1942
March 1942; 50 years ago. The Japanese invade Java. Hoppy says there will be no change in the unlimited cuts plan. Hockey wins the Pentagonal. Churchill is under fire at home. Basketball team is EIL champion with playoff win over Princeton. Jim O'Mara, with backstroke win, leads swimmers over Penn and to a third place EIL finish. Thirteen classmates join 18 earlier-named Phi Beta Kappas.
There will be a modified Green Key in April. Whitey Fuller leaves DCAC publicity post for navy duty, then enlists Ted Williams and Johnny Pesky. Eddie Jeremiah claims national title for hockey team. Paleop poll favors Stub Pearson's compulsory rec plan. Car robberies hit peak in Hanover. Nine million called in first war-time draft. Basketball team beats Penn State and Kentucky to win Eastern NCAA. Green Collegians and Barbary Coast will be Green Key bands. Captains DickBurns (baseball) and Joe Wilder (lacrosse) lead spring workouts. Half-hour test blackout darkens Hanover. Faculty gets job of cutting excess cutting. Roy Carruthers navigates General MacArthur out of the Philippines. Stanford Red Indians beat Dartmouth Green Indians, 53-3 8, in NCAA basketball finals. All this in March 1942, SO years ago.
The holiday mail brought several items, including the Collectors' Catalogue VI from Doug and Betty Duffy's Bethesda Art Gallery with a note from Doug saying, "Although creaky and gray, we're still in the art biz. See you in Tune."
From Duane L. Peterson II, son of our classmate Lowell Peterson, came a note saying, "I'm interested in learning more about my father. He passed away in 1964 when I was only eight years old. I've enjoyed tracking down others who knew him to share with me their candid remembrances." Duane can be reached at 2200 Castro Way, Sacramento, CA 95818.
From the Cape Cod Symphony Association comes news that Gardy Bridge has been elected vice president and chairman of the orchestra's 1991-92 fund campaign. A Miami press release for Faucett, The First Airline of Peru, indicated that Louis Zalamea is still active in public relations.
A letter from John McBean '43 reports the sighting of Warren "Buck" Jones at a party in Two Dot, Mont, ("where a party is serious business"—McBean) during the Christmas holidays. John's daughter and son-in-law are ranchers and neighbors of Bucknear Melville, Mont. ("Neighboring means anything within 50 miles.) It is always good to hear from the McBeans since John's wife, Jennie, was responsible for me meeting my mate of 47 years.
Warren Kreter reports that our 50-year fund drive has now topped $541,000. Warren wants classmates to understand that the 50year fund drive is a three-year payout. "Many of the gifts we have received have been outright gifts," Warren writes. "Unless three-year pledges are made, any gifts to the College afterjuly 1,1992, will not be a part of our class's 50-year record."
Prexy John Corwith requests that your suggestions be passed on to the nominating committee, which will present a slate of officers for the next five years at our June reunion. Your ideas can be sent to John at 124 Southampton Place South, Venice, FL 34293.
And finally, there is the sad news. I have recently learned of the March 11, 1991, passing of Deke Holmes in Sacramento. And from his brother, Maurice, in Hanover comes a report of the death of Matt Rapf December 11 at his home in Malibu, Calif. The sympathies of the class go out to their families.
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