1925
Around the time this is published, your secretary lucky guy will be in Hanover for the annual meeting of class officers. It is, perhaps, no accident that this comes at a time when the Alumni Fund campaign is going into the stretch, but money raising is not the whole story by any means. This is also a time for being brought up to date on the affairs of the College, and stimulated and refreshed by a spring weekend in Hanover. Above all. there is the privilege of fellowship with a group of men who gladly serve the College, represent- ing truly the larger fellowship of Dartmouth men all over, whose loyalty and devotion have made it great.
The April 8 meeting of the Boston Luncheon Club was by way of being a send-off for Phil Coykendall, who has left for his new station on the West Coast. Others present were Eddie Pease, just back from a trip to New Orleans, Johnny Garrod, Ell Waring, Ken Hill,Karl Lipsohn, Les King, Ben Bowden, and Homer Tilton. Apparently the conversation at these gatherings turns more and more to schemes for retirement which, at our time of life, must surely be a symptom of precocious prosperity.
Robert E. Pike has moved to 725 Westwood Ave., Long Branch, N. J. Bob has written a book of north country tales, "Spiked Boots" to be published soon by the Falmouth Publishing House of Manchester, Me.
Following are other addresses, with occupation given when known. And just as a suggestion when you write in to the Alumni Records Office or to your secretary with a change of address, a note as to your current doings will be welcome, and will help to keep the archives up to date: Albert C. Horton, Public Accountant, 92 State St., Boston, Mass.; James O. Martin, 2345 N. nth St., Phoenix, Ariz.; Philip T. Molloy, 1103 Larchmont Lane, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Ross E. Pearl, Ponus Ridge Rd., New Canaan, Conn.; Preston B. Tanner, 7404 Fontana, Prairie Village 15, Kansas; Rensselaer D. Halsey, Insurance, 906 South St., Peekskill, N. Y.; John S. Packard, Hotels, Toy Town Tavern, Winchendon, Mass.; Howard A. Schroedel, Engineer, 1136 Waverly Rd., Gladwyn, Pa.; Norman W.Strickland, Banking, 40 Water St., Boston 6, Mass.
Dick Plummer, living in Mexico City, represents an old engineering consulting firm, Arthur D. Little, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., in Latin America. His son Frank graduates from Vale this year. Another son, James, is studying the violin.... George Stevens was married on March 1 in Needham, Mass., to Mrs. Helen Kimball Reynolds.... Newt Tobey is apparently a leading member of the Chicago Curling Club, enough so to have got his picture in the Chicago Tribune complete with bonnet and broom... Dodie and Tippy Towers' son, Walter Jr., was married on April 4 in Newington, Conn., to Miss June Bernadine Fresen. The bride is a graduate of Skidmore, the groom a senior at Union College.
Jibber Gutterman writes that he is still pumping away as vice president and general manager of the National Heat Control Corporation in New York. His son Dan '52 is at Harvard Law School, and his daughter Eleanor, whose engagement was reported here some time ago, married on March 29.... Brad Foss Jr., representing Choate School, was a finalist in the New England interscholastic wrestling tourney held early in March.
And here, in response to a request for news, is a welcome and prompt reply from GeorgeJoslyn of Windcliff House, Route 2, South Haven, Mich.
"Life has treated me pretty well, on the whole; I am sure, much better than I have deserved. I am losing a slow battle with arthritis of the spine, but so far it has not totally incapacitated me, and I can still play golf, after a fashion. After 13 years in business, I retired to become a fruit farmer and summer resort operator. It is healthfull congenial work, and leaves me plenty of free time in the winters for travel. We usually go to California for a couple of months.
"I have two sons in the Armed Forces, one with the Air Force, one with the Army; another son in his junior year at Stanford, a fourth son in military academy at San Rafael, Calif.; one daughter recently graduated from Bryn Mawr, and another is at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. When they all get to work on building families, we should have quite a clan to gather 'round the old folks.
I see a good deal of Ken Parker and his family. Ed Dodez, Eddie Roessler, Ken and I and our wives held a jolly reunion of our own here at Windcliff about two years ago. We plan another some time soon.
"Thank you for remembering 'Moonlight Sonata.' I shall play it again tonight for old times' sake."
It would seem that "losing" is scarcely the adjective to describe George's battle with a painful and chronic disease.
Recalling that he won a prize in college for "promise in English Literature," Don Moore reports that this promise is now being fulfilled by the composition of sundry comic strips, chief of which at present is "Jungle Jim." He is also writing a series of television space operas Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers" (C.B.S. Saturday mornings if you want to tune in). Don lives in New York, has been freelance writing for some years, and gets away from it all whenever he can, to take underwater movies in the Virgin Islands.
Writing these notes and going through class records are a reminder that any human experience must be compounded, in its ultimate validity, of all the experience of all the humans who have shared it. The essence of Dartmouth is as strong and varied as the hearts and minds of all her sons. The strength of our association may lie in what we have shared, but its sweetness and savor derive as well from what we felt in solitude and learned of our inward selves. The meaning of Dartmouth is not for one man to write, but only what Dartmouth means to him. And that too, for most of us, changes and grows deeper even as our own college years recede further and further. For puny man has in this wise turned implacable time to his own uses, enriching his present with the "remembrance of things past," and none of them dearer than Dartmouth, bless her name.
Secretary, 104 Pond St., Natick, Mass. Class Agent, 80 Eastlawn Drive, Teaneck, N. J
