1925

For the first time in five years, your secretary is unable to make a personal report on the opening of College. Domestic duties and professional commitments have combined to make any trip to Hanover unlikely before November 5. This is the official announcement of the meeting of the executive committee to be held on that date, to which all members of the class are invited. The meeting is on Friday evening; the Columbia game will be played the next afternoon, and the weekend will be the occasion for 1925's annual informal fall reunion. Headquarters will be at the Norwich Inn. Make your reservations early.

Attention is directed to your secretary's new address, in the hope that the burden of your correspondence will be so great that the postman will wish those Talbots had never moved into his beat. In recent months there has been a most gratifying tendency of wives to write on behalf of their pen-shy husbands, and such letters are received with pleasure in their wit and penmanship alike. At the reunion last June, your secretary took occasion to express, however inadequately, recognition of the part played by the women of 1925 in the affairs of the Class and the College, as well as their help in lightening his burden. Later that day he was pursued by a messenger with a mysterious package which, having finally been delivered, turned out to be a very fine cook book, sent by one Kimball who suggested drawing on its pages to insure holding the interest of female readers. Now this was a welcome gift, for your secretary is one of those he-men who is not averse to trying his hand at the skillet from time to time. But there might be some lifting of editorial eyebrows at the appearance of recipes in these classic pages. Nor is it conceded that the women of this class, accomplished as they may be in the domestic arts, are not at least equally drawn by other interests. Bob Misch, our class gourmet, may rise at this point to asseverate that there are few interests more worthy than the preparation and appreciation of good food. To forestall any such protest, let it be understood that chaste and uplifting contributions on any subject are acceptable for the Roundup, excluding only politics and religion, but including matters poetical or philosophical, literary, antiquary, or culinary.

Helene and Walt Vom Lehn have just got back from a South American junket, but Helene's recent letter neglects that, to describe the marriage of their son Walt to Barbara, daughter of Frances and Mil Peabody. This was noted when the engagement was announced, as the first all '25 son-and-daughter union. Helene writes of the wedding, at Falmouth Foreside, Maine, on June 20:

"The young couple along with some 200 guests were blessed with ideal weather. Among the guests was a fair sprinkling of Dartmouth men, representing classes who graduated over fifty years ago, down to the Class of '54. Barbara, in addition to her father being a member of the Class of '25, also has two uncles from the Class - Bill Carter and the late Al Carter. Another uncle, Bing Carter '29 and a cousin, class unknown. Walt seems to have married into a family of the Dartmouth persuasion. This is not at all strange for Fran, for she is a member of another 'Great Class of 1925'; however, of Smith College. The couple spent their honeymoon in Canada and Maine. They took care of our house while we were away. At present, they are 'At Home' (much laughter) in the 'Wigwam Circle Barracks' in Hanover."

Walt is now in his second year at Dartmouth Medical School.

Hank Leffingwell, as reported by Marnie from Portland, Ore., retired from active business on January 1. "He has real estate and other interests that keep him mentally occupied and also presumably keep us in groceries. . . . He and Joan sailed our 28-foot dream boat down the Columbia, up the coast to Neah Bay, down the straits of Juan de Fuca to Victoria, and are now ready to start cruising. It's a wonderful country."

Regrettably, the name of Bob Borwell was omitted from the list of those present at last June's reunion. There may be others to whom apologies are similarly due and, if so, they are accordingly offered. The records of the Hanover Inn show at least a few '25ers to have been wandering about the campus during the summer, including Mr. and Mrs. Paul Deisroth, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Charlie Graydon, Mr.and Mrs. E. Hewitt, and Mr. and Mrs. JackRoche and son.

