1952

After a very active fall season for our class, things quieted down over recent months. In this relatively slow period, two things prompted a little checking on our class. First, on the plus side, we had a nice phone visit with the Rev. Fran Frellick, who lives in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He is doing well and had a suggestion regarding a new class project. We'll be reporting on that in the newsletter. Second, unfortunately, we have lost another classmate, Bill Conway. Bill passed away in mid-December 2015. His obituary is in the online edition of this alumni magazine. It turns out that both Fran and Bill were the only members of our class living in their states of Indiana and Louisiana. We have done some further sleuthing and, in this 68th year since our arrival on the Hanover Plain, this is where we are. First, we have 369 living classmates, about 52 percent from our start of 715. Ten other classmates are the lone representatives in their states. They are George Moerlein in Alaska, Charles Johnson in Iowa, Bill Mattox in Idaho, Jack Barclay in Missouri, Roy Abbott in Montana, Jack Hoeven in North Dakota, Ted Stampfer in New Mexico, Wilbur Smith in Tennessee, George Jenkins in South Carolina and Dorn McGrath in Washington, D.C. In fairness, both Roy Abbott and Jack Hoeven warm up in the winter in Florida and California, respectively. Incidentally, George Jenkins was our only classmate who came from Canada in 1948. As you might expect, we still have many classmates living in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, but the state with the most classmates is Florida, with 39. When we came to Dartmouth we had exactly zero coming from Florida. The other top five states today are Massachusetts (39), New York (30), California (27) and Connecticut (23). By the way, we have no one living in Arkansas, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah or Wyoming. We close with advance notice that our fall weekend in Hanover is planned for September 30-October 1, the weekend of the Dartmouth-Penn football game. We hope you can join us.

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