1948

North Country old-timers advise that the recent comparatively wet Hanover summer led to the most colorful fall leaf season in several generations of Dartmouth-area history. And Bud Gedney reports that the '48 mini over the Bucknell weekend occurred at the height of the magnificent spectacle and was enthusiastically enjoyed by a fine '48 gathering which once again breathed deeply of the bright autumn scene in and around Hanover. Remember?

Among the items on the agenda developed by Bud Munson was a class meeting where imaginative decisions were made. '48 endowed an award "to be given annually henceforth as long as Dartmouth exists" to the outstanding scholar-athlete in the Dartmouth junior class. (Athletic Director Dick Jaeger said that at the College there are no student prizes other than scholarships given by any class, and he praised this step by '48.) Secondly, the group voted to supply the Hanover Inn with the four or five new rocking chairs needed for the Inn porch each year, with a little '48 emblem for each. (Dave Anthony and the rest of us may try these out at our '94 reunion.) '48 also voted financial support for the V-12 50th Reunion in '93 and confirmed that Earl Chambers,Ron Spiers, and Joe Smith are actively pushing its development. (Contact them for information or if you can help.)

Great to see Dave Auld here in Houston. His story of waking alone with a heart attack at 2 a.m. in a Tokyo hotel was an absolute thriller. Today he knows Someone Up There was watching out for him, even though recovery required weeks in a Tokyo hospital where English was not understood. (WendyGriffith, I guess this was one time you just couldn't be on hand to help your old Woodward roommate.)

Dud Wright has not been back in Hanover since he left in 1948, but from his Laguna Hills, California, home he still remembers his time there with affection. He arrived on campus with a very few civilian '48s in March of 1944 and roomed with Stuart Craig in Richardson (Dave Anthony was nearby) until the Army Air Corps got him after one semester. From after his return he especially recalls his great friend, the late Ken Schaefer, across the hall in Wigwam and the outstanding Introduction to Law course, taught by the incomparable Judge Stone, which helped him decide on a law career. He remembers, too, the help of Stanford School of Law Dean Carl Spaeth '29 (what a class '29 was!) who extricated him from a stupid situation in 1951: the A.B. degree he had earned at Dartmouth was mistakenly considered invalid by administrators at Stanford. Dud has two granddaughters at Dartmouth now, and he may make our 45th.

Is it true that the Big Green grid squad beat Holy Cross this fall, the first time in 14 years since Nick Lowery's last-second kick won the game 17-14 in 1977? And is it also true that no one has come close to breaking KenYoung's fantastic consecutive-game-attendance record at Dartmouth football games?

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