1942

November 1938. Most of us witnessed our first houseparty on the outside looking in. We saw the varsity football team lose its first games, to Cornell and Stanford, after winning the season's first seven games handily. Our own "A" football team was 1-3, the "B" team was 0-2-3, the class soccer team was 5-1 and the '42 crosscountry squad, lead by captain Bob Williams and Sid Bull, was undefeated and seventh in the NC4As in New York. November 1938. Fifty years ago.

More recently I talked with a number of our classmates. Admiral Bob Dewey, now into this third year of retirement, is enjoying Hendersonville, N.C. (also home to AllenHooker and Bill Dorrance), playing lots of golf and bridge, and traveling to see his children, one of whom is in missionary work in Ethiopia. Bob and Marje paid a recent visit out there.

My talk with Bob led to a call to TedSchoonbeck in Grand Rapids. Ted continues a valiant fight against cancer that started with a first operation three years ago. We had a long and interesting talk about Dartmouth of yesterday and today. "I spent five of the happiest years of my life," Ted recalled. "But, as are many of us, I am concerned about the direction the College is going. I can't understand some of the things that Dartmouth, as a private institution, is doing."

I tried to reach Paul Tewksbury Torian in Evansville, Ind., but never got him because he was following up a Saturday round of golf with a tennis game. Wife Del reported that Tewks is trying to slow down and ease out of his agency responsibilities. Del and Paul had been up to Grand Rapids to visit Ted and reported they found him in good spirits.

I ran down Gordy McKernan while he was celebrating his 50th reunion at Spaulding High School in Barre, Vt. Gordy is living on Long Island, where he has retired from active teaching and coaching. He's doing some consulting work for the school system and playing golf. Gordie has two daughters in Enfield, N.H., who bring him back to the Hanover area frequently.

Dale Bartholomew, our first postgraduate class president, was out riding his motorcycle when I first tried to reach him at his home in Vienna, Ohio. Dale retired in 1982 from Sharon Steel and has been dividing his time between Ohio and Stuart, Fla., where his winter home is about a city block from the Florida home of the aforementioned Sid Bull. Dale says he keeps in shape with a lot of tennis and some golf. Visits to his daughter living in Dover, Mass., get Dale back to New England occasionally and he was amazed on a recent visit to Hanover at the changes in the old town.

Dale added that he hears once in a while from "Hound Dog" Bob Garwick, who is still active in the oil business out in Texas.

The mailbag brings reports of financial expert Dave Heald (and I thought he only cooked baked beans) bringing his grass roots discussion of the stock market to Fayetteville, N.C., back in April; and the election of Dr. Bob Tyson to the chairmanship of the Pennsylvania Blue Shield.

The mailbag also brought the unhappy news of the deaths of Neil Barber (in Tequesta, Fla., on June 16) and Seattle community leader David "Ned" Skinner (on August 7). Obituaries will appear in this or subsequent issues.

Proctor H.Page Jr., P.O. Box 504, Burlington, VT 05402

1942 at Sea

Off Boston's South Shore, on a post-reunion cruise in June, Jim Idema '42 took this picture of classmate Dick Lee at the helm of his 41' ketch Fleurette. Wish you were there?