1948

Class of '48s, please note that the March DAM issue will deal with athletics, Dartmouth athletics. I'd like to fill column with '48 recalls on the subject, the good, the bad, the funny, the sad, the important, and unimportant. Need your data by early November, so please write or call (713) 783-6284 (voicemail if I'm out). Let other '48s enjoy your memories!

By now you know from Fran Hummel that '48 tennis and golf tourneys will be held at '50th next June 12-14 plus perhaps luncheon at lodgings where Tut Tuttle reports he and Elizabeth have moved in very happily. There is possibility for old Moosilaukers among us at Reunion. Would you welcome Wednesday/ Thursday nights, June 10-11, at Ravine camp with meals, with easy hike up mountain Thursday for those who feel like it? If interested, please let us know so we can try to arrange as 50th option.

Enjoyed chat with Walt Kliebe in Port Charlotte, where he and Geraldine retired after his career mainly as investment officer with Metropolitan Life in Big Apple. Walt and high school classmate LewSpringsteen were out of Forrest Hills, L.I., and both arrived Hanover in March '44, Walt in navy V-5.

After active service Walt returned to College in '46, when he and Lew and the late Boz Kirkpatrick roomed together in North Mass before he moved to fraternity the next year when Gus Metzel replaced him. Walt sends his best to Lew after all these years and hopes to see him at Reunion.

Bob Carpenter joined the marines right after Pearl Harbor and saw South Pacific fighting at Majuro in Marshall Islands campaign before transfer to Dartmouth V-12 in '44. He still recalls with affection and thanks the great encouragement from Lew Stillwell in those weehour discussions at Lew's desk on an upper floor down West Wheelock, this after Bob had finished dishwashing at Lou's on Main Street. Bob kept in touch with Lew, and sadly returned to Hanover after 25 years for his funeral and burial. Bob recently broke his back and is still recovering. He regrets losing contact with "Old Sarge"George MacGillivray, but brightened on receiving George's phone number.

It's a pleasure to report that DonDrescher has built his own new house in Lavallette, N.J., and that Ted Thornton is joint buyer of a house nearby in Mount Pleasant, having abandoned Tennessee. Neither has remarried, but anything is possible.

Another ex-Jerseyite is Joe Hickman, now at Vero Beach, who sends greetings to old pal Woody DeYoe and looks forward to seeing Ken Saunders when he returns to Vero this winter.

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