1948

Two '48s in our day who added much to undergrad life in Woodward Hall were roommates Dave Auld and Wendy Griffith. These two arrived for the first time on the Hanover plain as sophomores from the V-5 in October 1945, neither knowing the other. Dave says he had asked Dartmouth for a roommate from his own midwest, while New Jersey's Wendy had wanted an eastern roommate. Nonetheless, they became lifelong friends. Dave on arrival assumed dorm rooms were finished, but when he walked into 209 Woodward the first time there was nothing but two steel cots, with Griffith napping on one of the sets of bare springs. So it was downstreet and, "Fletcher, here we come!"

Thus began a friendship that still flourishes today, after living in Woodward for two full years and later working together for many years in Dave's D.L. Auld Company, a manufacturer in his home town of Columbus. It's been an exciting and fun life for both men, who are now retired. Dave and Joyce still live in Columbus, while Griff and Bobbie are on Cape Cod. An interesting sidelight has been their parallel medical problems, as Wendy had a heart attack exactly 60 days before Dave's in 1979, had a bad angiogram exactly 60 days before Dave's, and had a triple bypass 60 days before Dave's. All is well now with both, but Dave keeps reminding Griff not to die.

There was much activity on the second floor of Woodward immediately after WW II when Dave and Wendy were there, not lessened by the gang around the late lan Macartney across the hall in 210. The pace (no pun intended) of life and humor increased a notch when jovial BillPace, also from Columbus, moved in during the second year. Some of the laughter of those days in Woodward will never be forgotten.

At Dartmouth's Campaign to Excel dinner in New York last November, many living Big Green alumni of accomplishment were honored along with the Dartmouth mentors who had inspired them and their lives. It's a pleasure to report that three '48s graced this list: Bob Huke, geographer/teacher; Dr. SamKatz, physician/researcher/teacher; and RonSpiers, diplomat. Some of you may recall with pleasure their remembered Dartmouth professors, Carlson, von Mohrenschildt, Murch, Atkins, Rosenstock-Huessey, and Dean Syvertsen. The listing also included many Dartmouth professors of '48 days on campus: Stillwell, Nemiah, Bentley, Gramlich, Childs, Mac-donald, Richardson, Frey, Hurd, andMc Callum. My guess is that '48s would also name many others if space permitted. What would you think of Al Foley, Cottie Larmon, Dick Stoiber, and George Theriault, for starters?

All his friends will rejoice that DonDrescher seems to be getting back to being the Don of old we knew before his devastating loss of Joan. He's consciously reaching out now and went to the Winter Olympics at Albertville. He went to a Princeton game and dinner with Dick Dahl, Bob Reynolds, JimSchaefer, Mort Smith, and their spouses; and more recently other former Short Hills neighbors Joe Hickmanan and Anne showed him wonderful hospitality at their place in Vero Beach. As this is written Don may be looking up some of the other members of the large Dartmouth '48 Florida contingent. Remember, he still loves a good laugh.

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