1916
In this issue we have the sad duty of announcing the death of three classmates, two of them physicians. Dr. John P. Goodrich died December 15, 1954, and Dr. John F. Gile on January 29, 1955. Prof. Parker H. Burt of Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., died December 12, 1954.
John Pelletier is working with a firm of engineers at Massena, N. Y., and from his letterhead, the work has something to do with the St. Lawrence Power Project; and from the contents of his letter it must be difficult work. John was in New Jersey for Christmas and talked with Ed Riley and Jib Dingwall. Jib has moved to Washington with the Voice of America.
Jack English reports a "wonderful luncheon" at the University Club in Boston for EvParker, who was on his way home from the Alumni Council meeting in Hanover. Present also were Parker Hay den, Frank Bobst, GranFuller, Bob Steinert. Says Jack:
"Ev gave us a picture of Dartmouth and its short and long range objectives, and plans that were heart-warming. We were there from 12:15 to 3 p.m. This Ev Parker is a great reporter, sound as a nut, as common-sense as an old shoe and as real as a perfect day in June. Cliff Bean was unable to break a directors' meeting engagement and several others who wanted to come couldn't make it, but it was a gathering that could hardly have been bettered."
Roger Morse is now in the oil business in Texas, and his son is actively running the business. Rog has his own plane and flies it back and forth between Boston and Texas.
Gran Fuller and Ruth went to Rochester where they heard their son, Rev. Howard Fuller, conduct the service and preach the sermon.
A note from young Jim Kiley says, "Hope to see you all in June." His mother, Eva Kiley, remarked that it was just a year since she saw him last.
A publication of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research carries, under the caption, "Some Young Scholars Studying Under Harvard Foundations' Programs," a picture of John Chandler Green, geologist, of West Hartford, Conn., A.B. Dartmouth 1953, Phi Beta Kappa 1952, Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo, Norway, during 1953-54, winner of the Kennecott Fellowship in Economic Geology, and now working for his Ph.D. in preparation for a teaching career at the collegiate level. You could almost recognize young John from his resemblance to his dad. Chan himself was in Washington during January to give in marriage the daughter of his deceased brother Alfred, Dartmouth '21.
Gil Tapley reported that he had located Judge Phillips by mail and was on his way to the West Coast, hoping to see the Judge in San Francisco. I'd like to sit in on a meeting with those two "brains," one an economic brain, the other a philosopher.
Henry Anson Bates recently had a letter in the Evening Star (Washington's leading newspaper) in which he emphasized the "inherent kindliness of the American Negro." Speaking of the recent Supreme Court Decision, Harry wrote: "What gain, other than simple justice, is there in such a courteous interchange between the two races? A chief gain is the dual discovery that kindliness is a priceless national asset, and that the Negroes probably have more of it than any other group among us."
Luke Ollis is back in St. Petersburg, Fla., after having returned to Massachusetts once, and I thought, to stay. However, anyone who has felt that Florida sun on his back, listened to mocking birds singing all night and seen the hibiscus and oleanders and flame vine in bloom, can always be expected to find his way back to that charmed state.
Midshipman Richard William Ellis, son of our classmate, has announced his engagement to Miss Barbara Ann Randall. That's all we know at this time.
The secretary has proposed to the class president, Hon. Wm. H. McKenzie, that this column be restricted to announcements concerning classmates which are of interest to others classes and which redound to the credit of the Class, such as public appointments and achievements of general interest. The more intimate and what may be termed "perishable" news of the Class would be given in the Balmacaan Athletic Club Newsletter, which can be issued very promptly through the fine cooperation of the College (and Nick M. Sandoe Jr.), which processes and mails it without cost to the Class. In this way news will reach you when it is fresh. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE, being a monthly periodical, and excellent as it is, is not a newspaper and must confine itself to a regular schedule which involves all the processes of collecting material, editing and printing. Comments on this proposed change are invited.
Secretary, 4808 Broad Brook Drive, Bethesda 14, Md.
Treasurer, 27 Concord St., Nashua, N. H.
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