1925
REUNION DATES NEXT JUNE 9-10-11
In this connection, Hanover Holiday starts on June 13 and we know of a number of classmates planning to stay over and take in this very pleasant and instructive programme. We just had another dinner and meeting of the reunion committee and can report satisfactory progress. Costume for grownups will be a white flannel hat on which will be a green 1925—plus a name badge. Youngsters will have white T shirts with a green D and 1925 in a design. You should get measurement cards to fill in around the middle of April. Joe Leavitt has a big ladies committee for our wives' planned entertainment.
Park and Ann Merrow are currently basking in Cuba. Frank and Ellie Wallis leavethe 15th for three weeks by boat to Panamawhere they will be guests of the Chief ofStaff of the 15th Naval District.
Park Merrow sends in this on Whitey: "Linn White has acquired a Plymouth suburban to transport his skis, children, dog and wife and, incidentally, a part-ownership in one of Boston's oldest and best known hardware stores. Speaking of Linn, the other day Park Merrow was enthusiastically telling the Boston educator about his increasing gun collection. 'Guns?—lnteresting, but I like to collect ski lodges.' Whitey is having an architect draw plans for a ski snuggery up around Intervale and is putting his Ossipee property on the market."
Please see the obituary notices on two classmates we have recently lost—Bob Carpenter and Mark Harten.
Syd Batchelder, up in Alstead, N. H., sends in the following note: "We, the depraved undersized weaklings and scrawny babes of '25, draw humbly near filled with fear and submissiveness and plead on bended knee the privilege of polluting the consecrated halls of Reed." "'Thanks to the noble heroes of '24 that doesn't sound quite right. Thanks to those sophomores, the above prayer will be with me for life eternal plus.' " Syd runs a big farm up there near the Connecticut River by Bellows Falls and we are particularly glad to hear from him. Do you ever see Larry Leavitt, Syd? He is only about 12 miles away at Vermont Academy.
Nate Bugbee, our hard-working Treasurer, seijds in a memo about Ford Whelden: "Ford Whelden is doing a fine job on the 1925 twenty-fifth reunion book and it has now gone to press. It will be ready some time in May and will be one of the best records of any Dartmouth class. At the last reunion, it was voted to raise the annual class dues from $3-50 to $5.00, the $1.50 increase to be an advance payment toward the 25-year book. Those who have paid their dues each year starting with the 1946-47 year through the 1949-50 year will therefore have a credit of $6.00 toward the book. The subscription blanks which will be sent out some time in March will give the cost of the book and also will include a notation as to the amount of credit on the Treasurer's records. The books should be ready for delivery in mid-May and it will be a big help to get the subscriptions in as soon as possible."
The Mass. Mutual Life Insurance Co. has just announced promotions in its investment department: Mott Garlock to Director of Investment Research and Red Martin, Ass't. Investment Secretary. In the insurance magazine it explains their past business history:
"Mr. Garlock is a native of Newark, N.Y., and was graduated from Dartmouth College and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Before joining the investment department of the Massachusetts Mutual in 1938, he was employed as a security analyst by the Bankers Trust of New York City and Graham Parsons & Co. In 1945, he was appointed an investment analyst. Mr. Garlock teaches courses in business administration at Northeastern University and has taught at the University Extension in Springfield." Mr. Martin graduated from Springfield Classical High School and Dartmouth College and attended New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. His work prior to coming with the Massachusetts Mutual in 1931 included employment with International General Electric, the William R. Compton Co., Stone and Webster and Blodget, Inc. and the Irving Trust Co. During the war he served as an officer in the finance department of the U. S. Army, working on the National Service Life Insurance program."
Recent visitors to Hanover include Dr. &Mrs. Henry Crawford, the Bud Petrequins,Bob Pierce, Bob Borwell.
Recent address changes are: Theodor S.Geisel, Box 891, La Jolla, Calif.; Paul J.Reed, 22 Pond St., Hingham, Mass.; GairTourtellot Jr., 135 Green Bay Rd., Hubbard Woods, Ill.; Frederick L. Weston, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., 100 Franklin St., Boston, Mass., and home, 93 S. Main St., Sharon, Mass.; Francis C. O'Connell has changed his name to Charles F. O'Connell.
Again from Park Merrow comes the following:
"I do hand you letter from Bob Pike which come to hand some time ago. You might be able to make a few notes from same. All goes as before here. I do think that Borwell did very well to-date on the Class Memorial Fund."—"The watched pot never boils, so I shall cease to watch and make a report. I came back here on Aug. 22 on the De Grasse and landed in New York and not wishing to bury my talent in the ground like the foolish servant in the Gospel, I went around to numerous teacher agencies to see what was available and out of the whole lot, I never did hear of but one place and that is this one, which I had taken within a week, and except for the salary it is almost an ideal place, being a very good junior college which has the strange custom of working from 4 to 10 P.M. five days a week, which gives me daytimes to work for myself, which I do as much as possible, and I have a portygee I am tutoring twice a week in English and sometimes I do substitute teaching of Latin to the horrible brats over in the Junior high school, and I teach German and French and a class in English composition, which last is the most amusing, and I was lucky in getting a very nice place to live in, handy as well, and this town is 50 miles south of NYC on the Ocean and I nave just completed, revised and sent out my magisterial screed on M.G. in Germany, a ribald and veracious account of that mirific organization, and I nave also sent out a lovely ms. entitled Spiked Boots in which among other things my old friend Dan Bosse is spoken of, and to return to the watched pot, When I left Munich I left my order with a trusty comrade to procure that telephoto lens, but as months have gone by and nothing has happened I have written to him to make a report by return mail, and if, as I guess, he reports they aren't to be had, I shall send you back 35 bucks and you can go on a Toot That makes all the news from these parts. Your cuzzen, Chet, waded in for me with both feet last summer trying to find me a job in Europe, but nothing sugared off except UNESCO said it 'expected' to have certain attractive openings early next year, which it may at that, for I saw in a newspaper called France-Amertque the other day that they are setting up a board to publish translations of the world's literary masterpieces, _so mayhap the U. S. delegate, who, as an old friend of Congressman Merrow's Was Very kind to me, will recall me.... which makes all the news fit to print, so I close with this quotation from Punch — 'The Leeds Courier reports the death of Ralph, aged 2 and one-half years, son of John and Lydia Longbottom.' Vita brevis est. Ars longa. Best wishes to thee and thine for a Happy Christmas and a Bright New Year".
Stud Wright, now a Brigadier General in active service as of January 10 is located at S.A.C. Headquarters, Offert Field, Omaha, Neb.
And coming back to reunion, on returns now in hand, we are expecting over 500 including wives and children. This homecoming is a must so make plans accordingly.
Pete Blodgett is in Florida for three weeks —actually on business and a nice time for it, too.
Secretary, Kenneth B. Hill & Co., Rm. 1007 80 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Treasurer, Room 1062, 49 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Class Agent, 1727 Broadview Ave., Highland Park, Ill.
