1942

October 1941. Pudge Neidlinger says there will be no ban on cars, at least for the present. Hal Eckardt wins the fall College Open tennis tournament. Lindbergh sees tyranny, fears for freedom of speech because of Roosevelt's actions. Mickey Owen misses the "third strike" and the Yankees take the World Series lead over the Dodgers, then go on to win in five games.

The Soviets put the Nazis back on the Eastern front. The football team beats Amherst, 47-7, but the soccer squad loses its opener to the Lord Jeffs. The College salutes Hoppy's 25 years as president. CBS (Ted Husing) and the NBC Blue Network (Mike Roy), in town to do nationwide broadcast of the Colgate game, appear on DBS. Dartmouth stays undefeated 18-6.

It's Harvard weekend, and 1700 students withdraw $25,000 from the Dartmouth National Bank. Harvard hands the Green its first defeat. Eleanor Roosevelt, at Colby Junior College, says the college students' draft exemptions create a privileged class. In a campus poll, 284 are for, 557 against war with Germany.

DBS's official inaugural program to the full campus system features an ambitious variety show. Yale falls on the gridiron, 7-0. 18 are elected to Phi Beta Kappa. John L. Lewis calls out 53,000 coal miners and industry is crippled.

All this in October 1941, fifty years ago.

Mail in recent days from John Montagne in Bozeman, Mont., reports on a visit to Bateand Posie Ewart's grandson David at Matt Montagne's Teton Valley Ranch camp. John and Phoebe returned to Bozeman via Briggs, Idaho, where they visited John Brewer. The first John reports the second John is in good shape, still working and enjoying the countryside. John M. adds that Bob Pitman had a serious stroke late last year but is now progressing to the point where he can converse fairly well and will come to reunion, physical abilities allowing.

AJune letter from Jim Erwin in York Harbor, Maine, reports that he will be in Hanover in june '92, the Lord willing. Jim was responsible for organizing the first area meeting of classmates, in Hanover three years ago, from which idea sprang the many regional meetings being held around the country.

A late letter from my Exeter class secretary, George Thomson, Harvard '42, reports that Marcy Morrison, youngest daughter of George's brother-in-law, our own RalphMorrison, was married in June to Morgan Russell '67 in North Conway, N.H. George added, "Morgan thereby became a cousin-inlaw of our son-in-law, Jeff Milne, also a Dartmouth '67." I'm glad to see George getting up in the world with all these Dartmouth connections.

Finally, the Alumni Records Office reports the deaths of Jim Wilbee in Marin County, Calif., on June 16, and Jim Thomson in St. James City, Fla, in September 1986. Our sympathy goes out to the families of these departed classmates. June 12-14, 1992 Hanover, N.H. BE THERE!

Proc Page, P.O. Box 504, Burlington, VT 05402

October 1941. In a campus poll, 284 are for, 557 against war with Germany. Proc Page '42