1945

This issue continues two ongoing themes: remembering the '45s who received the College's prestigious Alumni Award, and relating the later-life activities of some athletes whose undergraduate recollections you read about last month.

Dr. Ken Nicholson received the Dartmouth Alumni Award in 1984. He was cited for his remarkable recruiting efforts: "You put women's basketball on the map and in the headlines...Your eye for talented young women over six feet tall has been most serendipitous for this College!" Ken worked tirelessly at enrolling outstanding scholar-athletes, both women and men. (See how this devotion fits right in with our athletics retrospective?) Ken and his daughter, Christine '74, both sat on the Alumni Council.

Ken was cited by the governor of Massachusetts for his extensive civic work. His highly regarded Springfield dental practice included response to die needs of many who could not pay. He was president of the Springfield Dartmouth Club.

Ken was an avid fly fisherman. He fished the Dartmouth Grant every spring for 42 years; he loved it there on the Dead River, where it claimed his life in 1994. Ruth says that Shriners Hospital for Children recently honored Ken posthumously "in recognition of his generous support and investment in humanity." Ruth is a deacon in her church and enjoys visits with her family and seeing Dartmouth alums in the Springfield area.

Those '45 footballers still carry on diverse sports-related activities. Norm Brown is eagerly recruiting candidates and has recently been in touch with Coach Lyons about a 235-pound tackle from the Mass. South Shore. Art Carey as a teacher-coach initiated high school lacrosse on the North Shore. He keeps active with golf and scuba diving. Charlie Cashin until recently did a lot of quail hunting. He has worked as a golfcourse ranger for five years, plays golf and some tennis (doubles).

Steve Hull doesn't do lax any more but keeps his shape up and weight down by noontime running and stair-climbing at my old prep, Worcester Academy.

Bud Elder, recovering from a hip "revision," claims no athletic prowess but exercises lungs and larynx "bellowing happily in George Barr's Upper Valley University Chorus."

Nick Sandoe, likewise post-op-hip, credits swimming as essential to his physical condition. "Swimming five to six days a week is keeping me alive." (There are at least two other factors: Mary and his own cheerful outlook.)

Bob and Peg Tirrell have for nearly 40 years been national leaders in the sport (art?) of round dancing, which is like choreog raphed ballroom dancing. They teach and choreograph for three round-dance clubs in Vermont. They present dances at U.S. and Canadian conventions and are internationally certified as teacher-coaches. Bob and Peg are active in square-dance circles too and are long-term editors of related publications.

One more item in the athletics retrospective: Cliff Jordan recalls, in quite remarkable detail, the first nationally televised college football game. It was played in the Manning Bowl, a high school field in Lynn, Mass. It was Dartmouth's seasonal opener in 1953. Too bad, but Holy Cross won, 28-6.

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Bob and Peg Tirrell are national leaders in the sport of round dancing. Don Sisson '45