1950

A few months ago, I mentioned in this column that it would be fun to identify the "Class Grandchild," the first girl or boy whose father"or mother also went to Dartmouth. That is, three generations starting with ours. I haven't heard yet, but there may be one of them there now or about to enter this year or next. Please let me know if yours is one or if you Know fo one

Baranetsky Kelly (2), Bauer, and Medlicott had kids in the classes '69 '72 and in the next four classes there were about 50, including the first girls, Mary Jewett, Brita Ann Sardella and Carol Vaughn in the class of' 76.

The class executive committee meeting and the winter mini-reunion were held in Hanover in early February. About 35 attended the roast beef dinner at the Inn on Saturday night and lesser numbers at a Friday evening reception, a soup/bread/wine lunch at the Kilmarxes and various athletic events. Included in the latter might be the sight of about a dozen stalwart 'sos spending a full hour trying to figure how to manhandle president Bill Carpenter's car out of a snow drift. In the old days, it would have taken two guys about ten minutes to do the job.

It was Winter Carnival weekend. today that means a snow-sculpture in the center of the campus, and not much else. For me, most changes that have taken place in Hanover over the years are for the better. But why did they have to ruin Winter Carnival?

In February Newc Eldredge took off for Italy. Fifty years ago Newc and the rest of the 10th Mountain Division fought a decisive battle against the Germans and Italians which opened the Po Valley and the Dolomites to the Americans' northern advance. Newc and 11 other vets, all in their seventies, were joined by soldiers of today's 10th Division to re-enact the nighttime scaling of Riva Ridge, a key observation post held by the Germans. In the interest of safety, they did it in daylight, but it's still a technical climb. Some of us may still be able to re-enact walking ashore on a sandy beach, but it s something else to do things like parachuting into Normandy and scaling a jagged 2,300-foot mountain peak.

A note in Dartmouth Medicine, the medical school's alumni magazine, tells of PaulLena's receiving the 1994 Laureate Award of the American College of Physicians' New Hampshire chapter. Paul, a longtime internist who I believe is still practicing, moved in 1959 to Concord, N.H., from Hanover, where he did residency and Joanie was a medical secretary.

Parton Keese reported in from San Francisco, where he is "attempting to turn a single, simple, solitary life into a fecund, effective, fairly frantic one." In addition to raising a teenage daughter, he plays a lot of tennis (nationally ranked) and travels extensively.

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Newc Eldredge and 11 other vets reenacted the scaling of Riva Ridge, a key observation post held by the Germans. JACK KENT '50