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Class ’45 Mail Call

Webster defines REUNION as, “a gathering of a group who have been separated”…and who (we hasten to add) just can’t wait to get back together again, because they know how much fun our previous reunions have been. With that said, mark your calendars for June 13-15, 2005, those are the dates for your 60TH REUNION. We have started working on plans, but really need to know if you have any idea if you will attend. Please use the Green Card for this purpose and let us know if you plan to join in.

The hills are singing with beautiful color, at last, the temperatures are falling and it must be time to get to the projects that we have put off for one reason or another, one of which is the Mail Call. Since you have not received a real newsletter since last February, this one will have both history and news. You realize, of course, that news comes from you people, so if it is scarce, look in the mirror and remind yourself that you didn’t send in a Green Card.

First and most importantly, we all want to thank Bob Paulson for his fine work as Newsletter Editor over these past few years. Bob and Marge, our best to you in the future.

Howard P. Sawyer, Jr. reports that they are still square dancing, in their new retirement center. He is active in a local learning program, “Classroom on Wheels” in overseas Elderhostels and volunteering in the genealogy department of their library. “I shared a footlocker with my father Howard P. Sawyer, Sr.’05 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 39 in France 1917/18 and relabeled M.A.S.H. 8063 in Korea. Hoping H.P.S. III does not have any need of it.”

Harry Hampton once again mentions the cost of postage in relation to the Mail Call. Harry, I will ask the Hanoverian Powers about this and let you know their reasoning at a later date. I’m sure they have a reason, but what it is I don’t know.

Fred Berthold has just finished a theological work on the age-old “problem of evil.” God, Evil and Human Learning, to be published by State University of New York Press in 2003.

Harry M. Judge, MD is still working ten hours a week at the VA plus a half day in his private practice. They celebrated their 52nd anniversary in June and reports that they have three grandchildren ages 2, 5 1/2 and almost 3 years of age. (Harry I hope it was 2 and not 25, it was difficult to read). He recalls wonderful times playing outside the Alumni (?) Hall with Doc Fielding as the M.C. Harry’s e mail address is: djudge1@nycap,.rr,com.

I’m sure that by now Frank Hutchins and Jeanne have more than warmed their bones, but mentions in the last Green Card that they were headed for Florida to spend time with John McCauley and Barb in Bonita Springs. New business phone is 585/546-6480.

Dick and Mary Kendall are now part of TEAM BART, a race timing services company formed by son Thomas ’72 and were timers for the Nordic events at the 2002 Olympics in Utah. They also timed at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival and the NCAA Ski Championships held at Dartmouth in March.

Son of Rosalie Cutter, Don Jr. ’73 and Don’s son Ryan were also at the Winter Olympics in Utah, Don Jr. as groomsman for the biathlon team and Ryan was hired by the Olympic committee to help with the ski jumping events.

Richard (Rick) Crabtree is in search of members of the original “Dartmouth Squadron” from classes ’42, ’43, ’44, and ’45. Rick I will give this letter to Craig Cain to publish in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

Vesta Smith, widow of Victor Smith, had a rather harrowing experience while visiting her Chinese families in Nanjing. Just as Vesta was due to return to the USA, she experienced a detached retina and macula. She found the inside of the ophthalmology units in China to be interesting, both in Nanjing and Shanghai. Vesta had to return home for surgery at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and is now doing very well. Brave gal!! Vesta also has a new address since the events of 911, the new address is: 222 Dartmouth Highway, Haverhill, NH 03765-5104.

This from Stanford Luce, ‘T is a pleasure to write-along with my wife Luan- about several get-togethers of some fifteen fellow from WWII with their wives, and talk about more than just the war. We’ve attended three of them, hosted one, and they turn out to be an interesting group with much to tell of since the war. But the group is slowly shrinking. The last two Verne books have been completely translated and are waiting editing and publishing. They are; “The Begum’s Fortune” and “Kip Brothers.” It all keeps me busy.

From Robert (Bob) Steiner: If I had a 2005 calendar, I’d enter the dates of our 60th. Anyhow, we intend to attend. I think the only ’45 I’ve seen from time to time in recent years is Frank Aldrich. Ran into him at the bar of the Yale (Dartmouth Club) in NYC, and we see them when he and Dora get down to D.C. to visit with their charming daughter Marion.

Am keeping busy doing a little consulting and writing a few articles in the Antitrust and Industrial Organization Economics literature while I still may have enough of my smarts left. Also am playing squash and took up tennis again after a layoff. I amused the tennis pro by telling him that I wanted to have a good forehand by the time I was 80. There are a few months left. I’m getting it back-but not to the level that I had when Bruce Kenworthy walloped me in the finals of the freshman tennis tournament.

Bob also mentions that he is an avid fly fisherman and is joined in this interest by his younger son. They have traveled with children and grandchildren to London and Taormina, and Agrigento in Sicily this summer.

