1945

Don Sisson tells me that the appreciation essay for Bob Hope in The New YorkTimes was written by Vincent Canby several years ago. Don remarks that it was "a beautifully written tribute to Bob Hope, and a fitting sort of immortality for Vinnie." Howie Germain gracefully acknowledged that California authorities did the right thing when they renewed his auto drivers permit but not his ticket for motorcycles. He suggests that todays two-wheelers are too heavy for him to push off their parking stands. In the same vein, Ed Harte writes that he is spending some time in New York hotels. He lives in one and eats in another one block apart so he can go for meals from one to the other without extending the walking distance too much. He still does summers in Maine. In June Louis Mills was honored as the founder and outgoing president of the Orange County (New York) Land Trust. He has given much to the land that his forefathers settled two centuries ago, starting in politics at 27 and going on to many beneficial projects, of which the land trust was closest to his heart. It is worth noting that Dartmouth has 13 nationally ranked teams, 12 of which appeared in championship meets. Maybe it is 2003 for football and/or basketball too. Harry Hampton sent me a copy of his letter to professor Charles T.Wood about the installation of the 1945 Memorial Weather Post in 1959. At the time the College had refused our class for other such memorials because it did not want the campus "littered" with such class objects. Harry found the Hanover Inn more favorable and went ahead with great backing from the class. President Dickey participated in the dedicatory ceremony. Since then the College has recognized the war classes in a much more positive manner.

From Thayer School a new way to go to war: The Society of Women Engineers sponsored the Junkyard Wars, in which 10 teams build gliders to be thrown off the roof of Feldberg aimed at the kiddie pool below. They are judged on distance and accuracy with creativity and aesthetics added in.

Mark your calendars for the next 1945 reunion, two years from now, June 11-13,2005.The next mini-mini in Punta Gorda, Florida, is March 14,2004.

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