1925
Those who labor to keep their fellows in touch with the Class and the College are honestly self-critical, and blame themselves readily for failure to arouse at least that degree of interest which will produce a postcard every year or two. By the same token, therefore, it is a matter of some satisfaction to hear from a classmate who has been long silent. Win Rice, reporting for the first time since graduation, writes that after a year of teaching in prep school, he went to Syracuse University where he has served ever since and is now professor of Romance Languages. He took his M.A. at Columbia, his Ph.D. at Syracuse, and is listed in the Directory of American Scholars and Who's Who in American Education. His letter continues with the following cryptic but eloquent note: "Married soon after college; four children (26, 22, 15, 11), first three sonsfive grandchildren (four females, one male). P.S. One son is a buyer for G.E., another is entering his third year at medical school."
Charlie Chan couldn't have put it better. Win has published here and abroad, particularly on medieval French, and has held office in various associations having to do with his field of study.
Bill Lauman writes that he has been in many places in recent years, his latest jaunt having been to Turkey in 1950-'52, but, tantalizingly, says no more about it. At present he is at Williston Academy in Easthampton, Mass.... Jim Winn has been appointed division engineer of the Portland Division of the Boston and Maine. He is building a new house in Durham, which he expects will be completed late in the fall.... Jamie Jameson (Charles Ralph, that is) has been transferred to Boston to serve as manager of that city's branch of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. ...Bob Misch, as another of his literary diversions, is now the food and restaurant columnist for the New York Theatre Programs
Ruth and Bud Petrequin vacationed in Maine during September, and on their way home to Cleveland stopped over to be entertained by Francis and Woody Wilson in Boston. The party included Adeline and Lou Kimball, Vir-ginia and Pete Haffenreffer, and Eleanor andFrank Wallis.... Ken Nugent joined the 1925 Grandfathers' Association on June 20 last, with the birth of a daughter to Lt. (jg) and Mrs. George Nugent '50.
Bernie Manning, who didn't marry until j 948, is a generation behind but doing his best. Ellen and he now have three daughters, and a son born last July. ... Ford Whelden be- came a grandpa for the second time when daughter Roxane presented her husband Ed Isbey '51 with a future half-back. Ed is in his third year at Wayne Medical School. During Gertrude's absence in Detroit for this joyful occasion, Ford undertook the cooking for himself and Priscilla, but varied his fare with a lunch at the Inn with Clara and, Bill Boies, on their way to the White Mountains, and dinner with Gladys and Bob Meginnity, in town for a few days' visit. Francis Brown, CharlieMoore, and Irish Flanagan '23 (a promising class) were in Hanover for a meeting of the Alumni Council's Public Relations Committee, and Ford had the melancholy privilege of being host while they listened to the obsequies at Annapolis.... Ralph Carey's son David is a freshman at Cornell.
Faced with a choice between a weekend in Hanover and the Holy Cross game, your sec- retary chose the former, and was at least con- vinced that it was not his presence alone at the last three opening games that jinxed the team. From various sources reporting, it would ap- pear that 1925 was well represented at Man- ning Bowl in Lynn. In no particular order, but as the names came in from volunteer spotters, the following were among those present at the unhappy proceedings: El and Frank Wallis, Adeline and Lou Kimball, Ken Hill, Homer Tilton, Rosanne and Ed Griffin with son Arthur, Barbara and Lyn White, Charlie Haywood, Ellie and El Warner, Gretchen and Bob Bishop, Dot and Don Hunt, Bill Sleigh, Fran and Woody Wilson, Connie Conrad, Eleanor and Karl Lipsohn, and Caroline and Bob Pierce.
The older your secretary grows and this is an activity which proceeds apace the more he is convinced that there is no profession more important than teaching, and there are no classmates of whom he is prouder than the not inconsiderable number who ornament that profession. No less than six are now resident in Hanover as members of the faculty or the administrative staff. They are:
Arthur Dewing, M.A., professor of English, has been on the faculty since 1930, a full professor since 1947. He collected and edited the papers of Ernest Martin Hopkins, published as This Our Purpose.
Alexander Laing, A.B., A.M., professor associated with the Division of Humanities; Educational Services Adviser, Baker Library. At Dartmouth since 1937, and full professor since 1949, he is the author of numerous books and articles.
Roy H. Lanphear, A.M., professor of Greek and Latin, has been on the faculty since 1928, a full professor since 1939.
Robert A. McKennan, Ph.D., professor of sociology, has been at Dartmouth since 1925, a full professor since 1938. He is now director of the new Northern Studies Project, and the author of various books and articles.
Radford C. Tamer, M.D., assistant professor of plastic surgery at the Medical School. At Dartmouth since 1939, present rank since 1949. Author of many papers.
Ford H. Whelden, A.8., director of research, Dartmouth Development Council. At Dartmouth since 1948, present title since 1951.
These are the men on the spot, and there may be those among us who envy them the opportunity of living in a well-loved place, exposed daily to the challenge and the freshening influence of youth. Yet, envy or no, we all share the responsibility they have undertaken as a life work. For the College is not merely, to quote President Dickey, "a community of teachers and students." It must include all those who have ever shared the Dartmouth fellowship. There is none among us, however remote he may be from actual participation in its daily work, who cannot in some way (and quite apart from material considerations) give back to Dartmouth something of the richness that Dartmouth added to his life. In fact, the willingness and capacity of a man to do this, and in particular his ability to determine how best he can do it, may be thought of as being in some degree a measure of the success of his Dartmouth experience. For this, in truth, is to pick up the torch and hand it on.
Secretary, 104 Pond St., Natick, Mass. Treasurer and Bequest Chairman Elm Street, Norwich, Vt.
