Class Note 1955
Issue
Sept - Oct 2019
Rick “Rags” McNally left Hanover after sophomore year to attend seminary. Having been Roy Nyren’s roommate, the association with the clergy seems likely. Rick, however, left seminary after a year to attend Holy Cross and graduated in 1957. He married Margaret, whom he remembered from a ninth-grade dance, then off to Coast Guard Officer Candidate School, after which he spent much of his active duty on a buoy tender off Puerto Rico. After 30 years in construction, he had another career in human service for the handicapped. Their son graduated from Bowdoin and their grandson is a junior at Bates and spending this year at the South Island of New Zealand. Rick and Margaret visit Maine four to five times a year and attribute their love for the state to a canoe trip in 1992.
Betty Brady, Ralph Sautter, and Jack Doyle have done it once more with the third iteration of the class’ spring fest April 27 at Weston (Massachusetts) Country Club that allowed those of us from further north to see green grass and all to enjoy good company. We were especially glad to see Sandra Carpenter. She reported that her late husband, our classmate Bernie, is being honored posthumously by a chair in urology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Bonnie MacAdam reported 20,000 visits to date to the refurbished Hood Museum and thanked the class for our ongoing financial help. More than 1,000 students attended the grand opening. Jere Daniell reported on the state of the College. He recounted his 50-hour interview with John Sloan Dickey, who pushed the constant re-evaluation of Dartmouth’s place in academia.
Our man in Hanover, Tom Byrne, and his wife, Ann, have moved south to her old hometown of Quitman, Georgia. This not only is ’55s loss, but, recalling Tom’s many roles in Hanover, the town is less for his departure.
Mark these dates: See you at Homecoming October 11-12 and the Dartmouth-Princeton football game at Yankee Stadium November 9.
Sadly, we report the passing of John Cavanagh, Ed Hunter, Benjamin Sutton, and Dick Targett.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com
Betty Brady, Ralph Sautter, and Jack Doyle have done it once more with the third iteration of the class’ spring fest April 27 at Weston (Massachusetts) Country Club that allowed those of us from further north to see green grass and all to enjoy good company. We were especially glad to see Sandra Carpenter. She reported that her late husband, our classmate Bernie, is being honored posthumously by a chair in urology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Bonnie MacAdam reported 20,000 visits to date to the refurbished Hood Museum and thanked the class for our ongoing financial help. More than 1,000 students attended the grand opening. Jere Daniell reported on the state of the College. He recounted his 50-hour interview with John Sloan Dickey, who pushed the constant re-evaluation of Dartmouth’s place in academia.
Our man in Hanover, Tom Byrne, and his wife, Ann, have moved south to her old hometown of Quitman, Georgia. This not only is ’55s loss, but, recalling Tom’s many roles in Hanover, the town is less for his departure.
Mark these dates: See you at Homecoming October 11-12 and the Dartmouth-Princeton football game at Yankee Stadium November 9.
Sadly, we report the passing of John Cavanagh, Ed Hunter, Benjamin Sutton, and Dick Targett.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com