1949

By the time you get this issue in your mailbox, you will either be enjoying the 55th reunion and unable to read it until you get home or you will be reading it and wishing that you had gone to the reunion. The next column will report on the reunion for all you poor absentees. But you will have a chance to make up by coming to the mini-reunion slated for September 2426 and seeing the New Hampshire game. Dartmouth will have a much improved team this year—you read it here. Some miscellaneous information for you. I count that we have 369 class members left. About 265 pay dues and, thereby, get this magazine. We have lost 10 classmates since last September. I must report three deaths this time: Charlie Fay died out in California in early April. Charlie had just enjoyed a reunion of his Marine Corps basic class with Matt Fenton and Dean Merrill, held at the Marine Corps base in San Diego. Gerry Bolton died in February after a long illness and Dr. Arthur Morley died last December in Grosse Isle, Michigan. In March John and Winnie Stearns went to California for the wedding of their son, Tony '86. Presiding was Judge Quentin Kopp, renowned left coast jurist, and in attendance was renowned right coast traveler, Punchy Thomas. Jay Rosenfield has been under the weather of late and is going through some serious rehab work. He will be resting looking out from his beautiful home on Lake Sunapee where the ice is finally gone. Joe Baker reports that he is still a full-time tennis player, winter skier and has a busy schedule of volunteer work around the Philadelphia area, as well as plenty of travel to see his four children scattered around the country.Tears still come .to his eyes when reminded how he was caught painting John Harvard green before a game down in Cambridge. A suggestion Joe: On the weekend of October 30 travel to Hanover via Boston, paint Johnny green again, come to the Homecoming. I guarantee that Dean Neidlinger will NOT discipline you again. Mike Metz retired from Oppenheimer & Cos. at the end of 2002. They then invited him back and he is serving as chief investment strategist and enjoying every bit of it. Still in New York City. I have only one more column to do before my five years on this job (seems like 25) is up. From applications sent in by more than 50 worthies anxious to take over the job, we will have a new secretary after reunion. We required an essay of 10,000 words to accompany each application and got a whole bunch which looked suspiciously like often used term papers dredged out of the basements of the old Phi Gam and DKE houses. Bob Nutt was desperate to serve again, but he was turned down by our selection committee comprised of five 49ers who had received D's in English 1 (they were easy to find).

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