1949

Okay, let's get to the important reminders of dates first. The 55th reunion is June 14-17, and you have the information from Vail Haak. The next fall mini-re- union will be for the New Hampshire game on September 25. Rus Black- wood is now in his 53rd year teaching philosophy and religion, the last 47 at Hamilton College. Pete Brown sold his construction business but keeps busy with board duties and sailing his 62-foot sloop, Arianna. Lan Frazier had a great parody of Class Notes like this in a recent New Yorker. For example: "Jim Carmichael writes that he happened to see Marc Weinstein in the Salt Lake City airport not long ago and pretended not to recognize him." Frazier, Carmichael and Weinstein are not members of the class of '49, in case you have forgotten. The senior fence has been relocated from the west side of the Green to the south side directly across from the Hanover Inn. Not long after the move, I think I saw the Jack-0 dog lifting an approving leg. The Valley News ran a nice article and picture of Nick Nickerson talking about a newly published book titled The. Last Ridge. This is a story about the famous 10th Mountain Division during WW II. Nick, of course, is a decorated surviving member of that outfit, as is former Senator Robert Dole. Elliot Baritz living down in Stamford, Connecticut, was elected first vice president of the Fairfield County SCORE chapter. SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneurial education and the formation, growth and success of small businesses. Bill Davis tells me that he has promises from Bud Petersen and Jack Benham to attend the 55th. This is a major accomplishment. He apparently caught them with some hootch in the belly after the Yale game. I sure hope Bud brings his golf clubs, ping pong paddle and (heh, heh) wallet. Ted Krug was caught bragging about his granddaughter, who is starring on the Colby- Sawyer volleyball team. Ted is in charge of the goodies for the 55th reunion and has come up with a multi-use humdinger that will only be seen and obtained by those attending. Paul Woodberry is on the board of a firm producing granite monuments and has graciously offered to produce one at a kissing cousin price for the class to donate to the College with appropriate engraving of the class numerals. He and Bull Moose Stearns have been negotiating with the College and it looks like a bench or benches for the campus. The negotiations, by the way, are about as easy as convincing the major league baseball players that there should be drug testing. The latest directory for the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley shows that '49 has the greatest number of members of all classes some 18 of us residing in the Hanover area. Sure hope to see y all at the June shindig.

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REUNION June 14-16 2004