1925
Our worthy-treasurer, Ed Roessler, has continued the pleasant custom, inaugurated by his predecessor Ford Whelden, of adding personal notes, however brief, to the printed bills for Class dues which it is his unhappy duty to mail to us every year. Whether or not this softens the impact of yet another blow at the bank roll - although not a very severe one - it is perhaps characteristic of our Class that a large number return the greeting on the stubs enclosed with their A few even add items of news which Ed faithfully sends along to your eager scribe. Thus it may be announced that Curt Abel has finally taken Horace Greeley's advice; he is still with Young and Rupicam, but now in Los Angeles at the address shown below. ... Buck Jones sent his dues from Honolulu... . Lew Veach writes that his son William John graduated from Notre Dame with the Class of 1956; his daughter Norma from Smith in 1952.
Tibby Marshall, executive vice-president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, has been elected a trustee of the Bank for Savings of New York. He was president of the Bank of the Manhattan Co. when it merged with the Chase National Bank in 1955 TippyTower, vice-president of Federal Mutual Insurance Co. since 1949, is now company executive vice-president... . Lou Kimball will become General Manager of the Southern Packaging Co. of Jacksonville, Fla., on November 1.
Ken Hill reports that no less than three '25ers sailed in last June's Newport-Bermuda race, on three different yachts - Lin White,Bill Jenkins, and Dick Nye. No information is available as to the boats in which the first two ventured, but Dick was in his "Carina" which was first in Class B and third in the fleet. This is the yacht which won the 1955 Trans-Atlantic and Fastnet races. The first "Carina" won the Bermuda Trophy in 1952.
Larry Leavitt, headmaster at Vermont Academy, writes that Dot is teaching three classes of Latin there. However much the classics may be neglected elsewhere, "more boys are taking Latin this year than any time since I have been on the job. It must be the teacher." And that, says your secretary, is not connubial pride alone, but plain truth as well. The essence of good teaching is the gift of making what is taught come alive.
Here are the latest new addresses: CurtisA. Abel, Young and Rubicam, 611 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 17, Calif.; Norris B.Chipman, American Embassy, London, For- eign Service Mail Room, Dept. of State, Washington, 25, D. C.: Wilfred Clark, Headmaster of the Chapel Hill School, 327 Lexington St., Waltham, Mass.; Carl V. Elmquist, Room 1001, 608 2nd Ave., S., Minneapolis, 2, Minn.; Lee B. Jamison, 1745 Catalina, Laguna Beach, Calif.; Thomas F. Keeher Jr., 2891 Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach, Fla.; Elpheage V. Kirouac, Old Bedford Rd., Greenwich, Conn.; William M. Lauman, 520 East Ave., Rochester 7, N. Y.; Howard W. Megee, 3044 West Grand Blvd., Room 12-165, Detroit, 2, Mich.; HiramS. Russell, 917 Hinman Ave., Evanston, Ill.;Neil Williams, 3044 Luna Avenue, San Diego, 17, Calif.; Gordon J. Wygant, 36 Blue Hills Rd., Amherst, Mass.
The lack of other personal items to report at this time provides an opportunity for brief discussion of a more general matter of increasing importance with each passing year. This is the Bequest Program. We may remind ourselves that 1925 was the first class to put such a program into formal operation (another Whelden first), by virtue of which it behooves us to set an example in its development as we have already done in other fields of service to the College.
Without seeming to be morbid, your secretary faces the ineluctable evidence of the actuarial prediction that he will write eight obituary notes this year. Faced with these intimations of mortality, one finds courage and dignity in the expression of an individuality by joining it to something bigger than itself. In his recent Convocation Address, President Dickey reverted once more, and appropriately as ever, to the importance of "place loyalty" in the Dartmouth spirit.Pointing out that "place rubs off on people," he adds that "... conversely . .. over the years the past of an institution becomes as much a part of the place as the physical setting." So each one of us can and should become an immemorial part of the Dartmouth scene.Louise Dickinson Rich, in her new book, "The Coast of Maine," puts it this way: "I cannot imagine the type of mind that does not quicken to the realization of a continuance in itself of a great adventure, of a brotherhood that has extended down the centuries." This is the concept upon which the Bequest Program is based, and we are at, or close to, the time o£ life when we may well consider how we, the inheritors o£ the past, may now become the builders of the future.
Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass.
Treasurer, R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N. J.
Bequest Chairman,
