1940
Next month when I read this column I want to be able to look back on this night of heat. It's just 102 degrees outside! Pawing through the litter which accumulates in the desk drawers over a non-ambitious summer hiatus in the schedule of this column, I'm amazed to find a small storehouse of material. And I note that none of your letters have been answered but that job will have to await another, cooler eve.
Our own normally uneventful summer was broken up in early August when our eldest daughter, aged 6, came down with polio. Fortunately, she is now well on the mend, with considerable muscle weakness but no discernible paralysis. Doctors Dick Maxwell '42 and Art Staub '45 attended her, making our family episode quite an all-Green affair.
Most of the letters in the basket date back to late spring, so if some of the news is dated you'll know why. Tom Ballantyne, who looks not a day older than the numerals he displays on his front in the accompanying picture, finally broke a long silence to report on the Florida Dartmouths:
"About a year ago, I became fed up with the ulcer belt and decided to head for Florida. After racking up all the free hamburgers we could at Don Schott's drug store here in Fort Lauderdale we bought a liquor store. It's a good business and has the added advantage of providing drinks and smokes wholesale. The name of the joint is Laudergate Liquor Store, 2027 NE 18th St., and any '40s who should happen to drop in are welcome to some free snorts in the back room.
"Life rolls along at about the pace Ted Ellsworth used to drink water. Don and I go fishing two or three times a week with a little swimming, poker and sun bathing thrown in to break the monotony.
"A couple of months ago, I almost made that section entitled In Memoriam when our apartment caught fire. Was K.O.'d by smoke but had the good fortune to have a brave next-door neighbor who hauled me out. Spent two weeks in the hospital but am as good as new except for a few minor scars.
"Have seen or talked to: Bill Fitzell in Hollywood (Fla.); Bob McElwain, Miami; Phil Dressier 39, here; Phil Wentworth '39, Bob McLeod '39 and Rollie Trimble '42, all visiting. Also met a bunch of Dartmouths from all classes, including Dave Dance, when the Miami Club arranged a boat ride that cruised from here down to Miami Beach and back.
"One more addition that I almost forgot. Don Schott had a dinner party for Bob McLeod and his wife when they were down. To make it an all Green affair, Gus Broberg '41 came down from Palm Beach with his attractive spouse."
Chal Carothers shot a note our way on his Sylvania Electric Products memorandum pad enclosing a clipping about the birth of ChapWentworth's son sometime last June. A copy of Chap's business card enclosed with Chal's letter is most appropriate for a reporter on the Memphis Press-Scimitar. It reads: "If it's interesting
enough to tell your family or friends its news! Chap's paper failed to include the name of the newcomer, so our record is not quite complete. Chal Carothers also reported that he had seen Kel Doyle in New York. Kel is back with Crown Can Co.'s New York office after his May 20th release from two years in the AAF, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Gordie and Rosalie Wentzuorth. made it a clean sweep for the Wentworth clan birth record by announcing the arrival of their third daughter, Betsy Jo, on June 7.
Roland Hillas Jr. has been appointed district sales manager for the Detroit office of The American Mutual Liability Insurance Cos. Since joining the company in 1941, as a salesman, Rollie has been Aviation Representative in Boston where he piloted the company plane; aviation sales manager and New England Division indemnity manager; and most recently Southwestern regional sales manager.
Chet Berry, who for some time has been a research physicist for Eastman Kodak Cos., Rochester, and a very active member of the local Dartmouth Club, was recently honored by being elected to Fellowship in the Council of the American Physical Society. Ed HalseyJr. was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University last June.
Robert R. O'Brien, until recently an Air Force Major at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., is now in Korea for a year with the American Educational Mission, sponsored by the UN Korean Reconstruction Agency, under the direction of the Unitarian Service Committee. Bob flew from New York to Tokyo, Japan, via the northern circle route last July. After a few weeks in Japan, he went on to Korea to take up his new duties.
On the more local scene, Dick Kidder's picture was in the Concord, N. H., newspaper recently when he was shown presenting one of the prizes to a local golf tournament winner. Dick was tournament chairman, and it must be noted that one of the winners was his brother, Art. Dick is managing his own lumber company in Franklin. He's married to Marjory Joan Goss and, according to our record, is proud father of two boys and a girl. Also in New Hampshire, Jack Moody was written up in the local papers last spring for co-chairmaning a meeting of Vermont and New Hampshire CPA's held at Hanover. Jack is president of his state society.
Notes more or less on the distaff side of the '40 family find Roy Merchant marrying Julie Conant, in Dedham, Mass., last May 16. Earl Hotchkiss and Mrs. Jean Holt Brown were married at North Bridgton, Maine, on June 13. Midway through the tennis matches at Brookline, Mass., earlier this summer, Kathryn Moore, wife of John B. Moore, now in Cleveland, was presented with the 1953 service bowl awarded annually for the most notable contribution to the sportsmanship, fellowship and service of tennis. She was hailed for her efforts as head of the National Wightman Cup Committee.
That's it for the first round. May see some of you at the Yale or Princeton games. May we have a more successful team this year! Send your news and views to the above address.
OUT ON THE BRINY: Casting their lines cff Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Bob McLeod '39 (l), Don Schott '40 and Tom Ballantyne '40, caught 19 kingfish.
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