1947

Seen in Hanover after our October mini-reunion were Townes Harris, a club president, and Ham Chase, a club secretary, and Frankand Urs Weber, who came just for the game. A fine sports weekend, as Dartmouth outlasted Columbia 14—13. Then a thrilling start to the hockey season, 5-4 over Boston College.

Walter Peterson announced retirement after 20 years as president of Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H. His huge legacy to FPC is in our news almost daily, and more so now that FPC women's soccer won the National Division II Championship, doing so at home, and with solid play from three All-Americans. The men's team played for Division Championship too. Walter's stamp is everywhere at FPC: raising endowments, building many major buildings, organizing alums, creating off-campus locations in two New Hampshire cities. But his efforts to tie the school body together through excellence in sports have been the most visible and will be the most remembered. Basketball thrived, soccer excelled, tennis reached national renown. Major reason: Walter's personal recruiting of good scholar-athletes and good coaches. He ends his term in June or when a replacement has been found.

Grant Tinker has been tinkering at writing, with a recent book, Tinker in Television. From General Sarnoff to General Electric, from MTM and Lou Grant to Hill Street Blues, this is a vivid account of how the broadcast business runs, and how to run it soundly. Classmates will enjoy the early pages, lively with Dartmouth experiences—so buy the book or have your library obtain it, and let the times roll back to those Hanover days.

Jim Holway recently presented his genealogical findings, "Getting Organized and Researching Before 1850." Genealogy is Jim's hobby, and he's found his greatgreat-grandfather, all the way from Ireland to Waterbury, Vt., where the Holway-Smith-Somerville-Fullerton names are prominent in the town's history, and where Jim was born and grew up. Jim worked for Westinghouse in aerospace, and, as he writes, "Each program I managed was on schedule, and met the profit objective." That says it all. He is back in Waterbury now and is the one to contact if you're searching family records way, way back.

Nice note from Joe Eisaman and BobDodson, who visited Joe in Beverly Hills. Bob has settled a bit from his 18 years of foreignservice residence in China, Philippines, Antarctica, Switzerland, Belgium, India, Turkey, Morocco, and Bahrain. He and Joe took in Beverly Hills and had time to send a photo of themselves waving a Dartmouth banner once flown by Joe's father, class of 1919. (Joe, no fires? No wind? No Heidi?)

Kirt McCaleb writes from Menlo Park, Calif. After a lifetime of organic chemistry with General Mills (so that's what those little flakies were), Foremost Chemical Co., and SRI International, he ends up a senior consultant and is planning a 1994 retirement to parttime. No mention of hockey activity for Kirt, once a D varsity player, so perhaps golf and spectator sports are more in keeping.

See you soon.

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