1948

President John Hatheway reminds-all '48s that June 1998 is rapidly approaching and that work is well under way. Plans for the 50th yearbook are developing under Bob Herrick's directions with the technical help of Bob and Ellie Huke. A questionnaire is being worked on, and you already know from Lloyd Kramm that significant discussion occurred last summer at Bud Gedney's in Canaan when a full committee was present. Remember the 50th!

I was sorry to miss the weekend of last June 3 with Lloyd, Jack Park, Phil Shepard, and Moosej aw Viereck plus many DOCers at the Moosilauke Ravine Camp (the huge log lodge built by Ross McKenney in 1937-38 where '48 had a sort of freshman trip back in July of 1944 on1y 51 years ago, remember?) when a 75th anniversary celebrated: the gift to the College in 1920 of Moosilauke's summit, including the storied Tip Top House, by the Woodworth brothers (an old Dartmouth family whose ninth generation will soon apply); and the famous Long Walks of 1920 when our own Warren Daniell's dad fast-walked the 86 miles between Hanover and the Massachusetts state line in 24 hours from midnight to midnight, breaking the record set earlier by (later Gov.) Sherm Adams '20 and Bill Fowler '21 in walking the 83 miles in 24 hours from the DOC cabin north of Littleton to Hanover. (Mr. Daniell '22 is 94 now and was able to tell his story at the June 3 gathering. Men were men in his day!) Also celebrated were the 1920 birth of Cabin & Trail, whose members maintain such DOC facilities as 20 cabins and more than 150 miles of trail across the Granite State's North Country (I believe lan Macartney was once its head), and the dedication of a lifelike bronze head of Ross, a great outdoorsman and human being we '48s were lucky enough to know. (We should note that Lloyd, Jack, and Moosejaw climbed Moosilauke that weekend, Phil for the umpteenth time, but Shep's bad back kept him off the mountain.)

A lifting of Eleazar's mug to Dave Barrwho has retired in Maryland after 40 years at St. James School and was elected to the Washington County Sports Hall of Fame; and to Rollie Sontag, whose daughter Deborah '78 was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes and the James Polk Prize for Journalism for her work on The New York Times.

Be sure to read Bud Gedney's excellent notes on the last Alumni Council meeting in Lloyd's July newsletter if you're interested in what's going on in the College. And also read the fascinating comment by the Munsons if you are ready for some serious thinking.

We report the death of Bruce Crowell of West Bridgewater, Mass., on April 30 this year with sadness for Betty and their three daughters.

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