1951

"Oh, what a tangled web weweave... "Yep, it looks like we're about to be caught up in the Web (the Internet World Wide Web, that is). You may be aware that Dartmouth has a substantial home page on the Web. The URL (that's Web address, for us pre-boomer mortals) is . A number of individual classes have already established class home pages within that Big Green computer site, and Amy Nachman and Charlie Hood are pushing for '51 to set up a page of our own. As a first step, Amy is compiling a list of e-mail addresses of class members. If you're computerized and on the 'Net, zap your call letters to her at .

It's fall, and so the Hanover campus is alive with the freshman infusion of 1,130 '00s (class of 2000, that is). They were netted from a record pool of 11,398 applicants, of whom 90 percent were in the top 10 percent of their high-school class. Always fierce, the competition is getting tougher every year. An impressive 39 percent of those who applied were valedictorians or salutatorians, yet fewer than half of them were admitted. A total of 84 legacies got in, 13 more than last year. Would we have made it into the Dartmouth of today?

About 40 years ago Whitey Hand got bored doing accounting in New Jersey and went south to join members of his wife's family in the cotton-raising business. Thus, Good Luck Plantation in Glendora, Miss., was born and long since came to thrive, with about 3,000 acres in cotton per year. Whitey also runs a humming agricultural supply business, and keeps the musical tradition of his Glee Club days alive by playing the organ every Sunday in his Methodist church. He broke completely out of this mold, however, when a foundation sent him to Kazakstan in the former Soviet Union in February, yet! where he spent three weeks helping them work to privatize their agriculture system. Whitey's eyes glow when he talks about the experience "they are wonderful people" and he sounds proudest of the church choir he organized here. Dave King is still rolling merrily along as an independent insurance agent in Mundelein, I11., but says he manages to spend lots of quality time in the summer at his second home on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. Jerry Underwood also is in no hurry to retire. He's living in Eaton, N.H., having moved there from Andover, Mass., ten years ago, and plying his trade in the hardware and lumber business nearby in Fryeburg, Me.

The Boy Scouts of America have bestowed the coveted Silver Antelope award on Russ Dilks, who observes with mock indignation that he had to "go all the way" to Honolulu, from his home in Jersey, for the presentation. Hey, it beats a rubber-chicken lunch in Newark.

In closing, it's sad to learn that Dr. Albert Anderson of Sandwich, Mass., has passed away. His obituary will appear in a later edition of the magazine.

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