1944

Here's a bit of "remember-when?" for you (Hans Brinker and His Silver Skates Department): Remember when speed skating was a varsity sport at dear old Dartmouth? In 1942 the flashing blades of Frank Behrle, Bob Gilchrist, BobHarris, Bob Hyde, Will Johnson, Joe Mac-Farland, Bob (A.) Miller, and Johnny Morse were circling Occom Pond for the Big Green.

Odd coincidence at our mini-reunion last October when I found myself chatting with four guys at the same time, all of whom were still working. I could hardly believe that Bob Hirsch field, BogeBogart, Charlie Spallino, and Ray Zrike were still on the payroll, albeit their own payrolls. Hirsch is still scrunching scrap metal, Boge is nuzzling newsprint, Charlie is hustling hootch, and Ray is pampering porcelain, all on a somewhat reduced scale.

Incidentally, the Bogarts have been back to Latvia four times in the past four years, that being where Boge's wife, Skai, was born and raised. Skai's family home, seized by the Russians during World War 11, was returned to her after the break-up of the U.S.S.R., and she in turn has turned it over to relatives. Then there were 28, count 'em, 28 Zrikes at the mini, five of them Dartmouths: Ray '44, son Steve '72, nephew Bob 'B4, and grandchildren Steve Jr. '98 and Sarah '99. The rest were cousins, grandchildren, etcetera.

Rally and Liz Scofield are happily retired, and water-coloring, in St. Michaels, Md. Both are accomplished artists, and still learning. Rally says he's enjoying every day to the limit: keeping a 1728 house up to snuff; keeping an eye on six grandchildren, all nearby; and keeping up with his art lessons—he is one of two men in a class with eight women. "Pretty nice duty," he says.

Dick and Dot Davis have forsaken Need ham, Mass., for the Cape and Pocasset, and Dick says he plays golf every Tuesday and Thursday just to keep out from underfoot and away from the chores...He's an active member of the Cape Dartmouth Club, of which HarryCarey is president. And where was Dick on Vj Day? "Not shabby," he says. "Dot and I were busy at Fort Devins trying to manufacture our first child." Clark MacGregor is not the happiest of campers or back-strokers: he's had two hip-replacement operations and both were bollixed up. He'd just as soon take his cane and ram it...

John and Janie Furfey, in Omaha, Neb., wouldn't know a rocking chair if they saw one. Fishing rips in Alaska, canoeing in Wyoming, family reunions in Chicago, and a wintering condo on the Texas gulf near Corpus Christi. Did we ever tell you that our all-time great runner, Don Burnham, a physician-psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and a resident of Bethesda, Md., has owned a second home in the south of France, two hours east of Bordeaux, for the past 20 years, and that he is writing a book on August Strindberg?

Finally, if you're thinking of taking your yacht through the Panama Canal this summer, get in touch with Dave Scotford. Last fall, in land-locked Oxford, Ohio, via Toledo, he received his license "to serve as master on steam, motor, or auxiliary sail vessels of not more than 50 gross tons."

More amongst the missing: DickTarlow and A1 Faber in October, CraigMacBeth and Bud Park in December. Our sympathies.

P.O. Box 24, Lovejoy Hill, Cornish Flat, NH 03746

Dave Scot ford, in land-locked Ohio, has earned a license to serve as master on steam, motor, or auxiliary sail vessels. FRITZ HIER '44