1942

Your columnist can report that life and love are still flourishing in Connecticut: I was married in December to a wonderful, beautiful lady, Lori March Taubman, whom some of you may have met at the 55 th Reunion. We met at a local concert series, where we sat one behind the other. Spent a month in Sarasota, Fla., this winter and then went to Australia for three weeks on a Dartmouth-sponsored trip.

A note from Bud Hummel up in Orford, N.H., reports that he and Ruth enjoyed the mini-reunion last year and "appreciated all the effort expended by so many of our classmates. The camaraderie was great, the weather fairly acceptable, the football victory a definite plus, and the two days got an overall A-plus rating, well deserved." Bud also

comments that we may be "old grads," but we're by no means the oldest: "I've been jotting down a comparison of alumni Class Notes between the oldest reporting ones, with ours, and where each one is located in print. Since the summer of 1992 (Alumni Magazine) through the November 1997 (issue) the oldest class in evidence was 1919 on page 40, and 1942 was on page 47. The November 1997 magazine showed the oldest as the class of 1925 on page 46, and we appear on page 50. One wonders when 1942 will be the oldest to report. Nevertheless, I do believe old Eleazer Wheelock would approve of the caliber, and character, and accomplishments of the men of Dartmouth 1942."

Paul Vaitses reports from Swansea, Mass., that before going to Dartmouth he had witnessed the Big Green breaking the Yale Bowl jinx, and then had seen the game with Princeton on a snowy day when a twelfth man got into the action on the field in his felt hat and suit as we were losing. Paul said there was a subculture in sports where a lot of students played on second teams or junior varsity. He cited his own experience playing second goalie on the hockey team when Ted Lapres was #1, and this second team playing local teams in the area during his sophomore and junior years. He also played junior varsity football.

Dick Baldwin writes from Cranford, N.J., that he and Dot had a nostalgic evening last year viewing the silent movie classic Wings with Clara Bow and Richard Arlen, accompanied on the theater's Wurlitzer organ by Lee Erwin. Dick says he remembers his father taking him to the Roxy Theater in New York in 1927 to one of the first showings for a movie that was a winner of the first Oscar.

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