1933
An article appeared in the Daily Dartmouth one day last week, under a picture of FordSayre, announcing that skiing instruction, under the auspices of. the Sayre Memorial Fund, would be given, beginning this week, to children of Hanover, Norwich, and Etna. Many members of the class know about this project, but for those who do not and who might be interested in helping along one of the most appropriate memorials we know of, we would like to sketch in the background.
One of Ford's and Peggy's many interests and activities during their busy years managing the Inn before the war was collecting and distributing secondhand ski equipment to underprivileged children in this area who would not otherwise be able to engage in this popular sport. During the winter months they gave many hours of their time weekends and afternoons teaching the kids to ski. When Ford lost his life in July, 1944, friends suggested that instead of floral tributes money be given to start the Sayre Memorial Fund, which would carry on this work which had meant so much to Ford. Mart Remsen '14, of Etna, was appointed treasurer, and Peggy undertook to direct the project.
This is the third year since Ford's death that the provision of equipment and skiing instruction has been carried on. Most of the original funds have been spent, but interested friends and supporters are continuing to give money and discarded skis, boots, poles, and other equipment to help carry on the good work Ford and Peggy started before the war. If you're interested, send your gift of money or equipment to Martin J. Remsen, Etna, N. H.
Our '33 mail has definitely been on the light side this past month, but we've managed to glean a few items of interest. For example, thanks to Bob Monahan '29, Ted's brother, we received an AP dispatch that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on January 2, which some of you may have seen in your local papers, but which the Hanover Gazette and Claremont Eagle did not run for our benefit, about Eel Janjigian. You will recall our story a couple of months ago telling you that Ed, a practising psychiatrist in a small mid-western town, Edinburg, Indiana, had found time to write a novel, Doctor Destiny, based upon his experiences in medicine. Ed made the AP wires hum this time by changing his mind about leaving his practice in a small town to take a bigger and better paying job. Here's the AP story, in part:
A doctor in this town of 2500 persons kept receiving telephone calls all day today from people who just wanted to tell him how grateful they were for a decision he had made. They told him that without his decision it would have been impossible for them to look forward to a happy New Year. You see, this 37 year old physician, Dr. Edward R. Janjigian, closed his office yesterday and headed east by car with his wife and family to take a job paying three times as much as his practise here. He was to work for the State of Pennsylvania as chief psychiatrist for the regional office of Wilkes-Barre. As he drove, Dr. Janjigian kept thinking of a dance he attended in Edinburg last Saturday night. "Everybody at the dance looked at me as if I'd come out of Sing Sing," he recalled, "They looked hopeless, forlorn, as if they'd lost their last friend." Dr. Janjigian turned the car around and headed back to Edinburg.
There Ed will continue his practice in a small town that, had he left, would have been entirely dependent upon one elderly doctor for medical care. Ed was in the service during the war, entering the Army in 1940, serving three years at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and afterwards with the Seventyfirst Infantry Division in France, Germany and Austria.
A New Year greeting from Mannie Sprague brought the news that had somehow slipped through our news net last fall that he had been elected as representative from his district to the Connecticut State Legislature. Manny wrote:
I plunged into the pool of political waters last fall. Thus far they have not proved to be as black or as muddy at the bottom as many of your brethren in the field of sociology would have us believe. Possibly this is due to the fact that in my case I was not only elected on the Republican ticket, but led the parade in the Town of New Canaan. I attribute my success to my previous absence from politics as the result of which I had no political enemies and to a campaign pledge assiduously carried out to kiss all babies (old enough to vote).
We take due note of Mannie's qualifying words "thus far" in respect to his and "our" brethren's views of the political waters and will take the matter up with him again later, but, of course, as he implies, Republican waters, after such a long drought, may be much purer, more uplifting, not to say heady to the spirits of men. Then too, New Canaan Republican waters, it seems likely, might well have a very special quality, like Poland Springs, or Saratoga, or Vichy.
Recent dispatches have advised us that FredFrank is a writer with Paramont Pictures in Hollywood; Jack Smart is teaching at the Redding Ridge School in Connecticut; Dave Hatch is teaching Sociology at the University of Kentucky; and Don Brockell is a commercial artist, living in Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
Secretary, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.
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