1953

"Dartmouth there is no music for our singing, No words to bear the burden of our praise." June was a sad month. Don Smith passed away with absolutely no warning. Tom Davidson slipped away about the same time and, again, no warning. While we have all learned to deal with the end long ago, it seems sadder when there has been no time to say those things of heart in the living way, as the song says.

death; I spoke with him just two weeks prior. I can think of no member of this class who has given more to us. He helped us to be 1993 Class of the Year (our third award in five years) and perhaps the greatest class in Dartmouth history.

Just before my column deadline, I received a letter from Karen Davidson about Tom's passing. Tom, in apparent impeccable health, was stricken by a heart attack at home early in June and died immediately. Like Don Smith, there had been no warning; a message for all of us. Tom went on to Tuck his senior year and, upon completion of his M.B.A., went into a very successful career in marketing research, culminating in the formation of his own company a number of years back, with his wife, Karen, as his partner. The family still resides in York, Maine, where Tom grew up. Tom will always be remembered as the hockey team manager during those lean years on the rink when Fred Hitt and Owen Cote struggled to keep things rolling. He hung m there all the way.

Old class secretaries never vanish, they just feed their successors! A note from Blosson in late May advised of the exciting news about Sox Brewster receiving high recognition from the Boy Scouts of America. Sox became active in scouting when his own boys took it up. What followed was 27 years with the same troop, including five times as its scoutmaster. Sox was influential in guiding 42 young men to becoming Eagle scouts, including his and Susie's own two sons. In today's vernacular, Sox—awesome, man, awesome. It's no surprise two of Sox's seven grandchildren are already involved in scouting. Maybe one has to have been a part of Scouting to appreciate all this, but I don't think so. A wah-hoo-wah for Sox. .

Adieu until October. And a special prayer, please, for Don and Tom, and for their families during this time. "Dartmouth, the gleaming, dreaming walls of Dartmouth, miracu-lously builded in our hearts."

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