1919
Via Ray Adams, our esteemed Class Treasurer, comes news o£ Bob Bard. Bob writes on the stationery of the Friden Calculating Machine Co., 507 North 22nd St., Birmingham 3, Ala.:
"I think many times of Dartmouth and New England, but circumstances have always upset my getting back. I was on the verge on October 15 at Woodstock, and that fell through. Sometime I will make it, however. As you may guess from the letterhead, I peddle calculators here in Alabama, where I have been for five years. You might pass this letter on to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and put in a bulletin that if anyone comes through Birmingham get in touch with me as above or at my residence, TEL. 29-3575, and he will at least get one good meal, and a little sight-seeing. I thought I had mailed the check, but I am trusting your notice is not a duplicate and that I am squandering a second fiver. Have one daughter now, 27, located in Dallas, Texas. My father lives with Louise and me; he is now 90 years, Class of '89 and is, I imagine, close to the oldest Dartmouth alumnus. He was overjoyed to get to the Glee Club show, which came here last winter sometime."
Bill Eads of the Eads Brothers FurnitureCo., Fort Smith, Ark., notes:
"Your card on my birthday reached me at exactly the right time as this is it. Thanks again for remembering me. Am following the Dartmouth football team as usual but there seem to be too many disappointments. Have you noticed how well the University of Arkansas Razorbacks are doing?" (Note to Bill—-we sure did notice.)
Howie Cole had his picture in a Newton, Mass., paper a short time ago at a dinner for the Board of Trustees of the Andover-Newton Theological School, of which Howie is president. This fact had somehow escaped your See's notice and the Class congratulates Howie on his fine work.
Cotty Larmon has been appointed to the National Advisory Heart Council, it was announced by the Public Health Service. The council serves as official advisory board for the National Heart Institute. It reviews requests for research and teaching grants in the field of diseases of the heart and circulation. Again, congratulations to Cotty on this important job.
Class daughters - Mr. and Mrs. Philip Herrick Bird announce the marriage of their daughter, Meredith, to Mr. John Hosea Jones, on Saturday the thirtieth of October in Canaan, N. H. Class sons - Mr. and Mrs. Hamiltoa Martell announce the marriage of then- daughter, Dolinda Jane, to Mr. Frederick Samuel Balch Jr., Saturday the thirtieth of November in Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.
On the stationery of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Ill., King Cole writes a nice letter, quoting in part:
"We were fortunate in having a fall vacation in Portland, Maine, with son Don and family, and being welcomed by hurricanes Carol and Edna. No damage to report. Don has opened his office in Portland, Maine, for practice of dermatology, and finds himself very busy. He is also enjoying the Dartmouth group there, particularly Larry Eastman '19. Alice flew back to Portland, October 31, to be with Don and his three sons, while Rickie was in the hospital for their fourth child. Janet Ellen was born November 5 at the Maine General Hospital. What a licking she will take from those boys! All are fine. Alice stayed nearly three weeks. We hope to return to Portland for Christmas - should be a big one this year with four grandchildren! I recently had the pleasure of talking with Si Stein who seems to be doing pretty well running Muscatine, lowa. He and several members of his staff were here for technical conferences. His Grain Processing Corporation at Muscatine has been in close contact with our big research laboratory for many years. His corporation recently took oyer from the Government a large alcohol plant which it has been operating for Uncle Sam since it was built in 1943."
From Swarthmore, Pa., Ralph Hayes states:
"As usual, a very unusual birthday card and it is very much appreciated. Particularly so this year, as it reached me in the hospital with a dose of anemia. Guess I haven't been eating my spinach regularly. Expect to be out in a couple of weeks, however. As for news: since a year ago, Gladys and I spent three weeks in Trinidad last winter, then three more en route via Cuba and Panama. We have an aversion to Philadelphia (or Hanover) weather in the winter and you, George, are old enough to know what I mean."
Yes, Ralph, the Sec understands you exactly,and you can add New York to that also, although so far, so good.
On the letterhead of Chipman and Brace,frozen food brokers, Quincy, Mass., JohnnieChipman writes:
"Wishes for a happy birthday from you and the Class is an institution, at this point, and I look forward to what new trick you are going to spring next. I have seen cards and cards, but the Class Birthday Card, this year, tops them all. Our nose is always to the grindstone, playing our No. 1 Hobby, the Frozen Food Business; No. 2 Hobby, raising ring-neck and ornamental pheasants, vegetables, fruits and flowers in the garden; No. 3 Hobby, trying to keep track of my family, now including a very active granddaughter, and as often as possible, see any '19ers around this area. We manage to see, regularly, Jack Clark, Phil Bird, and not as often as we would like, Bill White,Spider Martin, Jimmy Davis and Bob Proctor. The one radical event, this year, was our moving our business from State Street, where we have been for the last eight years, down to Quincy Center, thus by-passing Boston auto traffic, which cost us three fourths of an hour to an hour in the morning and again at night. We find we are following the normal trend of all business, which, certainly in New England, is moving out into the suburbs, if they don't actually have to be in the city."
Class daughters - Mr. and Mrs. William H.McCarter announce the engagement of their daughter Joanna to Mr. William J. Cowperthwaite of Pottstown, Pa. The prospective bride is a junior at Radcliffe College where she is active in the Choral Society. Mr. Cowperthwaite, an alumnus of Hill School, is a senior at Harvard, where he belongs to the Glee Club and the varsity soccer team. When your Sec was in Hanover for Christmas, he called on Bill who was confined to Dick Hall's House with a fractured hip, resulting from a fall on the ice. Despite Bill's discomfort, the well-known brand of McCarter humor was still in evidence.
Holiday greetings are gratefully acknowledged to Jack Williams, Alice Earle and Rock Hayes, Bea and Bill Stedman, Phil and Helen Bird, Hattie and Bob Paisley, Elisabeth and Norm Sterling, Lew and Fran Garrison, Betty and Jack Clark, Harriet and Win Batchelder, Jane and Lou Cody, Jane and San Treat, Ruth and Norm Jeavons, Harriet and Lou Munro, Edna and Bill McMahon, Ed and Bea Martin, Marie Drane, Hon and Fat Jackson, Polly and Jim Wilson, Adelaide and Paul Clements, Red Murphy, Marjorie and Howie Wright, Constance and Will I. Levy, Mary and Sam Ewart, Dot and Main Sandoe, Chet Demond, Adele and Bri Greeley, Leonora and Ralph Welsh, Harry and Lilian Colwell, Tom and Claire Bresnahan, Trace Johl, Paul and Catherine Halloran, Hal Parsons, Dot and Stu Russell, Sewall and Florence Sawyer, Jack and Hester McCrillis and Marge and Ken Huntington.
And again, my best to you all for the New Year.
ANNUAL BOSTON ALUMNI DINNERHotel Statler, Feb. 16, 1955
Secretary, 1273 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Treasurer, 184 Summer St., Springfield, Vt
Bequest Chairman,
