1951

Reunion alert: Calendars please! Can you believe it's already time to plan the trip to '51's 55th reunion in Hanover? The dates are Monday, June 12, to Thursday June 15, 2006. Mark them down, please, and watch the mails for the first reunion mailing this fall. As a follow-up to the last DAM issues recollections of past freshman DOC trips here is a part of Andy Timmerman's recall of his work camp experience in August/September, 1947: "Our classmate Ken Little was older than we were and was our foreman. Someone thought up the title of Baptiste' for Ken, which we thought was a title of respect given to a leader in a French Canadian logging camp. On our only night out from our work camp we took the ravine camp work truck to the Plymouth, New Hampshire, State Fair. The evening concluded with a gigantic fireworks display. Unknown to us, Ken had served in Northern Italy and had undergone three or four days of bombardment from the Germans. When the fireworks started Ken jumped under the truck and started shaking and trembling for several minutes. It was a sobering experience for most of us who had missed the war! Ken apologized for his reaction and again was our invincible leader for the rest of our stay at Mt. Moosilauke."

We have a press release with a dateline of Aurora, Illinois, and this heading: "Kane County Civic Leader Joins Foundation Board." He has to be our own Herb Knight, and his latest board affiliation is the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Fund for Advancement of Education. Its mission is to prepare the next generation of leaders in mathematics, science and technology. Herb is quoted: "I have always been interested in serving IMSA because quality teaching and learning are the keys to all our futures."

The June 1955 issue of DAM reported a marriage as follows: "We have another betrothal in the forms of Al Moses and Carol Whitehall. Al is now stationed in Washington, D.C., after having turned traitor and done graduate work at Princeton. Carol graduated from Vassar and is now a member of the teaching staff at the New York School for Nursery Years, New York." These were the years when Al was not only a Navy officer on active duty in our nations capital but he was also attending Georgetown Law School, graduating in 1956. Another marriage reported in that issue was that of Les Viereck and Eleanor Norton at the home of Les' brother. "Eleanor is a graduate of Albion College and is now doing graduate work at Smith. After graduation in June she and Les will live in Knob Lake, Quebec, where Les is already at the McGill Sub-arctic Research Laboratory, doing graduate work in arctic botany." This is clear evidence that Eleanor knew from the beginning that life with Les was going to be in the sub-arctic all the way (still living in Fairbanks, Alaska).

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