1925
The annual banquet of the Boston Alumni Association on February 8 brought out fifteen members of the Class, namely: Pete Blodgett, Jock Brace, Chet Eaton, Johnny Garrod, Charlie Graydon, Don Hunt, Bunny Levison, Bob MacCready, Dan Matthews, Bud Neillson, Ken Nugent, Lang Spring, Ralph Tucker, Woody Wilson and your Secretary. This was not enough to win the attendance cup, which was carried off by 1933 with 23 present, but still not bad for guys who have got to the age where they need winter vacations. It was the kind of a day in Boston when you couldn't blame those who chose to be in Florida; except for Pease, of course, who was probably up somewhere skiing. Anyway, for those who could be there, it was good to get together again. The next Boston event will be the Class dinner on May 11 at the Boston Club, 46 Beacon St., for '25ers and wives. The mailing list for this will cover Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont, but those living elsewhere who can make it are urged to communicate with Bunny Levison, 26 Egmont St., Brookline 46, Mass.
Another family affair will be the ParentsSons weekend in Hanover on April 27-28, with the dinner on the latter date at the Dartmouth Outing Club House. Here again, although special notices will be sent only to those who now have sons in college, all men and women of 1925 are invited to what could be a fine spring reunion. The chairman is Gordie Marvel, Washingtonville, N.Y.
Visitors registered at the Hanover Inn during January included: Bill Barker, Jock Brace,Mr. and Mrs. Connie Kurtz and Jack Spring.Bill Sleigh was also there, but unfortunately, under the necessity of having some surgery performed. Happily, he is well again and back on the job. Rad Tanzer was the surgeon. Ken Hill is convalescing after a recent illness and well enough to spend a couple of hours each day in his office. Lydia Nugent is doing well after having suffered a fractured hip, and should be out of the hospital by the time this is published.
Turning to cheerier matters, Adeline andLou Kimball have announced the engagement of their daughter Barbara Ann to E. Vernon Townsend Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla. Babs is a graduate of Garland Junior College; her fiance graduated from the University of North Carolina, took his degree in Business Administration at the University of Florida, and served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean action.
Nate Colwell is now chief of the Radio-TV Branch of the Federal Civil Defense Administration National Office, in Battle Creek, Mich. He reports being well content to settle in one spot after over two years of continuous travel.
Some years ago, one of the present incumbent's predecessors in this office ran a series of individual biographies of classmates. It would seem desirable to re-institute this practice, particuiarlv in the cases of those whose names have not appeared in this column in recent years; the only impediment is that at the moment we are fresh out of biographies. Since it is hardly likely that the busy and modest men who make up the bulk of us will respond in person, an appeal is hereby made to their loyal helpmates to produce the necessary material. Photographs will be used when possible, subject to space limitations and the whims of the tyrannical editor of this journal.
The following new addresses are reported by the Alumni Records Office:
David M. Ames, c/o Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., 15 Gracechurch St., London E C 3, England; H. Douglas Archibald, 820 Graybar Bldg., 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N.Y.; James R. Curry, Whitman St., Williamstown, Mass.; Paul B. Deisroth, Rose Hill Road, Suffern, N.Y.; Edward C Dodez, 730 Rockhill St., Fort Wayne, Ind.; Dr. Charles H. Flint, 718 sth St., S.W. Rochester, Minn.; Andrew B. Foster, Department of State, Washington 25, D.C.; Brud Goodman, 2275 Goleta Ave., Youngstown, Ohio; Elpheage V. Kirouac, Burroughs Corp., 18 Gaucher St., Springfield, Mass.; William M. Lauman, Academy, Box 139, Easthampton, Mass.; John S. Packard, Royal Park Inn, Vero Beach, Fla.; Ralph E. Shineman, 116 West St., Ilion, N.Y.; Laurence A. Welch, 1736 G. Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C.; Phillip F. Evans, Northboro, Mass.; John G. Robison, Byre Lane, Wallingford. Pa.; Dr. Harry A. Tinker, 2912 Cavell Ave., Minneapolis 16, Minn.; Francis Tissot, 3631 169 th St., Flushing, L.I., N.Y.; and Mr. Duncan G. Upton, 7 Adams Court, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
It has been an interesting coincidence, only a few days after writing a paragraph about Eleazar Wheelock in the February Roundup, to hear President Dickey develop a very similar theme at the Boston dinner - briefly, but better, of course. He emphasized how the College, taking spirit from its founder who deliberately built it on the frontier, had grown and taken shape through and by the rigors and adversities of its early years, continuing in an unbroken line from then to now the place loyalty - in Dr. Tucker's phrase — and the adventurousness which have made it unique.
The physical frontier is gone and there are those who say that the country will never be the same again. That may be true. But the frontiers of the mind and the spirit are illimitable. There is no end to the challenge of events or the adventure of learning. If the tradition we hold dear is largely represented by a place, it is not only because it is itself wonderful, but no less because great men have made it come alive for us. In them too we may trace the line of descent unbroken - Wheelock and Brown, Tucker and Hopkins and Dickey. They matched the rugged beauty of our North Country with the vigor and clarity of their thought and action, with courage and largeness of vision; one of them is now in the fullness of his ability, and another, happily, is with us still as a living inspiration. Through them we may reach back to the beginning, tracing that faith in the destiny of the College with which they built and are building, and sharing which, we may ourselves be builders.
Class Officers of 1925 who met at the Norwich Inn following the November meeting of theExecutive Committee included (l to r)s Ford Whelden, Class Agent; EdEd Burns, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Ham Thayer, Chairman of the FacultyFund; and Herb Talbot, Class Secretary.
Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass.
Treasurer, R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N.J.
Bequest Chairman,
Correction In the list of alumni fathers and freshman sons printed last month there should have appeared the names of David M. Burner '25 of Decatur, Ill., and his son James B. Burner '59. A Freshman Office list erroneously included Robert C. Byrne '28 instead.
