Class Note 1955
Issue
Jan - Feb 2018
Lou Hance, who has arranged for a splendid mini at Stowe, Vermont, June 19, 20, 21 says to call Trapp Family Lodge at (800) 826-7000. We have a special rate, $180 per night. Plans include dinner Tuesday night and bierhall fest Thursday night; use code 50W50A. We have 10 rooms on hold until April 20.
Pete Buhler, Mike Gorton, Tom Byrne, John Dinan and thousands will have attended the Dartmouth-Brown football game at Fenway November 10. This is mentioned because Dartmouth-Princeton will be at Yankee Stadium in 2018. Make your plans now.
David Miller, then a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, was stationed at Iwakuni, Japan, with the Third Air Wing. David was responsible for all fueling and often met incoming aircraft. One rainy night a plane from the Philippines arrived, and down the ladder comes 2nd Lt. Nick Kotz. Nick was on emergency leave from maneuvers in Luzon because of the passing of his dad. Dave found him a steak, a bunk and another hop for the ride home to Washington, D.C., for the services. Nick recalls his stop in California, where a major commented on his new mustache as “a scrofulous growth.”
Five years prior, Nick and Bill Lenderking were lifeguards at Jetties Beach on Nantucket, Massachusetts, during Dartmouth summers. After the beach closed for the day they would swim to town for their evening social times with other Dartmouth-ites. Forward 60 years: Mary Lynn Kotz has been a member of the National Archives for 24 years and helped it change from a museum at which to simply view the nation’s holy documents to a hands-on site for exhibits, lectures and active participation. October 23 Tom Hanks was given its man of the year award and Mary Lynn, Nick and Karen Mannes shared a table. Hanks gave evidence of his knowledge and respect for the history of our country in his splendid talk.
Your secretary will be off to the Grant in November—it’s like Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man”: “When you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
We note with regret the passing of Jack Bailey and Bill Contini.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com
Pete Buhler, Mike Gorton, Tom Byrne, John Dinan and thousands will have attended the Dartmouth-Brown football game at Fenway November 10. This is mentioned because Dartmouth-Princeton will be at Yankee Stadium in 2018. Make your plans now.
David Miller, then a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, was stationed at Iwakuni, Japan, with the Third Air Wing. David was responsible for all fueling and often met incoming aircraft. One rainy night a plane from the Philippines arrived, and down the ladder comes 2nd Lt. Nick Kotz. Nick was on emergency leave from maneuvers in Luzon because of the passing of his dad. Dave found him a steak, a bunk and another hop for the ride home to Washington, D.C., for the services. Nick recalls his stop in California, where a major commented on his new mustache as “a scrofulous growth.”
Five years prior, Nick and Bill Lenderking were lifeguards at Jetties Beach on Nantucket, Massachusetts, during Dartmouth summers. After the beach closed for the day they would swim to town for their evening social times with other Dartmouth-ites. Forward 60 years: Mary Lynn Kotz has been a member of the National Archives for 24 years and helped it change from a museum at which to simply view the nation’s holy documents to a hands-on site for exhibits, lectures and active participation. October 23 Tom Hanks was given its man of the year award and Mary Lynn, Nick and Karen Mannes shared a table. Hanks gave evidence of his knowledge and respect for the history of our country in his splendid talk.
Your secretary will be off to the Grant in November—it’s like Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man”: “When you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
We note with regret the passing of Jack Bailey and Bill Contini.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com