Class of 1948 scholarship-athlete awards for 2019 were James Foye ’20 for basketball and Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 for track. James started all 30 games as a junior and was one of the top three scorers for Dartmouth. He is an economics major with a 3.96 GPA. Cha’Mia is a psychology major and an academic all-American with a 3.67 GPA. She was two-time Ivy League champion in the long jump and six-time champion in the hurdles. She was twice named most outstanding performer in the Ivy indoor championships. Winners used to join us at our mini-reunions, but we may have had our last mini, as it was cancelled last year for lack of attendance. Pat McAllister has been an honorary member of our class and run a very active and successful widow’s program for many years, with widows representing an increasing portion of our reunion attendees. She is no longer able to handle this program, which apparently will not continue without her. On behalf of the class and myself I would like to extend our appreciation of all the time and effort she has extended for us. Pat, you’ve been great!

Through the years I have casually kept abreast of class members downsizing into retirement communities. Last year Joyce and I decided to do it, as all four of our daughters were 250 miles or more away from Clinton, New York. Sorting out all the details and coordinating various responsibilities was extremely time consuming. While we ended up outside of New York City, we spent some time in Boston and had a great time at the Harvard-Dartmouth game, where to our pleased surprise we were late because they had an estimated attendance of more than 20,000. We bought tickets and without looking at them walked up to the last row of the stadium and over to about the 35-yard line. It turned out that by the end of the first half much of the Dartmouth student body had the same idea and we were in the middle of the noisiest rooting section. It was like being back in the 1940s, and while we had to stand up in the second half, it was great fun. The ending was incredible. We turned the ball over twice in the last five minutes and with about two or three minutes to play, Harvard had first and 10 on our 4-yard line. With no timeouts left we got the ball back on the 8-yard line. Getting the ball to about the 50 with a couple of fourth-down passes was as remarkable as the final six-second hail Mary. Unfortunately, we lose our 250-pound running quarterback next year. I guess his injury caused us problems at both Cornell and Brown. However, a half a loaf is better than none.

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—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt. 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@verizon.net