1935

Having this issue of the DAM as a celebration of Dartmouth athletics forces one to go back to the Aegis and catch up. I recommend this to each of you if you want concrete evidence of how far the world has traveled in the last 63 years.

We were not a great athletic class. I think the most important event was the arrival of Coach Earl Blaik to start a revival of football. Ours was the last class to give life to the "Yale Jinx" theory; next year we won. We defeated Harvard, thanks to DonHagerman's place kick, and a late touchdown, but we lost the other important games. Our captain, Jack Hill, was injured in early-season practice and only got to play part of the Cornell game, but that wasn't enough to get a win.

I remember Bill Clark running miles in the Yale Bowl on wide sweeps without much forward motion. He did much better as captain of baseball, and had a winning season. (Bill is also remembered bursting through the Stanford line at Harvard Stadium and racing for the end zone in that otherwise miserable "intersectional" encounter.—P.C.)

Bob Quimby led the track team to a good season, while Bill Adams and JayWolff contributed to hockey wins. (Davis rink, you'll remember, had natural ice; open the windows and let the place freeze.—P.C). Basketball had a winning season with AlBonniwell, Wiley Hubbell, and Sid Krivitsky starring.

Bill Crouse and the Specht twins were our varsity swimmers, while Bob Husted and Ralph Sealey led tennis. Bill Adams and Bill Mathers were our star golfers, EdHarvey and Dean Couper lettered in soccer, and Carl Funke was our gymnast. The class of 1935 produced no All-Americans, but we had a lot of fun.

(The foregoing paragraphs were written by George Colton who managed varsity football for two seasons, 1933 and 1934.)

Now for other class news: Sam Milesky received an outstanding service award for his role in founding the Wisconsin Federation of the Council for Exceptional Children. Henceforth the award will bear Sam's name. "I was deeply touched," said Sam from his home in Madison, Wisc. Put Kingsbury says from LaJolla, Calif., that he and Louise "will have some extra sun this winter in case 1935ers come this way." No El Nino, Put? From Dero's green cards is good news that Len Bryant is "doing fine" after cancer surgery and is already thinking about this fall's mini-reunion; Cam Duncan, writing from "far out in the outback" of Texas, didn't find any cousins on trip to Scotland however "good Scotch whiskey."

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