1925
As confidently predicted in this column last month, the days have now begun to lengthen, and the first stirrings of life after the long winter hibernation came this year from the great southwest. Bud Brown writes from Phoenix:
"I envy you who have a chance to get together with some regularity. ... Here in Arizona we do well to have one affair a year, though our numbers have considerably increased since I came here in 1926. At that time Gail Gardner and Joe Heep of Prescott were the only other alumni in the state, and the only '25ers I saw for the next twenty years were Phil Coykendall and Ross Pearl. Last year Jack Whitbeck appeared at the Barn with a group of other investment bankers here for a party and we had a wonderful meeting together.
"Last September after the close of camp (our full-time summer business, which gets us out of the heat of Phoenix through the three summer months), Brownie and I took a trip down to Tyler, Texas, returning via Dallas and Fort Worth. In Dallas I was able to locate Buddy Hunt, active (despite some recent serious surgery) as a broker in surplus airplane and electronic parts. He waited many years to marry; the acumen gathered through those years is reflected in the choice he made, his lovely wife Lorraine.
"In March we will make our annual visit to California to show camp pictures and visit our squaredancing friends, this time extending it to include the American Camping Association conference at Asilomar. I would surely enjoy dropping in on a '25 gathering during that trip if such a thing is possible."
California brethren please note; if they are aware of any such gathering, Bud's address is 909 E. Northern Ave., Phoenix. "Bud Brown's Barn" has apparently become one of Arizona's real landmarks, dispensing food and entertainment in authentic southwestern style. Friendly Pines Camp, near Prescott, is for boys and girls, 6 through 12. The young Browns have apparently had a busy year, with Francie graduating (cum laude) from the University, and Peg's marriage in June to Mike Kennedy. Bebe is a junior at Tempe, Tim is at Palomar School in Perris, Calif., and Teddy (she is 14) is still at home.
Dick Heydt, executive vice president of the National Bank of Toledo, was recently appointed to its board of directors. He has been there since 1947, after previous association with the Bank of Manhattan Company and the Cleveland Trust Company. ... BillThompson is also a vice president — of the Lowell (Mass.) Five Cent Savings Bank. His daughter Cornelia is a freshman at Smith. ... Eddie Edward's son Steven, a plebe at Annapolis, has already served as a member of a presidential honor guard. ... Gam Rogers, who lives in Winter Park and has designed many of Florida's most notable buildings, is looking over eastern universities on behalf of James Gamble III who is going to follow his dad as an architect. ... Pete Blodgett has recovered from his operation of last fall and is back at work full time; he is, as it happens, still another veep, of the First National Bank of Roston .Barbara and Lin White, with Patten and Terry, spent the Christmas hohdays at Fort Lauderdale with Barbara's parents. The Brvant and Stratton Commercial School of Boston, of which Whitey is secretary-treasurer, has just marked its goth anniversary; it is a unique institution of its kind abd does its job well, as your secretary can attest from its contribution to the rehabilitation of several of his patients.
Jack Norris has been appointed Associate Medical Director of the Eastman Kodak Company and will continue with his duties as Medical Director of Kodak Park, which post he has held since 1949. He is a member of the staff of Strong Memorial Hospital, and assistant professor of Industrial Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medfcine.
Jack Davis, at present the only '25er on the Alumni Council, was in Hanover for its January meeting. One of the actions taken was the nomination of Jock Brace for his first full term of five years as Alumni Trustee, his present position on the Board having been to fill an unexpired term to June 30, 1955.
Ed Burns, new chairman of the Scholarship Fund has taken up his task with the expected vigor. He reports that since his appointment by the Executive Committee last November, the fund has increased by $3645, including the $500 appropriated from the class treasury at that time This brings the total to $24,739.03, with excellent prospects that the present goal of $30,000 will be reached by the end of 1955.
The following new addresses are reported from the Office of Alumni Records: Henson L.Tones, Box 1595, Toledo, Ohio; John S. Packard, Royal Park Inn, Vero Beach, Fla.; Lincoln C. Price, 1523 Broadway, Little Rock, Ark.; George T. Stevens Jr., 113 Fairview Ave., Canfield, Ohio; Rodgers L. Wyckoff, Union Bank and Trust Co., 760 S. Hill St., Los Angeles 14, Calif.; George N. Crooks, 1000 Van Dyke, Apt. 500, Detroit 14, Mich.; Edward V.Earle, Consulate, Hanoi, Vietnam, Foreign Service Mail Room, Dept. of State, Washington 25 D. C.; Wilson E. Gardner, Crucible Steel Co. of America, P.O. Box 28, Harrison, N. J.; Richard W. Plummer, U.S.O.M. to Pakistan, c/o American Embassy, APO 74, Box K, San Francisco, Calif.; Sanford Robinson, P.O. Box 862, Winter Park, Fla.
The esteem in which the Class of 1925 held by the alumni body in general has been evidenced, among other things, by a request that your secretary discuss its organization and activities at the annual meeting of the Secretaries Association in May. We have come a long way since those misty September days of 1921 when we first knew Dartmouth and each other, and when Prexy Hopkins and Dean Laycock and others tried to tell us what all this would come to mean. The years have brought us understanding of the purposes or Dartmouth and helped us to crystallize our own. The material help we have given has not been inconsiderable, and it will be greater still. But there is something more than the mere acknowledgement of big contributions in the invitation to share our practices and procedures with other classes; there is, expressed and implicit, a frank admiration of the energy and spirit and enthusiasm of which these are but the mechanical expression. But by the same token, it becomes more difficult to provide a blueprint of our efforts.
We have sent fine men to serve the College as officers of administration and instruction, we have had a long line of devoted class officers, we have had a number of very generous donors. Yet all these, praiseworthy and important as they may be, have been no more than catalysts for the reactions that went on in the class generally. The real strength of 1925 resides, as it must, in the strength and devotion of all its members, in the many small and port of officers, in the prompt response of men and women all over the country to whatever requests were made of them, not only for money but for the variety of things one may be called upon to do as an alumnus or a classmate, for the College or Class or for an individual, almost always done unhesitatingly and well, almost always without fanfare or general recognition. These are the things upon which your secretary will dwell, knowing that he cannot describe or explain them adequately, trying to show that the excellence of the group represents the varied excellences of many individuals pooled in a common loyalty and so transmuted that the whole becomes something more than the sum of its parts. And this recognition of achievement thus far, gratifying as we find it, is perhaps even more meaningful as a challenge for what is to come.
TWENTY-NINE YEARS AGO this spring these '26ers who were all lettermentional championship football team, watched the world go by from the steps of the Alpha Delt House. L to r: Jim Oberlander, Jack Straight, Art Smith, the late Heinie Sage, George Tully andBob Loomis.
Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass.
Treasurer, R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N. J.
Bequest Chairman,
