1944

There are stops and there are stoppers. A couple of old Dartmouth colleagues of mine met recently and one asked the other: "What ever happened to Fritz Hier? Is he still alive?" Gulp. Well, he sure was alive and well on September 5 when he delivered his granddaughter, Joan Sophie Lovejoy Hier, class of 2001, to Hanover for her freshman trip (oops, now called DOC trip; and just in case you didn't know, freshmen aren't freshmen anymore, they're first-year students. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors remain as were). Joan's parents live in Belgium at the moment (her father, Rob Hier '75, is a businessman there), so granddad and wife Anne are doubling as grandparents and in loco parentis—and shoppers and deliverers, too. Pretty nice duty...

Not so joyous was a journey EricBarradale and I took down to HarryCarey's memorial service September 9 in East Orleans, on Cape Cod. Merle Hagee and Harry Morse were also there, as were a raft of other Dartmouth people; Harry (Carey) had been president of the Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod. Harry (Morse) and wife Mary spent the summer in Lakeville, Mass., but returned early to their winter pad in Destin, Fla. Merle and Emmy Lou stayed north for the Hanover mini-reunion before returning to their Florida breakfast nook in Melbourne.

Other New England summerfolk were John and Janet Billington, who journeyed east from Arizona to a rental on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee. En route they visited Sheila and Twitch Miller (just a week before Twitch died), Ben and Betty Jones at Shelter Island, and Budd and Carol Welsh in Manchester, Vt. John also backpacked over to the Norwich '44 Tuesday luncheon in July, where Jim Hardigg, up from Conway, Mass., also made an appearance. Jim and his plastics/container factory in Conway are still buzzing seven days a week.

Another fellow who still has keys to the old office is Bob Colwell, who reports regularly for duty at the family insurance company in New Rochelle, N.Y. He also spent three weeks at the family retreat in the Adirondacks, sharing cookouts and canoe paddles with cousin Ted Colwelland wife Olive. Bob is also in the granddaughter/marriage business: one in August, one in November, and a third scheduled for March 1998. Ted, according to Bob, also does a lot of kayaking.

Dale and Norma Sisson report in again from northern Michigan, where their four children, spouses, and 12 of 13 grandchildren were present and accounted for. They missed the Hanover mini in favor of a twoweek trip to Italy.

We mentioned earlier that we had located Murray Mondschein. Al Hormel has brought you up to date in the newsletter, but let me repeat: Born in Berlin, early schooling in Switzerland, Murray's family to the U.S. in 1937, came to Dartmouth from Irving School in NYC. Into the U.S. Army in June 1942, 10th Mt. Division, fought in Italy. Army occupation and civilian duty in Vienna after the war. Married Austrian lady, to U.S., eventual divorce, back to Austria in 19505. Remarried, also Austrian lady, has lived in Austria ever since, representing an American firm. Worldwide travel for that firm which manufactures sealing technology products "anything that leaks." Spent month of August in a condo 20 minutes south of Hanover.

Fritz Witzel, in Sunapee, N.H., is the chairman of the fund-raising campaign for the 1944 Room in the new Berry Library wing of Baker Library.

One death, Jack Buck in September. Our sympathy.

We wish you the happiest and loveliest of Christmas holidays.

That's it. Blessings.

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