Lee Kreindler, pioneer in air-crash litigation, passed away in February 2003. His Park Avenue law firm, Kreindler & Kreindler, won hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for the families of victims of some of the worst airline crashes in history. They include TWA Flight 800, the Avianca air crash in Queens, and Pan AM Flight 103 that was brought down by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Our belated condolences to his family.

One more late note from Harry Hampton. You will be interested in these figures. The trust fund assuring the perpetual maintenance of the D’45 Memorial Weather Station shows these figures:

Fund Value 12/31/01 $8,893.72
Fund Value 12/21/02 $9,666.51

From the Portland Press Herald, in the Religion & Values section, this article appeared on January 25, 2003: Harris Hinckley has been singing with the Meetinghouse Choir for 50 years, a kind of tenure that’s rare anymore, reflecting the tenor of the times. Shirley Curry, organist and choir director at the First Congregational Church since 1968, said she has seen many choir members come and go, but dedicated members like Dr. Hinkley have kept the choir active.

Russell Chase, Jr. and his wife, Faye, were victims of a home-invasion robbery. Three robbers, two of them wearing masks from the movie “Scream” and the other in a plain mask, walked into Russell and Faye Chase’s home at about 11 a.m. They brandished guns and forced the couple to write a check. They then ripped the phone lines out of the walls, threw Russell Chase in the trunk of his Cadillac and bound Faye Chase with duck tape.

Nearly two hours later, Faye was able to free herself and ran to a neighbor’s house to call 911. Russell Chase was discovered a few miles from his home by yard workers who heard him pounding on the lid of the trunk. Son Doug doesn’t expect his parents to change the way they live, but he does hope they will be more careful about locking doors. We can all take a lesson from this.

The “Mini-mini” at the Ponce de Leon Park in Punta Gorda March 9, 2003, was enjoyed in perfect weather with hosts John & Molly White. Attendees were Henry Dutcher, Gene & Jackie Calvelli, Harry & Marie Bissell, Tod & Jean Anderson, Loring & Alice Wood, Tom & Eleanor Armstrong, John & Barbara McCauley, Norm Champion & Gail Selvidge, long time friends of Molly & John White, Jonnie & Widgery Thomas, V-12. Harry Hampton was there in spirit, but not in person.

Headlines in the New York Law Journal read: “Judge Composes Operas, Others Face the Music.” Judge Richard Owen, has written eight operas, his most recent being, “Rain.” Had its world premiere on Feb. 6 at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Judge Owen married an opera singer who has performed in all eight of his operas and will perform in “Rain.” He has had some very high profiled cases, among them Alger Hiss’ son’s unsuccessful effort to have his father’s conviction for perjury reversed, and Ronald Mack’s suit against George Harrison, in which Judge Owen found the late Beatle to be a subconscious plagiarist in writing the song “My Sweet Lord.”

MORE RECENT NEWS

Stephen Andrew D’Arrigo passed away July 4, 2003. The cause is unknown as of this writing. We send our condolences to his widow Mary and their family.

Gregg Crosley MacDonald departed this life on May 27, 2003. Gregg died of natural causes at his home in Issauah, WA. Our hearts go out to his widow Heather and their four children.

Ray Fontana sent a Green Card to me (Rosalie) with a “Thank you” card pasted over the middle. Thanks Ray. His note when unglued, read: Capt Don would be so pleased to know you are doing this for our “classy” class.

Robert A. Roberts sends this message: Haven’t seen any classmates for a long, long time but enjoy reading the Newsletters and the Alumni Magazine. He has enclosed two new addresses:
Oct 24 to May 1, 3430 Gulf (?) Shore Blvd #6E, Naples, FL 34103
May 1 to Oct 24, 610 S Eden Prairie Rd #14, Edina, MN 55436 Scott Parrot’s Green Card states that Will Martin & Ed Kohn had their annual get together in Vero Beach, FL. Will is still playing the oil market, Ed and Scott flying, Parrot bailed out at 13,500’ again, one week after his 80th birthday. He took his name very seriously.

Annette Davis, widow of the late Frederick Davis, writes: “You are very thoughtful to have included me in your class mailings since Fred’s death last year. Fred left Dartmouth at the end of his freshman year to enlist in the Navy, and after the war he received his B.S. from Tufts and his M.D. from Harvard. Over the course of many years and life experiences, he had lost contact with his Dartmouth class and I had heard very little of that brief, albeit happy year.”
We hope you will join us for less organized happenings, as is your wish.

Eugene (Gene) Calvelli is moving, but not very far. Moving from the 7th green to the 16th fairway of Orange Tree Golf Club in Orlando. “I still don’t miss Long Island. Creaking joints keep me off the golf course (which I miss), but we love it here. My sister lives nearby and our children do their best to visit. The grand kids enjoy our theme parks here in fantasy land. Our door is always open if any classmates are in town. Wah – Hoo - Wah!!”

