The ’42 NewsletterCLASS OFFICERS

President - Leo F. Caproni, 370 East 76th St., New York, NY 10021-2547 (212) 988-6012Vice President & Mini-Reunion Chair - Huntly Allison, 80 Lyme Rd. #410, Hanover NH 03755 (603) 640-6191

Secretary - Leo F. Caproni, 370 East 76th St., New York, NY 10021-2547 (212) 988-6012Head Agent - Leo F. Caproni, 370 East 76th St., New York, NY 10021-2547 (212) 988-6012

Newsletter Editor - Carolmae Encherman, 80 Lyme Rd. #205, Hanover, NH 03755 (603) 643-1571Women’s Affairs Chair - Ginia Allison, 80 Lyme Rd. #410, Hanover, NH 03755 (603) 640-6191

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEHuntly Allison, Jr., Leo F. Caproni, Jr., William Clark,

Carolmae Encherman, Charles L. Weinberg

July 2014

From the presidents corner

Many of you may have noticed that our socializing has changed from getting together with friends to frequent visits to a doctor. We remember once, many long years ago, standing around at a mini chatting with TED ARICO who remarked how our conversations had morphed from discussing good wines to talking about which medications are you taking now. Now we chat with our doctors. On that note, here in New York we frequently ride the bus to a doctor’s office and we carry a reunion bag. On occasion, it starts a conversation. The other day on the bus it caused a woman to say “I went to Skidmore” to which we replied that our classmate JOE PALAMOUNTAIN had been the president. She said “I remember him” which tells you her age. In a waiting room the other day for skin cancer another man spotted our 65th reunion bag and he said he was about to celebrate his 65th at Yale. So carry your bag and you are sure to start some kind of conversation.

While rounding up last minute donations for the Dartmouth College Fund, I had the occasion to speak with RICHARD HEMPSTEAD, a doctor specializ-ing in urology says his five children keep him busy. His wife is in a nursing home. WAYNE MARTZ who attended our 70th was almost too busy to talk due to a fam-

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ily party. Roger Robison is living in a “senior center” Rosenfeld reports being in good shape and PAUL UHLMAN is doing well.

In April, Joanna and I attended the annual Steve Mandel Dinner at the Plaza. We certainly were the oldest alumni in attendance.

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GINIA and HUNTLY ALLISON had the honor of representing the Class of 1942 in presenting copies of Dartmouth at War to two graduating seniors who were being commissioned as U.S. Marine Corps officers. They were Zachary Moskow ’14 and Evan Bloom ’14. Zachary graduated as a studio art major with an emphasis on pho-tography and architecture. He played rugby and was an exchange student at the Uni-versity of Sydney. Evan was a history major and an award winning Big Green lacrosse player. He will receive his Marine Corps commission during a ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Constitution in Boston. In addition to the marines, Morgan Sutherland ’14 will commission in the U.S. Army after summer training. He was the highest-ranked of-ficer in his Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) unit at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH, and served as the group commander for its 150 cadets. He received both the Air Force Association Award and the Instructor’s Leadership Award for his service. He double majored in history and government, with a minor in economics, and re-ceived an academic citation for his work in Chinese history.

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TOM HARRIMAN sent in a green card with some bad news. “Earlier in the year the hospital, largest health center between the two biggest cities on the Califor-nia coast, was forced to abandon our outpatient clinic for evaluating and treating mild cognitive impairment. Primary care physicians and neurologists simply refuse to pre-scribe professional treatment, because all we do is ‘reduction of risk factor’, not cure. Next phase is the BRAIN Initiative at UC Santa Barbara, collaborating with MIT.”

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ANN ALENE J. DUNN, wife of THEODORE A. DUNN, wrote a green card addressed to “Dear Dartmouth Class Mates” and saying, “I’m sorry to tell you that Theodore A. Dunn passed away November 28, 2012. I miss him very much as do his 22 grandchildren and 42 great grandchildren. This is the 5th notice of his death to Dartmouth, including a death certificate. He loved his time there and keeping in touch

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with his friends. We attended the 50th reunion. Tell his friends in your magazine. Thank you. I miss him terribly.” If anyone wants to get in touch with Ann her address is 987 East 5400 South, Ogden, Utah 84405. Her telephone number is 801-479-8426.

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Thanks to all of you who have returned the survey. So far I have received 14 from classmates and 7 from widows. The classmates who have answered to date are LEO CAPRONI, WILLIAM S. CLARK, CHARLES DELL, IRENEE DU PONT, ROBERT LEE GALE, CHARLES F. HERBERGER, MURRAY J. LATZ, E. WAYNE MARTZ, JON MENDES, GORDON NEWELL, EDWARD J. RASMUS-SEN, BILL UPTEGROVE, JOHN D. WRIGHT, JR. and HUNTLY ALLISON.

