1948

It is a pleasure to write of a few of the ladies who over the years have had heroic meaning to our class. These of course include all our wives of whom a few are mentioned below.

Pat McAllister in August of 1967 helplessly saw her wonderfully popular Al die in a drowning accident in Lake Winnipesauke. Al and roommate SamKatz, both from Manchester, N.H., had been freshmen roommates on the third floor in Wheeler in that marvelous 1944 summer first semester when most of us were anticipating draft board action. Both had been highly popular among their classmates and both had handsomely completed their Dartmouth careers before becoming a standout businessman and pediatric doctor/researcher, respectively. Pat and Al had married not long after he graduated from Tuck in '50. (I saw Al once after that, in Pittsburgh when he stopped by in 1954.) They had two children (Sue was Dartmouth '76) and a full life still before them when the awful accident occurred. But Pat carried on, raised the kids, and eventually settled at Eastman, where she became the head of the support group for all '48 widows who wish to maintain contact with their husbands' class. Her work earned her membership on the class executive committee, and she has been in touch with each new '48 widow as her awful loss has become known. Pat is a member of Fran Hummel's 50th Reunion team and they are working up various ladies' activities including a widows' tea that weekend in Hanover's new Zimmerman complex across from the gym, where '48 will be headquartered and where her grandniece '00 happens to live. Pat, we can be sure Al is proud of you as are we all!

Other ladies we '48s owe many thanks to are those wives who so often entertain their husbands' classmates and families. Leading these is the incomparable Ginny of the Gedney clan, whose Sunday brunches at their Canaan home during mini-reunions have become landmark events, plus the many evening events she has served. We also remember with gratitude the dinners at their Hanover home which the Hatheways' Patricia has so gallantly hosted. (My profound apologies to those many other wives who also deserve mention here.)

Dick and Dot Dahl, Bob and NancyReynolds, and Jim Schaefer tailgated together last November before the final game ever in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, when our 1996 Dartmouth football team beat the Tigers 24-0 to end the eighth undefeated season for the Big Green in its 114 season history (including that first autumn in 1881 when the two games against Amherst were won 1-0 and tied 00). Dick told me the very first game played in Palmer, the site of countless struggles between the Green and the Tiger over its 82 years, was played in 1914, when Princeton beat Dartmouth 16-12. Dick himself saw all 35 of those contests waged since 1946.

We note with enthusiasm that Jim McLaughlin has invited Ken Young to join him in co-chairing the '48 Reunion gift campaign. This will be a team of which '48 can be proud. We also note that Tutand Elizabeth Tuthill are moving into The Kendal, the retirement home out on the Lyme Road in Hanover, where they'll be among fine company.

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