1946

By the time you read this, the football season will be virtually over, the leaves will all be gone from Balch Hill, and you'll be squinting into the wallet to see what can be scraped up for Christmas shopping. At this writing, the season has just opened with a solid (if unimpressive) win over UNH, and both fullbacks are out of the Holy Cross game.

In the event that this reaches you before the Columbia game on November 11, an attractive card from Reg and NancyPierce notes that the special dinner at Pierce's that evening will be ham with raisin sauce, and Sheila's homemade potato salad. Price for the dinner plus set-ups is very reasonable; bring your own brand of corn squeezin's and cigarettes. Address is Dogford Road, Etna (tel. 643-2997). Be sure to make reservations; it's always a sellout.

Alan Whitney is the latest '46er to get his A.B. from Dartmouth. Somehow he turned up short of the points he needed to graduate that June morning in 1946, although he was commissioned a Navy ensign at the time. After service, Alan took his medical degree at Temple and has been practicing and teaching ever since. After 18 years in the Boston area, the Whitneys moved to Cherry Hill, N. J. Alan is a department chairman at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia. But the unfinished business in Hanover has always bothered him, so he came to the 1972 summer term, got A's in three courses, and earned his degree with flying colors.

Although we had to go to press too early to report results, on October 21 (Brown game weekend) a meeting of the Class Executive Board was held at Bob Kimball's, followed by a postgame dinner at Pierce's. Among the topics for discussion was the planning of the GTHES (Greatest Thirtieth Hanover's Ever Seen); we'll report more in next issue.

A release from Hanover discloses that one of the final touches in the campus going coed was completion of the ladies locker facility. Rumor has it that it's so outstanding the males may protest.

Dick Griebel has moved up to the position of chairman of the board of Lehigh Valley Industries, Inc. We well recall Dick's two great contributions to the Twentyfifth Reunion: his son Oz '71 at the forum, and trick golfer Paul Hahn at the Country Club.

American Motors Corp. happily reported that Kenneth J. Whalen has been elected a director. Ken's full-time duties are those of president and chief executive officer of Michigan Bell Telephone Co.

From Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., comes the report that Phil Hahn is making his first bid for public office, as a Democratic candidate for Florida's House of Representatives. Phil moved from Rochester last year; in the sunshine state he runs Paine Associates, a consultant for hospitals and nursing homes on furniture and equipment.

The news is sometimes a bit slow arriving from Chattanooga; a June dispatch from the local gazette, received in October, mentions that Joe Davenport is serving on Senator Howard Baker's campaign financial committee. Joe is board chairman of Volunteer Life Insurance Company and a director of American National Bank and numerous other entities. He and wife Alice live on Lookout Mountain (doesn't everyone in Chattanooga?) with their eight— count 'em 8—children.

N.B.: When paying your class dues, the back of the card is for your use in reporting news of yourself and classmates to Don Furber. Furb sends them along to me, and they're our best source of knowing what's worth knowing and telling what's worth telling. To me or Furb, keep those cards 'n' letters rollin' in.

Eliot Mover '45 and the Reverend ErnestBartell, president of Stonehill College,North Easton, Mass., broke ground for anew building at the college at which Eliot serves on the board of advisors.

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