1917
There is a time for everything and, if you have not already done so, this is the time to give serious thought to your Alumni Fund contribution. The dead line for contributing to this year's Fund is June 30. I£ you contributed early in the campaign and now find that you can contribute a little more, by all means do so. This should be '17's big year, so let's all pitch in and show what we can do when we really try. You'll feel better for having extended yourself a bit this year.
Mudge Mudgett recently phoned to tell me about a wonderful day he and Florence had spent at Delray Beach, Fla., with Bob andAnita Scott who had come up from Fort Lauderdale for a foursome of golf. The competition was between Mudge and Bob and when their scores were added up, they were exactly even. Mudge has a winter home at Delray Beach and '17ers are always welcome. Florence and daughter, Doris, and her three children spent the better part of three months at their Florida home but poor Mudge got in only about six weeks there.
Word has been received of the death of Duke Barnes. The meager report available at this time indicates that Duke died on March 31 while on the operating table at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago.
To those of us who are pretty much confined to the routine of an office, a recent experience of Hobie Ford sounds most interesting. He first spent some time skiing at Aspen, Colo., and one week after leaving there, was sailing through the deserted and hot Exuma Islands in the lower Bahamas.
A card dated April 15 and picturing an "Hawaiian Maiden in Her Element" brings word from Red an.d Idabelle Wendell that they had enjoyed a two-weeks' stay on the beach at Waikiki where it is beautiful summer weather all the time. Red and Len Shea should get together and compare notes!
Fred Hager reports a visit to Florida last December, following a bout with the flu.
Ralph Britton recently won a long and drawn-out hassle with the Department of Defense. Ralph, who was assistant director of installations for Military Public Works in 1952 and 1953, and who has to his credit some 21 years of outstanding Federal Service suddenly became afflicted with "technical deficiencies" while developing Design Criteria and Construction Standards as ordered by the Congress, and was "fired" in April 1954.
After five months of intensive investigations which included a four-day full-dress hearing before the Civil Service Commission, followed by three more months of adjudication, the Defense Department was directed to correct its error .since it had been unable to sustain its charges. We understand Ralph is now back on the job after having collected back pay for the full time he was away from his desk. Congratulations, Brit, on your complete victory. That old Hanover cross-country training must have helped develop the required stamina and determination to win against such odds.
Word has been received that Dick and NoraMorenus now are living at Fennville, Mich. (Box 334). Dick, author of Crazy-White-Man, a popular best seller, and Northland Adventure, written especially for his younger readers, presently is filling many speaking engagements. Audiences are said to like his amusing tales of personal adventure, and from him learn new things about the Canadian bush with its Indians and trappers.
During the weekend just past, New Jersey's red carpet was rolled out for Pete and LucyOlds who were house guests of your Secretary and his boss. With the Brookses tagging along, they were entertained at dinner parties by both Karl and Elsie Koeniger and Gil andMarie Swett. Others at the Koenigers' were Sumner and Charlotte Emerson and to our great surprise and pleasure, Walt and PhoebeWalters.
Spique MacIntyre has been in New York for the past few weeks on Government business, so while he and Pete were both in town a few of us got together for lunch at the Dartmouth Club. In addition to Pete and Spique, the others present were Mudge Mudgett, DonO'Leary, Sam Saline, Gene Towler and the writer.
lack Saladine reports a recent luncheon get-together with Wendell Reycroft and Ralph Cocks for a discussion of class affairs in general and the Alumni Fund and news for the Sentry in particular.
Hank Bomgardner wrote, "I'm a candidate for the white-robed boys to work over — go for surgery April 4 but will get going on the Alumni Fund campaign just as soon as I'm able." We all hope that the "white-robers" did a good job and that by now, a month later, Hank is up and about again.
Carl and Ruth Colby are living in Ruth's 150-year-old family home at Meredith, N. H., 100 yards from beautiful Lake Winnepesaukee. Carl has retired "after thirty years of laboring in the language fields at college level," and he and Ruth now devote their time and efforts to local civic projects. They have eight grandchildren, one being the first in our class. Carl writes that "the latch key is always open, especially to '17ers."
Al Shiels, our new "Sentry" news chairman on the West Coast, has sent in some interesting news about Jim Durkee and I give it to you just as received from Al:
"About 1940 Jim moved from Balboa Island to South Pasadena. He has a perfect family - two sons and a daughter - and is the proud grandparent of seven children. While this may seem a distinct challenge to the East we feel that Jim is the youngest looking classmate we have. His responsibilities as treasurer of General Petroleum are naturally v ery great but he has one hobby that is common with so many of us and that is Dartmouth. He is quite reticent about his hobbies but we must warn you that Jim is hardly what we might call a pushover at bridge
"We are all prone to take for granted the work that is done by some few individuals, and I speak of our class officers, but we can't sell Jim short for his love of Dartmouth, and his efforts in relation to our college have been most successful.
"In closing we can say only that it is quite uncommon to find a man as successful as our Jim Durkee, who can always be counted on to do any job that concerns his friends or Dartmouth '17.
Please note the following new addresses: Paul L. Burnham, Box 422, Lawrence, Mass.; William C. Eaton, 6 Wyeth Rd., Hanover, N. H.; Harry Hawkes Jr., Box 162, Brookfield, Conn.; Frank L. Lagay, Apt. 11M, 85 Manor Drive, Newark 6, N. J.;' and Wallace C. Maxfield, 16040 S. Western Ave., Gardena, Calif.
Gil Swett has news from Hanover of a bequest of special interest to Seventeeners. The firm of Gile & Company have established the "ARCHIE B. GILE '17 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND" with an initial gift to be added to by them from time to time, as conditions permit, with the eventual aim of an annual scholarship to be provided for the income of the fund in perpetuity. Until the fund reaches a figure of approximately $25,000, which will produce $1,000 a year for this purpose, the income will be usable for general scholarship aid purposes. Preference "whenever possible" is to be given to Hanover boys or to boys from the North Country, which Arch loved and served so well.
While the gift was from Gile & Company, it is, in effect, a personal gift from Mary and Joy (Gile) Cavaney and her husband, Pete. "It's important," says Gil, "not only in its benefits to the College, but perhaps more importantly, in its permanent recognition of one of the grandest guys we had in the class.
This is the second such special ''named memorial fund" to be set up by Seventeeners and their families. Eddie McGowan's memorial to his son has been growing through the last ten years, and is now one of the largest such funds shown in the annual Financial Report of the College.
Since the June notes were written we have received the sad news of the death of Ed McGowan on May 12 at his home in Wellesley Hills, Mass. An In Memoriam article will appear in the July issue.
Secretary, 9 Park Terrace, Upper Montclair, N. J.
Class Agent, 6 Wyeth Rd., Hanover, N. H.
