1948

Those who follow Dartmouth teams may know that basketball this year is considered a threat to win the Ivy League crown. It would be the first time since 1959 when Rudy LaRusso who later played in the NBA—led his team to the championship in a final win at Princeton. This year's squad overcame Penn in Hanover's Leede Arena last night (February 9) before a roaring, packed house by 54-53, the first time in years the Green has taken the Quakers. The race should be fun as Penn, Princeton, and the Green are tied at 5-1. Lloyd Krumm states our '48 brethren in Hanover are lending their voices in the stands as we did long ago in Alumni Gym when Ed Leede was one of ours. You can be sure JohnHatheway, Bud Gedney, Bob Huke, and Bud Munson are some of ours on hand now. Remember? (Uh oh, the next night we lost to Princeton.)

The late Dr. Harry Wood reminded me a few years ago that when he and buddy Howie Westney were at New York Medical College, he noted in the paper one day in the '50s that the Knicks were to play the Boston Celtics that evening in Madison Square. So Harry found his way to the Garden. Sure enough, he saw old friend Ed Leede on the boards for the Celtics, this while Ed was working his way through HBS in Cambridge. Harry said he managed to intercept Ed at the half for a few minutes of laughter, the last time they saw each other.

I still recall the pleasure when, in the winter of 1959, my late roommate lanMacartney and I met at Zermatt, Switzerland, for a few days of magnificent skiing under the Matterhorn. I was working in Rome then and Mac was on a trip to London for Amoco. Early one morning before boarding the Gornergrat railway to the upper slopes I picked up a copy of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune. To our unbelieving surprise the sports page headline read that Dartmouth had trimmed Princeton for the title. Probably no one on the train understood our whoop! Imagine, 37 years ago! (That was the last time Mac and I skied together.)

It was during those years in Europe that one day I was at Milano's Malpensa airport, waiting for a flight to Rome. Who do I suddenly see in the waiting crowd? Our own Ed Shipper! We held a '48 mini all the way to the Imperial City. Now years later T.T.Metzel says Ed is living in Little Rock and newly married. Congratulations, Ed. (Have you seen Maurice ""Frank" Murphy in North Little Rock?) Gus himself still lives in Evanston, says he married the lovely woman with him at our 1988 Reunion, but unbelievably says he is selling his Great Expectations bookstore. Lany Brisbin will miss the chance to stop in during future tennis trips he and Joan make to the Windy City. T.T. also recalled being summoned by Dean Neidlinger and given a bad time for a rude remark he made about Truman's win while news broadcasting on WDBS. T.T.'s father was a Neidlinger '23 classmate, but T.T. says the dean scolded him as "clearly not a chip off the old block! We report with great sadness the recent deaths of Rick Landon on December 20, 1995, in Ormond Beach, Fla., and former '48 class president Bob "Bobo" Russell on March 6 near Albany, N.Y. How the sands of time...

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