1948

Our grand old class of 1948 is in its last year before our 50th Reunion in Hanover next June 12-14. Can you believe 50 years since we left the Plain above the blue river and the hills around it? Fran Hummel and his committee are working to make sure we all have a great time on our old campus. Will you be there?

I believe you will think it fitting for me to urge you to contact your old buddies about plans to be there together for what has to be one of our last great chances to honor those vastly formative years and friendships. Please, please don't leave yourself open to later regret that you did not do so! The 50th comes only once.

By now '48s may be fully aware that heroic Jim McLaughlin and Ken Young have stepped forward to undertake the awesome task of co-chairs of the '48 Reunion Gift Campaign. These two have been unstinting in their own financial support of the College, this even when changes took place and things happened on campus which they could not approve. They ask us to remember there is only one Dartmouth, and they believe there is such a great preponderance of straight and true sons and daughters of Eleazar on this planet that Dartmouth can never stray far from the pattern and traditions and principles we espouse without returning to most of these after any aberration. If your own outlook can live with this, you will do what you can to help Jim and Ken successfully carry out their task to mark '48 passage of this great divide.

Charlie Kaufman caught this when he recently wrote, "There is no ex-Marine and there is no ex-Dartmouth!"

Dr. Lou Clarke completed his islandhopping sail in his 37-foot Frolic from Puerto Rico through the Grenadines and on to Cogauramos Bay, Trinidad, in May and now in June is at Belchertown to sell his house. He expects to see his son marry in Hampton, N.H., in July, to visit old pal Dr. Bill Coleman in Wolfeboro on Lake Winnipesauke. Then he returns to Trinidad to work on his Valiant for the long sail he expects to begin in September after the hurricane season. Next chapter next month.

While in the Hawaiian Islands Bob Herrick came to know Hugh Schearer, who settled in Oahu after completing law school following Dartmouth. Bob sent us a pamphlet on Honolulu's best attorneys as chosen by their peers. Hugh's name is prominent as one of the very finest in the city, a reputation the many other '48 attorneys can admire deeply. Hugh will accompany the Herricks to the 50th if his cancer will allow.

Earlier this year Ken Saunders reminisced about the third floor of Crosby in the wartime summer term of 1944. Ev Wilson reports that he, Ken, and Rog Zorn are already firming their 50th plans. He also enthusiastically got old roommate Dr. Jim Price's phone number. But in this Ev also expressed the deep regret all who knew him feel about the recent passing of his friend since boyhood, Dean Rathbun, who also had introduced Ev to wife-to-be Mary so many years ago.

10214 Del Monte, Houston, TX 77042