1944

Red-hot news from the March 14,1999,Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, puts us in touch with Buzz Bensinger in nearby Stroudsburg. He works there in semiretirement for his daughter, Elizabeth, in their law firm. (She went to Colgate, but her sister, Peggy, a lawyer in Maine, was Dartmouth '77.) The paper's story cited Buzz for helping to start the Ski and Winter Sports Museum at Camelback in the Poconos, but failed to mention that he was a founder, officer and board member of the regions famed Camelback Ski Corp. It is now a year-round operation and has Buzz buzzing about an expanded water park with huge new wave pool. As he puts it, "No sand, no salt, no shells, no sharks." A devotee of ski slopes anywhere, a fewyears ago Buzz won an over-70 competition at Big Sky, Montana. He was the events sole entrant. More recently, he lost a hand-tohand tussle with a paper shredder, which kept him home from an 80th birthday ski reunion in Breckenridge, Colorado. His wife of half a century-plus died five years ago, and he is now married to high school flame Ruth. Buzz has sung in his church's choir for 48 years and stays in close touch with Wheeler dorm roomie Jim Bodine, who plays winter golf at Hilton Head in the Palmetto State, the rest of the time at home up north in Manomet near Plymouth. Jim, Betty and infant Nancy spent their first year of post-war family life at No. 1 Park Street (our late classmate Merryl Frost lived there too), across from the Leverone Fieldhouse in Hanover. Jim's career in drug sales and marketing encompassed stints with Merck and Borden and crested with the globe-circling presidency of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson and Johnson subsidiary. A major Dartmouth fan, he attends our '44 minis and, win or lose, the College's annual fall Homecoming. He and Betty's three kids are fine. In addition to golf, Jim stays fit with tennis and the all-American outdoor sport of mowing the grass.

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