1949

Our May luncheon at the Norwich Inn, organized as always by Punchy Thomas, included wives, and was enjoyed by a dozen or so. Included in the banter was news of Dick Moulton provided by Ted Krug. These two roomed in Richardson and Dick abetted in the Krug-Fulton sandwich operation. Dick recently came into a half million dollar inheritance from a relative. He and Ginni live in Vero Beach and took a severe hit in last year's hurricanes. Significant events in Dicks life before Dartmouth were his baling out of a damaged B-24 over Czechoslovakia in 1944 and eluding capture for nearly a year before ending up in a Nazi POW camp. For several months he was beaten on a daily basis before a Luftwaffe doctor recognized how near death he was and had him transferred to a hospital just before the war ended. Another of our generation who served to make it "the greatest."

Long-time advisor to the Ledyard Canoe Club Jay Evans was recently given a letter hand- written by Bill Fowler '21 three days before the founding of the club in 1920. This historic piece of correspondence had been handed down in the family over the years until Bill's son, Dick Fowler '54, passed it on to Jay.

The letter accurately described the very first meeting of the club at which a constitution was to be drawn up and a club symbol designed. Both are still in use 85 years later.

The letter also mentioned a couple of items that still haunt the College: "There will be a great many more applicants turned down than admitted, and the College does not have enough dorm space to admit all who qualify for admission. (Some things never change.)

Jay will place this letter in the Ledyard Canoe Club Archives in the Rauner Library.

Doug Thomson reports a hole-in-one by Matt Fenton on the Bonita Springs Marsh course, the ultimate achievement for all golfers. How many holes-in-one are there among our classmates? Or, more exotically, how many among us have done it twice or thrice? Let me hear of it.

On another sports front, returned coach Buddy Teevens '79 is aboard and making his presence felt. Spring football emphasized the basics but the green-white scrimmage that tops off the two-week session attracted more fan interest than some recent Memorial Field games.

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