Class Note 1957
Issue
With thanks to Ron Judson for his good offices, here’s what’s up with classmates who were on that terrific Dartmouth basketball team we used to watch with such enjoyment.
Gene Booth, a 2006 inductee of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, retired as executive director of the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights and is now running MLK Business Forms in New Haven, Connecticut. It’s associated with the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, which encourages large corporations to do business with minority-owned companies.
Retired from Wells-Fargo and living near Berkeley, California, Jim Francis developed an interest in special education in the 1990s. He works two days a week as a special ed teacher’s assistant, mainly with kids who need help in reading. Jim makes special mention of Coach Doggie Julian, who helped him establish himself in the National Industrial Basketball League after graduation. He went on to play for Oakland in the American Basketball League in the early 1960s.
Tom Donahoe has got a Dartmouth thing going—son John is an ’82 and grandson Thomas is an ’09. Tom retired from Price Waterhouse 13 years ago and stays active on not-for-profit boards in the Chicago area. Tom remembers a team dinner before a Friday game against Harvard. Three of the four Roman Catholics on the team were eating fish, “but Judson is having steak. When I asked him how he could eat meat on a Friday he splashed water on it and said, ‘Swim, you S.O.B., swim!’ ”
Chick Winslow e-mails that he followed his schoolyard hero Pete Geithner ’54 to high school, a summer job lifeguarding at the Jersey Shore and eventually to Dartmouth. Chick seems to have done something similar with three sons, two daughters-in-law and a brother-in-law all with Dartmouth class numerals after their names.
Larry Blades, out there in the Heartland, calls himself a recovering lawyer. He does the predictable retirement stuff—gardening and playing bridge, and also uses the Internet to write letters to the editor and “make a nuisance of myself.” Of the team he remembers “the incredible camaraderie of the group. I don’t remember a disparaging word.” He also tells a story about freshman coach Chick Evans, who took 12 players on a trip but said that next time he’d take only 10 so there’d be more steak to go around. One member of the team piped up, “Why not go by yourself and have the whole goddam cow!”
In the course of talking about bygone days Ron Judson remembered Herb Markman, who died in an automobile accident in 1959. “Herb and I played against each other in high school and then were surprised to find ourselves on the same team at Dartmouth. We’d hang out in the gym, playing one on one and having shooting contests.” You may remember that both of them were among the last practitioners of the two-handed set shot. Ron said, “Herbie could shoot. He was a little slow of foot, but he’d beat the hell out of me.” Ron paused and then added, “Hey, he didn’t always win!”
—Michael Lasser, 164 New Wickham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526; rhythm2@frontiernet.net
Nov - Dec 2009
With thanks to Ron Judson for his good offices, here’s what’s up with classmates who were on that terrific Dartmouth basketball team we used to watch with such enjoyment.
Gene Booth, a 2006 inductee of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, retired as executive director of the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights and is now running MLK Business Forms in New Haven, Connecticut. It’s associated with the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, which encourages large corporations to do business with minority-owned companies.
Retired from Wells-Fargo and living near Berkeley, California, Jim Francis developed an interest in special education in the 1990s. He works two days a week as a special ed teacher’s assistant, mainly with kids who need help in reading. Jim makes special mention of Coach Doggie Julian, who helped him establish himself in the National Industrial Basketball League after graduation. He went on to play for Oakland in the American Basketball League in the early 1960s.
Tom Donahoe has got a Dartmouth thing going—son John is an ’82 and grandson Thomas is an ’09. Tom retired from Price Waterhouse 13 years ago and stays active on not-for-profit boards in the Chicago area. Tom remembers a team dinner before a Friday game against Harvard. Three of the four Roman Catholics on the team were eating fish, “but Judson is having steak. When I asked him how he could eat meat on a Friday he splashed water on it and said, ‘Swim, you S.O.B., swim!’ ”
Chick Winslow e-mails that he followed his schoolyard hero Pete Geithner ’54 to high school, a summer job lifeguarding at the Jersey Shore and eventually to Dartmouth. Chick seems to have done something similar with three sons, two daughters-in-law and a brother-in-law all with Dartmouth class numerals after their names.
Larry Blades, out there in the Heartland, calls himself a recovering lawyer. He does the predictable retirement stuff—gardening and playing bridge, and also uses the Internet to write letters to the editor and “make a nuisance of myself.” Of the team he remembers “the incredible camaraderie of the group. I don’t remember a disparaging word.” He also tells a story about freshman coach Chick Evans, who took 12 players on a trip but said that next time he’d take only 10 so there’d be more steak to go around. One member of the team piped up, “Why not go by yourself and have the whole goddam cow!”
In the course of talking about bygone days Ron Judson remembered Herb Markman, who died in an automobile accident in 1959. “Herb and I played against each other in high school and then were surprised to find ourselves on the same team at Dartmouth. We’d hang out in the gym, playing one on one and having shooting contests.” You may remember that both of them were among the last practitioners of the two-handed set shot. Ron said, “Herbie could shoot. He was a little slow of foot, but he’d beat the hell out of me.” Ron paused and then added, “Hey, he didn’t always win!”
—Michael Lasser, 164 New Wickham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526; rhythm2@frontiernet.net