1948

In the first-things-first department, all '48s and wives and families and friends who expect to be in Hanover on Saturday, October 22 for the Cornell game please note that John Val Raalte,Lloyd Krumm, and Barney Hoisington have again taken the time and trouble to organize a '48 meeting and lunch, this time in Alumni Gymnasium prior to the game that day. This will be a rare class function, and any '48 in the vicinity is strongly and sincerely urged to attend and take advantage of a chance to see some of your old buddies as well as meet classmates you may not have known well before.

The meeting is to get under way at 10:30 a.m. in the Oberlander Lounge, just inside the big front doors at the top of the front steps of the gym ('48 had a matriculation meeting there about 33 years ago when Al Foley '20 introduced us to Vermont humor). Luncheon will be served, probably by the DDA, at 11:45 a.m., and set-ups/ice will be available for BYOB's. The cost will run somewhere in the neighborhood of $7.50 each or $15.00 per cou- ple. By the time you read these notes you will have received an official notice of the event from the College.

Please, please don't let failure to send in the tear sheet acceptance in that notice deter you and your friends from attending at the last minute without any prior notice. The three hosts would feel keenly rewarded for their efforts if a good turnout results (last year's effort was a disaster, a waste of these '48s' time), and a really good time is hoped for. The business of the meeting will not be that serious, more than anything else a chance to provide a social occasion, but it will also be an opportunity for a review and discussion of the plans for the 30th '48 reunion next June. This scribe joins with John, Lloyd, and Barney in hoping we'll see you on October 22. Bring your family and friends and YOB (if you wish). Don't forget that we'll be reuning with '47 and '49, so particularly bring your friends from those classes.

The combined meeting and luncheon and social occasion, by the way, ought to serve as a fine backdrop to what could be a good football game. One can be sure that Bob Blackman's arrival at Ithaca this fall will mean a turnaround in Cornell's football fortunes, and I imagine that the astute Mr. Blackman (who spent so many great years at Dartmouth) will work hard to be able to celebrate his return to Hanover in a big way. Jake and his boys will probably have to meet a severe challenge that ought to make a fine game. (Wish I felt more confident about the outcome.)

Rare pleasure to read Wid Washburn's "Football and the American Ideal" in a recent issue of the New Republic. Wid, like other '48s, Joe Bannon, Colin Stewart, John Wood and myself, was among those lucky kids who grew up in Hanover and received the benefits of the lively life the college town provided its young natives. "Dogger" joined the Marines after secondary school, was sent to Villanova and from there to Dartmouth by the Corps, arriving back in Hanover just three days before he played tackle for Earl Brown's successful 1943 Big Green grid squad (7-1-0) against Columbia, then Cornell and Princeton. Wid somewhat wistfully remembers the following 1944 season when the team was not so successful, most of the better Marines and V-12 players having left Hanover, when the 2-5-1 record featured that squeaker in Boston's Fenway Park when Notre Dame edged the Green by 64-0.

Wid says he never knew the class affiliations of his teammates that year, but well remembers Norm Laird and sends his regards. After Parris Island, learning the Japanese language, and acting for the War Department as a civil education and information officer in Japan following the war, Wid again went back to Hanover in late '47 and received a rare summa cum in February the next year. From there it was on to Harvard where he received his Ph.D. in 1955 after an interruption for the Marines again and a year's research in England.

Today the Dogger is director of the Office of American Studies at the Smithsonian, has authored half a dozen books on American history and the Indian, and likes his Work so much he thinks he ought to pay for his position. The old Dartmouth ties remain; he still returns to Hanover whenever he can and is quietly proud that one of his two sons just finished his freshman year in Hanover. He hasn't seen fellow Washington '48s Gene Finke (who as a highly decorated officer of the U.S. Navy has earned distinction during his career), GeorgeGendron (in physics at John Hopkins), or JohnMurphy (with the U.S. Geological Survey), and would welcome contacts from old friends and classmates.

Dick Donahue, a leader of the '4B corps of lawyers, continues to rise in professional responsibility and influence in the American Bar Association and in his own state of Massachusetts. Dick, formerly president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, now in the MBA House of Delegates and vice chairman of the Board of Bar Overseers, has just been elected chairman of the Massachusetts delegation to the ABA's policy-making House of Delegates. Dick has in the past carried much constructive responsibility within the ABA, and his new position seems to reflect that fact. Some of the milestones in Dick's career were the reception of his LL.B. from Boston University in 1951, admittance to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962, and being an assistant in Washington to his Lowell neighbor, President Kennedy, in 1960-63. Dick is obviously busy, and having four of his 11 children in college at the same time over a period of years is not calculated to keep him any less busy during the near future.

Those who know him well will be pleased to learn that quiet, likeable Dick Loomis, senior vice president of the Hospital Trust National Bank in Providence, has assumed the newly created post of chairman of investment policy in the Trust and Investment Division. Many people will be dependent on Dick's good judgement in this position, and we wish him well in carrying out this heavy responsibility. It was a pleasure to see his name in print after so many years.

Not too many '48s are authors, and probably even fewer wives of '48s meet this description. One of these, however, is Marc Wyse's better half, Lois, who not only acts as vice president/creative director of Wyse Advertising, an agency in Cleveland and New York, but who also recently wrote Kiss, Inc., a novel of a power struggle within a cosmetics firm in which glamor, sex, and intrigue are all present, but in which the central theme is how the business itself acts, to quote Lois, as "the great turn-on." Marc and Lois advertise for firms such as Clairol, Seagram's and American Express. Perhaps you've particularly noticed some of their Wolfschmidt Vodka ads. They have two children, also at work in the successful agency.

I am indebted to my brother, Herb Drury '52, for word about Bill Malone and Colin Stewart, both of whom he saw in Denver this past summer. Bill is making it as a lawyer in the mile-high city, while Colin is attached to one of the finer architectural firms in the Rocky Mountains region. Both extend invitations to other '48s to drop by if they happen to be in Denver.

We close with wishes for a good autumn for all '48s and a successful 208th academic year for Dartmouth. May policy questions that divide Dartmouth men and women continue to be considered by voices of reason and constraint yes, and humor - no matter how strongly the fires of contrary opinion may burn inside, this in honor of the institution that is our College on the Hill.

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