1922
Two General Electric lads have corresponded with your secretary recently. Jerry Bates of Pittsfield says hello and is wondering when he can get back into the plant. He has seen Judge Hanlon and Frank Dow and hopes that a forthcoming Berkshire County Dartmouth get-together will corral some more of the boys.
Stewie Stearns from Schenectady writes that he has been with G.E. continuously since 1926, and from '34 has been in the treasury department, working principally- in connection with the securities owned by the company. The town is only four hours easy drive from Hanover and the Stearns family know the road by heart. They have two children, Stewie Jr., 14, who hopes to enter in the class of 1953, and Susan, aged 6. In his declining years, Stew has taken up tennis, which helps to keep him in condition for winter badminton, which conditions him for tennis, which etc. His letter was swell and he offered his time and energy for whatever class job might be assigned to him.
Stan Miner has been in Hanover getting squared away for the Alumni Fund drive and saw Red Boyd and Dick Willis. During a dinner with Sterry Waterman he was primed onflood control projects up Vermont way.
Len Bernheim is. treasurer of S. E. Rains Co., 185 Madison Ave., New York City, manufacturer of handkerchiefs, and is married to Grace Bangs of the New York Herald Tribune staff. Len doesn't tell me when this event occurred but most hearty congratulations to you both.
In an adjoining column in the next issue of the MAGAZINE you will read of the award of the Legion of Merit to Will Nicholson. Nick did a superb job during the war, and the College and 1922 are proud of him.
Gladys and Bunny Bunnell have settled down at 618 Palisades Drive, Akron, Ohio, but he's now with Goodrich Rubber instead of Goodyear.
Lawrence F. (Larry) Barnett checks in from 778 Vernon Ave., Glencoe, 111. He's a patent lawyer with offices at 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago. His daughter is a Rockford College junior, one son a Dartmouth freshman and another boy in the Navy.
Syl Bingham has been made an associate professor and head of the English Department at the University of New Hampshire. Congratulations! His son Bill is in his first year at Exeter.
Notes from Carter Hoyt and Ozzie Siegfried have added to the pleasure of your scribe's correspondence course Bob Hight, Gertrude and Red Boyd, and Dick and Mrs. Willis have all been recent guests of the Hanover Inn.
Andy Heath has been appointed state publicity director by the New Hampshire Planning and Development Commission. Congratulations!
Ray Atwood reports that he's enjoying his work with Tom Cleveland '21, prominent Newton Center (Mass.), realtor. Doris and the two girls Gail, 8 and Judy 6, are ardent winter sportsters and have had plenty of skating, etc., at Brae Burn. The picture Ray enclosed shows his two very attractive young ladies outfitted for real winter sport.
Dick Beyer, pastor of the First Congregational Church, Springfield, Vt., checks in with, "Am enjoying life and work in this little Vermont town very much. Returning to Vermont after nearly fourteen years in New Hampshire, I can appreciate how our friend Robert Frost feels when he says he never could make up his mind whether he belonged to New Hampshire or Vermont. A considerable nest of very much alive Dartmouth men headed by Ray Adams '19 is one of the joys of this place. Our family: a boy, Dick, navigator in Air Corps in Italy has begun his college course at N. H. State U.: daughter Beverly graduates from high school this spring; Dave emulates George Gershwin."
The annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association took place February 27. Several hundred were present and heard President Dickey deliver an excellent speech. Gray Bates, '22's active worker and reporter of local Twoter affairs says:
At our cocktail party we had present, besides the writer, Bill Bullen, Ted Dyer, Phil Threshie and Phil Threshie Jr., who is a student at Yale (Phil is compensating for this by planning to send his younger son to Dartmouth), Carter Hoyt, Bud Winkler, Arv Gunnison, Larry Farnham, Ray Atwood, Carroll Dwight, Len Morrissey, Roy Hill, Ed Porter, Ed Lane, ijal Green, Dick Litchfield, Fran Leland, Dave Caldwell and Doc Hallett. We assembled at 5 o'clock and had a room to ourselves, in which we had the usual milling around and an enjoyable time was had by all.
Olie Olsen was down to the dinner and if we had known or thought he was coming, we would have most cordially invited him to the party, but it didn't occur to us that he would. Ed MacLaine was at the dinner and '22 had a good delegation on the Barbary Coast Orchestra with Dick Willis at the piano and Bob Hight with a mandolin-guitar almost as big as he is.
News from the front: Ted Dyer has just recently recovered from a major operation at the Lahey Clinic. He was in grand spirits and looked better than he has for a long time. Dick Bowler had planned to come until about a week before the party as he is feeling a little better, but I am sure, that due to bad weather and all, it was best for him not to come. Misty Fogg planned to come, but a last minute social engagement interfered.
Carter Hoyt reported bedroom suites at a premium and is tremendously worried about what the 1946 newlyweds will do for a substitute. Ed Lane and Fran Leland both reported that their sons have been unsuccessful in being accepted at Dartmouth and are naturally disappointed. Ed's son is going to Lafayette. Both took it in good spirits and understood what the College is facing in enrollment problems.
Good fellowship and beer flowed freely after an excellent dinner. John Dickey gave a tremendously fine speech, details of which you will probably get in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
I guess that is all I can remember, but summing it all up, we had a darn good evening.
Secretary, 1837 Arlington St., Bethlehem, Pa.
Treasurer, 143 East Ave., Norwalk, Conn.
