1944

This column should be a fascinator, fraught with interest and accurate reporting. I'm riding the Rock Island Rocket to, startlingly enough, Rock Island, and for lack of any Perry Masons to read, I have just peeked into my brief case. I see a note from my good frau, "Remember your class notes."

Fortunately I have now remembered them, but unfortunately I have not remembered to bring along the supporting documents of the great adventures experienced by '44s in the last thirty days.

I remember last month I mentioned that Charlie Clucas had returned to the North Country, around Woodstock, but I did not know what he was doing. A recent newspaper squib fills in a little: "Racquet and Tennis Club members will be surprised to learn that Charles Clucas, one of their socially significant members, has been married to beauteous Baroness de Mohrenschildt. Mr. Clucas' baroness bride is the former Phyllis Washington, daughter of the State Department's Walter Washington."

The Assumption College of Worcester held its Golden Jubilee Celebration in December and Dartmouth College was represented by the good barrister Jim Donnelly.

Have you ever wondered about the breed of wizard that can compile accurate telephone books? We've got one now in Ab Davis, recently named directory compilation manager for the Southern New England Telephone Company.

In other recent appointments, the Board of Directors of John Wiley & Sons (textbook people) picked their sales manager, Warren Sullivan, to be assistant vice president. Sully will continue to handle all sales, domestic and foreign. The Pepperell (Mass.) High School elected Ed Roewer as its new principal. Ed had been at Reading High as teacher-coach for the past four years. In 1952 his baseball team won the Middlesex League championship.

The National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vt., held a nation-wide sales contest last fall, with the winner to receive a sixday, all expenses paid, tour of New England. Think any of the good souls in Battling Elk or Roaring Flats came through? Of course not. The winner among 4.00 agents, right from the heart of New England and his own territory, was Hap Bush. I wonder how much more insurance he sold on his tour. (Hap is president of the Hartford Dartmouth Club.)

1954 wound up nicely for Red Peabody. On December 26 his good wife Joan and the stork presented him with a fine son, John Cleveland Peabody, and a week later he was sworn in as assistant county attorney of Cumberland County, Maine. Red is a member of the Portland Round Table, the Board of Directors of the Portland Society of Art, chairman of the Cape Elizabeth School Survey Committee, member of the Cape Elizabeth Republican Town Committee and treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Maine.

Franny Hills, helping Buff keep the presses rolling, gave him the job of printing a marvelous Christmas card which characterized her and E. Buffem in Yule preparations. LouSchott, treasurer of the Cincinnati Dartmouth Club, did an outstanding job on an annual cocktail party, only to be rewarded with the refreshment committee supplying Wiedemann Beer. Lou is general manager of Bavarian Brewing Co.

Fritz, Joan and little Robbie Hier did not get home for the holidays this year - they are still living in Stockholm, whence Fritz concocts his Radio Free Europe pieces. Dr. JimWhite and Helen Lyng, chemists at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, announced their plans to merge in '55.

This is about all, but then, February is a short month.

HANOVER RESIDENTS: Bob McLaughry'44 with young Bruce and Joan live withinbrisk walking distance of the Common. Bob isassociated with Standard Oil.

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