1915

Here I sit in the rigorous climate of Westchester with snow on the ground and ice on the ponds and keep hearing of more fortunate Fifteeners basking in the Florida sun, Martyand Mae Martin for example. Marty deals with various southern truck farmers who haul their green stuff up to his Boston emporium for which he pays them green stuff (are you still with me?), which they carry back south to buy seeds and fertilizer. Along about February, Marty decides he should go South and see if the seeds planted right. That, according to the instruction sheet accompanying Form 1040, makes the trip deductible, or am I confused as usual?

Trace Brownell was another Florida visitor. He moves so fast he got down there and back before it could be reported.

Speaking of travel, Johnny Johnson had gotten as far as Funchal, Portugal, on his Mediterranean cruise as these notes are written.

Eben and Marge Clough got up to Manchester in early February for a brief visit with Stick and Bunny Parnell. At the moment Ebenand Kike Richardson are somewhere in Canada trying to catch fish through 40 inches of ice.

Chan Foster has an idea, worthy of copyright, which he put into effect in mid-February. When most classmates come to New York with a day and a half's business, they knock themselves out by crowding it into one day. No so Chan. He sensibly takes two days which gives him time to lunch at the Dartmouth Club with Red Folan and your secretary. We recommend this idea to all '15ers visiting the big city.

Kell Rose, back from a business trip to Chicago, reports having had lunch with MacMac Donald, recently returned from a routine check-up at the Mayo Clinic; and AI Cahn, happy in his new business connection and a prospective grandfather. Les Castle was too busy to attend but reported everything under control by telephone.

Paul and Sally Vining enjoy the rewarding chore of baby-sitting by going all the way from Springfield to Stratford, Conn., to help out daughter Pauline.

Congratulations to Joe Harris who has been made National Advertising Sales Manager for Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc., in New York.

Recent changes in address: Leo R. Mac Hale, c/o A. J. Crotty, P.O. Box 824, Westport, Conn.; Richard W. Redfield, 87 S. Euclid Ave., Pasadena 1, Calif.; Lowry R. Lytle, 10401 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles 24, Calif.

Our deepest sympathy goes to Leon Tuck whose daughter Hope Tuck Bedford was tragically killed in an automobile accident near Princeton, N. J., on February 22.

Kell Rose feels that the returns from his letter sent out about two months ago with the Bequest Questionnaire are quite satisfactory. He has heard directly from 65 members of the Class, representing better than 20% of the group of 300 who were contacted. The number indicating that they have included the name of the Trustees of Dartmouth College in their wills is a bit disappointing but he knows that many men are giving consideration to the objective of building up the endowment for the College and that the response of the Class to this program will be just as exceptional in its support as 1915's has always been. Kell does hope to hear from those who have not yet returned the questionnaire. He is especially pleased at the trouble a number of the men have taken to write him personal letters.

Art Boggs writes us from Ongole, Guntur District, India, and tells us something of the important work he is doing there.

"The Clough Memorial Hospital has 212 beds, for men, women and children and 6 doctors, 3 men and 3 women, by American standards a totally inadequate staff. I am the only foreigner Three of the five Indian doctors, including one of the ladies, are quite competent surgeons. They take to surgery like a duck to water. Our nursing staff comprises 19 trained nurses, of whom 3 are Americans, and about 50 nurses in training. About one third of all the nurses are men.

"Our work is largely surgical, due primarily to the fact that the government medical services and the private practitioners, which are few and far between to begin with, have neither the trained personnel nor the equipment to deal with the surgical needs of the people, except in the large cities. So it is necessity, as well as personal inclination, that has given our work in Ongole a strongly surgical trend. Most of the clinical work is done by the Indian doctors; my own time is about equally divided between patients and administration.

"In the 30 years that Gertrude and I have been in Ongole, we have never had a visit from a Dartmouth classmate. It seems incredible that of all our classmates, 'as o'er the girdled world they roam,' not one would ever have occasion to pass through our neck of the woods. We are on the direct railway line from Madras to Calcutta, and from Madras to Delhi, and all trains stop. You might pass the word along, we would be greatly thrilled by a visit from any member of the class.

"Gertrude and I may be back in the U.S.A. in 1952, but more likely in 1953. Meanwhile, we realize that the recent history of China might conceivably be repeated in India, although we hope that the China experience may enable our statesmen to forestall such an event in this subcontinent."

February guests at the Hanover Inn included: Mr. and Mrs. Dale Barker and Mr.and Mrs. Don Bennink.

Secretary, 24 Midland Ave., White Plains, N. Y. Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass. Class Agent, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., 70 Pine St., New York 5, N. Y.