Here are some new addresses as received from the Alumni Records Office: Curtis A. Abel, Indian Point Lane, Riverside, Conn.; Milton K. Emerson, The United Piece Dye Works, North Charleston, S. C.; Thurston D. Frost, Fishtail, Mont.; Prof. Paul K. Hartstall, 1209 35th St., N.W., Washington 7, D. C.; Charles R. Jameson, Plain Rd., Wayland, Mass.; Henry R. Johnson Jr., 34 Webber, Springfield, Mass.; Jack H. Per-Lee, 1 Dudley Lane, Larchmont, N. Y.; Wilson E. Gardner, Crucible Steel Co. of America, P. O. Box 799, Newark 1, N. J.; John D. Jacob, 800 E. Marshall St., W. Chester, Pa.; Donald B. Lawson, G. R. Armstrong Co., 139 High St., Boston, Mass.; Robert C. Saunders, Electronics Engineer, Dept. Comm., c/o CAA, P.O. Box 5068, Roanoke 12, Va.; Dan Duffin, 1914 Onedia Ave., Utica, N. Y.; Thomas K. Gedge, Advertising, Box 1492, Orlando, Fla.; Charles W. Graydon, U.S.A.F., 1703 Post Office & Court House, Boston 9, Mass.; Robert C. Hardy, Ridgefield Rd., Wilton, Conn.; Donald S. Kilby, 669 Beach Rd., Sarasota, Fla.; Langston Moffett, American Express Co., Florence, Italy; Don W. Moore, 227 East 57th St., N.Y.C. 22; Daniel J. Matthews, Box 207, Manchester, N. H.; Edward D. Quint, 18995 Birchcrest Drive, Detroit 21, Mich.; James J. Winn, 114 Madbury Rd., Durham, N. H.

Dave Ames on leave in England from his post with the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company in Colombo, Ceylon, writes:

"Life in Ceylon is not very different, really. We work hard under some rather trying conditions and as a compensation we live quite well by U.S.A. standards. Ceylon is a very beautiful place, and a visit to its jungles, which are so lovely, friendly and so full of game, is an experience long to be remembered. ... But after nearly thirty years, one gets tired of it, and now I'll return to my job at the end of this year for only one more year of work, after which I retire."

Never of the stop-press variety at best, the news this month is even more distinguished than usual in tardiness, for it represents the accumulated odds and ends of the whole summer, some of which were already elderly when they arrived. Karl Lipsohn has been appointed editor of Boston Business, the monthly magazine of the greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. ... Ralph Carey was recently honored in recognition of the completion of 25 years of service with the Shell Oil Co., of which he is now division manager for New England. ... Frank Wallis, with no reunion duties ahead for a few years, is serving on a committee investigating school needs in Swampscott, where he lives. . . . Butch Sailer, teaching English in Orange, N. J., High School has prepared a brochure, "Toward Better Newspaper Reading," published by the Newark Evening News and designed primarily for the direction of high school teachers. . . . JockBrace was recently guest of honor at a dinner celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Worcester County Trust Co. and was awarded a scroll inscribed as follows: "Presented to Lloyd DeWitt Brace, president of the First National Bank of Boston, the oldest bank in the United States, by the Worcester County Trust Company at a dinner commemorating its 150th Anniversary Year in recognition of 141 years of friendly and continuous association between the two banks."

One of the rewards of serving the Class or College in any capacity is the feeling of being close to the great and important business of education, and a sense of rejuvenation as its machinery starts rolling each fall. There is no such awareness of the beginnings of high enterprise when the calendar year starts. But when pencil boxes burgeon in Woolworth's windows and sports writers begin to babble of T-formations, when "back to school" is in the air, then there is everywhere a sense that one of the year's great events is taking place. Part of it, of course, takes place in Hanover where once again a new generation of Dartmouth men is being born. May they share in fullest measure the richness of the experience from which we have drawn so full a measure of satisfaction. We can wish them no better.

'26 ENCOUNTER occurs when Tom Murdough (r), newly elected president of theAmerican Hospital Supply Corp. in Chicago,meets Hal Marshall, transferred there fromBoston, as vice president and general managerof Kendall Co.

Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass.

Treasurer, R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N. J.

Bequest Chairman,