1948

Thanks to Editor Jay Heinrichs, last month's issue of this magazine included many fine anecdotes about members of the Dartmouth faculty.I'm sure many '48s remember some great stories about faculty and administration people during our days at Dartmouth not that many years ago. Some of you had close relationships with your teachers, making it all the more possible that you will recall memorable incidents or stories about them. Who will forget men like Dean Neidlinger, Ed Booth, A1 Foley, Lew Stillwell, Francis Childs, John Stearns, Ross McKenny, and the many others who shaped our lives while we were in Hanover? If you will send your stories to me, I'll work them into this column or pass them to the editor. Hope you'll give it a shot and preserve your memories for all of us.

Grand opera impresario Nat Merrill's Opera Colorado will present its annual spring program this year in Denver's Boettcher Hall. It will consist of several presentations of Puccini's La Cenerantola and Verdi's Aida in late April and early May. Louise says Nat has definitely become a Coloradan and seeks the contact of any '48s in the area.

One of these is Don Morrison, who has settled on the western slope of the Rockies at semi-arid Grand Junction, close to the skiing, hunting, and fishing he loves. Don was VP of Key Savings & Loan in Denver for many years when he used to see attorney BillMalone occasionally. During this period he spent part of 17 Octobers as a licensed elkhunting guide for an outfitter in the wild Gunnison area. After the bank, their two daughters having grown up, Don and Muriel who met on a plane when she was a United Airlines stewardess—spent five years wandering before they found Grand Junction. Don is one of very few who were in both the army and the navy in WW II. He has fond memories of Hanover, particularly of friends in SAE.

Mike Shea has always resided in Montpelier, but he was in Naples, Fla., when we talked for the first time since Hanover. Mike has five children, and second wife Margaret has brought three more. He still skis, but two years ago retired from the Bolton Valley ski patrol after 24 years, which succeeded many winters at Mad River. Two of his fourth generation sons now run the family insurance firm, Paige & Campbell, founded by his grandfather in 1906, but Mike still goes in occasionally. He recalls much fan with Al Foley after the latter retired from Dartmouth and became Norwich's representative in the legislature. He also used to see Stan Churchill when Stan came down to Montpelier from Vermont's Northeast Kingdom for meetings of the Howard Bank president's advisory board. He also sees tennis player Lany Brisbin in Naples, but has not met either Joe Hickman or BillPace there.

Our Dartmouth class of 1948 will have its 50th birthday in three years! Seem impossible? President John Hatheway is making sure we get a fine 50th yearbook. He has found experienced, highly capable Bob Herrick in Lajolla (he did the 5Oth for his high school), who has agreed to design the content and obtain the information from each of us for the volume, while Bob and Ellie Huke in Norwich will handle the production aspects of printing and publishing. More on this next month.

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