1925
The trip abroad was a great success, and having left this column in charge of ParkerMerrow, your secretary traveled in a state of serene and confident relaxation - a mood that was thoroughly justified when he saw the page proofs for the May column. And why Parker has to worry about matching anyone else's English prose is not immediately apparent from a perusal of his own.
Homecoming was just in time for Alumni Officers Weekend, May 4 and 5, at which 1925 was represented by a full delegation: Chairman Ed Burns, Treasurer Ed Roessler, Agent Ford Whelden, and your secretary. No class had more except those few who sport a reunion chairman this year, and few had as many. The meetings, as usual, were stimulating and fruitful, and it was gratifying to observe the extent to which 1925 continues to be recommended as an example of what a Dartmouth class should be and do. But we shall not be complacent, for the work is never done.
The Jack Davis shell was dedicated by Jack's wife Elbra on April 27, in the presence of Tack's mother and a notable company of classmates, and trustees and officers of the College. With the heavy-weight varsity crew at attention and holding the shell, the ceremonies were opened by Associate Dean Arthur Kiendl, and there were short addresses by Ed Burns and Ford Whelden, prior to the christening with a bottle of Connecticut River water. The shell was then launched and rowed up the river and out of sight. An appropriate memorial to a well-loved classmate, it began its career auspiciously the next day at Providence, winning its first race against Brown, by five lengths.
It has been announced that Elbra is presenting to the College a silver cup in Jack's memory, to be awarded annually to the class giving the largest dollar total to the Alumni Fund.
Other recent class activities included the Parents-Sons get-together, held the same weekend as the shell dedication, and the Boston Husbands and Wives dinner on May 11, both of which have been reported in the Roundup.
Bob Hardy has retired from the active practice of law in New York and moved to Sarasota, where he plans to carry on in investment advice and similar activities. On May 12 Bob was married to Miss Hilda Hardy of Darien, Conn. They plan to spend several months in Europe, on their honeymoon, before returning to Sarasota. He has organized and is president of The Madison Organization, business and financial consultants. There seems to be the hard core of a settlement of
'25ers in that town, according to reports from Ed Burns who spent some time there in early spring. Hod Wellman, who hails from Jamestown, N. Y., has a winter home on St. Almonds Key. Don Kilby, who is with Ringling Brothers, lives on Palm Island, Siesta Key. Ed reports also that gathering for cocktails is a popular institution in Florida, of which due advantage was taken by these brethren on this occasion.
Connie Conrad, whose business often takes him afield, brightens his travels by encounters with classmates, to make up for the fact that he now has less opportunity to foregather with those around home in Cleveland. In a recent letter he tells of visits with June and Ed Dodez, in Fort Wayne, and Dorothy and GeorgeJoslyn in South Haven, Mich. Later, in Chicago, he was in touch with Tige Lyon, then on the point of departure for a vacation in the Barbados with Polly. Quite casually, Connie mentions that a recent stay in the hospital gave him a chance to see Bob Reading; it can only be hoped that, whatever it was, he is all over it.
Charlie Haywood, newest recruit in the ranks of benedicts, reports that he is hale and hearty, "neither being pinched for breaking and entering, nor being elected a college president, my life lacks interesting highlights." He is, however, chairman of the publications committee of the Lynn Historical Society, from which point of vantage he is able to offer copies of Volume II of "Towne Meetings of Lvnn, 1701-1717" at $1.50, which is a 25% reduction, to any interested bystanders. The index lists many names now borne by '25ers, so it might be of some genealogical interest.
Bill Sleigh writes:
"Feeling that town government in Marblehead left something to be desired, I decided to attempt boring from within and ran successfully and served a term as Selectman. I made headway but slowly and when I failed to be reelected decided to change tactics and start boring from without. As president of the Taxpayers Association for two years, and a director for many more I find results much more satisfactory — no miracles, but some real progress - and it's usually fun. Lyn White was more successful. I had him appointed a Fence Viewer (when I was selectman) and he still holds the job!"
Brad Smith has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Esterbrook Pen Company of Camden, N. J. He is vice president of the North America Companies, a leading casualty insurance firm, which he joined in 1929. He is also a director of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, a member of the Board of Managers of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of the Board of Directors of Haverford School.
