1948

Reunion chair Fran Hummel notes our 50th is only a couple months away. If you haven't gotten aboard, if s time to do so! Don't let yourself miss out. Ana notes two alumni administration officials will lecture to those interested during weekend on certain aspects of todays College, this so our questions about library, etc., can be discussed. Dr. Lou Clarke phoned from home over Xmas and advised he was leaving for Golfito, a port on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, where his Valient lies after sailing through the Canal from Trinidad. He expects to sail to Cocos (world's largest uninhabited island?), the Perlas, Galapagos, the French Marquesas, maybe Easter and Pitcairn (of Bounty fame), and New Zealand by Xmas .'98, the cyclone and typhoon seasons and El Nino permitting. You can reach Lou aboard Frolic at e-mail . Talk about adventure!

Sam Wilkinson reviewed answers to '48 questionnaire put out by Jim McLaughlin and Ken Young on the meaning and importance of Dartmouth to each of us. Some of Sam's findings follow. First impressions on arriving in Hanover. Bud Thorne: "I thought I was on a navy base." Tad Comstock, just out of the marines: "In comparison to the military, Dartmouth College sure looked good!" Ed Nadeau: "I was awed! Beautiful campus. I was a private in the marines, just out of boot camp, 18 years old, and very anxious to succeed. Hundreds of marines and sailors. Very intimidating." Allen McMichael: "I arrived at Dartmouth from combat landings at Saipan and Tinian with Second Marine Division. My initial impression of Hitchcock Hall was it seemed identical to any marine barracks I had lived in before the war, including the regulated hours aboard. I felt safe for the first time in over two years, but it took until I left Hanover for graduate school before I could relax enough to eat a full meal comfortably. Dartmouth was where I became integrated into an academic family." Phil Viereck expressed a sentiment of many at Dartmouth: "I wasn't sure I should be at college when a war was going on. I was trying not to shirk my duty Hanover satisfied me the College was making great effort to provide good training but I decided the war would end before I finished training. I requested immediate duty overseas on an aircraft carrier as a seaman was sent to escort carrier Bismarck Sea, saw combat in three battles. When the ship was sunk (off Samar), I was lucky to be rescued." Phil had farther V5 training, then back to Hanover after the war. Pete Foster expressed it so well: "Dartmouth became a part of what I am, my roots. In spite of several unfortunate changes I can't shake off the pride and close feeling I have for those wonderful years." And Warren Daniell is right on: "Dartmouth is where I belonged. It turned me on and I have never been turned off!"

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