Class Note 1947
Issue
November-December 2020
Hope you are well, wearing a mask, social distancing, and plan on voting. The last comment bears repeating. Last June I received a nice note from Steve Reinhardt, along with a check for $45 for annual dues. And he said that if he had already made payment, we were to use it for some worthy class project. Thanks, Steve, we’ll do a little homework on this. In the last column I described myself as being an outdoorsperson, and it must have struck a bell, as Steve went on to relate some of his travels, river rafting and backpacking in places such as Nepal, Pakistan, Alaska, Chile, and many others. His highest climb was Mount Aconcagua in Argentina at 22,835 feet, but apparently that was it, as he described himself puffing to keep pace with youngsters in their 50s! By the way, it is the tallest mountain in the Americas.
The Dartmouth Outing Club made the news on NH Public Television recently. There is a half-hour weekly program called Windows to the Wild, which highlights hiking and wilderness experiences throughout New England. In this case, a TV crew and host went along with about 12 Dartmouth freshmen and women on the 50-plus-mile hike along the Appalachian Trail from Hanover to Mount Moosilauke. I was envious seeing this, as the only hiking we did as freshmen was listening to the loud cadence of a drill sergeant.
In the last issue, class secretary George Shimizu ’43 wrote of the summer of 1942 and the feelings before the class went off to war. There were great entertainment shows put on in front of Robinson Hall led by Waldo “Doc” Fielding ’43. Fast forward to the summer of 1943: The V-12 had arrived, the Nugget Theater had burned down, and entertainment was nonexistent, except Doc Fielding, being a premed student, was still there. He put on a couple of shows at Webster Hall and proved to be the funniest man I had ever seen or heard. Thanks for the memory, George.
The College reported that the class contributed to the Annual Fund, which closed on June 30, the amount of $24,573, with class participation of 26.9 percent. Ten widows also sent money, for which we are in their debt—we thank you.
We are saddened to report the deaths of Donald S. Knapp Jr. of Haddon Township, New Jersey, on June 14, and Wallace D. Bradway, for whom the College has no details at this time.
—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; jhayes697@yahoo.com
The Dartmouth Outing Club made the news on NH Public Television recently. There is a half-hour weekly program called Windows to the Wild, which highlights hiking and wilderness experiences throughout New England. In this case, a TV crew and host went along with about 12 Dartmouth freshmen and women on the 50-plus-mile hike along the Appalachian Trail from Hanover to Mount Moosilauke. I was envious seeing this, as the only hiking we did as freshmen was listening to the loud cadence of a drill sergeant.
In the last issue, class secretary George Shimizu ’43 wrote of the summer of 1942 and the feelings before the class went off to war. There were great entertainment shows put on in front of Robinson Hall led by Waldo “Doc” Fielding ’43. Fast forward to the summer of 1943: The V-12 had arrived, the Nugget Theater had burned down, and entertainment was nonexistent, except Doc Fielding, being a premed student, was still there. He put on a couple of shows at Webster Hall and proved to be the funniest man I had ever seen or heard. Thanks for the memory, George.
The College reported that the class contributed to the Annual Fund, which closed on June 30, the amount of $24,573, with class participation of 26.9 percent. Ten widows also sent money, for which we are in their debt—we thank you.
We are saddened to report the deaths of Donald S. Knapp Jr. of Haddon Township, New Jersey, on June 14, and Wallace D. Bradway, for whom the College has no details at this time.
—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; jhayes697@yahoo.com