Below are a compilation of the answers to the first three questions:

What is your favorite memory of President Hopkins?

• Meeting Hopy—First time as arriving freshman—very impressed.

• When I matriculated at Dartmouth in the Fall of 1938 I recall that President Hop-kins met personally with every member of the Freshman Class. This always en-deared his memory to me.

• His pleasant nature. All of the students liked him.

• He is said to have been connected with Hood’s Ice Cream, which all of us enjoyed. He had a comely daughter, who was Winter Carnival Queen before our class ma-triculated.

• My favorite memory of President Hopkins was being invited to his mansion dur-ing what I think was our sophomore year. At least it resembled a sedately, darkly furnished mansion to my innocent, timid eyes. I remember listening but hardly speaking when he addressed all of us and then some of us individually. I recall nothing of what he ever said—then or later, sadly.

• I read that there were some influential people who spoke of him as a possible choice as a presidential candidate.”

• At our first reunion, we were walking across campus, feeling no pain, and who was coming right at us. None other than President Hopkins. As he was about to pass, I said Hello “first name” which I now do not remember. Such audacity!

• None. I never spoke with him, and not sure I ever even saw him, but probably did at some public speaking event.

• None. He publicly stated that Dartmouth College was a school for Christian Gen-tlemen. We had a 5% Jewish quota.

• He was one of the few people who would bother to attend a Dartmouth track meet.

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• His handing out ‘42’s diplomas. ̀

What would you say is the most important factor for achieving a long life?

• Maintaining good health and being physically active. HAVE GOOD DOCTORS AND GOOD GENES.

• Other than inheriting the good genes necessary to lead a long life, I would say that the most important factors are eating and drinking moderately, not smoking, keeping busy and having a variety of interests.

• Strong exercises first thing in the morning. Very seldom miss these.

• Marrying the right girl.

• My lasting well into age 94 is owing not to one important factor but to 5 factors. (1) I had rugged Middlewestern parents who both lived into their 90’s; so I have good genes in some respects. (2) I grew up in a splendid state to grow up in, namely, Iowa, where I went to good schools, and played golf, tennis, softball and chess with my older brother (only sibling) and swam, fenced and built igloos. (3) I relished a solid education at Dartmouth, in its healthy New England setting. (4) I was tough-ened by service in the U.S. Army Air Corps here and abroad for 42 months. And (5) , the most important factor, I was married just a few weeks short of 63 years, won-drously fortunately, to my Irish-born wife, with devoted love and a sparkling sense of humor; we had, and I now have, 3 surprisingly bright and varyingly successful children.

• If one establishes good habits rather than bad habits, they will last for a lifetime, and the lifetime will be longer!

• I would say luck, other than that, sensible diet, exercise, sleep, no smoking, (I stopped in May,1940) and not too much alcohol.

• Moderation—stop eating before full. Good habits in things like diet and exercise. Seldom ate bread or bread product. After age 45 had a small amount of beverage alcohol most days.

• Genes—parent lived to 90 and 93. I gave up smoking at 46 and starting run-ning and I have never stopped. I have completed 12 New York marathons and 2 U.S.M.C. marathons, and every morning I still walk for 45 minutes before break-fast.

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• Picking the right parents and marrying the right gal. “Stay loose” International survey of centenarians looking for common traits, found only one: the ability to handle stress. But it would also seem vital to stay off one’s butt, to be mentally and physically self-challenging, to always have a list of projects. A little common sense—diet, exercise, moderate alcohol consumption. Avoid negativism—be posi-tive!! Do not smoke!! Project against ultraviolet—sun.

• A happy family,.

• Staying married for 60 years.

• Luck.

What is your favorite Winter Carnival Memory?

• 1st Winter Carnival. Skiing on Freshman Ski Squad!!

• Probably the sight of the Eleazer Wheelock ice sculpture which I believe was erected in 1938 my Freshman year.

• The great events. Often delightful weather.

• Wheelock’s ice sculpture.

• Cutting most classes for most of a week, and waiting on tables at the Hanover Inn during the February 1939 Winter Carnival, and pouring water for F. Scott Fitzger-ald, about whom I knew zero at the time.

