Class Note 1942
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
The August column brings the good news about the results of the Dartmouth College Fund and our thanks to each of you who opened your wallets this year in support of Dartmouth. As for the College, it achieved its sixth consecutive record of giving with a participation rate of 42.9 percent. Our great class had a participation rate of 44 percent. We are smaller in numbers with 55 active members out of our original 629—9 percent—excellent for a group of nonagenarians.
We could not write an August column without talking about the weather here in the Northeast. Had our first heat wave of more than 90 degrees three days in a row. Of particular interest is that it coincided with our apartment building having to endure an emergency shut down of the air conditioning. Awful five days!
We continue with our efforts to gather classmate’s recollections of their four years at Dartmouth and what today comes to mind. The following is from Ed Chalfant.
“The start of college for the class of 1942 class coincided with the arrival of the hurricane of 1938, a powerful storm that swept from the Atlantic across New England and, when passing through Hanover, was still strong enough to topple huge elms and pine trees. It happened that Bob Headley, Roger Baker and I shared rooms 305 in College Hall. Our windows looked past a big elm tree directly across to Dartmouth Row. All of us were in 305 when the storm arrived. As the wind increased, it began to push a branch of the tree toward one of our windows. Eventually the branch burst through the window’s big lower pane and the storm was upon us in our rooms. As I think about it, for us this incident at the start of our college years matched the ending, when our class had to begin participation in a very great war.”
It is my sad duty to report the loss of two classmates in July: David Sills and John W. Wright. As always, the class extends its condolences to their families.
—Leo F. Caproni Jr., 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; (212) 988-6012; (212) 988-6715 (fax); caproni@aol.com
We could not write an August column without talking about the weather here in the Northeast. Had our first heat wave of more than 90 degrees three days in a row. Of particular interest is that it coincided with our apartment building having to endure an emergency shut down of the air conditioning. Awful five days!
We continue with our efforts to gather classmate’s recollections of their four years at Dartmouth and what today comes to mind. The following is from Ed Chalfant.
“The start of college for the class of 1942 class coincided with the arrival of the hurricane of 1938, a powerful storm that swept from the Atlantic across New England and, when passing through Hanover, was still strong enough to topple huge elms and pine trees. It happened that Bob Headley, Roger Baker and I shared rooms 305 in College Hall. Our windows looked past a big elm tree directly across to Dartmouth Row. All of us were in 305 when the storm arrived. As the wind increased, it began to push a branch of the tree toward one of our windows. Eventually the branch burst through the window’s big lower pane and the storm was upon us in our rooms. As I think about it, for us this incident at the start of our college years matched the ending, when our class had to begin participation in a very great war.”
It is my sad duty to report the loss of two classmates in July: David Sills and John W. Wright. As always, the class extends its condolences to their families.
—Leo F. Caproni Jr., 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; (212) 988-6012; (212) 988-6715 (fax); caproni@aol.com