Dick Chase and Bill Gundy have agreed to co-chair our 55th reunion. The Upper Valley group has been committed to help on any assignments they are given, as was done for the 45th and 50th.


Gary Vandeweghe wrote (ruthlessly edited), “I spied in The Dartmouth a back-page lead story on women’s hockey (they lost 5-0) and a box in the corner about women’s hockey and skiing at the Skiway; nothing about basketball. Inside lists hockey and basketball games, but that’s it. No mention of the weekend’s two wins, teams coming in we can beat or who’s playing well. Any wonder? The gym at Winter Carnival was about 30-percent full both nights. Paul Cormier is a very good coach and is frustrated because when we do get a good shot, we miss.


“I played with the alumni and afterwards had them measure to be sure the court wasn’t longer and the basket higher and farther away. It was fun until a couple of guys who graduated just two or three years ago started getting serious. I told the guys some 1958-59 ‘Doggie’ stories. He always told us before we went out to warm up: ‘Three things: Rebound, take good shots, don’t lose the ball without getting a shot.’ I also told them we also had our three things. Kaufman, Sosnowski and LaRusso and some other guy who is still wide open in the corner.”


Bob Fairbank chimed in with, “One of my prouder moments of that 1958-59 season was garnering a letter and the sweater that goes with it. I tried it on the other day and could not even get it over my shoulders, much less my chest.”


Dick Strehle did a little sleuthing and discovered we ’60s started at 809, graduated 770 and have seen about 159 pass away. His advice, “Stay healthy.”


—John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St. 14, Rutland, VT 05701; jmm00033@comcast.net