1942
One trouble with writing the class notes so far in advance was pointed up sharply last month. By the time you read about the engagement announcements for Ralph Morrison and Dick Remsen respectively, both lucky guys were already old married folk. Dick claimed Anne Powell for his bride on Long Island in September during hurricane Edna. Jack Tobin was one of the ushers. Ralph and Geraldine Caron were married in August in Reading, Mass., with Charlie Brown as an usher. Among the more eligible bachelors who attended the latter spectacle and observed the new bride approvingly were BobBurdett and Paul Vaitses.
The stork has been a busy guy if my mail is any criterion. Murray and Marjorie Latz had their first child, a boy. Bill and KarenHolmes announced the birth of their third boy. From Tulsa comes word that Bud andMarion Ruffner also racked up a third boy. From the way these are running Dartmouth's future enrollment is due for a boost. Sid andMercia Bull report from Lynnfield Center, Mass., a second son born last summer. Sid toyed with the idea of going into the lumber business a few months ago when the celebrated hurricanes left his front yard littered with fallen trees.
Bob and Helen Waldron had a busy time last summer in Detroit. They moved their home and had a new baby boy. Then Bob hung out his law shingle in a new office. To climax this series of events Bob won the district nomination to the state legislature over a Yale man and a Princeton man. Go Dartmouth!
Ev Johnson has lived in Montgomery, Ala., for the last six years, employed by the New York Underwriters as State Agent. Last month he and Fran and the two children moved to Atlanta, Ga., where he will be Georgia State Agent. The baby Laura was born in September.
It's another girl for Charlie and Judy Weinberg. Charlie is busy building a 134-home development in Yonkers, N. Y. Speaking of girls, Fred and Nell Nichols just had their fifth daughter. Once a ladies man, etc. The delivery was performed by Dr. Ted Arico. Fred reports that Dr. Herb Morrison is still in the Navy stationed at the Ammunition Depot in Hingham, Mass.
Dick Cardozo has me a bit baffled since his card postmarked September 15, 1954, announced the birth of their first child, Christopher, born November 22, 1954. Dick is senior assistant resident surgeon at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and, if he is that good a prognosticator, he has it made.
The past summer also saw a couple of our more prominent sailors distinguish themselves. Charlie Kingsley placed fourth in the National Raven Class Championship series in New York. Charlie has been a pilot for Eastern Airlines for eight years. Al Priddy not only had a successful racing season at Harwich Port, Mass., but also rode out both Hurricane Carol and Hurricane Edna unscathed aboard his anchored cruiser. Al is secretary of the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association of North America. He helped to entertain and schedule meets for six Oxford University students who were in this country to sail against our college groups through September.
The Democratic candidate for State Senator from the North Hempstead and Oyster Bay Township area of New York is Creat Neck lawyer, East Birkett. The only other political note is the word that Jim Mulligan is a Republican Alderman in New Britain, Conn, Results of these and other crucial fall elections will be relayed to you as soon as they are available.
Among the vacationers on Cape Cod last summer were Fran and Alex Hooker with their two daughters. They also stopped in to visit John and Marty Garretson at their cranberry bog in Marshfield, Mass. Al was just made assistant professor of Romance Languages at Ripon College where he has been teaching for four years. This promotion was the result of his receiving his D.M.L. degree from the Middlebury College Spanish School this past summer.
John Wright at Transylvania College in Kentucky recounts seeing Bob Campbell who came down to Lexington from Vermont Academy to make a film of President Eisenhower's visit celebrating the College's 175th anniversary. Bob Blood last, summer took time off from teaching at the University of Michigan to write a book, Anticipating Your Marriage.
Gordie McKernan attended the summer session at the University of New Hampshire to work on his Master's degree. Martin Kleckner writes that he is now assistant professor of medicine, Tulane University of Louisiana School of Medicine, and head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, La. Did you say gastroenterology, Marty?
Of all the mail I have before me the card that made the biggest impression on me was the one from John Sewall in which he apologized for not making his writing more legible. John wrote the card while lying flat on his back in a hospital, where he has been since he was stricken with polio. John has been working for eight years as an aeronautical research scientist for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Bolio hit him while he and Nell and their two children were vacationing late in August near Hendersonville, N. C. He can hold cards and letters in his hand, although his movements are still quite restricted. His address is Medical College of Virginia Annex, Richmond, Va„ and any notes from his classmates and friends should be most welcome.
For those of you who missed the September 27 issue of Life, the magazine had a story entitled "Roundup in the Arctic" featuring Arctic Expert John Teal. An anthropologist who has spent years in arctic research, John headed an eight-man expedition into northwestern Canada to round up musk oxen. After a month they returned to Vermont with three calves. They hope to demonstrate that musk oxen can be raised profitably in northern New England.
G-Man Duke Frieman, now operating in New York, ran into John on Rockefeller Plaza a week after the musk ox chase. After grilling the suspect, Duke determined that John went to Harvard after his freshman year at Dartmouth. Probably after a year of rooming with Jim Farley in Crosby, chasing a musk ox seems pretty tame.
Dr. H. Allison Thompson, Waban, Mass., dentist, reports that he is still a couple behind five-girl-man Fred Nichols, but closing fast.
The response to the first word from CharlieSturz on class dues this year was very encouraging. The Sturz plan for an early fall dues campaign is apparently a success. Now, my fellow procrastinators, if we rally around and each shoot in our five bucks, the class coffers will be up to a respectable level.
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