Following up on the 1956 Dartmouth-produced video shared here a couple of days ago is another, this one from 1950 and featuring future Saturday Night Live legend Buck Henry '52 in the role of fictional freshman Peter:
It's fun to watch for the campus scenes you'll recognize and those you won't, for a quick glimpse at downtown Hanover and a look at the late, lamented Hanover Country Club.
For the uninitiated, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine had a story in 1987 about the star of the video, who was responsible for this memorable scene in the film The Graduate.
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EXTRA POINT
When I worked at the local newspaper we had a news writer who was always cheery, to a fault.
I have a clear memory years ago of him wishing me 'Happy Memorial Day" and not really knowing how to respond.
I posted this on Memorial Day last year and in case you weren't wasting time on this site back then, here it is again. Think about this next fall, whether you are on the field or in the grandstand at Memorial Field:
If that's hard to read, here is what it says:
A Tribute
From the forty seven surviving
Dartmouth veterans of
the Civil War 1861-65
to the
third four hundred and seven
men of Dartmouth who entered
their country’s service in
the Great War 1914-1918
November
1923