A number of new addresses are reported from the Office of Alumni Records:
Andrew B. Foster, Counselor of Embassy, London, Foreign Service Mail Room, Dept. of State, Washington 25, D. C.; Raymond V. Guernsey, 1301 N.E. 102 St., Miami Shores, Fla.; Robert C.Hardy, 4660 Ocean Boulevard, Siesta Key, Sarasota Fla.; Alexander D. Hollenbeck, Middlebrook Farm Road, Wilton, Conn.; Charles R. Jameson, 124 Plain Road, Wayland, Mass.; Roderick B.Jones, 5 B Store Strade Gads, St. Thomas, V. I.; Henry D. Leffingwell, 8502 N.E. Sumner St., Portland 20, Ore.; Stanton G. Litchfield, P.O. Box 64, Bonita, Calif.; Robert N. Millet, Jr., 81 Freeman Ave., Everett 49, Mass.; John S. Packard Toy Town Tavern, Winchendon, Mass.; Carl T. Washburn, 1314 Grant Building, Pittsburgh 19, Pa.; Montgomery W. Chapman, 326 Valencia Road West Palm Beach, Fla.; Nathan P. Colwell, 70 North 29th St., Battle Creek, Mich.; Phillip F.Evans, Forest Rd., Northford, Conn.; Leonard W.Larson, 2501 Lincoln St., Evanston, Ill.; CharlesF. O'Connell, R.F.D. 1, Brackett Rd., Rye, N. H.; Jacob B. Wdllach, 116 East 66 St., New York 21, N. Y.
Leading item in the current list of vital statistics is the birth of Peter Eugene MacCready on April 5 to Molly and Bob MacCready. We keep thinking that each class baby will be the last, yet they seem to keep popping up, so let us be of good cheer.... Kay and BenBowden have joined the grandparents club, and have already begun to do their bit as sitters for Linda Kathryn, born February 12, to Lorna and Ben '54.... Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Hewitt have announced the engagement of their daughter, Mary Leslie to Mr. David Waddell Bird, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Bird of Birmingham, Mich. Moss Hewitt graduated from Vassar in 1953. Mr. Bird attended Michigan State University, and was in the Air Force, serving in Korea and Japan, in 1951-52. He is with the Ford Motor Co. in Havana, Cuba.... Stub Dwinell writes that his daughter Nancy was married m June 1055 to Mr. Donald Nagler, excusing a belated report by the statement that the passing of a year gives assurance of the solidity of the union. The young couple are living in Ann Arbor, where Nancy is assistant director of the Wesley Foundation and Don expects to start medical school in September. Both graduated in 1954 from Earlham College, in Richmond, Ind.
The death of Wen Jones, whose obituary notice was published last month, has evoked many tributes, one of the most moving of which was from the novelist Henry Morton Robinson, an old friend of Wen's, and, incidentally, brother to our own Dr. Chick Robinson. Remembering their boyhood together in Maiden, Mass., he writes:
"Even as a boy, Wendy displayed those traits of personal gentleness, intellectual curiosity, and creative dedication which marked his manhood. He began to paint at the age of 15. I remember the gleam of poetry in his first pictures, which revealed, even then, the inner vision of the troubled artist."
Spring has been late in these latitudes, but it seems at last to have settled in for good, and Commencement is nearly upon us again. The academic year has this advantage over the calendar year by which we schedule our other activities: when it comes to an end, there is a decent interval before another begins. There is time to review the old and plan the new, to reflect upon how one may relate to the other, to make continuity more fruitful by allowing it to be discontinuous. (Which the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines as "having interstices.") Happily, life does provide us with these little gaps or, if we are wise, we provide them for ourselves, so that we may look back a little and forward a little, to see whether we have been where we meant to be and are heading where we want to go. Our signposts, then, and our guides will come of our having been related to things outside of ourselves and beyond the little concerns of daily life - of shared experience, and of devotions and loyalties to which the road, however it bends, must always turn again. One such experience, and for most of us not the least important, is Dartmouth; and it is good to reflect, in the interstices of the years, that we are by this loyalty privileged to be part of man's triumphant march toward enlightenment.
Dartmouth's varsity heavyweight crew holding the new shell named "Jack Davis" which was contributed by the Class of 1925 in memory of John Hubbard Davis '25, chairman of the class executive committee and member of the Alumni Council, who died last summer. The crew first used it the following day in its victory over Brown.
Mrs. John H. Davis of New York christensthe shell with water from the Connecticut inthe Hanover ceremony held April 27.
Secretary, 58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass
Class Agent, 306 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H.
