1915
If these Notes sound slightly off the beam, lay it to a clash with the law. (I've already started them twice). Jury Duty - twice deferred - collided head-on with the MAGAZINE deadline and this is being written under pressure of habeas corpuses and other presumably legal interruptions hardly conducive to thought continuity. So - "let the chips fall Where they may!"
Shorty Gray reports no news from the Pentagon other than that they are well and altogether too busy. Says he'll be glad when he gets another 25 years under his belt so he can retire!
A tip to Dale Barker! A mysterious message from Cape Cod offers a site for an Interim Reunion at "off season rates!"
A note from Sid Crawford from their new home in Maine says drop in any time we are passing. Kennebunk is still famous for its clams and lobsters.
The Bill Williams seem to get around. The latest "echo" from them apparently eminated from Oregon.
If you want to locate the Charlie Griffith's Vermont domicile, just refer to their Christmas "card." "Journey's End" in Norwich is an apt name for the eventual wind-up to Charlie's peregrinations.
A letter from Dale Barker says I am not to question the date of it (January 1), that he is in a normal condition after seeing in the New Year within the confines of his own home. He and Bess had their young grandson with 'em over night so his parents could do what they used to do - perhaps 30 years ago.
The Duze Lounsberrys left Newtonville for a two-months jaunt, stopping for Christmas with their daughter and family in Endicott, N. Y., and then heading west with their ultimate destination a visit with the Stu Hills in Boulder, Colo. Incidentally, the Hill's daughter and family also live in Endicott within a block of their cousins.
Someone suggests a reunion down at the Win Davis' set-up in Florida - but who has the yacht to furnish the transportation?
Bess Barker spent a few days in the Big Town in January with a girl friend, seeing the sights and shops, et cetera. How'd you like the Rockettes, Bess? Which reminds me of the New Yorker's paraphrase on that 'old one' - "New York's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there!"
A recent headline in the feature section of a New York newspaper reads: "These are the Men who Made their Mark in 1956." There followed pictures and thumb-nail sketches of some 30-odd men including Al Bradley as chairman of General Motors. An interesting extract therefrom reads: "Besides being an expert with a left-handed golf club, he is a speaker whose few well-chosen words usually contain both diagnosis and solution to potential ills of the largest manufacturing concern in the world." It is also interesting to note that two other Dartmouth men were included in the group - George Champion '26, president of Chase Manhattan, and Leon Greenebaum '27, chairman of Hertz Corp.
The Bags Wanamakers are certainly making hay - travel-wise. A card from Buenos Aires refers to visiting Colombia, Peru, Chile, several days at San Carlos de Bariloche (the Switzerland of S. A.), Rio de Janeiro, and back to Venezuela - 12,000 miles of travel. When'll it be back to U.S.A., Bags?
Pre-inventory bargains? Over at the Post Office they are selling a $5 money order for 8 cents and it is said you can get 13 two-cent stamps for a cent and a quarter! Don't shoot!
I would like to quote from a letter from "Butch" Sherman '17:
Your item about. Lee Graham in the January issue leads me to write you. I didn't know Lee in college but was very close to him in World War I service. At Foggia, Lee and I were among a group of Dartmouth men under Fiorello LaGuardia. Lee was cracked up ferrying planes from England to France and I hadn't seen him since, until about a week ago it was my privilege to visit him at his home in Hartland. In spite of 40 years and his unfortunate illnesses, he knew me when I came in the door. He certainly would be happy to see some of you boys in his class. Perhaps I'm taking too much on myself in writing you this way (I'm sure Don Brooks, our class secretary will forgive me), but Lee Graham is a great guy, loves the College, did a job for his country and still feels he should have done more.
How about it — some of you fellows who get within striking distance of Hartland, Vt.? Lee's house is only a quarter-mile from the three corners at Hartland - South.
Eben dough's business got tangled up in a fire along in January when a basement oil stove (the landlord's) blew up. Eben says:
I am in temporary quarters on the third floor in the next building, using the landlord's letterheads and lookit the ad he has on top. He sells fire protection and lookie me sittin' here tryin' to do somethin'. Aint life awful?
(Sure enough - the letterhead pictures incolor one of these old steam engines, belchingsmoke, tearing down the street with threehorses abreast and two more in front - all ofthem right out straight! And in big red letters - "Fire Protection Equipment.") Eben saysthey had quite a gathering at Pattens the daybefore - Chan Foster, Doc O'Hara, KikeRichardson and a bunch from other classes.Kike was itchin' to get up North again whereit's warm. Said he went fishing last week, but"no luck, damit, holes froze over, 'twas only27 below." "Gorsh, what hole wouldn't freezeover at 27 below" says Eben.
An A.P. dispatch, date-lined Washington, January 23, states that economist Beardsley Ruml and General Maxwell D. Taylor were named last night to receive the 1957 Golden Key awards for contributions to educational advancement.
Rumor has it that Johnnie Johnson isheaded for another trek somewhere. He wasdue in New York in early February to makearrangements.
The Springfield Union announced late inJanuary that Paul Vining has just been madevice-president of the Springfield (Mass.) Safeand Deposit Co. It is reported that Paul received so many bouquets of flowers he couldn'tsee over his desk. Congratulations, Paul.
Paul Rothery writes: "Six years ago, Therese and I made the mistake of taking a vacation in Florida. Once you get sand in your shoes, you're gone. So we have been going down each winter since then. We leave in about two weeks (early February) and will hole up in Naples - the boomiest (or was it bonniest?) town in Florida, according to Holiday Magazine for December." Paul thinks our basketball team hasn't done half bad this year. (Shall we reserve judgement until someone comes along to lick Princeton - 5 and o at this sitting?)
And so — with that Jury Duty still beckoning — your secretary concludes with: "Only the rich can be eccentric. The poor must be satisfied with being nuts." (You had fair warning at the start of this.)
Changes of Address: Albert E. Johnson, 1006 Lu Ray Drive, Ashland, Ohio; Richard W. Redfield, 515 California Terrace, Pasadena 2, Calif.; and Adam Sutcliffe, 1 Tryon Ave., Rumford, R. I.
Three college presidents at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia, January 8, were President Andrew G. Truxal, M.A. '35, of Hood College; President Dickey; and President Willard S. Paul '16 of Gettysburg College.
Secretary, 301 East 53rd St. New York 22, N. Y.
Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
