1916

Class Notes Editor 7 Swarthmore PL, Swarthmore, Pa.

Secretary, 4808 Broad Brook Drive, Bethesda 14, Md.

Treasurer, 15 Ravenna Rd., Boston 31, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,

The Class was shocked and saddened by the unexpected death of Pike Larmon which occurred on June 5. Pike seemed to be recovering from his illness, and I had a card from him only a few weeks before from Caracas, Venezuela, where he had gone to recuperate, saying that he felt fine and would soon be back on the road to 100% health. Pike had the faculty for making friends and he had many in the Class and elsewhere. One of his closest friends was his classmate, Sam Thieme. Pike and his wife visited Sam's home in Redlands, Calif., two years ago. Sam came East last year with his wife for a return visit and then the four went to Hanover for the Fabulous Fortieth. Sam writes that he and Pike planned to attend Pen Mower's Ekklesia in Boston next summer. That is the annual conclave of Phi Gamma Delta, their fraternity and Penfield Mower, '04, a prominent Fiji, often runs the show. Sam, in retrospect, says that he wouldn't have missed that trip back East last year and those glorious June days at Hanover for all the Scotch in Hitchcock. A very close tie existed between Pike and his brothers, Sigurd, '14, and Cotty, '19. For many years they had an annual get-together, going off for three days of golf and close companionship. The Class has lost one of its finest members, and expresses its deepest sympathy to Pike's wife, Louise, to Sig and Cotty, and to the other members of the family. A more detailed account of Pike's life will be found in the obituary news.

Wilberforce Sully Jr., Esquire (Beans to you) announces the dissolution of the law firm of Flynt and Sully, and the removal of his office to the Lincoln Building, 60 East 42nd Street, New York.

Your correspondent went over to New York for the last get-together and dinner of the season. It was also the best attended. Roger Evans spoke in a most interesting manner on "Some Lessons from China." Rog was out there for eight years in the 20's and has made several long visits to the Orient since the war. He pointed out that Western methods, money and pressure were of little avail unless genuine native interest and cooperation were developed, in their own terms. Given these, near miracles could happen with much less Western effort. The most sobering of his remarks dealt with the expanding population in Asia, especially China, India and Java and how this can be aggravated by relative emphasis on public health measures to cut mortality rates. Until these countries can work out internal solutions. Roger said that Western aid programs would do well to stress balanced moderation. There is the growing risk that need of food for her massive population may impel Com- munist China to move south into the rice bowl of Southeast Asia. He also cited the mistake of too many Occidentals mixing only with the Western-Oriented elites of Asia and failing to understand and work with the masses. To succeed in our worthy goals, the first and hardest lesson we have to learn is to abandon our Western preconceptions and our proneness to "do it for you"; then to help the free Asians to adapt our "knowhow" to their way of life, rather than to adopt our ways. It was a great pleasure to meet Horace Macartney again. He lives in Port Washington. Horace left Dartmouth in his freshman year and graduated from Cornell. But he never lost his love for the old College, as is evidenced by the fact that his two sons graduated from Dartmouth. Horace '46 and lan '48. The others present: Johnny Ames, Charley Brundage, John Butler, Charley Cressy, Jib Dingwall, George Dock, Dutch Doenecke, Charley Jones, Johnny Pelletier, Frank Pettengill, Paul Richardson, Leigh Rogers, Ken Ross, Freddie St. George Smith, Ken Stowell and Beans Sully. As a mark of appreciation Leigh Rogers proposed that Dutch Doenecke be cited for all that he has done to further these fine meetings.

Ernie Frey's eldest daughter, Barbara, is principal of an East Aurora, N. Y., elementary school. She is also superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School, and, I take it, a mighty smart gal. Ernie has two other daughters, one married and the other unmarried, also a school teacher.

I stopped around the other day at the new Sheraton Hotel, recently opened in Philadelphia, thinking that Page Browne was the resident manager. He was here for all the opening festivities, at which Perle Mesta was the hostess (with the mostess), to say nothing of many Hollywood stars (who had quite a lot in their own right). However Page was not in residence; he probably runs the hotel by remote control from Boston, the Sheraton headquarters. The hotel is a pip, the only new one, I believe, that Sheraton has built in 21 years. I would recommend it to all my classmates, - only however in the event that all the beds are taken in the Cleaves' menage in Swarthmore.

WEDDING BELLS: Katharine Safford Chase, daughter of Eugene and Mrs. Chase, was married to John Packer Sibun at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Hebron, Conn., on April 27. A reception followed at Shadowsmark, Gene's home. John is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Alfred Sibun of Richmond, Surrey, England, and after completing military service in the Royal Regiment of Arillery has been with the United Africa Co., where he is now manager for the Southern Province of Tanganyika. Katharine is a graduate of Radcliffe, has a master's degree from the University of Virginia. She returned recently from Nairobi, Kenya, where she was American Vice-Consul. The congratulations and best wishes of the Class to these happy young people.

Jim Coffin and Alec Jardine attended the Class Officers' Weekend in Hanover May 3 and 4, and returned home well versed in the Alumni Fund, Hopkins Center, the Development Program and kindred subjects.

Jack English has sent me a magazine picture of Cap Carey and his family, taken on the occasion of his retirement from the insurance business last December. There are Cap (looking uncommonly handsome), his wife, Esther, daughters, Patricia Moran and Marjorie Carey (all charmers), son John and son-in-law Dan Moran.

As these notes go to Hanover I have not received the five star final report on the Alumni Fund. Our class and the college more than attained their allocated goals, and more will be said of this in our next edition.