1930
As we write these notes early in October, Vermont is a blaze of color and I hope all of you who can have had a chance to share in it. Already the bird hunters are in the woods and just so often in open pasture, you will find natives sighting in their rifles for the deer season which comes very shortly now. A more mundane activity for us in this part of the woods is getting the storm windows ready to put on and as I painted ours this past weekend I realized another year had gone by when I found I no longer could draw the sash without going in the house and getting on my bi-focals. Time was when ...
And as we speak of the ordered turning of the clock hands, it probably is timely here to congratulate Wig Wiggin on the arrival of a second son to Mr. and Mrs. James Wiggin Jr. of Boston. The number of grandparents in the Class certainly is increasing.
Dot and Frank Ryder's daughter Joan was married early in September in Woods Hole to Albert Arthur Tilney Wickersham. Joan attended Winsor School, the Ecole du Louvre and the Sorbonne, and graduated this year from Radcliffe. Her husband prepared at Phillips Exeter and graduated from Yale in 1954.
We received recently a nice letter from Heinie Stewart who lives in Santa Barbara. He says:
"We (our family totals six: two boys, two girls) have been living in the beautiful coastal city of Santa Barbara, Calif., since leaving the staff of The Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, in July 1952. Our home is located in Hope Ranch Park with a welcome invitation always extended to Dartmouth '30s who enjoy the good fortune of a visit to California. My practice is limited to the specialty of obstetrics and gynecology with ample time to enjoy the pleasures of living in a resort town of 50,000.
"My daughter Sandra is in her third year at the University of California while Larry plans to attend there also, with ideas of a medical career. Bill and Mary Anne are of grade school age with only the problems that a healthy childhood presents.
"So you see, Dick, Frances and I have only the news of an average, happy (California? Dartmouth 1930? Physicians?) family without any startling news for your 1930 column."
A correspondent in Rhode Island tells us that young Ranald Hobbs of Darien, Conn., drew favorable comment in the Rhode Island papers as he played in the finals for the Junior Tennis Championship of the State.
As an adopted Vermonter, you understand, I must from time to time insert little plugs for this state. The latest is the publicity which Vic Borella received when he came to Vermont to find the perfect Christmas tree for this year's display at Rockefeller Center.
A promotion has been announced for Russ Sigler who recently has been named a trust officer of the New York Bankers Trust Company. In the same connection Bob Chittim who lives in Short Hills, N. J., has just been named Assistant Staff Manager — Tube for the Chase Brass & Copper Company and will be located in Waterbury. Another man to make his mark in the world is DaveLatham of Lowell who for some time has been Chief of Surgery at Lowell General Hospital. His new honor is the awarding of the Degree of Fellow, International College of Surgeons. He also is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the International Academy of Proctology. The Lathams' seven children span from Richard, freshman at Duke, to Ronald, a kindergarten pupil in Lowell.
If our opening comments about the fall made you think of winter and caused you to push up the thermostat a little, read here a letter addressed originally to Charlie Raymond from Harry Casler as he writes from the American Embassy in Caracas of the wonders of that country. We know you will enjoy the letter and you may be tempted to head South.
"Having put in nearly three years (34 months to be exact) with the Embassy in Panama, my Washington headquarters people thought the time had arrived for another move so I was assigned to Caracas to do the same sort of work that has occupied my time ever since the war - public affairs for the U. S. Government. This involves a multiplicity of activities but I suppose for the sake of brevity it all could be summed up with the handy tag: public relations. Which means there's no routine but something new and challenging every minute.
"The climate here is unbelievably wonderful - best we've ever struck in all our roving. Caracas is perhaps the most exciting city in the world from the standpoint of growth, development and architecture. It literally changes while you watch it. Something going on every minute and - you've guessed it - Bottome has been a guiding force in a great deal of it. Although he never would mention it to you (out of that natural modesty and reserve), Bob is one of the leading tycoons of the country and has had much to do with establishing the local Stock Exchange as well as introducing such innovations as investment counseling, trust management, etc. He is a wheel in the economy and that is saying something. . . .
"When Rusty Morrill and I first visited here in 1940 (on one of those gay and giddy winter vacations, remember?) it took us more than two hours to taxi from La Guaira, where the Grace Liners dock, to the city of Caracas. This was over a tortuous road that snaked through and over the high Andes foothills that separate the Caribbean from the Caracas Valley. It's only about eight miles as the condor flies but then it was better than 24 miles of road as we crawled onward and upward in our ancient taxi. Now there is an autopista (express highway) that lets you cover the distance in about 20 minutes. Complete with cantilever bridges that traverse some of the deepest gorges you'd ever want to cross, and tunnels bored directly through the bases of these formidable mountains, this highway rivals anything at home. . . .
"I'm strictly not promoting tourism here but it would be nice to see you here, especially after your printed wondering about what I'm doing. In fact, it would be good to see any of the '30 characters. You will be certain of accumulating a kit of conversation pieces that you won't soon forget. We look forward to visits; only one little thing: be sure to come loaded. Venezuela's currency is that hard."
For those of you who are trying to findwhatever happened to so-and-so, we give youa list of address changes as forwarded fromHanover.
Arthur C. Brown, Box 4977, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dr. Herbert E. Christman, 13535 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, Cleveland 7, Ohio, Col. Kelso G. Clow, 019784, MAAG B ELUX, 29 Ave. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium, Howard R. Eldredge, 294 Main St., Wareham, Mass., Edwin R. Frost, 207 W. Brookfield Drive, Nashville 5, Tenn., Robert M. Kimball, Town School for Boys, 2750 Jackson, San Francisco 15, Calif., Fred C. Scribner Jr., Room 3000, U.S. Treasury Dept., Washington 25, D. C., George E. Simpson, New Tremont Hotel, 16 Fulton St., Newark 2, N. J., Edward Weinstein, Dept. of Mental Health, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Arthur B. Behal, 440 East 56th St., N.Y.C. 22.
Robert Bottome, Apartado 2080, Caracas, Venezuela, H. B. Chrissinger Jr., 1849 Baywood Drive, Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Michael A. Cogan, 450 W. 62nd St., Miami, Fla., Fred Tangeman, 1915 Kinnelos Canyon Rd., Pasadena, Calif., Robert A. Jordan, 38 Dwhinda Road, Waban, Mass., John S. Marsh Jr., 313 Fraser Lane, College Park, Staunton, Va., Alton K. Marsters, 3550 Elmwood Ave., Rochester 10, N. Y., Dr. Harry L. Stewart Jr., 15 East Arrellaga, Santa Barbara, Calif., Elton L. Hendrick, Supervisor of Mfg. Accounting, The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., 7-11 South Broadway, White Plains, N. Y., and 1 Gilbert Ave., East Norwalk, Conn., Karl B. Rodi, 136 El Camino, Beverly Hills, Calif., Randel Snow, 3610 Louise Lane, Racine, Wis., Norman Watson, Tappan Hill Restaurant, (home) 31 West 76th St., New York 23, N. Y.
Photographed in the garden of the Governor's Mansion in Concord, N. H., May 11, at thewedding of Victor Borella '30 to Mrs. Eleanor Dwinell Newman, sister of the Governor, are (l to r) Dr. Harry W. Savage '26, William J. Montgomery '18, Governor Lane Dwinell '28, Rev. H. Telfer Mook '38, who performed the ceremony, Mr. Borella, Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, best man, and Alex McFarland '30.
Secretary, Reading, Vt.
Treasurer, 30 Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn
Bequest Chairman,
