1925
Writing in early March from his new home in Charleston, Milt Emerson reports a pleasant visit from Alice and Pete Blodgett as they were passing through, and adds, "It is spring down here now. The camelias, azaleas and other flowers are out, many in full bloom. I have been grafting camelias and would be glad to swap scions with any other '25ers who have a like interest." (Horticulturists please note.) Milt is working with Bud Dutton '42 to keep Dartmouth activities stirred up among the eight or nine alumni in Charleston and the 45 in South Carolina. Knowing him, it is a safe bet that Dartmouth men in that fair state will be kept on their toes. One successful dinner has already been held.
Reports drift in of other tourists in the south during the season just past. Connie andBob Pierce were in Miami, their former home, and Ed Pease spent two weeks at Coral Gables, visiting Mary and Jammer Guernsey while there. His golf was a trifle rusty, after a fivemonth lay-off, and it is reported that he once or twice thought nostalgically of the skiing he was missing in New Hampshire. But you can't have everything.... Marion and BunnyLevinson also did their basking in the Florida sunshine for a Spell.... Monty Chapman is on a trip in that direction as this is written. ... Lou Kimball is retiring as general manager of the Angier Corporation of Framingham, Mass., and he and Adeline plan to live in Fort Lauderdale for nine months of the year, spending the other three in New England. . . . . On the strength of these returns your secretary sees it as nothing less than his obvious duty to repair southward next winter in order to be able to report at first hand the doings of all these migrating '25ers.
As a variation from the usual pattern of wives writing in about their husbands, a few items about wives themselves are at hand. Gene Leavitt is a town meeting representative in Needham, Mass., a trustee of the Glover Hospital in that town, and active in half a dozen other civic enterprises.... El Wallis was at the recent New England Hospital Assembly in Boston representing the Salem Babies Hospital.... Ralph Tucker writes that Ruth is now president of the Massachusetts Girl Scouts. Their son Bob is a Marine and was recently assigned to sea duty on the carrier Bennington, while daughter Barbara will start next fall at Colby Junior College. Ralph has visited eight colleges during recent months ill the course of recruiting work (Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge). Strange as it may seem, he found none of them to compare with that seminary for young gentlemen up in Hanover.
Himself a survivor of the white-tie-and-tails era, your secretary will always have an especially warm place in his heart for the Glee Club, and took deep pride in its recent appearance on television. Judging from the remarks of his associates the next day (most of whom have somehow become aware that he went to Dartmouth) these young men by their appearance and performance brought great credit upon the College. Two '25 sons are in this year's group, Woody Goss '55 and Tom Marvel '56. Both are members of "The Injunaires" and Woody wrote and conducts the arrangement of Songs of Dartmouth College that the club presents.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Fuller Learnard have announced the marriage of their daughter Martha Alice to Mr. John Allen Hurney in Norwood, Mass., on February 19....Jake Penney reports that Jim '53 is now in the Army and is on his way to Japan.... Lydia and KenNugent, striving for accuracy, are on record as having one and a half grandchildren at the moment; their son George '50, who has completed his active duty in the Navy is pursuing graduate studies at the University of New Hampshire. Nelson, the younger son, has just finished a three-year hitch in the Marines and plans to return to college.... Dan Gutterman '52, son of Jibber Gutterman, is in his third year at Harvard Law School. Last summer he attended the World Peace Court at The Hague, and will continue his studies abroad next year. He is trustee of the St. Lawrence Leadership Institute, an organization devoted to the development of good will among the youth of the w0r1d.... Blanche and ChetEaton are grandparents again, this time of a boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Eaton '54.
Recent visitors in Hanover were: Mr. andMrs. F. M. Shea and son, Mr. and Mrs. LesterA. King, Francis Brown, Mr. and Mrs. CharlesF. Moore Jr., Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Burns, andMr. and Mrs. Edward C. Dodez.
Here are the current new addresses: Paul L.Hexter, 4777 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, Fla.; Kenneth M. Montgomery, Pacific Power and Light Co., Public Service Building, Portland 4, Ore.; John S. Packard, Toy Town Tavern, Winchendon, Mass.; Harold E. White, 771 West End Ave., New York 25, N. Y.; F. MorganTaylor, 922 Ashland Ave., Wilmette, Ill.
Lennie Larson has been named head of the Lumber Insurance Department of the Kemper Insurance Companies. He is chairman of the meeting committee of the National Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters. .... Jamie Jameson, branch office manager in Boston of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company is the newly elected chairman of the Casualty Managers Association of Boston. .... Doubleday and Co. has just published a "Foreign Dining Dictionary" by Robert JayMisch, described as "a pocket-size guide to foreign menus, foods, and dishes." Bob's position as class gourmet remains unchallenged and his dictionary makes lovely reading. It will fit in your vest pocket, but if you read it too much your vest probably won't fit you.
Most of us will remember the story Jess Hawley used to tell with such relish of a man who saw two of his friends in conversation and later asked one of them what they were talking about so earnestly. "About our college," asked. "Dartmouth," he was told. "Hell," he said, "that's not a college, that's a religion!"
Not every jest yields up the truth, but there is a germ of it in this one. For most of us, Dartmouth has been an experience far transcending the ordinary understanding of the word education - although not, perhaps, its fullest meaning - and carrying deeper overtones of fellowship than the strains of "Bright College Years." Without attempting a complete analysis, it is surely safe to say that one of the great satisfactions lies in its having been a continuing experience, the meaning of which seems not to attentuate through the years. And, like every moving experience, it validates itself through the development of a corresponding sense of responsibility. Some years ago, your secretary ventured an opinion in TheRoundup which he sees no reason now to change - that the Alumni Fund is not only an expression of the loyalty of Dartmouth men but, in a very real sense, a prime element in that loyalty. We grow to care more dearly for that which we have taken into our own keeping- And as Dartmouth is a better college for our continuing support, so are we better men for being still a living part of it.
NAMED HEAD of the Lumber InsuranceDepartment of the Kemper Insurance Companies, Leonard W. Larson '25 was formerlymanager of the Division of Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co., Chicago.
Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass
Class Agent, 306 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H.
