1948

Many '48s were V-12 freshman at Dartmouth 50 years ago in the summer of 1943. Some 20 of these joined about 200 from other wartime classes for a marvelous half-century reunion on the campus July 16-18. Both Paul Campbell and Joe Smith congratulate the College's Dave Orr '57 as "most responsible for the success of a great weekend." The reunion featured renewal of many long-interrupted friendships, a superbly organized seafood picnic in the Bema, a campus review march of the returnees (in units which did not indicate 50 years had passed), a tent reception, a gym dinner at which Bob Huke delivered the main address, and a humor-packed variety show which recreated dialogues between legendary Sergeant Gant and Major Howland, nobly aided by sound effects from Hanover's own Paul Glover '45. Highly emotional was rededication of Dartmouth's WW II-Korean Memorial on the Inn's western outside wall, facing Hopkins Center. Mike Choukas '51 recalled many of the departed heroes as men he had personally known as a boy while growing up in Hanover.

Paul Campbell renewed friendships with old roommates TomDonnely and former New Hampshire Governor Walt Peterson '47

when they spent three days at the Inn together, something they could not afford as undergrads so long ago. Many memory paths were retracked. Paul recalled the unbelievable: in the spring of 1944, Dartmouth's basketball team under Coach Brown, of which he and Mac Simpson (also at the reunion) were freshman members, lost the NCAA national championship by one point to Utah in the final at Madison Square Garden! Paul also recalled ping-pong games in Crosby with WoodyDeYoe in '44 and many laughs with WaltCairns, whom he hopes to contact in Marblehead, not far from Paul's new home in Rockport, Mass.

Dr. Bob Hoekelman, just-retired chairman of pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical School, and now associate dean, was only 16 during wartime July 1944 when about 200 civilian 48s arrived on campus and initiated their Dartmouth careers. Huck roomed on second floor Crosby, where other '48s included Bob Cormack, BillHartwig, T.T. Metzel, Pete Norton, and Phil Ruegger. Another who also arrived then was Norm Laird, a young pea greener who moved into a ground-floor room in Richardson, a neighbor to John Hatheway. Huck and Norm immediately went out for varsity football where, as "freshman meat," they helped Coach Brown develop the team that Norm says "was edged by Notre Dame in Fenway Park, 64-0." Other '48s on the squad were StanAlger, the late Eddie Gingrich, Ging's lifelong buddy Carlton "Red" Evans, FranKeirnan (forced by early injury to sit out the season), marine Wid Washburn and Ed Shipper. Huck remembers the july heat at Hanover practices, while Norm recalls semester-end in October that year which saw V-12 Nick Fusilli play for the Green against Brown and then for Yale against the Green the following Saturday. Dartmouth's 1944 2-5-1 gridiron team was not one of the best, but our freshman classmates loyally served the cause.

The DAM's request that each secretary look back on his class's freshman year in this issue caused some consternation for your scribe, as '48 V-12s and civilians entered Dartmouth as freshman each term as early as the fall of 1942 and as late as October 1945. Still, methinks '48 has hung together well in spite of its uncommon origins. Your reunion committee under chairman Lloyd Krumm is aiming for a 45th designed to please all of us next July 13-16. For your own enjoyment, I urge you to plan on it. And, in the meantime, let yours truly hear from you . . . please!

F.R. Drury Jr., 10214 Del Monte, Houston, TX 77042

... as the Navy and. Marine V-12 marched on campus once again. The V-12 50thAnniversary celebration in July brought together members of classes from '44 to '49.