• I was one of many volunteers from the Dartmouth Outing Club that worked upon the Eleazer Wheelock snow sculpture for the Carnival of winter 1939. Enclosed is a photo of me working on it. But my part was a very small bit! (Ed. Note: Unfortu-nately the photo did come in well enough to reproduce.)

• The Bonfires.

• Watching ski jumping and other competition.

• Crashing into the woods on the downhill course and walking out with a broken ski with my Carnival date, Tina, standing by the trail.

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The 7 widows who sent in answers to the survey were ELLEN (ALFRED G.) BURR, EDITH C. (EDWIN) HAWKRIDGE, VIRGINIA (RICHARD) NEHRING, JANE (WILLIAM) PARMER, Grace “Mimsey” Peterson Potts, daughter of MIM-SEY (HAROLD PETE PETERSON) OLMSTED PETERSON POTTS, SALLY (HERSHEL DANIEL) RIX, JOAN (HUGO) PARR SCHNABEL. Most of them didn’t answer all the questions, but just those they felt appropriate. Some just sent in a story of how they met and what their life was like together. Those stories will appear in the next newsletter. Understandably, none of them answered the question about President Hopkins. There were 3 answers to the question of longevity. One said “Heredity. Good marriage. Intellectual curiosity”. Another said, “dealing with one’s condition—mental and physical with humor”, and the third one said, “Stay active, have fun, love one another and eat a healthy diet including lots of water”. There are 7 more questions on the survey and the answers to those will appear in the next few newsletters.

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Below is a sonnet by Chuck Herberger. It is about his conviction that what has been attributed to Shakespeare was really written by Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford.FOR EDWARD DE VERE SEVENTEENTH EARL OF OXFORD

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Never was such injustice done name,

Nor such a dubious cloud obscured a star

Or such a mockery done deserved fame,

The world long blind to who you really are.

Arise Great Oxford, let the world see

Who immortal Shakespeare really was,

Through lingered long to be or not to be.

Now time at last has recognized your cause.

Many long have doubted Stratford’s claim,

A man so far unfitted to the part,

So much unlived experience to explain

For such a man to reach the peak of art.

No man was ever born to shake a spear

More to the manner born than was De Vere.

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JANE PARMER sent copies of the obituary of WILLIAM (BILL) PARMER, who died on January 27, 2014 with her survey. Sadly she wrote: “We also lost a son Tom (brain tumor) age 56 who died on February 21, 2014. Our family has been through a lot these last 3 months. Bill ’42 loved Dartmouth! One of our students here at high school graduated from “D” and is now a professor at Yale in the medi-cal field. Dear Old Dartmouth!” Jane included her phone number (201-568-3009) and her Fax number (201-569-1510). I’m sure she would welcome hearing from some of their many friends in the class.

WILLIAM WALTER ‘BILL’ PARMER passed away on January 27, 2014. He was married to JANE PARMER for 70 years. Bill was born in Philadelphia and in 1938 graduated from Belleville High School. At Dartmouth Bill played basketball, was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, the Dragon Senior Honorary Society and the Green Key Junior Honor Society. Later he became President and member of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey. He completed his master’s degree from Columbia University in 1950. Bill was a WW II U.S. Army Air Corps veteran serv-ing from 1942 to 1946. After the war he was employed as a teacher, coach and Assistant Superintendent of Schools in the Tenafly Public School system and retired in 1985. As an administrator he served as Director of Personnel, Director of Adult Education, first President of the Bergen County Council for Adult and Continuing Education, and as an Emeritus member of the American Association of School Ad-ministrators. As a longtime resident of Tenafly, NJ he was a founder and commis-sioner of the Tenafly Rotary Babe Ruth League, co-founder and first President of the Tenafly orchestra; co-founder of the Bergen Chorale and was active in fund raising for the Public Library and Green Acres Land Preservation in the 60’s and 70’s. Bill was a lifetime member of the Tenafly Nature Center and was the initial original advocate for the town’s lighted outdoor basketball courts and helped establish the Tenafly Recreation Commission. Bill served as a member of the Kiwanis Club and also a Master Mason since 1947. He was a dedicated member for 60 years of the Presbyterian Church at Tenafly and served as an elder.

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ART HENDERSON’S daughter sent in a green card saying: “My father, AR-THUR T. HENDERSON, Class of ’42 passed away on May 15. He had resided at Royal Megansett Nursing Home for the past five and a half years. He was one mile from my home. He loved Dartmouth. He attended many of the football games and reunions. Both his father and my husband, Theodore F. Amaral ’66 were gradu-ates.”

