1916
ABOUT THE TIME THIS ISSUE OF THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE REACHES YOU, part of the Class, and I hope a fairly large part of it, will be enjoying the In-Betweener at Lake Fairlee, and we hope the number will be increased over what it is at this writing. It should be a restful but exhilarating weekend with old friends amid beautiful surroundings, as the travel folders would say.
Ev Parker's daughters are distinguishing themselves, Polly having been elected to the Cum Laude Society at Emma Willard School, and Betsey receiving the Distinguished rating (the highest what comes) in citizenship at Abbot.
John Meek, Dartmouth's Treasurer and former member of our Washington, D. C., lunch club, visited Denver and the itinerary and program he took on would have worn Mrs. Roosevelt out, meeting with prospective entrants to Dartmouth, addressing clubs, etc. Perc Burnham was in Denver for a time, having a hospital check-up prior to retirement from the Army, and had some reunions with Ev. Perc later went on back to Seattle, stopping for a breather at the famous Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. As we recall, Perc liked the West Coast and will probably spend his retirement there, since Aline likes it too. This is merely our guess, however.
In this issue there is an obituary for Du ValGoldthwaite, whom most of you will remember as "Goldie," the freshman end who caught a forward pass and scored against Dean Academy to gain a tie for our 1916 team in a rough and bloody battle. Goldie left late in freshman year, intending to go to Cornell, but ended up at Harvard, achieved business success and probably worked himself to death.
Alvin Caiman is now Professor Caiman of Upsala College, East Orange, N. J., and resides in that town. Dutch Doeneclte promoted a 1916 dinner at the Dartmouth Club on May 11 but I haven't heard how it came out. We used to have some fine class dinners at Keene's Chophouse in New York when I was living there in the early '20s, and there are enough classmates there to have occasional dinners in good company, with possibly a more sprightly atmosphere than at the class meetings of Oliver Wendell Holmes' Harvard class.
John Ames is still in the Far East, with very little chance of getting back for our In-Betweener. Reg Chutter is in the Far East on a mission for our government with regard to control and development of trade and investments, and wrote me stating that he would be 12,000 miles from home at the time of our In-Betweener. To his regret, Reg has never been able to attend a reunion, since he has spent a large part of his life abroad in some sixty countries, averaging only about six months a year in the U.S.A. Here's hoping he can be with us in 1956.
Dan Dinsmoor had an operation for cataract on his right eye last November, and although complete recovery is slow, as always in such cases, Dan is optimistic about eventually having something approaching what passes for normal eyesight in our generation. Dan wrote Jack English of a brief reunion with the Eskelines at Santa Barbara, which he describes as the city of sunshine and flowers, thus confirming the raves of Louis Bell about his adopted home town. Dan sent Jack a circular from the California Danish town of Solvang, which celebrates St. Patrick's Day on March 27, with dances and other celebrations. Could the Irish have been wrong all this time, and Jack not born on St. Patrick's Day after all? Perish the thought.
Cap Carey made a tour of Florida, at least the East Coast, during the winter, sending the usual tantalizing postcards showing big hotels, blue sea, and reports of high temperatures. He also reported having a brief visit with President Hopkins, who was in Florida for an insurance convention.
For more details, read the Newsletter. See you at Lake Fairlee.
The New York Mirror has a column entitled "Only Human" which is possibly not a complimentary heading for a column about Ros Magill, but the subject matter of the column, which appeared March 7, gives Ros a good sendoff. It is a condensed account of Ros' entrance into the field of teaching tax law and the practice in that field. It describes him as the unsalaried president of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Tax Foundation, and includes a couple of quotes, such as: "Change the government philosophy of producing as much money as it can, just to spend it. Let individuals do all the things the government thinks it should do, just as individuals have done for 160 years. The paradox is that we want less taxes and the level of 1953 prosperity. We've been accustomed to a diet of cake three times a day. Well, we can't have cake and lower taxes, too." To all of which we taxpayers respond with a rousing cheer. The article is illustrated by a good action picture of Ros with an open book in his hand, and expounding a fine point of tax law with that old Magillian gleam in his eye.
The March-April issue of The Retired Officer carries on its front cover an excellent picture of another famous classmate, GeneralWillard S. Paul, "One of the Army's Most Versatile Generals," who took over the presidency of the Retired Officers Association recently. The magazine details Stew's brilliant career as a fighting officer leading the Yankee Division, and also his achievements in the field of military administration of supply and personnel. Further it extols his present activities, after his recall from retirement to assist the Department of Defense in its problems of defense mobilization. And the article ends with a comment on his leadership in the field of religious activities, he having recently been appointed general chairman of the National Presbyterian Church Expansion Fund. Any spare time, General?
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