1925
By the time this reaches you, your reunion committee will have had its first full-dress meeting, a report of which will appear in the current Roundup. For those of you who do not read that lively journal, all that can be offered at this time is that the dates will be June 18, 19, and 20th, and that it will be a good party. Since the committee membership includes wives ex officio, the distaff side will be represented from the earliest stage of planning, thus insuring efficiency, economy, and refinement. All '25ers, of course, men and women alike, are invited to make suggestions, which may be addressed to chairman FrankWallis, 21 Estabrook Road, Phillips Beach, Swampscott, Mass., or to your secretary.
Some subtle magic of telepathy must have been at work during the first week of February. A mounting despair at the lack of factual material wherewith to justify this column was dispelled by a fine crop of letters from loyal classmates. The New York delegation had a successful dinner meeting with an excellent turnout at the Dartmouth Club on January 27. Brice Disque reports that Red Rolfe, new Director of Athletics, who spoke off-the-record, made a great hit and looks like being a worthy successor to Bill McCarter. Phil O'Connell had the happy idea of starting a round-robin letter at the table, beginning with a note of his own. He is now in the investment business in New York, after a good many years in Worcester, Mass. During recent travels, he saw Carl Clifton in Chicago, "an executive in an insurance company there, who can compete with Bud Petrequin and PerkFitch for the title of the youngest looking guy in 1925," as well as Pete Kelsey in San Francisco, who will be in Hanover for reunion, and Stan Litchfield in San Diego, who will do his best.
Bob Misch contributed to the letter an enquiry as to the availability of suitable male escorts (ages about 14 and 12) for his daughters (is and 9) during reunion; photographs on request. Bob has another story coming out in Esquire in April. Cliff Hill was happy to be able to make the dinner before taking off for The Hague, where he will spend several weeks on a special job for the Arabian American Oil Co., and thence to Saudi Arabia. But before that, he was to spend a day with Hillary of Mt. Everest 1 finally have a Harvard accent - got it at the Business School. No one can detect it, fortunately."
Jim Adams wrote the next paragraph: "My children are Jamie 13½; Audrey 8½; Johnny 6½; all of whom are schooling in the city - the eldest seems to be majoring in soccer and basketball.... I'm in the investment department of the New York Trust Co." DuckyWashburn next reported having "joined the Grandpappy's Club, son Clinton '51 and wife Laura having produced the requisite - a daughter, Nancy Dorcas, born January 22 in Elkhart, Indiana." Charlie Peterson was attending his first New York class dinner since moving into the area. Hawley Taft,Ed Childs, Perk Fitch, Jack Davis, and MiltEmerson all added words of greeting. Others present were Eddie Blake, Harry Clarke,Jibber Gutterman, Mart Huberth, Len Larrabee, Ross Pearl, Jack Per-Lee and WaltVomLehn.
George Sprague has been appointed advertising manager of Kendall Mills, textile producer, continuing also as merchandising manager. He has been with the company for the past 19 years.... Doug Archibald is now a director of Keyes Fibre Co. of Waterville, Me., producers of molded pulp products.... CarlSmith, president of the Maine Farm Bureau Association, was the principal speaker at a recent meeting of the Penobscot County Farm Bureau in Bangor Hal Elder, long active in many capacities in the community affairs of Amherst, Mass., has filed as a candidate for the office of selectman. It is to be hoped his fellow-citizens are wise enough to choose him Ed Pease stopped in Hanover recently to do some business with Mary Hitch- cock Hospital, while on his way to North Conway for some skiing. No connection between the two is implied.... Other recent visitors in Hanover included Mr. and Mrs.Les King, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bow den, Mr.and Mrs. Dan Harris, Mr. and Mrs. CharlieNeilson, Jock Brace, and Francis Brown.
Horton Conrad was married to Elsa Olmacher Patterson on December 31, 1953, in the Plymouth Church Chapel, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Other '25ers in attendance, with their wives, were Bob Reading, Bud Petrequin, and Tubby Washburn.... Having performed the same happy office for others on occasion, your secretary may now report that son Geoff '54 is engaged to Miss Jeanne Somes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Somes of Manchester, N. H. Jeanne graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1953 and is now teaching Art in Laconia. Geoff will enter medical school next fall.
Dot and Larry Leavitt will be off to Malaya on March 10. Two of the five weeks they will be gone will be spent with their daughter on the island of Penang, where her husband is serving in the consular service, and with their two granddaughters and a newly arrived grandson. On the way out and back, they will visit Larry's brother Leslie '16, who has been with the American University in Beirut for many years. In Karachi, they will also see an old friend, Ambassador Hildreth.
Fred Smith writes: "Although my residence is still Shadigee Acres, West Buxton, Me., just for the record it might be well to make a note that my business address is 52 First Street, Cambridge, Mass., and that for at least several days during the week, I make my temporary Boston residence at the University Club. For the last couple of years I have had my own business, being the New England distributor for several lines of industrial refrigeration and air conditioning equipment, and also several lines of ice cream and frozen food equipment. So, if any of the boys want to get cooled off, tell them to get in touch with me."
And here is a welcome note from BobHardy: "After having been semi-retired from the practice of law for several years, I have again become active. I am presently practicing at 515 Madison Avenue. Being again in town regularly, I hope any members of our class who are around these parts will take the opportunity, if they have the time, to call me or drop in and see me. Several years sojourn in Connecticut, where I still live, has sort of left me out of touch with many people whom I ordinarily see."
However unoriginal the observation that it's a small world, the individual incidents that seem to prove it so are always diverting. Ty Werner, referring to a paragraph in the Roundup last spring about the late E.B. Frost, writes that Professor Frost's son Frederick H. Frost is research manager of S.D. Warren and Co., paper manufacturers, of Cumberland Mills, Me., where Ty has been research chemist since 1934.. Mrs. Frost, now well over 80, is living in Florida, but spends her summers still at Williams Bay, Wis., near the Yerkes Observatory of which her husband was director, and Ty has visited her there. It is pleasant to learn that she enjoyed reading that brief note about one of Dartmouth's best known families.
In a sense, of course, any fellowship such as we share must make the world seem smaller. The very size of the present Dartmouth constituency makes it probable that we shall meet each other frequently in the highways and byways, and in so doing, generally, we meet friends. But size alone is not enough, and it is in the quality of these associations that their worth ultimately must be measured. It is fine to meet other Dartmouth men in our work or play, and enjoy with them the particular brightening of the spirit that such encounters generate. But it is more exciting still to think of the vast and goodly company we never meet, of free and vigorous minds, varied in their enterprises but sharing the same firm loyalties. In them lies the power to make this not only a small world for us, but a better world for everyone, and that is the real promise of the Dartmouth fellowship.
Secretary, 104 Pond St., Natick, Mass.
Treasurer and Bequest Chairman, Elm Street, Norwich, Vt.
