1925
Mark your calender now and plan your vacation around our Twenty-fifth Reunion- June 9-10-11 in 1950. Following the usual custom, the 25th reuning class reunes at Commencement time with the 50th. All others are later. We have had meetings already and info will come to you each month through this column and personal mailing. Any suggestions are welcome and may be sent to me or to Frank B. Wallis, Reunion Chrm., 84 State St., Boston, Mass. FordWhelden's home in Norwich, Vt. will be headquarters for some classmates and wives on the Cornell weekend to discuss plans in some detail.
Hal Perkins touches off the Reunion spirit in a recent letter quoted below:
"As you are the official Class Secretary I must turn to you for some important information. I need to know the exact dates of our scheduled 25 th reunion in Hanover next June. Inasmuch as we live.so many miles from good old New Hampshire, it is necessary that we coordinate our vacation plans with the reunion schedule. This information is needed in order to make reservations for the balance of our vacation, and it is my intention of making these reservations within the next few weeks.
"You may be interested in knowing that our son, Don, is now a freshman at Hanover. Don is a big lad, 6' 2", weighing 190 lbs. and, fortunately, looks like his mother. Since we have only one offspring, we developed the large economy (?) size.
"We drove to Hanover early in September and the campus sure looked good. The only complaint I have is that it's too far from Pittsburgh.
"Over the 4th of July weekend the three roommates, Rob Johnson, Hap Hefler and myself, together with our families, assembled at Hap's home in Annapolis, Md. where we had a grand get-together. Rog is Accounting Executive for the Telephone Company in Richmond, Va., while Hap is a Professor of Romance Languages at the Naval Academy. Incidentally, Hap has won for himself quite a reputation as a skipper, having won first place in the sailboat race from Newport to Annapolis."
Neil Williams is recuperating at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles and BuckJones has been to see him several times.Speaking of Buck, I will quote his letter inpart, "You may want to pass this news alongto Herb Talbot and any of the others whowould be interested. Also say hello for me.Our class is not too well represented outhere, but the following are in the nearvicinity: Elmer Durgin, Ted Geisel, CarlHinkley, Lee Jamison, Gran Luten, Jim McCterry, Lou Gove, Dick Orchard. Ted Geisel is the only one I have seen much of recently,though he has been away for the past coupleof months. I'm sticking pretty close to homebase this summer, but I'm planning and hoping to get away next June. And I am lookingforward to seeing you and a good manyothers then."
Another interesting letter from Dr. SeussGeisel tells of his Merry-go-round:
"Sorry about taking so long to answer your long letter, but I've really been on a ferris wheel. And still am. Since last December, I've been chasing back and forth to New York on my kid's book projects and Ford Television animated commercials .... to Utah, where I've been doing some lecturing at the University in Salt Lake City.... to La Jolla where I'm converting a mountain top tower into a home .... and Hollywood where I'm going crazy making animated movies and kid's phonograph records.
"That's the screwy thing about my business. When business is good, everything comes all at once .... and you're working day and night, trying to fulfill too many orders, which you darned well have to fulfill, because when business drops off, it drops off to zero.
"As a consequence, I find myself so jammed up I'm not seeing any friends .... and having to write you letters like this one, begging off on that job for the ALUMNI MAG. "I want to do it... . but right now, I'm so short on sleep I don't know where to find the several hours necessary to do a good drawing.
"Could you give me a rain check on it? This maelstrom of mine can't go on forever.... and if it subsides, and if I find myself with time to do it, I'll check you and see if you still have time to schedule it. The project is close to my heart, but my problem right now is that my heart is missing beats.
"Swell hearing from you and getting your interes ing data on a lot of old friends. Please give my best the gang around Boston. And please rest assured that if I do get a breather, the request for the class will be on the top of my list."
Bruce McKennan '27, brother of our Bob, writes that he vacationed in August in the mountains south of Glacier Park with SlimBaumann and Fred Bold of Wichita, Kan.
Recent visitors at the Hanover Inn included Mr. and Mrs. George Lyon and family, Lake Forest, 111.; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Abel, Old Greenwich, Conn. Hank Bjorkman, N. Y. C.; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Heinlein and daughter, Forest Hills, L. I. Mr. and Mrs.Bob Peirce and family, Miami, Fla.
Neglected to mention a while back hearing from Eddie Hewitt, whose teen-age daughter Les met Lou Kimball on the train returning from a weekend in Hanover. He also says he spent a night last winter with Jammer Guernsey, wife and daughter at their charming home in Miami. Jam's a big real estate promoter and budding local politician.
The recently formed Dartmouth Club of the South Shore (south of Boston) held its first dinner this week. '25ers present were Dr. Al Carter, Paul Reed and myself. Others eligible include Bob Rhoades, Eddie Edwards,Mil Peabody and Stan Chamberlain. Stan has two boys in Dartmouth.
The July issue of Esquire carries a photo of Bob Misch with his excellent article. A thumbnail sketch of Bob is well-worth quoting. "Knowing the monotony that torments many people day by day, Robert J. Misch tells what one man did about his boredom in the story 'Cromartie's Ride,' p. 54. The author however has managed to keep busy during his 43 years. He claims distinction as one of those rare people who is New York born and bred, whose parents were born in New York, who has always lived in N'ew York, and who still loves the Big City. Graduating Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth in 1925, he has written for several publications, in addition to being vice-president of a New York advertising agency. He recently published a children's book called At Daddy's Office (Alfred Knopf, N. Y.). And he is still proud of having won his 'D' at college where he was fencing team captain."
Phil O'Connell has left the investment business to return to his first love, real estate. He will cover New England for a N. Y. firm selling Gov't-guaranteed real estate mortgages. Formerly Phil worked with LaneGoss at the Worcester County Institution for Savings, heading up the real estate division. He is planning on reunion.
An excellent feminine gift, a Dartmouth silk scarf, is being successfully promoted by Bill Griffin, Hank Bjorkman and others in N. Y. to raise money for our 25th Reunion Gift to the college. Jack Per-Lee has them on sale at Lord and Taylor and an ad is in your October ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Bill says, "With Christmas coming the scarf looks like an excellent gift even to people who have no connection with Dartmouth. The only caution I have is that we do not want guys to buy the scarves in place of contributing to the Alumni or Memorial Funds."
Secretary, Kenneth B. Hill & Co., Rm. 1007 80 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.
Treasurer, Room 1062, 49 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.
Memorial Fund Chairman, Marsh 8c McLennan, 231 South La Salle St., Chicago, 111