As of September 24, 2003, Robert & Nan Joy will be residents of Kendal at Hanover #165, 80 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755, from Danbury, CT. “We look forward to moving into and becoming a part of a different community. We have had a wildly debilitating case of the DDT’s (Downsizing, Dumpsters and Tag sales) over the past few months but have survived intact. We have been very active and busy which seems to help.” (Sorry I can’t read what keeping busy is supposed to help.) e mail address BNCKS@AOL.COM

John McCauley reports that he with wife Barbara happily retired from DuPont Co. 22 years ago. “Still living in Wilmington, Delaware, keeping track of our three children and four grandchildren within a 1 1/2 hour circle (Swarthmore, PA, Trenton, NJ, and Beltsville, MD (Washington, DC)). Golf has been primary pastime but is rapidly receeding as coordination yields to age. We continue to enjoy regular reunions with classmate Frank Hutchins from old hometown of Rochester, NY. Thanks for taking on this task!!”

Jean Hull, widow of Steve Hull, had intended to attend the Mini reunion in October, but had a family wedding to attend. She reports that she took a river trip to the Netherlands & Belgium by herself since a Smith friend, who was to accompany her, broke her ankle. No fun to travel alone, I agree. Cheers and a Native American “hi-five.” Maybe it’s time to have a widows Alumni College abroad. (RMC)

Our news is that a bunch of 45ers have been here this summer: Jane & Tom Yates, Don Cole, Marie & Harry Bissell, Judy & John McDonald, Susan & John Halstead, and Ed Harte .The Yates and ourselves and Bissells had a nice visit to Little Diamond Is. in Portland Harbor for a Maine Dartmouth Club get- together. Picture: Breakfast party gang on White’s back deck. John & Molly White.

Tom Yates writes, Jane and I haven’t taken any big trips this year, last year it was south of France and boat trip around part of the Mediterranean ending in Malta. Great time with about 50 fellow passengers-clear skies, fair winds, etc. This year is our 50th and will be heading to Bermuda. We’re enjoying retirement here in Owls Head, Maine-don’t get to see our five grand kids enough but they visit often. Hoping the Mini will offer some dry sunshine.

This from Mimi Goldstein Sommer: I’m pleased to be included in by brother’s class news mailings, (David I. Goldstein ‘45W) Sadly I’ve lost two Dartmouthians David and Joe ’44 . I continue to write and photograph for national papers and magazines and have taken on letter writing coaching, which I thoroughly enjoy. Dartmouth remains the Great Green Hope. Don’t think I can make it up this year. Are there CT alums who might welcome a passenger?
Phone 203-777-1601, E-mail Miriam.Sommer&Yale.edu, (for no urgent messages)

Head Agent Theodore Safford, Jr. reports that the books have closed for the 2002-2003 Dartmouth College Fund year, and is pleased to report that our Class had a wonderful year. A few highlights:
Our Class raised $64,782 for the Fund
178 classmates contributed resulting in a 56% participation.
Special thanks to all of our agents who worked hard on the telephones and through letters to answer the challenge this year. Check class totals for each class at: http://www.Dartmouth.edu/~alfund/DCFFinal2003.pdf

Lois & Bob Bull visited the campus this summer with Bob’s grandson, Mitch Isaacson from Illinois. He was smitten with Dartmouth and his eyes sparkled even more when he went to Thayer School for his private tour with Professor Kennedy. This kid is sold on Dartmouth and comes well qualified to be accepted. Bob & Lois were off on a Dartmouth trip (their 13th) at the end of October to journey to Churchill to see the Polar Bears. Two years ago they journeyed to the edge of the Arctic ice cap on a Lindblad cruise and observed the bears that live around the Spitsbergen area in the Svalbard Archipelago. Lois reports that she continues to write her second book and Bob spends his days arranging music for his 8 piece band.

A note from the Nick & Mary Sandoe reveals that they miss the Hanover gang, Norwich Inn lunches, mini reunions etc., but two of their three sons are near by, which helps. Mary is continuing to paint and Nick to directing melodrama like “He Ain’t Done Right by Nell” and he starred in “The Man Who Came to Dinner” Mary and Nick have moved to a cottage within the same retirement home so no change in their address.

Webmaster Paul Caravatt has provided me with the necessary steps to open the Dartmouth web site:
Step one-Open Internet –in “Search type” on any internet site, Outlook, Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc., on the “search” space, type in Dartmouth.edu.
Step two-This opens Dartmouth College – on this site click on Alumni and Friends
Step three-On Alumni and Friends – click on CLASSES
Step four-on Classes- click on undergraduate classes
Step five- on this page “websites” click on ’45

This brings up our web site-at this point go to the top of the Internet site you are on and click on FAVORITES – click on Add and you’ll never, never, have to go through this again-I hereby promise, because regardless of what we change the site it will come up when you click on Dartmouth ’45 web site under favorites.