This Class Notes is from guest columnist Jim Schaefer: “Some guys have all the luck. They live in or near Hanover, enjoying retirement and volunteer or business activity, and each month they get to lunch with other ’48s at the Norwich Inn. The lunch attendees usually include John Hatheway, still active on the editorial board of Dartmouth Life and in advisory capacities at the Medical School and medical center, and Bud Gedney, another retired ad agency honcho, up from Claremont, New Hampshire, with Ginny. (The class remains forever in the Gedneys’ debt for their great annual hospitality at reunions.) Ray Richard, for years an active executive working from his Hanover base, is also a regular, as are Bill Scott and Marjie from nearby Lake Morey, Vermont, and Bud Munson, one of our confidential government service retirees (along with brother Bob Munson), who drops over from his Hanover home, where he and Barbara have hosted classmates yea many a year. Bud Elliott, Pete Foster and Joe Smith often join the group, and prexy Warren Daniell presides when class business intrudes on the general jollity. Not to be outdone, the ladies of ’48 usually convene in a separate room, so as not to restrict the masculine nature of conversation, their number often including, in addition to the aforenamed, Pat McAllister, Anne Foster, Ellie Huke, Jean Guthrie, Gloria Richard, Dotty Dahl and Dot Daniell. Additional to the usual brain trust, not infrequent luncheoneers have included Sam Wilkinson, Foxy Parker, Dick Dahl, Mort Smith, Gil Shattuck, Dave Kurr and Phil Viereck, with their lovely distaffs as appropriate. The private room and lunch table being expandable, a seat awaits all ’48s without reservation first Tuesday of most any month. Try the liver and onions. Goes well with the inn’s own ale.”


—Warren Daniell, P.O. Box 304, Concord, MA 01742; wdaniell48@aol.com