1925

As I said last month, while the 25'er is doing such a good job, I am not going to compete, thus saving time and temper on the part of the brethren who otherwise would be bombarded on two sides for news.

Here are a couple of items of considerable interest, though.

Jack Davis was wed on April 3 at Christ Church in New York to Miss Elbra Ann Pulver, daughter of Mrs. Florence Walton Pulver. After a honeymoon in California they set up housekeeping at 320 Park Avenue, New York City.

George Amidon has been named Deputy State Treasurer for the State of Vermont. When a bunch of Vermonters put a man into the state treasurer's office, it is a sure sign that he is as stable and reliable as the top of Mount Washington.

LLEWELLYN P. WHITE

Here's another thumb nail biography. This time it's Lin White.

Lin White lives in Marblehead, Mass. If you're not a New Englander, this statement does not mean a thing to you. But Marblehead is the neatest, tightest town in New England. After a man has lived there for forty years he is still a foreigner. Marblehead is divided into two sections, Marblehead proper and Marblehead Neck. The residents of the Neck constitute an inner circle of dignified decorum that a two ton block buster could not jar.

Lin, he lives out on the Neck.

Freshman year at Dartmouth, Lin was living with Lou Kimball. They matched to see who would do the studying. Kimball lost and Whitey enjoyed life. Lin wanted to major in Eccy, but could not do so, since he failed to fathom the mysteries of Eccy 1.

Accordingly he took a bit of Math, Managerial Competition, skiing and week-ending.

Upon getting his diploma he went down to Kent's Hill where he was vice-principal. He taught Algebra, Geometry, Trig and solid, keeping one day ahead of the class in Solid, since he had never been exposed to it.

Finding twenty-four hour a day duty at a boarding school a bit confining, he went to Boston and began to teach at Bryant and Stratton. From that point he progressed slowly but steadily, like the boy in a Horation Alger story. One morning he woke up and found himself vice-president of Bryant and Stratton.

During this period he had also crammed in much down hill racing, a lot of sailing in the summer time and had raised the funds for the new Kappa Sig house.

In 1938 he yielded to the inevitable and found himself in the presence of a minister and a most attractive female. Marriage definitely changed Lin's tempo of life. The down hill ski racing became mild ski weekends and the sailing became a three weeks' vacation up the Maine Coast in his 52-foot sloop, which the Coast Guard is now using.

In addition to a home, a wife, two children and Bryant and Stratton, Lin's other activities include Greater Boston Class Agent for the Alumni Fund, SecretaryTreasurer of Bryant and Stratton, President of the Massachusetts Association of Business and Secretarial Schools and a host of other activities running from duty at the Air Raid warning Center to Chairman of the Rat Suppression Committee for Marblehead Neck.

When the evening commuting train puffs into the Marblehead station, a group of bundle carrying ultra-conservative Boston business men drop off, just as they have for nearly one hundred years. Foremost among the conservative bundle carriers is Lin White, the perfect type successful executive in severe dark coat and more severe hat.

You see him treading firmly down the street and you slide your car up beside him and yell "Whitey!"

Whitey whirles and notes that the yell came from a '25er. The Boston businessman mask drops. He yells back, to the consternation of householders up and down the street. He and his bundles climb into the car and as you wheel him home, you hear the droll dry wisecracks that have made Lin White so well known and well liked wherever Dartmouth men run skis or sail boats or raise their glasses in fellowship.

As the years roll by, the Boston executive, Llewellyn P. White, will take on more and more responsibilities and he will acquit himself well indeed. But Lin White, he of the flashing skis and quick wisecracks, will change not at all.

PAUL JERMAN '25 Doing construction work for the govern-ment "somewhere in Africa."

Secretary,: Center Ossipee, N. H. Class Agent, 820 Graybar Bldg., New York City