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Al English attended a convention in Philadelphia during the last week in January and continued on to New York on Saturday before returning to his Columbus home. None of us in the Metropolis saw him because of the virtually complete Saturday shut down of business.
Russ Durgin, looking as good as a certified check for a million dollars, dropped in to see your secretary on January 30. He planned to spend February at Buck Hill Falls, Pa. His recuperation from the serious condition he was in last May has been marvelous and he feels that in not too many more months, he will be fully recovered.
Kel and Helen Rose spent the Lincoln's birthday weekend in Atlantic City.
In one of his all too infrequent letters, SidCrawford points out uncertainties shared by many parents these days. Sid Jr., a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve is attending Worcester Junior College. Bruce '49, married last year, is located in Philadelphia. Both sons are apt to be in uniform in the not too distant future.
Word comes from across the Hudson River that Dennie Maloney was elected Vice President of the New Jersey Title Association.
For the past year or so, Hal Rich has been scenarist of movies for the Coast Guard. Career for Tomorrow, recently released, is his brain child. He had more than a little to do with Fighting U. S. Coast Guard which is soon to appear in your local cinema. At present he is working on Sentries of Our Inland Seas, the setting for which is on the Great Lakes.
The annual Thayer School dinner was held at the New York Dartmouth Club, February 2, right in the middle of the switchmen's strike —pardon me, illness. Only Bob Griffin was present to represent Fifteen. Bob is a busy man these days in behalf of the Navy as well as the Tanners Council of America.
The Maine Federation of Music Clubs has embarked on a program of publicizing the State's cultural background to the same extent as its famous potatoes. As every Fifteener knows, Casey Jones' musical compositions are an important part of said culture. So don't be surprised if Casey's picture supersedes the bathing girl cheesecake in the literature the Down Easters mail out to entice the vacationer's dollar.
rom the Hotel Metropole, Karachi, Pakistan, under date of February 12, comes the fol lowing exotic report from Charlie Griffith:
"If my memory serves me correctly, just 38 years ago today Sherm Hickox and I snow-shoed over Moose Mountain down to Canaan where we caught the B. and M. back to Hanover. Perhaps it was Washington's Birthday instead of Lincoln's, but in either case, the details of the expedition are still clear. Today I can see clearly off to the north the foothills of the mountains, bare of any vegetation, which eventually become the mighty Himalayas. Yesterday Susan and I were taken by one of our excellent staff to a beach to the west and then""to have a cup of tea at an inland caravansarie on the camel route to Baluchistan. So far as appearances go I doubt whether this typical stopping point is any different than similar spots in the days of Omar Khayyam. "While we sat on straw mats, sipping tea, the turbanned proprietor stirred the boiling brew over a charcoal fire. Outside some curious and friendly camel drivers watched the strange westerners, and one camel decorated with a string of beaded shells for identification, munched his daily 'wheaties' which appeared to be some sort of dusty and dried up ground pine, or sage brush. "In our party were two State Department officials, one of whom turned out to be T. Walter Johnson '37. It was a real pleasure to be able to talk about Dartmouth and recall mutual friends.
"While I was in Paris I tried to find Jiggs Donahue. Unfortunately I had little time outside my appointments and therefore was not successful. If my French had been reasonably fluent, I would have taken a chance with a taxi driver to try several addresses, but I had learned that unfamiliarity with Paris streets produces meanderings which mean loss of valuable time and surprising figures on the meter. Before I return to Paris, I shall study harder my well thumbed copy of French Daily Life which is still in my library and those of the class who remember the conversation courses with Blume and Louie Dow, will recall the little red book, now at long last realized to have practical value as well as the means of passing the course! (Livermore, Pray,Sargent, Montsie, and Sawyer please take note.) Also those of us who helped the French underground will be interested to know that Susan and I had lunch at the little chateau at 25 Rue Senlis, Vineuil-St. Fermin, near Chantilly, which was a headquarters for Anglo-American operations.
"Realizing that space for class notes is limited, I shall not reminisce further at this time, but will try to drop you a line now and then with some items which may be of interest to all. With only two weeks available in India I may not be able to go to Ongole to see Arthur Boggs, but will at least telegraph him greetings for all of us. Perhaps I am far too sentimental but I hope that looking up old friends in faraway places gives them a§ jnuch pleasure as it does me."
To coin an expression, it's a small world, with Charlie in Pakistan and Johnny Johnson aboard the good ship Stella Polaris somewhere in the Indian Ocean on the same day.
Eben Clough spent the Washington's Birthday weekend on Long Island, He got in to the Dartmouth Club for refreshments with Charley Comiskey. Cloughie reports a brief visit in Exeter, N. H., with Ev Lamson recently.
From Russ Durgin comes word that Takanaga Mitsui has been taking an interest in educational problems since the war and has been quite helpful to the U. S. Military Government officials.
Both of his homes in Tokyo were completely demolished. His son Takanosu '43 is on the editorial staff of the Japanese edition of the Reader's Digest.
Russ Rice spent February 20 and at in New York on business.
On February 22, 1951, Freedoms Foundationat its national headquarters at Valley Forge,Pa., announced that in the category of magazine articles one of the fourth-place awards of$lOO has been given to Beardsley Rural for hisarticle "The Little Capitalists Get Together"in the January 21, 1950, issue of Collier's.
Dick Merrill has become one of our favoritecorrespondents in his very first letter, fromwhich we give you the following excerpts:
"Sumner Dennett made a very good recovery from his broken thigh and has been around on crutches now for several weeks. He went back to the hospital two days ago because the doctors used that latest method of running a steel bar down the length of the marrow of the bone. It now has to be withdrawn and he has to be in a cast for three weeks while the bone grows from the inside as well as from the outside. It has been a long, miserable experience, but his courage is tops. He has done a beautiful job here as headmaster of the Columbus Academy, and there seems to be very wide agreement that before he took over the headmastership, his teaching of English was something to write home about. That is not to say that it has slipped, but I think he has been able to do very little teaching in recent years.
"Harlan Wilson, of course, is one of the shining lights of the medical profession. He has two granddaughters and a boy who is now in his internship at Massachusetts General. Harlan's wife Dorothy had pretty good material to work with in the first place, and all of us agree that she has made 'one heap big Injun' out of him. He has been beautifully loyal and helpful to me here in this church in the eight years I have been here, and I shall be grateful for him and to him as long as I live."
Dick is too modest to mention the fine jobhe is doing at The First CongregationalChurch in Columbus, but we have both ecclesiastical and secular testimony to such effect.
Jack Bowler, returning from an expeditionto Washington in late January, stopped overnight with Fred Child. He was also seen lunching at the Cloud Club where they literally eathigh on the hog. (It's a joke, son. The CloudClub is on the 60-umpth floor of the ChryslerBuilding.)
We got up to Springfield for a late February weekend and learned the following:
Paul and Sally Fining's son William is in the military service at Fort Devens... . Gib andClaire Campbell are vacationing in Florida. ... Paul and Theresa Rothery expect to move into their new home in Wilbraham about A'pril l. They had recently returned from a short visit to Atlantic City In any home with several attractive daughters, the phone is apt to be busy. And that's just the way we found it each time we dialed Ray King's number.
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