Class Note 1947
Issue
Sept - Oct 2019
Received an e-mail from Lansing Reed commenting that Bob Dodson stopped in for a visit and was looking pretty good despite the fact that his lovely wife, Robbie, died last year. I remember both of them very well, as they always came to the fall mini-reunion that we held at the Norwich Inn to enjoy the sociability of the gathering and always added to the conversation.
Lacking info from any other classmates, I find a wealth of information about Dartmouth from all of its publications. As Dartmouth is celebrating its 250 years of education, this comes from Jay Satterfield, who is the head of the library’s Special Collections. He found in the library a splintered, weather-beaten piece of wood, 7 inches long with cream coloring on one side. It had been wrapped in linen and stored in a box. Turns out it was part of a goal post from a famous 1935 Dartmouth-Yale football game. Jay also found a vintage article in the College newspaper reporting that Dartmouth’s 14-6 win broke a 50-year losing streak! And this prompted a letter inviting the victors to the 1938 Rose Bowl. To younger readers: This was bigger than today’s Super Bowl, and all listened to it by radio. “But get this,” says Satterfield, “Dartmouth turned it down.” President Ernest Hopkins declined the invite, as he felt a train ride across the country and back would be detrimental to their studies!
Received a note from Eric Powers ’02, grandson of Morris “Polsky” Powers, who died June 12. Eric tells the story of his grandfather and a friend walking on the Green, seeing a visiting Robert Frost, and making a comment of it being a frosty morning. Apparently Frost left his humor behind that morning, as they received a severe dressing down.
We are saddened to report the deaths of Alphonse R. DeNatale of Hastings on Hudson, New York, on November 12, 2018; Louis F. Blaisdell of Isle au Haut, Maine, on January 14; Frederic R. Sistare of Wilmington, Vermont, on February 21; David A. Fike of Alexandria, Virginia, on April 12; and James S. Rudolph of Sarasota, Florida, on April 5.
—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; jhayes697@yahoo.com
Lacking info from any other classmates, I find a wealth of information about Dartmouth from all of its publications. As Dartmouth is celebrating its 250 years of education, this comes from Jay Satterfield, who is the head of the library’s Special Collections. He found in the library a splintered, weather-beaten piece of wood, 7 inches long with cream coloring on one side. It had been wrapped in linen and stored in a box. Turns out it was part of a goal post from a famous 1935 Dartmouth-Yale football game. Jay also found a vintage article in the College newspaper reporting that Dartmouth’s 14-6 win broke a 50-year losing streak! And this prompted a letter inviting the victors to the 1938 Rose Bowl. To younger readers: This was bigger than today’s Super Bowl, and all listened to it by radio. “But get this,” says Satterfield, “Dartmouth turned it down.” President Ernest Hopkins declined the invite, as he felt a train ride across the country and back would be detrimental to their studies!
Received a note from Eric Powers ’02, grandson of Morris “Polsky” Powers, who died June 12. Eric tells the story of his grandfather and a friend walking on the Green, seeing a visiting Robert Frost, and making a comment of it being a frosty morning. Apparently Frost left his humor behind that morning, as they received a severe dressing down.
We are saddened to report the deaths of Alphonse R. DeNatale of Hastings on Hudson, New York, on November 12, 2018; Louis F. Blaisdell of Isle au Haut, Maine, on January 14; Frederic R. Sistare of Wilmington, Vermont, on February 21; David A. Fike of Alexandria, Virginia, on April 12; and James S. Rudolph of Sarasota, Florida, on April 5.
—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; jhayes697@yahoo.com