1942

April 1942. Fifty years ago. Seniors (us) hold class banquet at Hanover Inn, hear Willis Fitch '17, World War I flying ace. Dick Bolton and Ollie Quayle are in Player's Green Key production "Out of the Frying Pan." Sam Hall wins first prize for the best original one-act play. Forty-one undergraduates join the Marines. Green Key draws 700 young women to Hanover. In the Pacific, General Wainwright's heroic forces end Bataan resistance. Graduation is set for May 10.

House parties are orderly. In The Dartmouth Proc Page picks the Yanks and Cards to win pennants (they do). Jim Farley makes the same picks two days later. TomMcElin wins Barge Medal in oratorical competition. Vichy France rejects U.S. note according recognition to free French rule in Africa. Stub Pearson is named valedictorian. Spring rush is approved, will start May 31. Comprehensive exam schedule is released. BillParmer pitches Green to 7-2 win over Lafayette in latter's home opener. Aegis is reviewed in The Dartmouth as "best college yearbook in America, but that's not saying much." Dick Lawton wins first prize in art show of local work. Doolittle's flyers bomb Japan. Air Corps reserve program will permit members to get degrees. Al Goldman, LouHopkins, and Jim Kellers are listed as Dick's House "Inmates." Stub Pearson wins Barrett and Dartmouth Cups at Wet Down.

All this in April 1942,50 years ago. And a good thing it was, as news these months before we assemble for our 50th Reunion is in short supply.

Wally Farr has been elected a director emeritus of the Bradford (Vt.) National Bank. Wally is currendy president of W & B Associates Inc.

Luis Zalamea is responsible for the English- language version of the book LatinAmerica: An Agonizing Dilemma.

I talked briefly with the Duke of Divot, a.ka. Dutch Shaefer (Lippman's appellation, not mine), who said that entries for the 1942 Reunion Golf Championship were coming in steadily. By mid-April the deadline for entry is supposed to have passed. I suggest you procrastinators call The Duke at 407/220-0534 for a last-minute reprieve. He is spending the winter in Stuart, Fla., building up his handicap.

Alex Fanelli indicates that the 50-Year Book is well into production and those of you who have ordered copies should be getting them about the time you read this.

And finally, Frank Logan called from Hanover to tell me that Bill Stockdale died of leukemia complications back in July. Bill talked Frank's brother, our own Joe Logan (a fellow Topekan), into transferring to Dartmouth, and Frank came because of Joe. Bill was with us for three years. The sympathy of the class goes out to his family.

P.O. Box 504, Burlington, VT05402

Dartmouth class of 1942 50th Reunion June 12-14, 1992