1942

November 1941. 50 years ago. William and Mary wins Fall House-party game in the rain as Hoppy and Pudge Neidlinger bum seats in the press box. Tom Danes Day is celebrated. 750 guests of the female persuasion are in town.

The faculty votes 51.1% for entering the war. The Battle of the Atlantic continues. Nazis reach the Black Sea. The U.S. Senate votes to arm ships.

Cross-country team wins the heptagonals in New York. Sid Bull is second, Bob E.Williams third. Al Dingwall and Jim Idema will co-star in The Importance of Being Earnest.

Gallup Poll shows that Dartmouth men. top the nation in willingness to go to war. The U.S. House repeals the Neutrality Law.

Football loses to Cornell 33-19. Soccer, led by Jim Rendall, closes a 5-2 season with a win over MIT. Harriers are 8th in NCAA meet, Bull is 4th.

Roosevelt talks with a Japanese envoy who says there is a limit to their conciliatory attitude. Thieves hit six fraternities for $250. Football loses to Georgia in finale, 35-0. JohnHill with 67 out of 90 ties for first in The Dartmouth's football picking contest.

All this in November 1941, 50 years ago.

In Atlantic City for Ruth's Women in Power (Utility Women) conference in mid-September, I stopped in at the law offices of Ted Lapres where our erstwhile hockey captain still continues in practice. Photos of the 1941 42 national championship team and of Ronald Reagan greeting Ted in Normandy 40 years after Ted led his Rangers up a beachhead cliff have prominent spots on Ted's wall. Ted looks great and says he is taking a neutral stand in the Bob Buckalew-Jim O'Mara case. In fact, Ted says he has referred it to Guy Swenson as it is in Guy's jurisdiction.

Joe Wilder will be honored later this month in a Lincoln Center gala to kickoff the Campaign for Dartmouth. Joe will be among alumni receiving Dartmouth's Presidential Medal for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership.

Dick Higgins checked in from Menlo Park, Calif., to report on visits with Del and Paul Torian at the Torians Palm Desert home on a visit with John and Fran Storrs in Portland, Ore. Dick says that John's house is a classic and confirms news printed here earlier that John is a highly recognized architect.

Dick Silver, writing to Bob Searles, sent along a press release telling that Dick been promoted to chairman of Akrochem Corporation with son Walton replacing him as president. Another son, William, is vice president of the 60-year old Akron firm which is a national marketer of raw materials to the rubber and plastics industries.

A telephone call from Bill Lain and a letter from Bob P. Williams reported die death of Ben Page in Houston on August 27. Peg Rughaase sent a note to Searles noting DickRughaase's death in Pompano Beach, Fla., on August 4 after a long illness, and Bob Kirk sent a clipping telling that Marie Jacobs, wife of Henry Jacobs, died after a long battle with cancer. We extend the sympathy of the class to the families of the bereaved.

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