1948

1948

Louis Springsteen’s widow, Ellen, sent the following note, which reflects how meaningful Dartmouth is to so many of us. “I just received acknowledgement of my husband’s 69 consecutive years of giving to the Dartmouth College Fund. What a record, and how he loved Dartmouth. I shall share this acknowledgement with our granddaughter, Jess Menville T6, who is now a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, and hope she will continue the tradition.” We well remember the Rev. Springsteen’s memorial services in Rollins Chapel at our annual reunions. Joyce and I had a very pleasant lunch at our golf club in Naples, Florida, with Joan and Lany Brisbane and the girls discovered a remarkable coincidence: both went to Middlebury College one year apart, married their Dartmouth swains their junior years, to be with them finished their senior years in a different college and have put up with them for nearly 70 years. Lany came to Dartmouth the summer of 1944 and after one semester joined the Marine

Corps, where he spent three extraordinarily intensive weeks at Camp Lej eune learning to speak and write Japanese (he’s also fluent in Spanish and French) and ended up in Washington, D.C., translating Japanese transmissions. He returned to Dartmouth in 1946 and after graduation jointed RC Cola, remaining with them until his formal retirement. A tennis enthusiast, he has had a number of related business endeavors, most particularly with products of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co.

Bud Munson had trouble selling his farm because Dartmouth owns some 240 acres of land on a hill across the road, where the Medical School dumped rubbish in the 1960s and 1970s that contaminated streams in the area and which the College has a five-year program to clean up. They made a “fair and reasonable” offer to buy the property, which Bud accepted, and he is moving to Quail Hollow, a senior living community with rental apartments and private homes in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, just two miles from Hanover. He has a roomy townhouse with two bedrooms and baths and a porch for grilling. He’s a great cook.

No details as of this writing, but we’re planning a fall reunion at approximately the first home game.

—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net