1937
We would like to take the liberty of quotinga letter received from Latta McCray's motherwhich gives additional information and whichis a response to the note of sympathy forwarded to her on behalf of the class.
"My dear Mr. Bankart, "I received your kind letter and understand your shock concerning Latta's death. It is very difficult for Daytonians to understand also. He tried to keep his disability hidden as much as possible, even from his closest friends. His immediate family did not understand how sick he was. Although he had not been going to his law office for six weeks, to the casual observer he seemed normal.
"This was his third mental breakdown in three years. His physical disability (diabetes) dated from his ski accident in Hanover 15 years ago. The diabetes was ever increasing (only one-eighth of those with diabetes are required to take more insulin than he was required to take).
"He foresaw a long disability (both mental and physical) from which there was no escape and which would prevent him from assuming his rightful responsibilities. He also knew that such would bring unending strain upon all who loved him. He believed this to be the better way.
"As you say, he lived fully in the time which was his. His enthusiasm for life and for his chosen work was outstanding. How he loved Dartmouth College. I am sure that you have never had a more enthusiastic alumnus in all the 180 years of Dartmouth College.
"Thank you for your letter of sympathy, Mary L. McCray."
A note from Duke Dumont announces that he has left Mohawk Carpet and is now associated with the Hartford Machine Screw Cos., Hartford, Conn., which is located just outside the city limits giving a rural touch and is a new, one-story modern plant. Duke's title is Director of Personnel Relations (1200 employees) but he handles several other jobs such as responsibility for all wage stabilization practices, heads up the pension committee, etc. He and Polly have bought a house at 61 Newport Ave., West Hartford, and moved in in September. Already he has been contacted and given various assistances from Fran Fenn, EdSterns and Bruce Manternach, and he has seen Gurry Lowe. The Dumonts are hoping to have Dick and Ruth Sawyer visit on Yale weekend, so it does not take them long to get well settled in a new community.
Don Albertsen paused long enough in his cruise-tour business in San Francisco to tell about recently moving into a new home at 120 Rancheria Road, Kentfield, Calif. Also in the past two years he has been to Europe twice, Australia, New Zealand once, and on various trips to Alaska and Honolulu. May we just add that these lads in the travel business sure speak lightly of doing things any of the rest of us might save up for a whole lifetime to enjoy.
From the American Embassy in Rangoon, Burma, we would like to give a resume of the recent life of Bob and Meg Aylward. Says Bob,
"We arrived in Rangoon August 22 and are slowly emerging from a rat-race that began last March when we sailed from Yokahama on home leave. We spent two and one-half months in the States, saw our families and some friends, and conducted as wild a shopping spree as a new divorcee whose husband had neglected to close their jointaccount. Only the fact that we sold our '47 Ford upon leaving Tokyo is responsible for the thin ice of solvency on which we're recently skating. Sailed from New York June 28 on the lie de France for England and, with delays there, managed to see something of the customs and country, including a flying trip to Belfast for a week with Meg's aunt. Then for 33 days from July 20 we sailed on a small British boat enroute to Rangoon. The Red Sea was terrible but we did have five days in port at Colombo.
"The house assigned to us here is still not ready so we're again parked in a hotel, all four of us in one room. The weather not so bad as we expected, no worse than August in Washington!
"While in the States we saw Will Brown, BillRotch and Hart Beardsley, and managed also a three-hour visit to Hanover a week before we sailed."
Maybe the Aylwards have come and gone, but word from Bill Bowler says he is back from Liberia after two years on Firestone's rubber plantation. Claims now to be an authority on West African pidgin English and glad to taste fresh milk, corn-on-the-cob and tomatoes once again.
Bob Greene sends word he is now Ass't Executive Director of two trade associationsOutboard Motor and Boat Mfgr's Ass'n. Says also Ralph Putnam is now a partner in father's law firm in Aurora, and to tell McKinlay that he's still "natcherly big-muscled but all in the wrong places now."
Roily Kent checks in again from his job as Sales Manager in the GM assembly plant in Mexico where he has been since getting out of the Navy in '45.
Dr. George Andrews is finishing up this year on a Fellowship at Yale in child psychiatry and research and imagines that he and Sey Ochsner may well be about the last ones to "come into the Fold," as George will officially be accredited in a few months for private practice of psychiatry but does not yet know what or where he'll be. He was also made god-father to Frank Young's eldest son at a christening which he claims gives him the honor of becoming an uncle, god-father, and father all in six months.
Fred Mayo writes from Barrington, R. I., that he now owns and operates the Petrie Studio (tops in photography), the Bay State Employment Service and the Professional Acceptance Service, Inc., which means financing for the professional man. The various businesses are located in Fall River, Mass., at 7 No. Main Street in case anyone gets to that there town.
A brief history of Dr. Bob Miskimon finds many activities medical, starting with a private practice in Richmond, Va., plus connections with Southern Biscuit, Reynolds Metal, draft board advisor, civil defense instructor AND he's in Who's Who Supplement 1950, as well as Who's Important in Medicine for 1951. In addition to all the facts above he says—and we quote "The new and beautiful Mrs. Miskimon and I are coming to Carnival 1952 Spread Out!"
Spot Shots: Dana Prescott assigned to the Pentagon Building for next three years. .. . Kitty if Art Hislop moved to 5 Randall Place, Menlo Park, Calif. .. . Hayes Goetz one of three Dartmouth producers on MGM lot who recently completed Bulldog DrummondStrikes Back.. .. Bill Storck & Wife paused for two days in Hanover enroute from Hawaii to Washington, D. C. ... Carl Ray is a member of the Board of Governors of the Dartmouth Club in New York.... Jock Francine was recently decorated by the Canadian Government but we have no details. .. . All for now and the news well is dry so, "Come-on-amy house, I geev you pen and paper."
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