1925
With what satisfaction one turns again to his ordinary tasks, when the anxieties by which they were interrupted have been relieved. Geoff, happily, is convalescent, and the days are beginning to fall into their familiar if not tranquil routine. Your secretary is grateful to Ford Whelden for stepping up to pinch hit at a moment's notice, and coming through handsomely with last month's column in this space. Class correspondence, already a little in arrears as summer ended, is now in a worse way than ever but possess yourselves in patience, those of you to whom letters or acknowledgments are due, they will all be written eventually.
When the famous Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Mass., was destroyed by fire in late December, there was an immediate cry for its restoration. Charley Moore, a Ford Motor Company vice president, was spokesman for a group representing the Ford family which visited the ruins of the landmark soon after. It was Henry Ford who restored the old Inn, some thirty years ago, and those who knew it for its good food and lovely antiques — not to mention its literary associations - will be glad to learn that Charley's first reported opinion was one of guarded optimism. ... Another item of antiquarian interest is the publication by the Rhode Island Development Council of a pamphlet America's First Vacationland, almost the entire text of which is by CarlBridenbaugh, first printed some years ago in the "Collections" of the Rhode Island Historical Society. Apparently some pretty important people frequented the Narragansett Bay area in colonial days and some pretty good guys live there now, notably six Twentyfivers. Hi, Neighbors!
Turning to literary matters, Francis Brown was a member of the jury which chose the winner of this year's Carey-Thomas Award for book publishing at its best. The award was to the Belknap Press of Harvard University for The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Unfortunately, your secretary is aware of no other Dartmouth connection with that particular Emily, although he is willing to be instructed if such there be. Serving in yet another capacity, Brownie was best man when Ralph Thompson was married to Miss Marcia Aldrich Thompson in Bloomfield, N. J., on December 14. Every once in awhile when we get to feeling middle-aged, a bold spirit like Tommy ups and does a wonderful thing like this to remind us that the good things of life are not necessarily the peculiar prerogative of the next generation. He is head of the editorial department of the Book of the Month Club, she a member of the staff of the Ford Foundation.
But the young continue to get on with it. William Ruston Carter Jr. '55, now in the Navy and the son of Ruth and Bill Carter, is engaged to Miss Diana Hersey of Wellesley Hills, Mass., now studying at Centenary Junior College.... Peter M. Huberth, son of Doris and Mart Huberth, is engaged to Miss Katherine Weight of Fleetwood, N. Y. Both are seniors at Cornell. ... Mary and Bob Borwell's son, Bob Jr. '55, was recently married to Miss Dawn Alyce Sass of North Qunicy, Mass.
Hal Rider, president of the Stamford, Conn., Trust Company, has received the annual citizen's award of the Stamford Post of the Jewish War Veterans. This award is made each year to the citizen judged to have done most in inter-faith harmony, in demonstrating high standards of personal responsibility in civic life, and most to promote public welfare. ... Woody Wilson, manager of General Electric Appliances Company of Cambridge, Mass., has been elected president of the Electric Institute, Inc. for the year 1956
Bunny Levison, after twelve years with the Rex Corporation, joined Maynard Plastics, Inc. of Salem, Mass., on October 1, as general sales manager. 'Although the employer has changed, I am still peddling the same type of material - extruded plastics." ... StowellCoding, head of the Romance Language department at the University of Massachusetts, was one of twelve specialists in various fields of education to address the Berkshire County Teachers Convention in Pittsfield, Mass., last October.
Derrol Johnson is the latest Twenty-fiver to join the swelling ranks of our bank presidents. He was elected, early last November, president of the BancOhio Corporation of Columbus, after having served previously as director, vice president, and treasurer, with primary responsibility in the fields of corporate financing, accounting, taxes, and investments. He has been in the banking business ever since graduating from college. He is a director of the Ohio State Life Insurance Co., a trustee and secretary of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, a trustee of the Children's Hospital, and active in various other community affairs. He was married in 1928 to Miss Marian Tracy and they have three children, Mrs. William Gilbreath; Sally, a junior at the University of Arizona; and Stephen, a student at Columbus Academy.
This, where we are now, is what they call the prime of life. The decades of leadership and mature accomplishment are the sixth and seventh, during which we come to the height of the powers by which we hope to be measured. Yet youth is not so far behind that we have forgotten either its sweetness or the shadows in which it sometimes dwells, and we are constrained thus to recall that what we owe to those who went before us must be paid to those who come after. If this present, this prime, is to have a meaningful dimension in time it must be through the joining of the past with the future. In this, our individual powers are immeasurably increased by being united in such a fellowship as Dartmouth has fashioned for us, from which, now and in the years ahead, we may yet draw the vigor and freshness which are otherwise no longer our own to command.
Noted amateur chef, L. King Dickason '26of Tulsa, Okla., swings into action over hischarcoal grill.
Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass.
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