Class Note 1942
Issue
Jan-Feb 2020
Fall is here—the leaves are turning. Weather is cool in the 40s at night and low 60s by day.
Bob Gale, executive committee member will celebrate his 100th birthday December 27. Don’t forget he is still actively writing books and is on his 66th! His daughter is throwing a party in his honor. She writes: “One hundred sixty-six will be invited, so I am hoping for a big turnout from many states. It will be family, friends, attorneys, judges, former students—five guests, including a concert clarinetist and a concert violinist, will provide musical entertainment.” Give Bob a rouse and send him a card when you read this column.
On the Saturday of Homecoming, I had a wonderful call from a student of Leo F. Caproni, my late husband. He called to say, “I have just finished a tour of Dartmouth with my middle son and wife. At the end the student taking us around asked if we knew any alumni. I said yes, my professor, Leo Caproni, whereupon we were taken to the Rauner Library, where the archives reside of deceased alums. I saw Dartmouth at War and a manila envelope containing everything from the day my professor entered Dartmouth to his death.” Leo was his professor at the New York City College of Technology. Leo was a professor in the hospitality department. He got his start at the Hanover Inn back in 1947.
Rauner Library is a wonderful place to visit when you are in Hanover.
One of the Class of ’42 scholars, Svati Narula ’13, grandniece of Guy Swenson, has just joined the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine as digital editor—keeping Dartmouth in the family. Thirteen Swensons since early 1900—a record!
Jon Mendes, his son, Joshua, and I will have attended the Dartmouth-Princeton game at Yankee Stadium when you read this—a first for Dartmouth in celebration of the 250th. I will report on that once-in-a-lifetime experience in my next column.
Once again I must report classmate deaths: Joseph P. Logan on September 6, 2019; Allison S. Hall in 2014, we have just learned; and William S. Richards on April 10, 2019. We have also just learned of the death of Peggy Rugen, widow of Dick Rugen. The class of ’42 extends condolences to each family.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; caproni@aol.com
Bob Gale, executive committee member will celebrate his 100th birthday December 27. Don’t forget he is still actively writing books and is on his 66th! His daughter is throwing a party in his honor. She writes: “One hundred sixty-six will be invited, so I am hoping for a big turnout from many states. It will be family, friends, attorneys, judges, former students—five guests, including a concert clarinetist and a concert violinist, will provide musical entertainment.” Give Bob a rouse and send him a card when you read this column.
On the Saturday of Homecoming, I had a wonderful call from a student of Leo F. Caproni, my late husband. He called to say, “I have just finished a tour of Dartmouth with my middle son and wife. At the end the student taking us around asked if we knew any alumni. I said yes, my professor, Leo Caproni, whereupon we were taken to the Rauner Library, where the archives reside of deceased alums. I saw Dartmouth at War and a manila envelope containing everything from the day my professor entered Dartmouth to his death.” Leo was his professor at the New York City College of Technology. Leo was a professor in the hospitality department. He got his start at the Hanover Inn back in 1947.
Rauner Library is a wonderful place to visit when you are in Hanover.
One of the Class of ’42 scholars, Svati Narula ’13, grandniece of Guy Swenson, has just joined the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine as digital editor—keeping Dartmouth in the family. Thirteen Swensons since early 1900—a record!
Jon Mendes, his son, Joshua, and I will have attended the Dartmouth-Princeton game at Yankee Stadium when you read this—a first for Dartmouth in celebration of the 250th. I will report on that once-in-a-lifetime experience in my next column.
Once again I must report classmate deaths: Joseph P. Logan on September 6, 2019; Allison S. Hall in 2014, we have just learned; and William S. Richards on April 10, 2019. We have also just learned of the death of Peggy Rugen, widow of Dick Rugen. The class of ’42 extends condolences to each family.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; caproni@aol.com