1948

Walt and Mary Lane Cairns are now (August) in their small sailboat somewhere at sea northeast of Maine off eastern Canada. We don't know exactly where, but in past summers they have explored such faraway waters as the deep, lonely fjords of Newfoundland, not unlike those of Norway, where they were only a long swim from Labrador. Will they go further north this summer? That weather-whipped area may be beyond even the Cairns' keen spirit of adventure. And certainly they will not try to reach lonely Baffin Island, where a few years ago our own archaeologist, the late Wid Washburn, represented the Smithsonian in an expedition to explore and excavate the first English settlement in North America, founded in Eliza- bethan times by Martin Frobisher in 1577 on Kodlunarn Island just off Baffin. Still, I bet the Cairns thought about it. Downeaster Maineac Phil Shepard mentions with justified pride that both his sons have hiked the full 2,500 miles' length of the Appalachian Trail from Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in the Pine Tree State.

About six months ago old, old friends from campus days Hank Mueller and Mouse Taylor had a long conference call with third buddy Pete Norton to convince Pete to join them at the '48 50th next June. Pete was dubious as he had just lost Myra a year or two earlier and felt unsure how Reunion would seem without the wife who had spent so many weekends with him and his friends in Hanover before graduation. Pete was wavering on the matter, but wasn't sure. Then Pete somewhat later remarried and seemed sure to join his pals next June. Alas, it was not to be. Hank, Mouse, and other old friends such as Phil Ruegger won't see Pete again, as on May 26 he passed away near his home in Red Bank, N.J. Mouse also reports that of the three Stamford, Conn., boys who arrived at Dartmouth together for the wartime 1944 summer semester when they roomed in old Crosby, he is the only survivor. Al Fritzsche and Walt Schubert have both passed on. Mouse, however, is still kicking and reports his firm just won the hardware contract for the new Buccaneers NFL stadium in Tampa and that he still owes great thanks to attorney Dave Kadyk for his help in enabling Mouse and Rosey to have custody of his two children.

The corps of '48 physicians continues to make headlines for its service to humanity. Dr. Sam Katz's pediatric treatment and research accomplishments at Duke Medical Center in Durham recently resulted in his being the featured speaker at Hanover's 200 th anniversary celebration of Dartmouth Medical School. Then in July, Dr. Jerry Lucey of the University of Vermont College of Medicine was awarded the Neonatal Education Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics. A lifted tot from Eleazar! Fritz McTaraahan advises from Tucson that Lany and Joan Brisbin were in town last spring for the Senior Olympics in tennis. He said both did well and thought each reached the quarters. Next year maybe? Reunion chair Fran Hummel says plans for the 50th are progressing well. Get your names in! Don't wait!

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