Class Note 1942
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
Every two months I stare at a blank page thirsting for news from each of you. I want you to know it is hard to write a column without news. From where I write, the Northeast has had an on-and-off hot summer. The highlight of the summer, the year, even the century: the eclipse of August 21. Here we had 71-percent totality, so it did not get dark. Many enterprising folks constructed pinhole cameras in my building and shared their works. Of course we were not around for the one in 1869, when a Dartmouth professor found and named the corona seen by those who witnessed totality.
I want to thank each and every one of you for your participation in the Dartmouth College Fund. It is most appreciated, no matter the size of the contribution.
Our legacy, Dartmouth at War, as you may know, is given out each year to ROTC graduates, allowing them to learn what their forebears did during WW II. This year we gave three—one to a Marine and one to each of two Army officers.
From time to time I have occasion to speak with widows of your classmates. Most recently with Mariana Chalfant, Ed Chalfant’s widow. I have had several conversations with Mary Lindstrom, Guy Swenson’s widow. Bob Gale frequently provides some morsel of news. Please feel free to email me or call me to share any news and activities.
I have some news from Dartmouth.
The new CEO and president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock is Joanne Mather Conroy ’77—women of Dartmouth have come a long way! Martha Pollack ’79 was inaugurated on August 25 as Cornell’s newest president in a ceremony in which President Hanlon participated. President Hanlon, who was called a “mentor” of Pollack’s, spoke glowingly of her abilities as an educator and a leader. He cautioned Pollack that the job of university president can be difficult (drawing from his four years of experience), but that the benefits make the lows worth it. Another woman of Dartmouth!
I will report on the 75th reunion in the next column. It is the last official reunion for the great class of ’42.
I have the sad duty to report the loss of Richard Clarke on August 5. The class sends condolences to the Clarke family.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York City, New York 10021; (212) 988-6012; (212) 988-6715 (fax); caproni@aol.com
I want to thank each and every one of you for your participation in the Dartmouth College Fund. It is most appreciated, no matter the size of the contribution.
Our legacy, Dartmouth at War, as you may know, is given out each year to ROTC graduates, allowing them to learn what their forebears did during WW II. This year we gave three—one to a Marine and one to each of two Army officers.
From time to time I have occasion to speak with widows of your classmates. Most recently with Mariana Chalfant, Ed Chalfant’s widow. I have had several conversations with Mary Lindstrom, Guy Swenson’s widow. Bob Gale frequently provides some morsel of news. Please feel free to email me or call me to share any news and activities.
I have some news from Dartmouth.
The new CEO and president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock is Joanne Mather Conroy ’77—women of Dartmouth have come a long way! Martha Pollack ’79 was inaugurated on August 25 as Cornell’s newest president in a ceremony in which President Hanlon participated. President Hanlon, who was called a “mentor” of Pollack’s, spoke glowingly of her abilities as an educator and a leader. He cautioned Pollack that the job of university president can be difficult (drawing from his four years of experience), but that the benefits make the lows worth it. Another woman of Dartmouth!
I will report on the 75th reunion in the next column. It is the last official reunion for the great class of ’42.
I have the sad duty to report the loss of Richard Clarke on August 5. The class sends condolences to the Clarke family.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York City, New York 10021; (212) 988-6012; (212) 988-6715 (fax); caproni@aol.com