Class Note 1951
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In 1950 varsity football featured a Homecoming win over Columbia, 14-7, with running backs Billy Roberts, Bobby Tyler and Ed Isbey leading the way. Johnny Clayton continued to improve his reputation as one of the East’s best T-formation quarterbacks. Entertainment of another sort was the Dartmouth Players’ performance of See How They Run, with Pinky Pfaff playing the lead. Interfraternity football playoffs concluded with Phi Psi squeaking by AD when John Boardman and Mike Choukas excelled for the winners. The Saturday after Thanksgiving brought a wind and rainstorm that pummeled the East Coast including Princeton’s Palmer Stadium. Not only did Dartmouth lose to Kazmaier & Co., 13-7, but football historians could not remember worse weather conditions. The Korean War grabbed everyone’s attention on November 29 as The Dartmouth’s headline screamed “Chinese Troops Flood Korea.” Instead of “Your boys will be home by Christmas,” Gen. MacArthur’s pledge in September, soldiers and marines were in retreat. Debaters Russ Dilks and Mike Iovenko led their team to victory, winning the Tufts College tournament for the second straight year. Herm Christensen, showing off his diverse interests, won a $5 prize by coming “closest” to guessing the Army-Navy game score. Reporting again from Washington, D.C., was our intern-for-a-year Mike Heyman, who wrote a column discussing the need for a Fair Employment Practices Commission. Dick Pugh was one of four men chosen in the New England district as a Rhodes Scholarship winner. On our way through California’s Calaveras County to the Bear Valley Music Festival in August, Jo Ann and I stopped in picturesque Murphys. In a restaurant called Grounds we lunched with Ted Laskin and his long-time friend, Gayle Nordby. Ted, a lawyer who hung out his shingle in the nearby town of Arnold 27 years ago, regaled us with stories about life in the mother-lode area. He had to leave us to attend a writer’s club meeting, which shows FTL’s mind is still fertile with thoughts to grab your imagination if not your agreement. Go online for an obituary of Aaron Rausen (dartmouth.org/classes/51).
—Peirce McKee, 239 Village Gate, Orinda, CA 94563; peirce.mckee@rbc.com
Nov - Dec 2010
In 1950 varsity football featured a Homecoming win over Columbia, 14-7, with running backs Billy Roberts, Bobby Tyler and Ed Isbey leading the way. Johnny Clayton continued to improve his reputation as one of the East’s best T-formation quarterbacks. Entertainment of another sort was the Dartmouth Players’ performance of See How They Run, with Pinky Pfaff playing the lead. Interfraternity football playoffs concluded with Phi Psi squeaking by AD when John Boardman and Mike Choukas excelled for the winners. The Saturday after Thanksgiving brought a wind and rainstorm that pummeled the East Coast including Princeton’s Palmer Stadium. Not only did Dartmouth lose to Kazmaier & Co., 13-7, but football historians could not remember worse weather conditions. The Korean War grabbed everyone’s attention on November 29 as The Dartmouth’s headline screamed “Chinese Troops Flood Korea.” Instead of “Your boys will be home by Christmas,” Gen. MacArthur’s pledge in September, soldiers and marines were in retreat. Debaters Russ Dilks and Mike Iovenko led their team to victory, winning the Tufts College tournament for the second straight year. Herm Christensen, showing off his diverse interests, won a $5 prize by coming “closest” to guessing the Army-Navy game score. Reporting again from Washington, D.C., was our intern-for-a-year Mike Heyman, who wrote a column discussing the need for a Fair Employment Practices Commission. Dick Pugh was one of four men chosen in the New England district as a Rhodes Scholarship winner. On our way through California’s Calaveras County to the Bear Valley Music Festival in August, Jo Ann and I stopped in picturesque Murphys. In a restaurant called Grounds we lunched with Ted Laskin and his long-time friend, Gayle Nordby. Ted, a lawyer who hung out his shingle in the nearby town of Arnold 27 years ago, regaled us with stories about life in the mother-lode area. He had to leave us to attend a writer’s club meeting, which shows FTL’s mind is still fertile with thoughts to grab your imagination if not your agreement. Go online for an obituary of Aaron Rausen (dartmouth.org/classes/51).
—Peirce McKee, 239 Village Gate, Orinda, CA 94563; peirce.mckee@rbc.com