1952

Tony Morse was honored by a special session of the American Geophysical Union at its May 31 meeting to celebrate his 40-year career in "igneous and metamorphic petrology as field geologist, petrographer, experimentalist, theoretician, writer, and teacher (as well as brewer of fine beer and producer of excellent maple syrup!)." Tony spends summers in the 180-year-old family retreat in Woodsville, N.H., where the rocks really come from. Otherwise, he is at the department of geo sciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst from which he took his pension. The university still gives him an office and a lab and a crop of graduate students to teach. The mailer from AGU is full of nice words. "Tony has influenced several generations of students and colleagues through his keen eye and thought-provoking writing style." His writings and studies had to do with many data, but much of it was centered on northern Labrador in a place called Nain, which is the last ferry stop and the last settled outpost in Labrador. His decade-long Nain Inuit Anorthosite Project had a considerable influence, says the society, on the thinking of all later anorthositologists. (Oh, go ahead: say it.)

Tony has done a lot of sailing over the years beginning with a serious voyage in BlueDolphin with David Nutt '41 (Dartmouth's Arctic specialist during our years). The ship was a 100-foot fisherman-designed sailing schooner built in 1926. That was Tony's first visit to Labrador. He alone, and then with wife Dorothy, and then with daughters Ann, Sophie, and Elise '83 have taken many ocean voyages. The children are all thoroughly infected with the outdoor bug. Sophie is chief mate of a 105-foot schooner, Ernestina, out of New Bedford which was used for Arctic exploration with the famous Bob Bartlett. Ann is involved with Outward Bound in Prescott, Ariz. Elise is married to Rick Gagne, the child of Dick Gagne, also in education at Lawrence Academy. All of the family have all of the maritime skills, gatley included.

Another classmate Henry McKean, also an educator at New York University, is married to Tony's sister, Sylvia. That's what happens when one grows up in Hanover as the child of a professor: a beloved one, it should be added. Professor Stearns Morse, our dean of freshman and English professor, kept more than a couple of us from the cruel fate of life without Dartmouth with his earnest understanding and insistent tutelage.

A squib from Harvey Kelley, our Masonic guru: Jim Fowler, a Mason in Virginia, was sponsored by Harvey to his Kane Lodge in New York City. Jim is now in the line ("ladder?") of officers. Harvey is past master and has inscrutable initials in front of his name.

Pointing to our 50th Reunion, the class of '02 has made a tentative call to John North to establish a relationship. There will be much more about this in the Crier and here.

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