1910

In this day and age when so many of our generation are looking eagerly to retirement, it is stimulating to have a friend call the turns as he sees them—Bigwig Prexy of Am. Machine & Metals, John Vander Pyl, loves life as is, loves his responsibilities, wants to keep working at his job, and more power to him!

"As for retirement", writes Vandy, "who wants to retire? Not me! I love the excitement and activity of my calling, the traveling and intercourse with all sorts of people, the creative effort and all the little woes and triumphs therewith connected. I take care to have plenty of interests other than those stimulated by the business in which I am engaged and they provide the leavening to keep Jack from becoming a dull boy. I get a wonderful lot of fun out of doing all the things I have to do or just like to do, and there just wouldn't be any fun in giving up any of them so long as I remain strong and well and able to do them."

You admire those expressions and we all sincerely hope that John can live and work long, and no doubt he will because he is a rather healthy, sane-living person and has always been thusly. On the other side of the picture, and it is this flexibility of thought and desires that makes life extremely interesting, Ted Hill, who has spent a lifetime in education at Harvard, pens, "I am looking forward to retiring before too many years. We want to be in Surry while we both are young enough to enjoy country life. In the meantime I am busier than ever at the Museum. Life seems to get more complicated each year and there is always more work than can possibly be done—but we're well and happy, so why worry?"

Hanover Visitors of fall and early winter included the Tom Fosters, George Underwood, (who has two undergraduate nephews there), the Irv Jewetts to visit their son George, Ted Smith did not come up from Havana this fall because his daughter who has lived in New York for 10 years moved to Cuba—Ed Shattuck, who has to take life easy these days, plans to get to Hanover sometime before Spring and get some pants from Serry, or go around in a bbl., at least, so he claims—Bill Brown invites Tenners to look up the Browns if any of the gang hit Fort Lauderdale—Johnny Finn, Trombonist of Note, is quite realistic, "My uppers are all in place, thanks to the fitters of plates! My lowers are still originals but not many are left. It won't be long before I'll be 100% factory-built (teeth). The football team was a humdinger. Maybe we'll be in the national upper brackets next fall, if the freshman linemen are as good as claimed. Next Christmas will probably find me living in Wallingford, Conn., as I expect to retire next October".

Tommy Leonard was one of three Nashua attorneys who were honored Dec. 15 by the Nashua Bar Association in line with their custom of paying tribute to their members who reach their 60th birthdays interestingly enough, the other two attorneys thus honored were Dartmouth men, Albert Terrien and George French.

Thanks to Park Stickney who is doing a good job currently for 'OB, we have a clipping from Chicago News in re Shorty Stern, wellknown and able Chicago banker—President Shorty of American National Bank & Trust Co. departed from custom this year of reporting solely on balance sheets and figures to get closer to employees with a specially prepared booklet, illustrated with graphs, explaining, "There is something more to the bank than pure statistics and steel and marble.... a bank is its people banking is a personal business. That is why I feel there should be a more personal report to the staff than is represented in the usual accounting statements."

Bill Cunningham devoted a recent column to Ben Williams' ideas on how to control highway accidents—while gathering material for another novel and in some form of rest after the publication of "House Divided", Ben and Florence have driven around 40,000 miles in every state of the Union and some provinces of Canada since May '47—"Our state laws are a hodgepodge, our highway warning signs are usually absurd—we have been drilled for 30 years to accept the fact that even a careful driver constantly violates our laws—and until our laws and our highway signs are amended to conform with the habits of the normally careful driver, our habit of law-breaking will continue The invention of the automobile .... made us a nation of law breakers. It will take a generation or two to remedy that condition but the remedy lies not in enforcing unreasonable laws. It lies in enacting laws which decent people will respect and obey".

Eck Hiestand retired January 31 for a long rest, travel in South America and what not— Eck is one of those fellows who has worked hard and long but never lost his sense of civic responsibility—and we'll wager a Couple of Hard-Earned Bucks that his retirement will be comparable to that of some of the rest of us—largely a Myth—freedom from the steady, hard grind of trying to keep your head above water in a competitive and difficult business world—but new activities and responsibilities in fields one prefers—plus sufficient control of your own life to be able to do a few extracurricular things you have always wanted to do.

Marion and I are down here in Florida for a change—about which that Coal Baron and Efficient Class Treas. Fletch Burton, taunts, "Maybe I should send you a Ton of Coal so that you can keep warm. You can tell the Florida Chamber of Commerce that New England is going into open competition with Florida on weather. Last Sunday it was 60 degrees here."

Quite a crowd of Dartmouth men around here see Dr. "Bush" Kingsford, retired Physics Prof. Charlie Proctor, Paul Smith frequently Art Lord's brother Fred is here but we haven't seen him yet—over the week-end we visited Winter Park where we had a nice visit with Don Cheney and with Geoige French '01, our high school principal at North Stratford many years ago, and now retired after 37 years of teaching at Philips Andover- George (a brother of the late Irving) is a delightful fellow—we expect to see Harold Win.Chester soon as he lives in the next town Dunedin Paul Smith '14 just told me that last night he ran into his old roommate, "Stu" Paul '16, Major General, USA, retired, quite by accident at the Beach—and that is the way it goes.

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