and later showed his teenage daughter, Anne, the wonderful sights of New York City, Boston, and Hanover.

An enlightening moment at the June reunion memorial service was Tom Littlefield's reading of a 1939 column in the Daily Dartmouth written by Chuck Bolte. In masterful prose entitled "Please Omit Flowers," Chuck maintained that there was still hope for mankind despite an earlier student gathering that mourned die status of the world in the face of approaching war. Chuck is now residing in the Gilbert Manor Boarding Home in Gardiner ME, 04345, for those who care to keep in touch with this gifted writer.

Thinking of Chuck, I'm reminded of some other mental giants (or Chiefs) who blazed the trail for us Indians. Other classmates who achieved Senior Fellow status (and envied relief from classes, exams and grades) were, according to my memory, Pete Keir, LarryThompson, Dick McCornack, Bill Lowry, and Ted Wachs. Regrettably, the last three scholars have passed on to their final reward. Peace to all of us.

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