1948

Dick and Dot Dahl live in Princeton, where Dick says there are more Dartmouth alumni than in any other Garden State community. Dick has seen all 34 Dartmouth football games in Palmer Stadium since his first in 1946 as a member of the Dartmouth band. He and Dot will tailgate barbecue this year on November 19 before the game in the last parking row on the spot of pavement farthest from the stadium. They want all '48s (there are more than 40 in New Jersey) who are able to join them. Dick will have a grill but hopes you'll bring your own meat and liquid as he may run out. After the game the Dahls also hope to organize a Dutch cocktail party at the Nassau Club to be followed by a '48 dinner party. He asks all interested to phone him or Dot at (609) 799-1286 beforehand so he can arrange accordingly. Join the Dahls for what just may be another in the great tradition of Dartmouth-Princeton games. You can bet DonDrescher, Bob Reynolds, and Jim Schaefer will be starters. They'll miss Joe Hickman in far-off Florida.

Foster DiGiacomo of Concord, Mass., not far from Emerson's "rude bridge that arched the flood," first saw Hanover when the marines transferred him there in the V-12 in fall 1944. Fos grew fond of Dartmouth and returned in '47 after active service. He'll not forget a trip he and Don Drescher took from Hanover to obtain their discharges at Camp Lejeune. It was hot when they boarded the bus in Washington, so Fos asked to open the window next to the lovely young woman in front of him. Getting a good look at her, he excused himself from Don and sat in the seat beside her. Two hours later, as they arrived at Lejeune, Fos told Don he would marry that girl. A year or so later Don walked into the bar of the Copley Plaza in Boston and saw Fos at a table, not alone. Walking closer, Don exclaimed, "You're the lady in the bus!" It was—and is—Nancy DiGiacomo! Fos today still keeps his ties to Hanover, occasionally interviewing prospective Dartmouth fresh- men. He was tickled to get Shant Chebookjian's phone number in Waltham and wonders if marine drill instructor Al Southey is still around.

Stan Churchill lives in Orleans, Vt., up in the Northeast Kingdom. Stan has sold his large-animal vet practice but still does small-animal work. His great hobby is raising pacers and trotters for harness racing for the six remaining tracks in northern Vermont which still carry on this tradition. Stan regrets that only Rutland still has a track with parimutuels, and he's doing what he can to save this dying sport. He still recalls with laughter those early days in Wheeler back in 1944. Nor will he forget being in the Air Force in Bavaria in 1946 right after WW II when he ran into Colin Stewart, who had just been released by his reluctant commanding officer on order of famous General Truscott and was happily on his way to Garmisch to train for St. Moritz.

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