Class Note 1951
Winner of the Grimes Award on May 1, 1951, Franklin T. Laskin’s story is titled “All of These, Some of These, None of These.” He pocketed the $20 prize money, went on to Yale Law School, labored for 28 years in San Jose, California’s city attorney office and then hung out his shingle in the foothills of Calaveras County, California. Not content with his Grimes Award, he has penned yet another epic titled, “George A. Custer, Please Come to the White Courtesy Phone.” Plainly, Ted likes long titles. His stories have a wide range, not only about Custer, but also Jesse Owens and one Bushrod Washington, nephew of Potus No. 1. Go online to www.manzapress.com to order this slim volume of great writing and good humor. Continuing the runup to our Commencement Day by reading the pages of The Dartmouth, the most popular movie at the Nugget was Bitter Rice with Silvana Mangano, playing to a packed Webster, even at the Wednesday matinee. Theta Chi, under the leadership of Whitey Hand, won the Inter-Fraternity Hum contest. Their big hit was “Song of The Open Road.” Russ Dilks added to his undergraduate luster by winning the Lockwood Prize yet again, having won it the two previous years. In contrast to varsity baseball (4-21-1) and tennis (2-9), the golfers put on a show at the Hanover layout by defeating Harvard, 5-2. Leading the attack were Duke Carey, Ed Eichler, Smoky Southworth and Howie Bissell. Five hundred thirty of us assembled for Class Day exercises on Friday, June 15, which included remarks by class president and Barrett Cup winner Dick Pugh, Berl Bernhard, Jim Wheatley and Paul Staley. All of that took place in front of Dartmouth Hall before we moved on to the Old Pine for the Sachem oration by a feathered Jeff O’Connell and finally Mike Iovenko. Clay pipes were smashed on the Old Pine to end the ceremony. Sunday’s baccalaureate and Commencement ceremony featured an address by Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, another one by President Dickey and Dick Pugh’s valedictory. Seems like yesterday, doesn’t it? Be there in June for our 60th.
—Peirce McKee, 239 Village Gate, Orinda, CA 94563; peirce.mckee@rbc.com
