1930

One of the latest recognitions to come to the Class is a recent announcement of the election of Dud Day as vice president of Federal Telecommunication Laboratories in Nutley, N.J. This company is a division of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, with which Dud has been connected for some time. With Telecommunication Laboratories he already carries the heavy titles of secretary, treasurer, counsel, and with the latest addi- tion, it seems to me he comes very near to being the one-man band.

A few days ago one of our friends sent along a clipping from the Clinton (Conn.) Recorder which reported on the fact that the CollierYoungs had been visiting locally, and coincidence is such that no more had I read that than Chris turned on the Television to see a play, Summer Promise, which, of course, starred Joan Fontaine and which was written by Collie.

A bit of news from Sam Allen carried me back many many years to the most vivid memory I have of him. That was a night in midwinter when the temperature was far below zero and a bunch of us, including BillFletcher, Brud Crosier, Wally Poorman and probably some others, were fast asleep in the cabin on Smart's Mountain. Into this frozen black silence at 3 a.m. came a clattering such as you never heard, and through the cabin door came Sam Allen on skis and carrying a full pack. It seemed that night Sam had had a little difficulty, Outing Clubber that he was, in following the trail and had taken the long way around. The news from him now, however, is in another vein because he is running the Westshore Boat Service in Culver, Ind., on Lake Maxinkuckee. Sam reports that this is Indiana's second largest and most beautiful lake and he can provide boats, motors and vacation rooms if any of you people are in that vicinity.

A Dartmouth man of another class sent us in news that Ed Holmes, down in St. Petersburg, a Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves, has now been designated local representative in charge of recruiting by the Commandant of the Sixth Naval District. This Ed is doing in addition to maintaining his insurance agency.

Nelson Blake's newest book Water for theCities was published by the Syracuse University Press on January 23. It is a historical volume dealing with the problem of water supply for major American cities during the period from 1790 to iB6O. As you will remember, Nelson is a Professor of History at Syracuse and is presently the chairman of that department. He carried on his research through a grant from the American Philosophical Society with a leave from Syracuse University. He also has authored Short History of American Life, 1952, and was co-author of Since 1900: A History of the United Slates In Our Times.

Survey of recent registrations at the Hanover Inn indicated that in January Rip Vogt and the Fred Watsons were both in Hanover.

Congratulations are in order for Kirk Jackson, who recently has been appointed assistant to the vice president of the Teleregister Corporation of Stamford. Kirk will be engaged in the sale of teleregister automatic stock and commodity quotation board services to brokers. Prior to this connection, Kirk had been general manager of the C.G.S. Laboratories in Stamford.

A few weeks ago a phone call from the Albany Railroad Station gave me the first chance I had had since graduation to talk with EdTroiclle. Ed, located in Albany, is an auditor for the State of New York. The Troidles have three children, a freshman in high school, a daughter who had one year at St. Rose College, and a son, now a freshman at Holy Cross. Ed properly is very proud of the boy's having won a Navy Scholarship to cover his college career.

On the same trip a series of telephone conversations in Chicago were entirely fruitless with the exception of the fact that I was able to talk with the good wife of Bill Swartchild who unfortunately was in the East at that time. A similar call to Al Hayes' residence brought forth an interesting conversation with a very attractive sounding young lady by the name of Nancy Gibson, who had various Dartmouth forebears and consequently was interested to give what information she could. Al and his family left in May to spend a year in the Philippines on a Fulbright Fellowship and after completion of this period expects to do some traveling in that portion of the world.

Speaking of traveling, Lee Eisler sends along the following brief note:

"I'm taking off for Europe with my wife, probably for a year. My mail address will be c/o the Chase Manhattan Bank, 41 rue Cambon, Paris. Purpose of trip? I want to see if it's true what they say about Italy."

You may have noticed that Sam Stayman and the American Bridge Team did not do so well this month against the French in seeking the world title. As a matter of fact, in a six-day, 224-hand contest held at the Claridge Hotel in Paris, the French won the title by some 4540 points, but we bet our Sam was in there fighting all the way.

It certainly is a matter of intra-class interest to know that again some of the offspring of the Class enjoyed the Keenes' Ski School during the Christmas Holidays. This time it was, the two daughters of Herm Sander, Martha Louise, age 11, and Mary Alice, age 10. You can be sure they had a good time.

From a circular of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, we would judge that Dick Tilt is about to join that organization.

Without wishing to bore you further with stories of life in the North Country, skiing, etc., let me just say that the ice statue on the center of the campus at Carnival time seems to me to be the most impressive one I have ever seen, chiefly because of its tremendous height, which was just overpowering. We saw it Thursday night before Carnival when we went over to see Eddie's hockey team play Boston College. The highlight of the game was when Eddie complained vociferously on a ruling of the referees to such a point that the rule book was dug out and in due course, after the referees had been shown chapter and verse, ultimately admitted that Eddie was right and the game went on.

With so much of interest going on in the Class, it is unfortunate that we must at the same time record the recent deaths of three men - Ellie Armstrong, Sam Carlisle and Frank Keniston.

Secretary, Reading, Vt.

Treasurer, Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.

Bequest Chairman,