1940
Easter eve. Much to be done in preparation for our fourth child due less than three weeks away. But I can't duck the deadline for this column. It's okay this time a number of you have been very good to write it helps a lot!
A fine letter from Dr. Stuart M. Anderson, from Augusta, Me., where he, Elaine and their two boys, Stephen, 7, and Jim, 3, are holding forth at 8 Porter Street while Stu plods toward his Board certification in general surgery. Stu says: "Through you and your column I would like to send my best (and a request to any and all for communication) to all '4O members of the Medical School (D.M.S. '4l). Have read papers by some of these in the surgical literature, but it's a cold way to hear from them."
In reply to my recent comments in connection with Bob Skinner's letter, Rick Davidson has penned the following:
"Maybe this is a carry-over from the necessity of writing to our friend the Collector of Internal Revenue last night, but since I never write a letter to anyone, perhaps it's a good result from our annual penalty. My ever-loving wife and definitely devoted Dartmouth follower has been regularly giving me the devil as each issue of the MAGAZINE arrives with no mention of our prospective applicants to the College so here goes on our family. Wife Ellen, who thoroughly enjoyed our tenth reunion and is looking forward to the fifteenth, leads daughter Leslie Anne, aged 5, and sons, Davey and Andy, aged 3 years and 7 months, respectively, to complete the team. Currently, I am located in New York City as chief of construction for Eggers & Higgins, architects. After being on the builder's end of the business for awhile with Barr, Gleason & Barr, builders, it is interesting to see the other side of the picture."
From our latest address changes it appears that Don McCaffrey is back on active duty as a Lt. USMCR, residing at 1306 Graydon St., Falls Church, Va. Another military man, Lieut. Pete Basquin (Edmond A.) has been transferred from his weather service duties in Washington, D. C., to the U.S. Navy Post Graduate School, Monterey, Calif. Perhaps happier than they is Major Bob O'Brien who has just come out of the Air Force after spending nine of his last 11 years in that outfit.
Don Rainie has forwarded a newspaper clipping showing Garry Allen's wife Lucille interviewing some of the local political talent in Laconia, N. H., where she is active in the League of Women Voters. My records haven't caught up with Garry, himself, yet the last entry on the card shows him flying with American Overseas Airlines.
Now that Stet Whitcher is the Alumni Fundflag bearer for the class, Fred Porter can relaxand enjoy it. He doesn't quite know what tothink, judging by the following excerpts froma recent letter written while he passed thenight in Northampton:
"It's almost like being in a vacuum, this absolute lack of mail and Alumni Fund instructions. But oh, am I glad to bow out! We settled on a house in Essex, Conn, last week and will move about the middle of June. I would be in a frightful spot trying to handle both the move and the Fund job. We are very pleased with our new place and feel that the town and the geographic location will have a lot to offer.
"Bedding down in Wiggin's Tavern tonight, and the noise outside my window reminds me not of Northampton but Hanover. Must be this wonderful spring day we've had. Why am I not about ten years younger (at least!) ? Ann warned me that if I made any advances they would think I was the father of one of the lovely young things!
"We had a letter from Janet Funkhouser just the other day and learned that Dick Funkhouser's family has been having a lot of sickness this past winter. We had missed Funk's usual visit and were afraid that they had some kind of trouble. Talked with Ed Curtis in Portland a few weeks ago. He's fine and busy in his furniture business. Afraid that's all I have to report. Perhaps the coming of summer will liven things up a bit."
Dr. Bill Sinclair is occupying the dual role of pathologist and director of clinical pathological laboratories at the Lutheran Hospital, in Cleveland, having completed his residency in pathology at the University Hospital in 1949. He was moved to write us after running across a mutual friend of ours while enjoying some skiing at North Conway recently. Apparently, Bill labors about 50 weeks of the year to take that long trip from Cleveland to New Hampshire for his favorite sport. Actually, since Gorham was both his and his wife Joan's home before he attended Dartmouth, and Bill has a brother who is a Grafton County Forester in Lincoln, N. H., he's really going back home when he travels New Hampshire-ward. Speaking of another '40 medical man, Bill says that he sees Bill Huffman about every day making his rounds in Lutheran Hospital to see his patients there.
Dick Bowman notes receiving news from Bob Gensel concerning a new child and new house for the Gensels. Last count we had put Bob's family lineup as follows: wife Didi, daughter Diane, nearly 10, and son Dick, newly 6.
Reading the latest release from the National Industrial Conference Board the other day, I noted that economist Ted Gates (Theodore R.) has added another to his list of readable research pieces. This one, entitled "Birth of a Tax," appears in the Business Record of March 1953.
Syd, Craig's formal announcement reached us yesterday to inform us that he and a lad named Martin have formed a partnership for the general practice of law, address: Martin & Craig, Suite 114, 134 S. LaSalle St., Chicago 3-
Bill (architect) Halsey and wife Tipi have brought forth a new baby boy, named Michael Ashbaugh, to join their little girl. He was born March 7, weighing 7 pounds and 7 ounces, and he appears to be a handsome lad as well as a lucky number, judging from the snapshot that accompanied the birth announcement.
A third son, David Lane, was born December 30, 1952, to Jim Young and wife Janet.
Without malice aforethought, I quoted a rather inhumane blurb about Jack Rourke in last month's column. I took it from a Hollywood scoop sheet, which as usual was forwarded to me by one of Jack's confreres on the Coast. Unfortunately, and sadly too, my attempt at facetious reporting came off poorly, for it appeared in print just as Jack and Joan were mourning the loss of one of their twin baby girls born in mid-February. What can one say I felt terrible.
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