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This year's Alumni Fund campaign should be tops for all time - and no question about it - of Paul Sample's lovely Ledyard Bridge painting evokes the same fond memories among other classes that it does among his fellow Twenties. Nineteen years gone, the bridge is still there to most of us, who can smell its musty smell and feel the creak of its rattling timbers before the long pull uphill to the Hanover Plain.
Your Roving Reporter made a quick check with Class Agent Stan Newcomer in Monroe, Mich., just a few days before this issue went to press. All appeared to be under control. Rightly recalling the comparative success of last year's campaign, Stan was relying again on much the same corps of right-hand men to make the phone calls and the follow-ups. Necessarily, Boston, New York and Chicago, being the centers of our class population, will likewise be the centers of activity. ButtonsHill, from the quiet of his rural retreat at 20 Dartmouth St., Rutland, Vt. (an address that required some new mapmaking in those Vermont hills), will broaden somewhat his field of operations. Al Frey will again carry out the special assignment which he handled so well last year.
The news of Agent Newcomer himself is that he has acquired a new vacationing place in his favorite hunting and fishing region, on St. Helen's Lake to the north of Monroe. Stan says he's been having conversations with Paul Giffin, First of Michigan financier, looking toward an early reunion with GeorgeVincent. George comes by every so often to see how his older daughter is doing; her husband works with Stan at Consolidated Paper. Incidentally, any time you want to check up on Stanley Jacob Newcomer's career, you'll find him on the same page of Who's Who inAmerica with Herman Wilson Newell; and that page (1978) may be the only one in the book that tells the stories of two classmates from the same college.
March 4 marked the arrival of David Robert Norris, whose father is a lieutenant colonel in the Pentagon and whose maternal grandfather is Bob Van Iderstine. David is Bob's fourth grandchild. The pleased grandpappy phoned the news on one of his monthly trips to New York, and added that he is enjoying a life of semi-retirement on Gibson Island, just twenty minutes from downtown Baltimore. Must be o.k. to be holed up for old age on the premises of a former exclusive club.
Florida Frolickers. The Hillsboro Club of Pompano, Fla., a spot favored by Sec. Ernie Earley '18, also saw quite a bit of Jack Brotherhood this past winter. Jack is another recent grandfather, according to unverified reports. Your secretary tangled in recent weeks with the almost infallible Alumni Records Office, which insisted upon moving Twenty's Jack Brotherhood to Hartford as an account executive with an advertising firm. While conceding his versatility, we stood firm with our doubts, until it developed that Jack Jr. '50 is the up-state Connecticut huckster. Our Jack will return in warm weather to his New Canaan real estate holdings Rus Keep,
when interviewed late in March, was stowing the gear in his car for a three-week southern tour, most of which would be spent in Florida. His itinerary was to include a stop at Ponte Vedra and then a week or more at Miami Beach Paul Richter took Lillian to National Life's annual convention at Hollywood Beach; found himself in the good company of John Cunningham '18, Larry Eastman '19, and Bob Burroughs 'si; attended a luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Miami and ran across classmate Chuck Garnsey, who deals in electrical supplies in that part of the state.
Gerry Stone, off March 14 on one of his cross country jaunts - forty states in four weeks or something of the sort - promised to be back for the class dinner in New York April 13. En route he might have encountered HalBid-well, whose 11,000 miles of winter travel were clocked mostly in the south and southwest. Hal said hello in Tucson to Ted Fellowes, who sent back regards to one and all. The Al Freys also felt the call of the wide open spaces and spent their two weeks of Easter vacation with daughter Janet, son-in-law Bill, and the passel of grandchildren in Texas.
A mellow word of cheer from sun-baked class treasurer Roscoe Elliott and good wife Dolly reads as follows: "We are on a West Indies, South America cruise - Caracas, St. Thomas, Curacao, Kingston, Havana. Please advise classmates their funds are still intact." Now, byway of contrast with those languorous lines, put on your greatcoat and galoshes and ponder this March 16 dispatch to the BostonHerald (courtesy of Bud Weymouth):
A Worcester' physician, marooned last week m the frozen wastes of Labrador, is safe and well. Dr. Erwin C. Miller, a director of the Grenfell Mission Association, who was to have returned home last weekend, spent the time instead isolated on the northern coast of Labrador, in what a wire to his wife termed "Eskimo country." Over the weekend she received a cable saying he had arrived at a settlement. Earlier this winter Dr. Miller fell through the ice and nearly froze a foot, she said.
Fuller details are reserved for our next issue.
Sherm Adams looked tired but determined (and why shouldn't he?) when interviewed of a mid-March evening at his new home on the edge of Rock Creek Park. There is greenery fore and aft the place, and a peacefulness that smells more of New Hampshire than of Washington. John O'Donnell of the New YorkDaily News, who views with some alarm the stubborn side of Sherm's character, says that
"he's needled up Senator Joseph R. McCarthy by creating the suspicion that he's behind the Eisenhower statements about respectful treatment for Army officers called before Congressional committees." Less controversial matters have been dealt with (1) by columnist Hy Gardner, who points out that "Presidential assistant Sherman Adams is still identified on his White House mailbox as 'Governor' (2) by the New York Herald Tribune's "Teletype from Washington" on March 21, sounding this happy note: "One of the most unusual birthday parties ever held in the White House was celebrated in the staff cafeteria recently. The party wasn't for anyone in the White House. It was for Robert Frost, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and friend of Sherman Adams. The two share a deep love for New Hampshire"; and (3) by Newman Wright, Washington correspondent for the Passaic-Clinton (N. J.) Herald-News, who finds something in common between Sherm and Passaic's PaulCanada. "They were classmates at Dartmouth," said his February 13 dispatch, "and both are assistants to presidents. Mr. Adams' boss is President Eisenhower. Mr. Canada is assistant to George Young Jr., president of the Passaic-Clifton National Bank and Trust Company."
Craig Sheaffer, who appears to have thought he could get away with the leisurely-sounding function of "consultant" to the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co., has been told "no soap" in so many words by the management of the company. Craig has again been elected a director and has resumed the chairmanship of the board. ... Another of our too few lowa Twenties, Rog Finkbine, sends a thumbnail sketch of his career, as welcome as it is modestly brief: "Ever since I left Dartmouth and after a short time in the Navy, I have been in the retail and wholesale lumber business here in lowa (300 Southwest 9th St., Des Moines), but don't find many excuses to get East." Rog has been abjured to find plenty of them around June, 1956.
The Littleton (N. H.) Courier informs us that Francis G. Moulton was unanimously elected moderator of the Union School District meeting on March 14, at which meeting "a budget of $185,685.98 was approved without discussion and the entire business completed in a few minutes." Handwriting on the wall, perhaps, for the co-chairman's handling of class business at our forthcoming 35th?... Sherry Baketel's article, "Insurance Is a Business," appeared in a fall issue of The BetaTheta Pi magazine It's always good to see the by-line of the late Ray McPartlin's daughter Joan on a Boston Globe feature story. One of her latest was a full-page piece on the terrific job done by women traffic officers in a dozen Massachusetts communities.
HUNTERS' LUCK: Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs '21 (l) with his friend Lt. Gen. Samuel Anderson, 5th U. S. Air Force Commander in Korea, have unusual success in the Seoul area, when they brought down 32 ducks and four geese in two hours of moonlight shooting.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y.
Class Agent, 438 E. Elm Ave., Monroe, Mich.
