1948

While in Hanover in early September, Jim Browning '44 and I spent a day hiking some of the trails around the summit of New Hampshire's Mt. Washington. Jim roomed with the late Ian Macartney and me in Woodward the fall semester of 1945-46, when he got to know many of the '48s around us. It was one of those rare clear days when you can see forever. The peaks in the Presidential chain stretching north and south of us each stood out so it seemed as though you could touch them. Remember?

With help from the College we made a further check in Hanover with the successors of the old Film Library to find the missing '48 movie made by Ted Tischler and the late Bob Blum when we were undergrads No trace, but we did find two things. One was a four-minute film taken in 1963 at the '48 15th. The other was a much longer film entitled "1948," produced by an undergraduate group during our years on campus. Included were Julian Grow (now of San Diego) and Chuck Witherspoon (now of Savannah). Bud Gedney will arrange to videotape these films for our reunion in '94, and we hope Julie or Chuck will advise of the background and people in the film. For the sake of all the work done to make the Blum/Tischler film, hope has to remain that it will yet turn up so we can see all three films in '94.

Had the pleasure of an evening with Bud and Ginny Gedney at their wonderful old place on die Mascoma River in Canaan, where their own hands and hard work have converted an old mill and dam into a delightful home. Budand Barbara Munson were there from their place in Hanover Center, as was Dick Greene from Sunapee, where he and Lynn live near Colby-Sawyer, which we knew as Colby Junior so long ago. We had a fan evening together talking over old times.

A marvelous article recently appeared in the Boston Globe about the family of Warren Daniell covering three generations and countless Dartmouth graduates. Cross-country walking, skiing, and running have been fundamental to this Longlimbed family Our Warren has run the great Boston Marathon several times to date, and his father, a '22, now over 90 years young, still regularly runs in 5K races on the west coast of Florida when he's not in Hanover. He'd run in longer races, but fears the officials might go home before he finishes. Does that provide hope for us of Warren's younger era?

All '48s will note with pleasure and pride the Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement awarded to our own Bob Huke and Ron Spiers for their lifetime work in geography and diplomacy respectively, this at the Dartmouth weekend built around The Will to Excel" in New York, November 15—16. We also hope '48 mini-reuners enjoyed the Dartmouth Night events over the Cornell weekend in Hanover even though the organizer supreme of these hallowed events, JoeSmith, couldn't be there in spite of trying to crawl from his hospital bed to do so.

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