1948

Hanover in September! A new College year. The high, crystalline-blue sky of autumn. Remember? Woody DeYoe remembers. He lived in Crosby Hall for seven semesters and will never forget those days described so well by Ken Saunders. He's in New Jersey now, but he and Margaret still get back to Hanover. Woody says that last winter they "took two of the kids out to the golf course to go sleigh riding but the wind chill was about ten below and the golf course was frozen!" About par for the course, Woody?

Which leads to the following marvelous reminiscence from Dr. Bill Coleman's wife, Jan. "A small part of the class of '48 were married couples, and some had children. I remember Wigwam Circle. When we all turned on our hot plates about the same time to start dinner, the fuses would blow, leaving us in darkness for an hour or so. The walls were so thin that if a neighbor sneezed I brought Bill a Kleenex! I remember Sachem Village after a big snowfall. The College plow, at breakneck speed, cleared the walks and then plowed snow up against the houses as insulation, knocking books and dishes off shelves and toddlers off their feet. I remember ice on the shower stall floor and facecloths that froze solid overnight. And the wonderful space heaters with minds of their own—making strange "whumping" noises and flaming toward the ceiling, or going out in the middle of a -23 degree night. The heaters never really heated the floor, and I put our children in snowsuits to play in their pen. Real frontier days and memories we wouldn't give up for anything!"

Wigwam and Sachem are long gone, but Jan's words make it clear that the memories of these post-WW II institutions will live forever among the long-suffering couples who were there. Remember?

Tom Huffman writes in Dartmouth Medicine that Dr. Lou Clarke, who has spent most of his career in the Springfield, Mass., area, was recently in Hanover and is about to make his second trip to impoverished southwestern Jamaica for the Christian Medical Society. Tom also had information on DMS classmates Sam Katz and Jake Turner, but no recent word on Bill Cummings, Bill Pace, or JohnPrice.

Very sorry to hear from Bud Gedney in Hanover of the recent death there of Blair Watson, Director of Dartmouth College Films during our days on campus, who gave such unstinting help to Ted Tischler and the late Bob Blum in making the '48 class movie. Blair gave many hours to Ted and Bob, and he himself even took the movies of our '48 graduation as included in the film. Regretfully, our film disappeared years ago, sometime after our 10th. Now our good friend has regretfully gene.

Hope you get to Hanover this fall and see your many '48 classmates who now live in the area!

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remember ice on the shower stall door and facecloths that froze solid overnight. -MRS. BILL COLEMAN '48