1925
The venerable gents of 1923, who will share our reunion weekend, seem certain that their attendance will exceed ours, basing this opinion on their superior numbers. But 1925's record for its 25th, never equalled before nor since, shows that there are other considerations than mere size. Those who are privileged to serve as Class officers have been in a position to watch, especially during the past five or six years, the development of an increasing sense of individual and group responsibility toward the College, a sort of crystallization of devotion which has carried with it a deepening appreciation of the fellowship it represents. To such a group, a reunion is not only a fine outing for the whole family - although it is that too — but an opportunity to savor that fellowship and reaffirm that devotion. The date again, June 18, 19, and 20. Send in your card as soon as you can.
Mails from Hanover have been fairly heavy lately, what with reunion and the Alumni Fund, but there has been little from other parts of the country. As Charlie Haywood put it in a recent note, "As for items of Class news, I wish I could help you more. Our classmates are the kind of citizens who stay out of the news for the most part. The best I can do is what the man in the railroad signal tower does when he sees the hot-shot freight rumble by and disappear around the bend. He reports to the Dispatcher that No. 62 just went through on time and with no hot boxes or dragging brake beams. So can I report to you a few good order train movements: FrankWallis, Bill Sleigh, Clint Taylor, Hal Stevens. We have our Class luncheons at the Boston Yacht Club - very nice, the grub is good and we keep tabs on what is going on out in the harbor. Sometimes we have only a corporal's guard present and sometimes a platoon." (Note: - the luncheons are held on the second Wednesday of every month at 12:30 P.M. Those interested should communicate with Johnny Garrod, 47 Colburn Road, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.)
Dick Gratz of Trans-World Airlines, long resident in Paris, has been nominated a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. The citation in the Journal Officiel read, "For services rendered to French aviation, notably in the domain of telecommunications." Dick, incidentally, is most anxious for '25ers who find themselves in Paris to get in touch with him.
So far as your secretary knows, - and he will gladly stand corrected — it comes to pass for the first time that a 1925 son and a 1925 daughter have become engaged. Not only that, but the son is himself a Dartmouth man, and the daughter goes to Smith, which is in a sound tradition. Mr. and Mrs. Millard S. Peabody of Falmouth Foreside, Portland, Me., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Barbara Brown Peabody, to Walter O. VomLehn '53, son of Mr. and Mrs. WalterR. VomLehn of Yonkers, N. Y. Barbara is a senior at Smith, Walt in his first year at Dartmouth Medical School. They will be married during the coming summer.
Dick Colton has been elected vice-president and a member of the board of directors of Lykes Bros. Steamship Company, Inc. He will retain his title of vice president of Lykes Brothers Company, Inc., the New York subsidiary of the Steamship Company. Nate Bugbee adds to his many other duties by having been elected president of the Newton, Mass., Community Chest for 1954.
Recently registered at the Hanover Inn were Bill Barker, Ed Yates, and Bill Calvert. And here are a few new addresses from the Alumni Records Office: Horton Conrad, 2323 Warrensville Center Road, Cleveland 18, Ohio; James Curry, 226 Main St., Williamstown, Mass.; Dan Duffin, 728 Broad Street, Utica, N. Y.; Mark F. Emerson, Friends Central School, 68th and City Line Ave., Philadelphia 31, Pa.; Robert C. Reynolds, P.O. Box 345, Bronxville, N. Y.; Harold C. Sweet, 24396 W. Seven Mile Road, Detroit 19, Mich.; Donald P. Cameron, Milolii School, Hookena, Hawaii; Edward V. Earle, U.S.A. Operations Mission (Special Technical and Economic Mission) to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, c/o American Consulate, Hanoi, Vietnam, Indo-China; Richard K. Pierce, 1256 Nicholson Ave., Lakewood, Ohio.
Bob Hardy, just back from a trip South, writes in to give assurance that he will be in Hanover on June 18....Ben Wemtz reports that he and his wife returned from a late winter holiday in Hawaii to be greeted by twenty inches of snow in Cleveland. "This," he writes, "is probably a good thing. The phones don't ring, we have no callers, so I hope to be able to add up my tax return correctly this time and without confusion, which will be something new for the local tax collector. I am planning to be at the reunion in June." Pauline and Bob Rhoades sailed recently on the Queen Elizabeth for some weeks of touring in France, Italy, Switzerland and England. In Milan they will attend an industrial arts exhibit Completing the travel roster for this month, Ellie and Frank Wallis took off on April 12 for a European junket, to be gone until May 25. Lin White will carry on, meanwhile, as acting chairman of the reunion committee. Frank has promised to make a personal report in the Class tent on June 18 on the quality of the martinis which are said to be sold at ten cents apiece in Majorca.
Barry Mahool, unfortunately, will not be able to make the reunion.
"I have been in Egypt now for just a year," he writes, "as advisor to the Egyptian State Broadcasting System. It is a tremendously fascinating job - particularly at this time. My wife and little daughter Pam - 7½ years - joined me here shortly after I arrived. We find life more than pleasant. Pam enjoys her school and is making progress in her Arabic. Can't say the same for myself as far as Arabic goes, - I suppose because I didn't have the foresight to include it in my courses at Dartmouth. My stay here is rather indefinite. I originally came for eight months but the Egyptian authorities seem to want me to stay on. At present I am committed to stay through July. Then we will see how much longer. In any event, I won't be back in time for reunion, but be sure to give my best to all the '25ers who will be in Hanover."
Institutions, like the men who found and maintain them, are fallible and imperfect. Occasionally they falter, and so Dartmouth may fail a man once in a while - fail to awaken in him an awareness of being part of something real and important. Of such a man it may perhaps be said that he owes the College nothing; it has no claim on him. Happily, he is an exception. For most of us, the question is not that of recognizing an obligation, but of the extent to which we are prepared to go to make certain that this particular institution may remain strong and free. For the ultimate measure of its worth will in large part be an expression of the sacrifices of those who would not see its purpose fail.
Secretary, 104 Pond St., Natick, Mass.
Class Agent, 80 Eastlawn Drive, Teaneck, N. J.