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GEORGE L. RUSHTON died April 10, 2014 in Tulsa. When he was little his father bought a creamery, thus his life-long love for ice cream! George majored in chemistry at Dartmouth, then went to the USMC Radar School and was shipped to the Marshall Islands, Eniwetok and Kwajalein, and returned to CA for infantry in-vasion training. After the war George earned an MS in chemistry and moved many times, eventually retiring in Tulsa. He puttered around his garden, read voraciously, played bridge with Widowed Persons Service and played cribbage with the grand-kids. His 2008 family cruise to Alaska let him visit the last of all 50 states.

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RICHARD HENRY CARDOZO, formerly of Hanover and Canaan, NH died in Sarasota on April 29, 2014 after a brief period of declining health. After graduat-ing from Dartmouth, he served as an officer in the US Navy until 1946. He returned to Dartmouth to attend medical school and then transferred to Cornell where he received his MD in 1950. Following his internship and residency, he was appointed Vice Chairman of Surgery at the VA hospital in White River Junction, as well as Assistant Professor at Dartmouth Medical School. In 1960 he was appointed to the staff of the Hitchcock Clinic and Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, where he performed cardio-thoracic surgery until his retirement in 1985. In addition, he was elected as President and Board Chairman of the Hitchcock Clinic in 1974 and served in that position until 1983. After his retirement he served as president of the NH Orchid Society. In 2000 he moved to Sarasota where he was a volunteer in the orchid greenhouse at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. He was an avid supporter of the arts and attended many performances of the Sarasota Opera, Symphony Or-chestra and the Asolo Theater.

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ED STAFFORD passed away on September 24, 2013. He was born in Port-land Maine. He was the son of Wendell Phillips Stafford a sitting justice on the Dis-trict of Columbia Supreme Court and Marie Peary Stafford, daughter of Robert E. Peary, USN, arctic explorer and discoverer of the North Pole. Ed spent the summers of his adolescence at the Admiral’s summer home on Eagle Island in Casco Bay. Ed’s matriculation at Dartmouth was interrupted by the advent of World War II. Having been commissioned an Ensign in the Naval Reserve in September 1941, he was called immediately to active duty, serving initially as Commanding Officer of the submarine chaser USS SC 692, performing convoy escort in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as participating in the invasion of Sicily. May of 1944 he was assigned to the Pacific Theater, as Executive Officer of the destroyer escort USS Ambercrombie, where he was a participant in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval engagement in history. Having earned seven battle stars by the end of the war, Ed returned to Dartmouth, completing his B.A. in English and American Literature, Cum Laude.

Returning to active duty, Ed transitioned to Naval Aviation, where he served as both pilot and operations officer for hurricane hunter and airborne early warning squadrons. During this time he also completed his MA in English and American Literature from George Washington University and in 1958 was a successful contes-tant on the $64,000 Question quiz program. Following tours as the Naval Liaison Officer to the U.S. Senate and Naval Representative at contractor at Thiokol Chemi-cal Corporation, he retired as a commander in 1962. Later that year he published his first book, “The Big E”, a WWII carrier history. He was recalled to duty in the Vietnam War to serve as Naval Historian for the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet from 1966-1969. He published his second book in 1968 “The Far and the Deep”, a submarine epic.

After he left the navy he served a speechwriter for the Secretary of the Navy, then the Bicentennial Administrator and then the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He wrote two more books, “Little Ship, Big War”, and “Subchaser”.

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RICHARD D. HIGGINS died on November 22, 2013. He was born in Elmi-ra, NY. He played varsity football at Highland Park High School in Montclair, NJ where he was captain of the swimming team, and gave the commencement address at graduation. At Dartmouth he played junior varsity football, was president of Phi

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Kappa Psi fraternity, vice president of interfraternity council and graduated with distinction with the Class of 1942. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1941-1946 as a flight instructor and fighter pilot. After the war he worked for Bell and Howell for 38 years, retiring as Vice President, International Group. He lived in California from 1986 to 2005, where he was President of the Pacific Foundation for Cardiovas-cular Research, before returning to the Chicago area.

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The College as notified us of the deaths of RICHARD HENRY CARDO-ZO, M.D., BRADLEY CLAYTON BOWMAN, WILLIAM HARRIS BURKE, M.D., JOHN DWIGHT BREWER, THEODORE ARTHUR DUNN, RICHARD DAGHISTAN HIGGINS, WILLIAM WALTER PARMER, EDWARD PEARY STAFFORD, EDWARD JEPPE RASMUSSEN, ROBERT KAULBACH TEMPLE, GEORGE LORD RUSHTON and ROLAND SMITH TREMBLE,. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to their friends and family.

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