1927
Now that Christmas and New Years are behind us and all of us, who aren't fortunate enough to be wintering in the sunny climes of Florida or California, are settling into the doldrums of late winter, the thought of a few glorious spring days in Hanover takes on an even greater charm. If the communications that I have been receiving during the past couple of months are any indication, the attendance at our thirtieth reunion should be terrific as everyone I have heard from seems to be planning to be there. To those of you who haven't yet made definite plans, a word of warning - the time is getting closer, so don't let June 10 sneak up on you and catch you somewhere far from Hanover for want of a little forethought.
Leon Loeb specializes in novel ways of communicating with his friends. One Sunday last summer I was greatly surprised on answering the phone to hear Leon's voice, talking to me from his car, as he sped along somewhere down in southern Ohio on his way across the country. It was a pleasant surprise to me, as I'm sure it was to the rest of you who live within mobile telephone range of his route. This Christmas his greetings ings consisted of a 45-RPM record of Dartmouth songs recorded by the Glee Club of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Washington, a most novel and appreciated way to say Merry Christmas.
Robert L. Long, Jr., elder son of Bob Long, who graduated from Dartmouth last June, sailed recently from Seattle aboard the Coast Guard cutter "Northwind" on an eighteen-month scientific mission to the Antarctic. His destination was Knox Station, one of several bases set up in the Antarctic for the International Geophysical Year. He will be a member of a U.S. team conducting research on radiation from the sun, and will be stationed at the South Pole through the Antarctic winter. Before sailing he had dinner with Don and Betty McCall at their home in Everett.
Ed Fowler's son Dick was married on November 24 to Miss Mary Carol Dannenhauer of Ardmore, Pa. After a brief honeymoon Dick reported for duty with the Army at Fort Jackson, S. C.
Dud Bonsai was recently elected a director of Elastic Stop Nut Corporation of America, according to the Wall St. Journal, and, while this was missed by the Journal's reporters, Frank Cloran was elected to the board of the Bass River Fish Market, Inc., of Cape Cod.
A welcome note from Clark Edmonds tells us that Owen and Harriet Garfield dropped in on him a short time ago, for the first visit between them since June 1927. Ed says that he also sees Bill Elliott, Bob Williamson, and Don Colby every once in a while, mostly at weddings.
Dick Lougee, with his son, Gerry, spent a good share of the past summer in the Canadian Maritime provinces, traveling in a Rambler station wagon complete with beds. Their tour was planned to follow the coastline, so for several weeks they drove along the shores of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, with a side trip to Prince Edward Island. From there they crossed the St. Lawrence River, drove up the Saguenay, and around Lake St. John. The automobile was their home for 50 nights, and everywhere they went they searched for evidence of former high sea levels. One day they landed by boat on the floor of the Bay of Fundy at low tide, and had the thrill of walking among the stumps of a primeval forest now thirty feet under the sea. Prior to their departure Dick's wife Clare had received her Ph.D. from Clark University, and had taken a position with the government in Washington. Now Dick's time is divided between his duties at Clark University, where he is Professor of Geomorphology, and Washington.
From Cary Stiff's annual issue of "Dogwood Farm Doing's" we learn that, in addition to doing most of the general merchandise retailing for the eastern part of Michigan, he continued to follow his hobby of railroading by taking a special trip on the experimental Aerotrain from Chicago to Los Angeles, returning by way of San Francisco and the California Zephyr - a trip which I will heartily recommend to even those of you who are not railroad hobbyists. Cary's son David received his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan last June, following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1953. Cary Jr. is an undergraduate in Hanover.
Huey Gray, who is manager of the Commercial Printing Division of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, says that he sees Windy Howell occasionally, and that once a year Ken Murdoch has a funeral directors' convention in Des Moines, at which time they get together. Huey advises that while he is ostensibly manager of the printing plant, most of the time the plant manages him. I think that most of us know what he means.
News is beginning to get thin again, so any communication from any of you will be greatly appreciated. And don't forget to mark the tenth of June on your calendar in big red letters.
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