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If you were cable-lucky like us in New Jersey, you could've watched the game on TV when we beat Harvard last fall. And you could understand why Dartmouth's tight end Casey Cramer was rated a hot prospect with NFL scouts. Bob McLaughry, only able to listen on radio, missed seeing Cramers astounding catches! The New YorkTimes quoted Cramer on Ivy League standards: "It's more of a challenge, but it's definitely worth it if you can juggle both academics and athletics." Cramer also works 10 hours a week to help pay his college bills.
Move over Jay Fiedler. Last season players from all eight Ivies appeared in NFL games, and the total number of Ivy players on NFL rosters had increased to 113.
On the eve of our 50th reunion in 1994, Fritz Hier reported on the doings of classmates whom we hope to see in Hanover this June for the great 60th that Steve Tate and Burt Bickford are putting together.The Fritzer wrote that "Jim Browning had been a pioneer in engineering research, adapting 'rocket' drills to penetrate granite. Clint Gardner influenced the lives of scores of Soviets and Americans in exchange programs. Jack Aguirre co-founded the first supermarket chain in Colombia. Dick Allenby was in on the ground floor of NASA. John McAllister helped create the Vail ski area. Dick Ranger and wife Carol served as volunteer 'cops,' patrolling their Dana Point area on bikes 15 hours a week" And they still do!
How far ahead are you planning? Last fall Merle Hagen was working on the program for an elder hostel in South St. Petersburg in March 2005. For a course on Robert Frost, he hoped to get Mike O'Connell '65, retired dairy farmer and poet, whose article about Frost appeared in this magazine last November.
We salute and bid a sad farewell to five who left us last year: Alan Brown, George McElfatrick, Bruce Thomson, Don Warner and the always charming Patricia, wife of Ezz Hale, mother of James Hale '72.
Stay well! Stay active!
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REUNION June 14-16 2004
