Class Note 1951
Issue
Continuing with recollections of our junior year, 1949-50, a recent e-mail from Mo Monahan described his Christmas vacation that year. “What to do over a lonely holiday 5,000 miles from home? To the rescue came Guido Rahr and his very kind family. I went to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, before heading north to the family hideaway estate for the holidays. The bad news was that because Guido had gone to Exeter he didn’t know a single girl in his hometown. Very frustrating for a hot-blooded boy from Hawaii.” Currently Mo and his wife are raising their 15-year-old son Keoni, “who is brilliant in all water sports because we live right on the beach here in Hawaii and in New Zealand.” Mo looks forward to attending our 60th in June 2011. Entertainment for us in the cold winter months often came from reading the classifieds in The Daily D: “Winter Weekend! Girls! Laughs! Music! If you’re planning on driving to Bradford this Friday and want someone to go along who will sing, crack jokes or just plain push, contact Pete Martin, 410 Sage.” That was February 21. On March 2 the results of a referendum on a plan to eliminate discriminatory clauses from fraternities was announced: 90.1 percent of the student body voted and Proposal 2 received a majority. In part it said fraternities whose constitutions are restrictive as to race, religion or natural origin and are not doing all that could be done to eliminate such clauses will have their recognition withdrawn by the College.
On Friday, March 3, we learned that Ralph T. Hand Jr. and Frederick R. Swanson would lead the “wah-hoo-wah boys in antics next fall as co-chiefs of the cheerleading squad.” On March 8 a story appeared naming Jeffrey O’Connell best actor for the second year running in the fraternity play competition. New officers of the Dartmouth Outing Club were announced on March 18. Martin B. Persons Jr. was elected president and Samuel R. Roberts, vice president. Obituaries of Steve Balogh, Howard Bissell and Stan Van Den Noort can be accessed at www.dartmouth.org/classes/51. Lack Internet access? Write me for a printed obituary.
—Peirce McKee, 239 Village Gate, Orinda, CA 94563; peirce.mckee@rbc.com
Mar - Apr 2010
Continuing with recollections of our junior year, 1949-50, a recent e-mail from Mo Monahan described his Christmas vacation that year. “What to do over a lonely holiday 5,000 miles from home? To the rescue came Guido Rahr and his very kind family. I went to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, before heading north to the family hideaway estate for the holidays. The bad news was that because Guido had gone to Exeter he didn’t know a single girl in his hometown. Very frustrating for a hot-blooded boy from Hawaii.” Currently Mo and his wife are raising their 15-year-old son Keoni, “who is brilliant in all water sports because we live right on the beach here in Hawaii and in New Zealand.” Mo looks forward to attending our 60th in June 2011. Entertainment for us in the cold winter months often came from reading the classifieds in The Daily D: “Winter Weekend! Girls! Laughs! Music! If you’re planning on driving to Bradford this Friday and want someone to go along who will sing, crack jokes or just plain push, contact Pete Martin, 410 Sage.” That was February 21. On March 2 the results of a referendum on a plan to eliminate discriminatory clauses from fraternities was announced: 90.1 percent of the student body voted and Proposal 2 received a majority. In part it said fraternities whose constitutions are restrictive as to race, religion or natural origin and are not doing all that could be done to eliminate such clauses will have their recognition withdrawn by the College.
On Friday, March 3, we learned that Ralph T. Hand Jr. and Frederick R. Swanson would lead the “wah-hoo-wah boys in antics next fall as co-chiefs of the cheerleading squad.” On March 8 a story appeared naming Jeffrey O’Connell best actor for the second year running in the fraternity play competition. New officers of the Dartmouth Outing Club were announced on March 18. Martin B. Persons Jr. was elected president and Samuel R. Roberts, vice president. Obituaries of Steve Balogh, Howard Bissell and Stan Van Den Noort can be accessed at www.dartmouth.org/classes/51. Lack Internet access? Write me for a printed obituary.
—Peirce McKee, 239 Village Gate, Orinda, CA 94563; peirce.mckee@rbc.com