1925
The 1925 Father and Son Dinner will be held this year on Saturday, March 7, at 6.30 P.M. in the Hovey Grill. As in the past, mothers too are cordially invited, as well as all the men and women of 1925 who can be there, regardless of whether or not they happen to have sons in College. Please drop a card to Ford Whelden, Crosby Hall, Hanover, for your dinner reservation. It is hoped that as many as possible will come up on Friday to allow themselves a full weekend. Except for the dinner, there will be no formal program, experience having shown that none is necessary when the members of this distinguished class foregather. The Hanover Inn will have ample accommodation; make your own bookings.
The following new addresses are reported from the Alumni Records Office: Thomas P.Carpenter, 164 Lyons Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y.; Horton Conrad, 4615 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago 50, 111. (Mail), and 316 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, 111.; Kenneth B. Hill, 692 Main St., Hingham, Mass.; Robert P. Bingham, 814 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.; Richard C. Copeland, Star Rte. Box 8, Fresno, Calif.; Wallace S.Jordan, 29 Washington Sq. West, N. Y. 11, N. Y.; Philip B. Rifenberg, Rogers Peet Cos., 479 5th Ave., N. Y., and 446 Prospect St., East Orange, N. J. (Res.)
Remember that whenever you need the address of a classmate, a card to your secretary will bring a prompt reply.
An attempt is being made to fill in gaps in the existing record of all '25ers who have at one time or another held office in the class or served on any of its committees, including the executive committee, reunion committee, assistant class agents, or any others. All those who have so served are urged to send in a brief report, mentioning the jobs and the dates.
And don't forget to send in some pictures, as requested in the December Roundup. This applies to all members of the class.
The only '25er registered at the Hanover Inn between Thanksgiving and Christmas was John Whitbeck of Short Hills, N. J., with his son. The Boston luncheon group on December 10 included Clint Taylor, Lang Spring,Johnny Garrod, Ken Nugent, Bill Sleigh,Charlie Haywood, and Homer Tilton. Sleigh and Haywood told the stories, none of which, however, were included in Tilton's report of the proceedings.... Incidentally, Homer and your secretary have their initials back to themselves again and will no longer have to share them with the White House reporters,. ... Judge Parker Merrow was a principal speaker at the 45th Annual State Y.M.C.A. Older Boys Conference, held in Claremont, N. H., on November 21, 22, 23.... Paul Reed is now factory representative for Crosley Radio and T.V., covering all New England and living, between trips, in Hingham... . Bob Bishop reports, via Lin White, that he is doing "the same old thing," which, according to the 25th Year Report, was vice-presidenting Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
Recent weeks have seen friend Cupid at work among 1925's daughters, with the following results in chronological order. On December 6, 1952, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin S. Gutterman of Scarsdale, N. Y., announced the engagement of their daughter Eleanor to Mr. Melvin Goldberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris M. Goldberg of Mount Vernon. The wedding will take place in the spring. Miss Gutterman and her fiance are both alumni of Syracuse University where Mr. Goldberg, who served with the Army Air Force, has also taken his Master's degree.
Miss Charlotte Peabody, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Millard S. Peabody, of Hingham, Mass., was married on December 19, to Mr. John Randolph Paulling Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Paulling of Rome, Italy, and Kennett, Missouri. Mrs. Paulling is a Smith graduate. Mr. Paulling graduated from M.I.T. where is is now working toward his Master's degree in Naval Architecture and Engineering. They will live in Boston.
In Kansas City, Mo., on December 27, Miss Mary Lehman Winger, daughter of Mr. andMrs. George J. Winger was married to Mr. Richard Michael Swift, son of Mrs. John Philip Swift. They will make their home in Kansas City.
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Frederick HaffenrejjeiIII of Providence, announced the engagement of their daughter Virginia Louise, on January 3, to Ensign Harry Pharr Brightman USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Brightman of Clayton, Mo., and Washington, D. C. Miss Haffenreffer is an alumna of the Emma Willard School and Briarcliff Junior College. Her fiance graduated from Randolph-Macon Academy, and from Princeton University with the Class of 1952. He is stationed in Newport while attending the Naval School of Justice.
The following note on Lyle McKown is from The Weekly Underwriter for December 6, 1952, and was forwarded by Harry Clarke.
"Lyle McKown, a native of St. Paul, has distinguished himself in insurance since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1925. In that year he joined the Aetna Casualty & Surety's training school, later becoming special agent in Minneapolis for that company, where he served until 1929, when he became associated with Wirt Wilson & Cos. He has taken an active part in agency association affairs, and after serving as committeeman and vice president of the National Association of Casualty and Surety Agents, served as president 1951-1952. In October he was reelected to the presidency of that organization for another year.
In his home city Mr. McKown has participated in civic affairs, and is a former member of the board of directors of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce 1949-1952 and former chairman of a fund raising campaign Minneapolis Civic Council in 1949."
The thermometer hanging under the porico of the Hanover Inn is considered unreliable by local experts, but when it read six below zero on a morning in early January, the evidence of the senses was that it couldn't be far off. There was a quick flurry of snow and then the sky turned an incredibly clear blue, and that strange beauty hung upon the air which only comes of cold and sunlight combined. It is not remarkable that those of us who can be there for only a day or a few days at a time should find it lovely. What is more wonderful is that those who live there find it exciting too. You make a casual remark about the weather to a long-time resident, and he replies by describing enthusiastically how beautiful a light shone from new-fallen snow the day before. Nor is that an unusual reaction.
There is a general idea that beauty palls if we dwell with it too long. But this does not happen to those who live where they choose and do the work they have chosen to do. Hanover is blessed with many such, and in them burns a steadfast enthusiasm that spreads out from the campus like some subtle electromagnetic wave. It is a good thing, this enthusiasm, good for the undergraduates and good for all of us in a world grown sick with the surfeit of materialism. And out of this zest for living and this awareness of beauty have arisen the vigorous loyalties which make Dartmouth what it is.
Secretary, 104 Pond St., Natick, Mass. Treasurer, Elm Street, Norwich, Vt.
