1926
As these notes are being compiled, word has just come that the red and blue of Pennsylvania prevailed over the Big Green in the football opener. No doubt '26 was well represented in the stands but no reports from our spies were available for inclusion this month. Last month we noted that Lt. Col. RobertH. (Bob) Lowe had been named commander of the 19th General Hospital, Organized Reserve Corps, Rochester, N. Y. on August 16, 1948. Apparently the year 1948 is Bob's year because on September 30, 1948, the board of directors of Rochester General Hospital an- nounced Bob's appointment to the post of hospital director. Bob has served as assistant medical director under Dr. Frank C. Sutton since March 1947 and succeeds him in the director's post, Dr. Sutton having resigned. Since leaving Hanover in 1926 for Akron, Ohio and a job in the rubber industry, Bob has covered a lot of ground. He returned to Ver- mont in 1933 and obtained his B.S. and Medi- cal degrees from the University of Vermont in 1938. From July of that year until 1940, when he entered the service, he was a mem- ber of the staff of Morrisania City Hospital in New York and was enrolled at Columbia University for his master's degree in hospital administration. He was awarded the latter diploma in 1947- During his Army career, Bob was attached to the 127 th and 69th Station Hospitals in the European Theater for two years and later became surgeon of the Calais Staging Area. His decorations include the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one Battli Star, the American Campaign Medal, the Defense Service Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. He was discharged from the service in 1946 and now lives with his wife at 328 Falstaff Rd., Roch- ester 9, N. Y. Luck to you, Bob, in the new post!
Congraulations are also in order for TomColt! Tom has accepted election as Director of the Portland, Ore., Art Museum and his new duties began last month when he took over direction of one of the largest and most progressive museums of the entire country. Tom has resigned as Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts where, many of you will recall, he built a noteworthy institution literally from the ground up, having been the first director in the handsome new building in Richmond. At one time, Tom was the young- est Dartmouth alumnus listed in "Who's Who in America" and it is obvious his pace has not slackened. Belle Colt and the three children have taken up residence in Canaan Street, N. H., fifteen miles south of Hanover, where the two boys, Tom Jr., and Jon, are enrolled in Cardigan Mountain School of which SidHayward is a Trustee. The family will remain east until such time as Tom locates a home and gets settled in Portland. Dartmouth on the west coast has a strong, new recruit and the best wishes of all of us go to the Colts in their busy year ahead.
The Princeton Alumni Weekly of Septem- ber 17, 1948 carried a picture of HowardCrosby (Howie) Rice Jr. and the announce- ment that he has been appointed director of the newly-created Department o£ Special Col- lections in the Princeton University Library. For the past two years, Howie has been head o£ the U. S. Information Library in Paris. After graduating from Dartmouth, Harvard Grad- uate School and the Universities of Grenoble and Paris, he taught at schools and colleges in this country and abroad, including Loomis School, Seine-et-Oise, France, Ilfeld, Germany, the Sorbonne, Phillips Andover Academy, Co- lumbia and Harvard. In World War II he was associated with the Office of War Information in New York, London and Paris, and the Psychological Warfare Division of the U. S. Army in France. He has written extensively, particularly in the Franco-American field and, as a representative in France for The Papersof Thomas Jefferson, he has made significant contributions to the vast project under way at Princeton under the direction of Julian P. Boyd. Howie will assume his new duties with the opening of the new Firestone Memorial Library and will have general supervision over Princeton's many collections of rare books, manuscripts and memorabilia, some of which have their own curators, and will engage in strengthening the library's resources in this field. Again, congratulations and good luck!
In Brooklyn, Steve H? (Steve) Millard has been appointed business manager of Pratt Institute. Before going to Pratt in 1934, Steve was associated with International Banking Corp. and later with the National City Bank of New York. He has served successively as cashier and bursar at Pratt and held the latter position at the time of his new appointment. Steve is a member of the National Education Association of the U. S. and the Silver Bay Association. Best of luck and congratulations, Steve!
(Note: if the "granite of New Hampshire is to keep the record of the fame of this class we shall appreciate some geological reassur- ance of the availability thereof before we give ear to any "gray market" proposals from Ver- mont.)
Here and There Department: On a recent one day jaunt to New York we saw Allen (Mac)MacDuffie, learned that he and wife Vi are in excellent health and somewhat excited about their daughter's going away to school this fall. This will acknowledge publicly our promise to buy him a lunch next time in exchange for the use of his office and telephone. Warnerand Helen Thompson and daughters were guests at the Hanover Inn this summer! Why not attend the class get-together, Tommy? Saw Carle Blunt between planes at the Buffalo airport on September 30 and managed a drink before he had to fly home to Betsy. Please stay longer next time, Carle, and bring Betsy with you!
Roger S. Brown, manager of Moosilauke Ravine Camp of the D.O.C. has informed this department in writing that John W. Roberts, and wife Dorothea, spent two days at the camp during August, during which time they climbed to the summit of the mountain! At Jack's age, Dot, you permit this, or is he heavily insured?
Your scribe would appreciate a note now and then from some of you fellows about your- selves or other '26ers whom you may en- counter in order that this column can be con- tinued in its truly bright, newsy and scintil- lating fashion!
ON A HUNT FOR ORCHIDS in Trinidad, Edward M. Becton '26 (second from right) found his classmate, Monty Colladay, now U. S. Consul General there. In the group above are Thelma Cox, expedition member, Colladay, Mrs. Colladay, Becton and Mrs. Becton. The orchid hunt covering South America and the Caribbean islands was part of Becton's job as director of the Arthur G. McKee Jungle Gardens at Vero Beach, Fla., 85 acres of rare tropical plants, most of them imported.
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