1925
Spring seems far away as this is written, and when it is read winter will still be grimly hanging on in these parts. Pleasant reading, therefore, is a letter from Larry Leavitt about his recent holiday with Dorothy and their son Dick in Naples, Fla. Dick is now at the University of Maine, studying to be an elementary school teacher. Daughter Sally, who had her own second daughter last August, is now on the Island of Penang, off the Malay Coast, where her husband Ted, a Vermont Academy boy, is Vice-Consul. According to Larry, he and Dorothy are already under pressure to make a journey to those romantic regions. He writes further:
"With time marching on there aren't as many '25 sons here as there used to be. The peak now seems to be about the Class of '29. However, the class is still represented by the sons of Dr. Bill Calvert,Bob Can field, Eddie Griffin, Bill Jenkins, Dr. EddieOber. All but young Jenkins have been here at least a year. Perhaps you will recall that Bill Jenkins and I roomed together and I am getting quite a kick out of having his son here. Fortunately he takes after his mother."
Jack Roche was in Naples at the same time, while Caroline and Bob Pierce were 100 miles away in Miami. A picture in The MiamiHerald shows them in a box at the Orange Bowl Game with their daughter, Pat, her husband, Ed Mickler, and Secretary of Defense and Mrs. Wilson.
Recently registered at the Hanover Inn were Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Allen of West Newton, Mass., and Francis Brown of New York.
The Alumni Records Office reports the following new addresses: Frank Akin, P. O. Box 2073, Station A, Palm Beach, Fla.; Francis A.Leach, 1028 S. Hamlin Ave., Park Ridge, Ill.
Hal Stevens made headlines in the Boston papers recently by declaring that the files of the Metropolitan District Commission were "in an awful mess." A couple of years ago, the lone Republican Commissioner among four Democrats, he was denied access to the files. But this time they even assigned a clerk to help him and Hal is apparently going to town now that the political climate is more favorable. .. . Correction. ... Bob Bishop is no longer with Sylvania Electric Products as noted last month. In November 1952 he was appointed vice president in charge of sales for the Carpet Division of Alexander Smith, Inc. ... Eddie Edwards' daughter Susan is a sophomore at Russell Sage College, majoring in Physical Education, and a member of the Student Council. Can she pitch, Eddie? Johnny Garrod's son Myles '55 has left college to join the Navy.... Ralph Carey's son David is at Lawrenceville.... Ralph, who is New England Divisional Manager for the Shell Oil Co., gave a dinner the night before the recent Boston meeting at the New England Oil Industry Information Committee, in honor of Stan Smith, who is chairman of the National Committee. Other '25ers present were: GeorgeSprague, Lou Kimball, Nate Bugbee, FrankWallis, Woody Wilson, Johnny Garrod, and Ken Hill.
It comes to light through devious channels that Homer Tilton, one of this column's most valued correspondents, has laid claim to the cribbage championship of the Hilltop A. C. Whether this has any relation to his being treasurer of the said club is not disclosed.
. .. Karl Lipsohn is in charge of the Industrial Division of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. . . . Link Price has come back to Boston as head of the Northeastern Division of the Visking Corporation.... Capt. Phil Coykendahl's replacement at Squantum Naval Air Station is due in March, and Phil will probably put to sea again. A nautical nimrod, he got his deer near Lyme last fall within half an hour of the season's opening. .. . For the first time since he assumed office, your secretary announces with regret the death of a classmate, Francis Sidney Wilder. An obituary notice appears in the "In Memoriam" section of this issue.
Most of u.s have, on occasion, experienced the pleasant excitement of finding something dear and familiar in an unexpected place, as, for instance, turning in to a street in a foreign city and seeing the American flag. So it is when the name Dartmouth appears on a page without warning. Since this is being written the day before Lincoln's birthday, it is appropriate to recall such an instance. On Page 27 of Benjamin P. Thomas' new and excellent short biography of Lincoln, there is this paragraph:
"During the winter of 1831-32 young Lincoln became a regular attendant of the New Salem Debating Society. Here he met a more intelligent group of people, for New Salem had a budding intellectuality, inspired largely by Dr. John Allen, a graduate of Dartmouth who came west to improve his health. Besides starting the debating society, Allen also organized a temperance society and a Sunday school."
Who was this Allen? The General Catalog of Dartmouth College tells us only that he was born in Chelsea, Vt., in 1801, was a member of the Class of 1828, graduated from the Medical School, and died in 1863 in Petersburg, Ill. No opportunity is available at the moment to seek out more about him; that is a research which must wait on some future visit to Hanover. But even in these meager facts there is enough to stir the imagination, and to arouse a pride of fellowship with this young New Englander, ill and far from home, inspiring the "budding intellectuality" in which was nurtured, for a time, the brooding genius of the greatest American.
IN CHARGE OF SALES: Robert H. Bishop '25 has been named vice president, in charge of sales, for the Carpet Division of Alexander Smith, Inc. He was formerly vice president of Syivania Electric Products, Inc.
Secretary, 104 Pond St., Natick, Mass. Treasurer, Elm Street, Norwich, Vt.
