Class Note 1967
In late February all our hopes and dreams were of the warmth and sunshine of spring, so for this issue we asked the class for their favorite memories of spring break. Jim Rooks spent his first two “training with the lightweight crew in Boston, sleeping on cots in a huge gym at MIT, and rowing (for me that meant sitting in the back and yelling) out of the old MIT boathouse in frigid weather. After a break, when we got back to Hanover and the ice broke up, we had to dodge ice flows and tree trunks on the river.” Ed Arnold was also one of “those masochists who participated in crew,” and adds that in addition to rowing on the Charles “spring breaks meant doing fun stuff like stair running until you drop.” Other masochists included Al Hine, who recalls 1966, when “three or four of us on the track team, including Andy Danver, drove to Sarasota, Florida, to run on the beaches. I ran in just my bathing suit and, being fair-skinned, got the worst sunburn of my life. I spent the rest of spring term itching uncontrollably and shedding dead skin.” Others went south as pleasure-seekers, such as Mike Gfroerer, who with pals ambitiously “planned a stupendous two-week road trip to bask in the Florida Keys sunshine and then backpack across the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina. When we realized we only had one week of vacation, we decided to do it all anyway, arriving back in Hanover in Craig Ordway’s VW bug 15 minutes before spring term registration closed.” Like many of us who went skiing in Colorado, Lew Hitchner recalls “the 48-hour non-stop drive from Hanover to Denver in a friend’s parents’ huge station wagon with two-hour driving shifts and sleeping bags in the back, sleeping overnight in the car in the Vail, Colorado, parking lot (running the car every half hour to stay warm), a great week skiing in Aspen, Colorado, and surviving a high-speed tire blowout on the interstate in Iowa.”
The Glee Club traveled as cultural ambassadors of the College. Ora McCreary recalls their cultural spring tours included one in 1966, “flying from city to city on a chartered DC-7B prop plane, seeing Carol Doda topless at the Condor in San Francisco, stopping by a casino in Reno, Nevada (where I bet a quarter in a slot machine, won five back, fed four back into the machine, and then stopped because I wanted to be able to say I came out ahead), and, oh yes, I think we had some concerts too!” Rob Kugler was there too and adds, “We were touring as the Flyin’ Singin’ Injuns. Hard to believe now that was how we were billed!”
Be sure to join the crew on March 23 for the Washington, D.C., dinner! Contact Becky Gray for details (rebecca@graybooks.net), and be sure to check out our class website (1967.dartmouth.org) for the latest news, photos, and articles about the great class of 1967!
—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01338; larrylangford@mac.com
