1929

This will have to be written in a hurry because it is about a week late....just poor organization I guess.

Here is a good letter from Johnny Clements, 164 W. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago 4, Illinois, December 20, 1946: "There has been no change in my family status or business affiliation for more than ten years. Still married to Mildred, my Carnival date, and have two sons who are ambitious to triumph over the rigid standards and Class prejudice of that Thirtyteer who sits in judgment as Director of Admissions. Bob is 14 and David 11. After seven teen years with Marsh & McLennan (insurance in all its branches—and the best) I have probably reached the stage where I can say that insurance is not simply my present work but my career. I seldom see any of our classmates but manage to keep pretty well posted by reading your good column in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE regularly and enthusiastically. Blyth Adams drove in from San Francisco last month to do some groundwork for his new venture in the export business. This is a natural consequence of his year in Argentina with the Treasury Department. Inverting a familiar epigram, Blyth says he is waiting for his ship to go out. About a month ago I saw Herb Wollison on the "5:15" sporting a pair of crutches. By the time I discovered him I had already reached my stop so I still don't know whether he had had an accident or was in disguise. Perhaps you can discover the details through your column. Bob Drake is still protecting the workers' rights with the Labor Board and recently took me to lunch with John LafEey who has moved to La Grand, Illinois as already reported in your class notes."

A Christmas card from Brussels brought this good report from Bill and Joan McCaw: "The McCaws have enjoyed the past year in Brussels where I have been busily engaged in work on German reparations. As the Deputy Secretary General of the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency I am responsible for recommending—which in practice means deciding—what factories, ships, and other German assets should be given to the eighteen governments which are members of the Agency. While the work of organizing the Agency and getting it going has been arduous we still have had ample opportunity to enjoy life here and in France, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. How about knocking off work for a while and paying us a visit some day? Europe needs American dollars!"

Among the good new year announcements was the engraved notice that Tom Stokes has become a member of the New York law firm of Battle, Levy, Fowler and Neaman, go Broad St.

Sherm Little writing from 4 Soldiers Place, Buffalo 9, N. Y.: "As you can see from my letterhead I have moved. Came to Buffalo on July 1 to be Director of the Guidance Clinic of the Children's Hospital of Buffalo and to be Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Buffalo Medical School. I am responsible for running the Guidance Clinic which is a regular child guidance clinic with a psychologist, psychiatric social worker and a psychiatrist (me) as well as teaching something to medical students and pediatricians in training which I hope will be helpful to them and their patients (this sentence is getting longer and more involved by the minute) when they get into practice. The general idea is on the one hand that a pediatrician will encounter a lot of 'behavior problems' in their incipiency and if he knows what to do he can prevent further trouble; on the other hand, and this seems true to me altho it may not to others, if a lot of problems are nipped in the bud and the family atmosphere is not befogged by problems which eventually get parents and children to tearing out each other's hair that a lot of children may grow up happier and better adjusted and perhaps a certain amount of 'mental disease' can be avoided. That's the kind of stuff we're shooting at anyway.

"My family has not changed since November 25, 1945 when Ben Little was added. He's a pretty good specimen now of a little over a year. If it weren't for his allergies to cow's milk and a few other things which for some reason wake him up with some regularity at about 4 A.M. We would be sure we would keep him. Because of this nice trick we have debated trading him in for a model which goes thru the night without a peep. I was sorry to miss the reunion. It came right after we moved up here and a couple days after we got moved into our house, so it seemed like too much of a good thing. A 1 and Mildred Cooley took us out for a swell evening not long ago. Sam Magovern '28 was our lawyer in getting our house bought and Dick Burlingame '26 lives in the apartment house next door so we feel not too far removed from Hanover. As a matter of fact on the strength of Buffalo's reputation I bought my son (Charles—age 6½) and myself skiis. The harnesses were 'Dartmouth' which I think has some connection with Charles Dudley. I have not mentioned my middle child 'Patty' actually Martha after her mother. She is 4½ and spends her time drawing pictures which we think (being fond parents) have signs of early talent."

Bill Dodge reports all is well with the Dodge family (4 children) up there in Hampstead, Quebec.

Bob Lyle is still on the staff of the Navy Intelligence School in Washington, but is looking forward to a transfer to sea duty shortly.

Heinie Richardson from up there in Wilder, Vermont: "I've seen Karl Michael a few times and had a chance to say 'Hi, John' to John Dickey now and then. My annual Christmas letter from Brett Sine in Calgary had little news. They seem to have about the same postwar problems there as .we have here. I'm not even short of teachers, but Oh! come Spring!"

Elmer Fricek has a new daughter Ellen Jean born July 31, 1946.

Dick Exton who is gratefully commended as one of our best reporters sent the following piece along just about Christmas time: "Still a 'Damnyankee' in this Rebel stronghold, [ed. Atlanta, Ga.] but am managing to keep afloat in spite of Gene Talmadge, the Ku Klux Klan, the Columbians, the County Unit System and our other local blessings (?). However, hope for eventual enlightenment to sweep the Southland and eliminate these medieval tendencies. Have resigned my connection with retailing men's wear and am currently dispensing men's clothing, when available, for Dawson Paxon here, the local and regional representa- tive of the Macy chain of department stores. Hope some day to get my own little Men's Shoppe, when business conditions appear advantageous and the right location becomes available. Regretted missing our belated 15th, but continue my Dartmouth contacts through the medium of the Dartmouth Club of Georgia, a really good bunch. Almost an oasis in a desert of White supremacy thinking. Saw Austin Starrett '29 at the Biltmore Hotel here when we celebrated Dartmouth Night. He looks and is fine, a proud papa of two and a full Professor, no less, of Math at Georgia Tech, the local seat of culture. Am still active in veterans' affairs, and am now Senior Vice Commander of Greater Atlanta Post No. 390 of the VFW as well as Committee Vice Chairman . for several American Legion groups. Mrs. Exton has learned all about Dartmouth, is in splendid health and as I do, sends regard to you and the Class."

fust received in this morning's mail from Wat Spangler: "All is well in this part of the country [ed. Pittsburgh, Pa.] but unfortunately I have little to report about Dartmouth activities. We are looking forward to having John here on the 23rd for our annual meeting. I was sorry that I missed reunion last summer, but I was on a new job and had no vacation coming to me. All reports indicate that it was a great success. After being released from the Navy in December 1945 I returned to the old home town and started to work for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. as cost accountant. It has gone along well, and barring strikes, etc. it will probably continue so. Saw Ed Chinlund and Sawyer Kier at a Dartmouth Night dinner last fall, and still contact Dick Brown and Wilbur Flannery by correspondence."

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