1951

Fifty Years Ago: Football starts, and '51's Flaming Sophomores are headliners from the opening kickoff. The Indians lose the opener to Penn, 26-13, but our guys get all Dartmouth's points, quarterback Bob McCraney with a touchdown pass to Bob Tyler, quarterback Gil Mueller with another scoring pass. A week later JohnClayton starts against Holy Cross, hits a 54- yard touchdown strike to Red Rowe, scores again on a quarterback sneak in the 19-6 victory, beginning three years of the Clayton legend. Paul Staley starts at center for injured regular George Schreck.

Another pleasant echo of those gridiron days is heard from Hawaii, where Pamela and Bill Monahan hosted a Dartmouth Club of Hawaii reception last January, honoring Dartmouth's standout safety and Hula Bowl all-star Lloyd Lee '98, at their home on the slopes of Mt. Haleakala on the island of Maui. Bill, of course, was a fearsome tackle in our day and himself enjoyed homestate recognition, playing in the 1951 Hula Bowl in Honolulu.

There was a tidal wave of a sort in Half Moon Bay, Calif., last spring. Nothing to do with El Nino, it was, rather, an out -pouring of admiration, veneration, and more than a few tears upon the retirement of George Goldthorpe after practicing family medicine for 37 years. The HalfMoon Bay Review stripped the feature story across the top of the front page. "Goldthorpe recalls the quintessential Norman Rockwell doctor," it said, "respectable in white coat and übiquitous stethescope, with an air of benevolent authority. His tales of succor to the sick and stricken, anywhere and anytime, point to a healer from bygone days of house calls and bedside manner."

The crowd which attended the reception honoring him included many families with three generations he had delivered at birth and ministered to ever since. "There were all these patients who came in crying, saying they didn't want him to retire until they die," said Cecilia, George's wife of 42 years. George became the second doctor to settle in the thinly populated Pacific Coast community south of the Bay Area, arriving in 1961, after running a navy hospital on Midway Island for two years. He soon became frustrated that the only hospital available was a long drive inland. After years of effort he managed to get a clinic opened locally in 1971 and upgraded to a hospital in 1974. George ran the hospital, and Cecelia was administrator. When it struggled in the early days, neighbors loaned money and the Goldthorpes refinanced their home to meet the hospital debt. It long since became financially viable, a fit monument to Half Moon Bay's medical "Mr. Chips." Tv ?

Don't forget our mini-reunion Dartmouth Night and the Yale game coming right up, Oct. 16-18. Friday night it's Martins' deli in Blunt before the parade and the bonfire. Saturday morning we'll tailgate before the game in the Thompson Arena parking lot, then gather for drinks and food and the great hospitality of Barbara and Dave Hall. Sunday, don't miss the farewell branch at the Club. It's G-rated.

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Former 1951 Hula Bowl tackle Bill Monahan hosted a reception for Hula Bowl all-star Lloyd Lee 98. LOYE MILLER '51