1939

With regret we record the death of Ed Wakelin in midJune. We received word via Betsy Wyman Emmons. Ed brings the number who have left us in the current year to an even ten. (An obit will appear in this or a later issue.)

John Steele responded to a birthday card with a note stating that his "health is okay, but my spirit for the moment is weak since I couldn't hit my drives more than 180 yards this morning. But, what the hell, I still get around the course." John started the summer with a trip back to his native town north of Chicago, where he still has family. Then he skipped to Aspen to visit more family and thence on to Durango, Colo., where he says his daughter and son-in-law can usually be found bailing hay.

June 26 was the day of a memorial service in York, Maine, for Dusty Rohde's wife Happy, who passed on in January of this year. Bert and Sally Macmannis, Bill and BunnyWebster, Bob and Evie Kaiser, Jim Powers and Math and I attended.

Tom Brooks and your secretary share something in common which neither of us had ever heard of until it occurred. We were both surprised to learn from our doctors that we each had suffered a "silent heart attack." Fortunately neither of us has been overly inconvenienced (if that's the word) by the problem. It is a case, apparently, of a dissimilar EKG, a deviation from the norm, which suggests to the medical world that some impairment of the heart has taken place.

Jim Donovan still keeps busy in behalf of the Marine Corps, having an article entitled "New Concepts and New Doctrine" in the June issue of the Marine Corps Gazette.

Back in April Cornie Miller received a letter from alumni sources thanking the class of '39 for our contribution to the Athletic Sponsor Program which made a campus recruitment trip possible. In this case Richard (Greg) Channell of Snellville, Ga., was the football prospect who enjoyed the "Dartmouth Experience." We have learned that he was subsequently admitted to the College, but we still hang by our thumbs as far as knowing whether this All-Conference linebacker accepted the call and is indeed on campus as a member of the pea-green football program. Let's ask Cornie.

In closing we remind you that there is probably still time to join the class gathering at the mini-reunion over the September 18-19 weekend for the Penn game, Dartmouth's opener under the new coach.

Richard S. Jackson, 777 West Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201-5726