1927
The high spot in Class activity during September was the cocktail party for which LesBattin was host at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago on the twenty-second. Les was in Chicago attending a convention of regulating valve manufacturers, and issued invitations to all 1927 men in the Chicago area to join him for cocktails. Those present (with apologies to any who might have been overlooked in the resultant confusion) were Cug Daley, Siand Maidie Morand, Harv and Lois Jones,Ken Andersen, George Howell, Woody andRuth Burgert, Roy and Ann Flannery, Sykesand Helen Hardy, Merritt Joslyn, Bud Kinne and Bob Gilboy. The best evidence of the success of the party is the fact that Les failed to gather any news, either for this column or for the Speakeasy, though he said that everyone seemed to be well, happy, and prosperous. He also saw Bill St. Amant, though Bill wasn't able to make the party. Not having any statistics to go by I can't be sure, but it seems to me that this must set some sort of record for the percentage of 1927 men living in any given locality attending a get-together of the Class.
On his way home from Chicago, Les stopped off in Toledo for a too brief stay, and we spent several very enjoyable hours talking over old times, old friends, and future plans.
John Gardner, who at last reports was residing in New Canaan, Conn., has recently been named as manager of manufacturing for the Canadian Division of the American Can Co. John has been with American Can since 1928, and will now make his headquarters in Hamilton, Ontario. As soon as he lets me know his new address I will pass it on via this column.
I'm indebted to an anonymous reporter for the news that Bob Dalrymple this summer became the first skipper in history to win the Indian Class championship for the fourth time. Bob achieved this particularly appropriate honor for a Dartmouth man at Squantum in the Tecumseh.
Those little bills 'that. Gus sends out evey so often sometimes serve a purpose other than bringing an occasional five dollars into the Class treasury. Once in a while someone sends in a bit of news with his check. It was through this channel that I learned that Frank Cloran is now living on Cape Cod, having bought an old house which he has been spending a good deal of his time fixing up this past summer.
Gus also performed the seemingly impos- sible feat of getting a letter out of PhilFrench, who is living in Ponca City, Okla., and running a high grade ladies' ready-to- wear shop. Phil says that he hasn't seen any of the '27 gang since he left St. Paul to join the Air Force in 1942. After he was separated from the Air Force in 1926, Phil went to Wichita, Kan., where he worked for Beech Aircraft for a short time. He was married in 1947, moved to Ponca City, and started in his present business. He is doing his best to keep the wives of the local oil tycoons from going to the larger cities to buy their clothes, and having pretty good success at it. Phil says that he certainly hopes that any members of the Class who get anywhere near his part of the country will make a point of stopping to see him.
Dick Lougee, who is professor of physiog- raphy in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., re- ceived a Fulbright award and is spending this year as visiting lecturer at the University of Oslo, Norway. Dick, his wife, Clara, and son, Gerry, sailed on the Stavangerfiord on August 11. In June, Dick and his father attended the sixty-fifth reunion of the Class of 1888, of which his father is secretary. Dick is a third generation Dartmouth man, and hopes that his son will make the fourth generation of Lougees to attend Dartmouth. The Fulbright awards are given under an act of Congress known as the Fulbright Act, which set up an exchange program for teachers and research students between the United States and several foreign countries. Governments that owe our country money from the sale of surplus property can pay off their debts in part by sending their teachers or students to our universities at the foreign country's expense; or they can pay the expenses of visiting American teachers or research students. Dick is one of eight American professors who are at several different institutions in Norway this year. Some twenty-three foreign countries are currently taking part in this program.
Dick was the author of the lead article in the May issue of the Scientific American, entitled "A Chronology of Post-Glacial Time in Eastern North America." He has done a great deal of research on this subject, and has published several previous articles. Dick says that he developed an interest in the Connecticut Valley glacial history while in Professor Goldthwait's classes at Dartmouth, and that this interest has developed into what has become his life's work. He has taught at Dartmouth, University of Vermont, and at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he was chairman of the geology department for eleven years, and has traveled extensively. While on active military duty in Alaska in 1948, as Lt. Col. of Engineers, he was the first Dartmouth man to fly over the North Pole.
The Class of 1927 has been on the move. There are a large number of address changes this month. Here are the new locations:
Dr. Thomas J. Anglem, 67 Colchester St., Brookline, Mass.; Bernard L. Barde, Navy 3923 Box 18, FPO, San Francisco, Cal.; Woodward Burgert, 365 Oakland Dr., Highland Park, III.; Samuel H. Martin 528 Public Service Bldg., Portland 4, Ore.; Nathaniel B. Morey, 1403 E. Grove St., Bloomington, III.; Michael H. Ross, 50 West 57th St., New York, N. Y.; Col. Nicholas R. Voorhis, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Ft. McNair, Washington 25, D. C.; Evan A. Wilder, 129 Atlantic St., Mt. Pleasant, S. C.; Lt. Col. Bedford Williams, Quarters 17-B-1, Apt. E., Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Lt. Col. John Wilson Jr., RFD 2, Union, Me.; George L. Woelfel Jr., 6 College Aye., Swarthmore, Pa.; Nicholas J. Zaro, 28 East 92nd St., New York 28, N. Y.; William C. Jamieson, 138 East 26th Court, Tulsa 5, Okla.; Dr. William F.Skinner, 426 Clinton Terrace, Easton, Pa.; Lee N.Slinkard, 1420 Bronte Drive, Whittier, Calif.; Janies H. Van Loon, Ilolfe Lane, Bay Colony, Virginia Beach, Va.; Leonard A. C. Dunn, P. O. Box 1035, Portland 1, Me.; William 'S. Hoge III, 2206 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va.; Edwin L. Marston, 19th Floor, 350 Fifth Ave., New York 1, N. Y.
About the time that you are reading this I expect to be in New York for the Columbia game, and hope to see some of you there.
Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio Treasurer, Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa. Bequest Chairman
