1924
The highlight for March, in Hanover, was the rash of Father-Son get-togethers. The freshmen each year turn out a bigger crowd than the year before, and one wonders what is the ceiling of attendance. I regret that this year I have none of the nine freshmen with 1924 fathers; I'll get some of them yet. This semester, in the Advertising class, I have three: Jerry Spaulding, Jack Wheatley, and John Holliday; sons of Jerry, John, and Joe, respectively. Missed Doug Craig's son, Jim, on a schedule conflict. In addition to the freshman wing-ding, fraternities such as S.A.E. had a Parents' weekend party. Then our own get-together at the Inn and Thayer Hall, followed by the Alumni-Varsity hockey game at the rink. This is a project which gets better each year, and many of us hope it will become a firm institution. I want to make a bow to Phil Van Huyck for helping me with the publicity, and for his company at my home.
One classmate has asked me what kind of books are purchased for the Memorial books by the Class. Perhaps the two most recent ones will indicate the calibre: books suitable tor the Treasure Room. Ed Lathem, the director of Special Collections, buys the books for us. His choices recently were: (1) in memory of Stan Lyon, a "superb and sumptuously illustrated copy of Boris Kochno's LeBallet," which the Library is happy to have and which forms a suitable Memorial book; (2) for Clarence Stilwill, a "first edition of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit, from the library of Thomas Carlyle, and containing a presentation inscription from Carlyle to his wife, Jane."
We continue to have to report additional deaths of classmates. Elsewhere you will find obituaries for Charles Roberts and ClaudeJagger, neither of whom graduated with us in 1924 but left in 1922-23. As Red Newell writes, "1924 has been suffering too many casualties in recent years. A list that came out from Johnny Mauk ... is really quite frightening." (For Red's many friends, his address is PO Box 444, Singapore.)
Butts Lamson's first issue of the 24 Hour Notice has had some nice compliments. Two items in it can be commented on here. First of all, the idea of a class directory, suggested by Cleve Poole, is picking up steam. We know the class can have one published in the Newsletter without charge to the Class. The usual printed pocket directories are expensive and would be our responsibility. We need two things before we go ahead: your expressions of interest (or otherwise), and some better addresses from many of you. I especially have in mind home addresses for those who have given us only a business address. I can see no reason why we cannot list two addresses, the home and the business, where it is requested, but I think we ought to have the home ad- dress in any event. Write to Butts and let him know how you feel, and at least postcard him your correct address which he can and will check. The other item in the Letter states that the North Shore Dartmouth Club, out of Boston, was due for the regular meeting with Hanover Holiday talks for March 18. That date is April 6; I'm due to be one of the speakers. Don't say you weren't warned.
Lt. Col Morris Fiterman now has a Pacific APO number. We'd welcome more details of what takes him out there on duty, if he or others can and will let us know. (See his picture in the February notes.) It is a nice part of my job that I get information even from alumni class secretaries of other classes. My first word of Claude Jagger's death came from one such, and another sends me a clipping telling of Charlie French's activities in honoring several veteran employees of his Great Lakes Box Co. Through the eyes of '09, Charlie "is quite the country squire, wears jodhpurs and scoots around in a jeep... hasn't changed much in almost 31 years, perhaps a little more portly and a little less hair." Aren't we all?
Abe Kolodin, one of our New Jersey medicos, and recently moved to Montclair, spotted an advertisement for a new book by TomFlint: Emergency Treatment and. Management. He is an orthopedic surgeon, and is listed in the ad as director of the Division of Industrial Relations, Permanente Medical Group, Oakland and Richmond, Calif., and chief of the Emergency Department, Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, in Richmond.
Wales Holbrook is one of the rarer birds in the psychology field; he is teaching the subject in the Santa Barbara, Calif., High School. This is the sixth year for this course for seniors, as part of the Social Studies department; about eighty students. He speaks of this as a good field now coming of age; my own experience here in the East is that there is still a long way to go for such courses to stand on their own feet. He signed himself Hobey, which sent me to the source books; so be it. He has two daughters in high school; his wife also works - "in real estate." I'm not clear on that one. If I said it, it would mean I have a fairly decent vegetable garden and the premises are kept in reasonable trim - by this amateur gardner. I take it, however, Mrs. Holbrook is interested in selling.
Dave Dyche, president of the Cincinnati Chemical Works, and vice president and treasurer of Ciba States, Ltd. (operating American properties of Ciba, Ltd., of Switzerland) is now the new treasurer of the United Hospital, of Rye, N. Y., where he has lived for the past 23 years and served in several community posts. Ed Moran starts a second four-year term as Judge of Probate for the Norwich, Conn., district. He's had this post since 1939, on a bipartisan endorsement basis. Ed is a product of the Yale Law School, getting his degree from there in 1927 and passing the bar examinations that same July to practice in his home town, Norwich. He has been Mayor for six years, one of the youngest to hold that office; also chairman of the Rehabilitation Committee and member of the State Highway Safety Commission. He has been a corporator of the Norwich Free Academy, from which he graduated in 1920, ever since 1933; a trustee in 1948. Last January he was elected president of the Connecticut Probate Assembly. He is active in parish affairs of the St. Patrick's Cathedral. Ed was married in 1929 to Mary McGibney, then a nurse; they have a son, EGM Jr., and two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Sheila.
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