1924
This is our two months of unpredictable weather. The warm spell of earliest March gave 'way to a cold front of wet snow on the 9th - making everything beautiful for a few hours in the early morning. - Accidents, and then everything turned to rain and slush, and more snow. A recent visitor was our Luitweiler, and his son Pete who is a freshman in high school and up here to see the ex-greats skate in the annual Alumni-Varsity game. Pete hopes to skate here himself some day; wonder what he thought of it all Pleasant visit with them both over dinner. Heard RedMaloney was to be here also, but not as of Friday night.
The week before I was much pleased to have a call from Greenough Abbe here to visit his freshman son, over the Father-Son weekend. Saw some of the treasure-trove of excellent pictures Greenough has, - the special trains at the Norwich-Hanover station-Main Street as it was; campus shots. I'm hoping to have some of these passed on to the Class or College (or both). They are far from run-of-the-mill pictures. I recall being assigned seats next to him as a freshman; others will remember him as the sparkplug of the Boston DOC cabin project.
March 7 saw a very select delegation of '24 included in the dining-room-full of Alumni at the Inn, there to participate in plans for the capital funds campaign, of which you will hear more from others eventually. We had a table to ourselves, rare souls all, I'm sure: Stu Eldredge (whose mural for a hospital in Springfield, Vt., has just been completed, and whose newly-designed-for-us birthday cards will be mailed out about April 15 - later than I had guessed); Putty Blodgett (who recalled how he used to want to buy the beautiful old haunted house on the River Road, halfway to Lyme); Ruff Miller (whose son's picture graced the cover of the March issue, and who skis with the Olympic champions on even terms); Don Bartlett (our Humanities Division chairman - my opposite as I am for Social Sciences); Dick Morin (the amiable and capable Librarian); John Coyle (eye-doctor, with distinguished gray hair almost as impressive as Ruff Miller's locks - and the envy of anyone like my balding self); Robin Robinson (registrar-to-be, and who tells me the IBM cards, etc. to be used in our new data-processing equipment are to be supplied to the College, by winning the competitive bidding, by our Ford Bowman); and your scribe (who is proud to have his son Jonathan win a coveted Henry Fellowship for next year to study Mathematics at Cambridge University, England). Les Sycamore and Ives Atherton, head of the Clinic's X-ray unit and local postmaster, respectively, were unable to attend and were missed.
The motel reserved for the fall home football game reunion is more than half filled by reservations to date. I know of others who intend to be there. Better let me sew it up if you want to be included. I may have to try to locate another motel, and if so, would want to do this soon.
The Jim Rutherfords are off again. They left for the west coast in mid-February, perhaps it would be a trip to the Orient — short or long as they would decide when they got there. Last year it was Nassau, with some friends - and there saw Mike Watkins. Also took in the Regatta at Georgetown. Says Jim: "I highly recommend this chartering deal for anyone who plans a trip to the Bahamas. Of course, of course. Glad and Jim plan to be in that motel come fall; a reservation stands in their names.
"Language is given us to conceal our thoughts," someone said. As a teacher, I ought to do better but in the recent writings from this machine I seem to have persuaded two classmates that my marriage is a fact, not just a plan. I regret to say we must wait a while longer; plans are for a July 6 wedding in Trinity Church, Boston. Sorry to have been un-clear, and thank several for their good wishes.
The press-gleanings reveal that: Jo Falcon is now President and General Manager of Savage Arms Corp., where he has been as Sales Manager for the firearms division since 1950; VP in 1955; assistant general manager last June. He learned this business as purchasing agent for firearms and other sporting goods for Montgomery Ward & Co., 1929-1939. After this he was in advertising in Binghamton, N. Y. Pete Wheatley seems secure now he is the President of the Abington (Mass.) National Bank, where he has been a director since 1936. Aside from his law practice, Pete is also president of the; Abomgtpm Mutual Life Insurance Co., and director in several corporations, including (you've guessed it) the Abington Savings Bank. Win Sturtevant is one of the new directors of the Legal Aid Society. Haven't seen him since the Dartmouth part of the Springfield (Mass.) alumni group a couple of years ago. He owes me a letter — ence this "needle," Win. Roger Harris is now helping the College with its screening of candidates for admission - down Texas way where Dartmouth men are rarer than elsewhere.
Where, oh where department: Mail returned from Alaska for Herbert Meleney, supposedly with the Headquarters of the Alaskan Air Command. Any news of him?
Dr. Ralph E. Miller '24 (r), Professor of Pathology, Dartmouth Medical School, with Guy P. Wallick '21, Alumni Council member from San Francisco, at Dartmouth Skiway when the new center was dedicated this winter.
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