1929
If Joe D'Esopo had as good a time on his European trip, last fall, as the accompanying photograph indicates he was anticipating, he must have had a wonderful time. His itinerary indicates that he flew to Ireland; to The Hague for a trip around the Netherlands; to Switzerland and to Cairo, where he had several boat trips on the Nile; to Greece and Cyprus and on to Rome and Lisbon, returning to the USA byway of the Azores. Including a lot of time on the ground for sight-seeing, Joe accomplished this entire trip in six and a half weeks. We think we would like to take a trip like this sometime, but extend it to seven weeks, perhaps, so we could lazily recuperate on a slow boat to America.
We wish to report the announcement of Herb Fish's two oldest daughters' marriages - Elizabeth Shepherd to Richard Firth Cutler on August 27 and Nancy Ellen to Alfred Richard Potter on December 17, both in Westport, Conn.
We have heard, via the widespread "grapevine," that Bob Tunnell underwent surgery last June, which completely corrected a longtime heart condition, that he has recovered completely and is now connected with the Travelers Insurance Company and is living at 11 W. Park Place in Corry, Pa. And it's wonderful to hear that son Bob Jr. is in the top 5% of his class in high school, working hard for scholarships and thinking of Dartmouth, as well as successfully doing both work and play extra-curricular activities; and that son Bill, almost 15, is also a good student, president of his class, and operates a paper route to keep out of mischief. Wish we had some news about daughter Kathé, too.
In a much-appreciated note from MartJaquith, a while back, we received a clipping which indicated that Ben Stacey of the First National Bank of Boston had addressed 1600 teachers and principals attending the 120th annual meeting of the Plymouth County Teachers Assn., urged increased state aid to schools and a state sales tax to help provide the funds, and said that he favored the sales tax idea but "only with plans being made beforehand of aiming some part of it to education."
The following letter on "vital statistics" from Arthur "Buff" Buffington certainly deserves to be quoted, in its entirety, and we hope he won't mind:
"Maybe this is not of general interest but I sure am pleased to report that I am the grandfather of the 'Class Boy' for the Class of '54. Official word from the Class of 1954 Secretary has been received.
"Master John Arthur Buffington, son of my son Jack '54, was born the day his dad received his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Thayer School. Jack is now a research engineer in the mechanical Division of General Mills here in Minneapolis. He and his wife Jane (Fellows) have just moved into a new home here, too, so Dotty and I get to see our grandson once in a while - and we don't have to baby sit to do it!
"'Uncle Bob' is at Dartmouth too — Class of '58. We all expect to be at 1929's 40th Reunion and the College's 200th Anniversary - with grandson John, a prospect for the Class of '76."
News has been received that Al Fisher, who has been continuously active in the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Long Island and in interviewing work, has transferred from the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., where he was staff assistant, to the New York Telephone Co., where he is secretary, Employees Benefit Committee, with a new office address at 101 Willoughby St., Brooklyn, N. Y. This committee administers pensions and welfare funds. Al's home address has not changed, but his mailing address is Box I, Roslyn Heights, N. Y.
And another telephone company change the following information was received from Jack Thompson on the reply card to a change-of-address inquiry:
"We moved from Bethesda, Md., to above address last April. I was transferred from the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co., Washington, D. C., to A. T. & T. headquarters and am engaged in finan- cial work. My son is now a college freshman at Principia College in southern Illinois. He was accepted at Dartmouth and four other colleges to which he applied but finally chose Principia. He doesn't like cold weather."
Jack's new addresses are as follows: home - 232 Linden Ave., Westfield, N. J., and office - Room 2300, 195 Broadway, New York 7, N. Y.
Other news comes through slowly, and late, but we wish to record that Dud Orr was reelected treasurer of the New Hampshire Historical Society at its 132nd annual meeting in Concord, N. H., last April.
A wonderful, long, informative and newsy letter was recently received from Bob Lyle, whose job as headmaster at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D. C., has recently included making substantial acreage additions to the school grounds for more athletic fields, remodeling two buildings on the grounds for school use - one of them being a lovely 150-year-old historic landmark - which includes the planning for the development of a language laboratory, and the erection of a new science building. As a headmaster, Bob has belonged to and worked for various educational organizations - the usual extra-curricular activities, of course - and so it is very pleasant to report that he has recently been selected for membership in the Federal Schoolmen's Club of Washington and in the Headmasters' Association. And these contribute a great deal, as do such associations in other businesses, for, as he writes, "These and the other educational groups to which I belong contribute a great deal through the association, discussion and interchange of ideas with other teachers and administrators." But there are two paragraphs in Bob's letter that give us the real Bob and tell us why he is such a great headmaster they are:
"Yet in spite of our attention to improvements in our school plant, we have not, of course, lost sight of the main purpose of a school - the education of children and young people. ... In spite of the various demands of my work, I find time to enjoy the theatre, do some reading, gardening and occasional golf. But all goes by the board when my 4-year-old son bounces out of bed at 6:30 a.m. with the cry, 'Daddy, it's snowing!' Then I hustle out, drop everything else and go sledding, make snowmen, and pitch snowballs."
John Laffey, reporting his new home address of 33 Maurice Rd., Wellesley 81, Mass., says., "Yes, we did move about three months ago - much better location, good house, etc. Nothing especially new. Saw the Lafayette-Dartmouth game in Hanover - took some friends along — saw no '29ers. Expect to see the Quebmans and Davis's in a week. Hope everything is going along as you wish."
John McNamara reports from New York City a new business address: Benton & Bowles, Inc., 444 Madison Ave.; and a new home address: 120 E. 64th St.
Albion Ross, reporting his business address as The New York Times, c/o the News Room, 229 West 43rd St., N. Y., and a temporary apartment at 390 Riverside Drive, says, "I was, for 8 years before the war, in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Middle East, Africa south of the Sudan and the Congo River. I made two lengthy trips to the Far East in 1938 and 1940-41. During that time I was working in San Francisco. Have been, for eighteen years altogether, with The New YorkTimes."
Al Floyd, reporting from Lynwood, Calif., gives a new home address of 3645 Piatt Ave. It is with great regret that we record the death of Al and Fern's son David on August 31, 1954.
Allah Lovejoy reports "No news, but a new home address of 429 Winchester St., Newton Highlands, Mass. Paul Nourie reports that he is now with the law firm of Wiggin, Nourie, Sundeen, Nassikas and Pingree at 875 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.
Word has been received from New York City that Al Rosenthal, who is a partner in the firm of Rosenthal & Co., has been elected a director of Guardian Mutual Fund, Inc.
Ed Abbott reports from Whittier, Calif., that his business address is c/o F.B.I., 1340 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, Calif., and says, "Greetings: - Nothing much new with me. I still do quite a bit of skiing at Big Bear Lake, Calif., and have developed considerable interest in the California mountains and deserts and in the literature about them. I am proud of John Dickey's ten years as president of Dartmouth. May he long continue in that good office."
Related to the last item, just above, those of you who missed the December 5 issue of Time are referred to the tribute to JohnDickey under the title "For Civilized Competence" on Page 51. But because of the one glaring error in the article, we have a message to John Jr. from his father's classmates: "We don't care what Time says, or if they are afflicted with myopia, we know 'it just ain't so'!".
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