Class Note 1952
As Dartmouth continues celebration of 250 years of providing excellent educational opportunities, we continue our review of the makeup of the class of 1952, as part of the family. This will be our last report on the class identity and we will return to more regular news of classmates in 2020, the year of perfect eyesight. (Sorry about that.) In earlier issues we commented about geographic movement and professional involvement. We sum up by talking about when we “got started,” i.e., when we were born. Conventional thinking is that, as members of this class, we would have been born in 1930 and, for the most part, that is correct. According to our records, about 65 percent of this class was born in that year. And, if you add just two months on either side of 1930, the number jumps to 73 percent. However, the span is actually from 1926 to 1932. The older years represent mostly that 10 percent of our class that was in the service prior to entering college and there are just a handful of classmates that were born in 1932. Thus, the coming year means that, for three-quarters of our class, we will be entering our 10th decade of life and our ninth decade as part of the Dartmouth experience. Let us be the first to wish you a happy birthday! For those keeping score, months with the most births were January and September and those with the least births were June and August. Make of it what you will. Turning to other matters, in an earlier issue of the alumni magazine this year we asked about names of career military men, and the name of Drew Sleeper was added. Drew was a career U.S. Air Force officer, a combat pilot who spent more than 20 years serving our country, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Unfortunately, Drew passed away this past July in Fort Worth, Texas. We also are sorry to report the deaths of Victor Trautwein in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; John Brower in Venice, Florida; Eugene Rosenberg in Carmel, California; Andrew H. Jackson in Laramie, Wyoming; and Howard Van Valzah in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com
