1927
As I write this, on March 3, winter is still very much with us, and the lazy days of June seem still far off, but by the time you read it, spring should be far enough advanced to make us all realize that our red letter days of JUNE 10, 11, and 13 are getting close. By now you will all have received a copy of the schedule and can appreciate the tremendous effort that your committee has put into planning activities that will suit every conceivable taste. Early reservations will be of great help to them, and early planning will assure your not missing the fun.
I would like to call your particular attention to the article about Frell Owl in the March issue of the Magazine. For some time a number of the members of the Class, as well as the Editor of the Magazine, have thought that it would be particularly appropriate for the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE to recognize the outstanding work being done by one of the last members of his race to graduate from the College founded by Eleazar Wheelock for the purpose of educating the American Indian, in improving the lot of his own people. The Class and the College should be particularly grateful to Les Battin, without whose efforts this project would not have been undertaken, to George Friede, who has done such an able job of chronicling Hoot's work, and to Hoot himself, for bringing great credit to his College and his Class.
On January 28 Ruel Colby, the dean of New Hampshire sports writers, was made an honorary life member of the Concord Junior Chamber of Commerce in recognition of his unceasing support of teams and leagues in the area and his recognition of the less familiar participant sports as well as the seasonal spectator athletic events. Ruel attended Baker University and the University of Kansas after leaving Dartmouth in 1926. He joined the news start of the Concord Monitor in 1928, and has been its sports editor since 1930. He was a long-time member of the N. H. Athletic Commission, serving under three different governors, coached the Concord High tennis team in the early 30s and more recently has been named to the NHIAA committee on minor sports. At the close of World War II, Ruel and his paper were honored by a Navy Department citation for his column, "The Sports Galley", which from 1943 to 1946 was devoted largely to coverage of Concord men in the armed services all over the world. He followed the activities and whereabouts of former athletes and non-athletes, who wrote to him steadily throughout World War II. He performed a similar service on a lesser scale during the Korean war.
Bill Quinn has moved from Utica to Massena, N. Y., and set up a new law office at 10½ Phillips St. Bill is a member of the United County Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association. He served as a special assistant to the United States Attorney as an assistant corporation counselor. He will continue as attorney for the International Hod Carriers and Laborers Union, Local 322. He left Dartmouth in 1924 to attend Fordham Law School, where he received his LLB degree in 1928. The Quinns have four children, Nancy, 16, and Kevin, 15, both sophomores at the Utica Catholic Academy, George, 13, in grammar school, and William V., Jr., a student at the Lady of Lourdes. Bill is living at so Howard St. in Massena.
Ken Yeaton has been appointed to fill an unexpired term on the Hunterdon Central High School Board of Education in Flemington, N. J. After graduation from Dartmouth, Ken went to work in the travel department of the American Express Co., in New York. After a year he joined his father in the real estate business in Flemington. In 1939, desiring to gain experience in the field of real estate appraising, he joined the Federal Housing Administration Camden office as an evaluator. After rising to chief evaluator at the office, he returned to the business in Flemington in 1945. Ken was married in 1940 and the Yeatons have two children, Minot Rea, 15, and Candace, 11. Ken is a member of the Flemington Rotary Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, and an active leader in the Baptist Church. He still has not lost the New England accent acquired in his early days in Epson, N. H.
Frank Marsh has been elected secretary of the Phoenix Insurance Company. He joined Phoenix upon graduation, and became a special agent in Philadelphia in 1937. In 1926 he returned to the home office in Hartford as inland marine general agent, and was appointed marine secretary in 1949.
Another insurance man in the Class has received honors. Chuck Burwell, associate of the Home Office Agency of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Portland, Me., has earned Charter Membership in the company's newly formed Presidents' Club, which recognizes the Union Mutual's top producers. Chuck has been in the life insurance field ever since graduation, and joined Union Mutual in 1953- In 1951 he received his CLU designation. He is a member of the Portland Kiwanis Club, Hanoseeket Yacht Club, Southern Maine and National Association of Life Underwriters, Maine Chapter of American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters, and has been active in alumni affairs, having served as president of the Maine Alumni Association, and perennial class agent for the State of Maine.
Kay and Bill Prescott attempted to turn the clock back some 30 years by spending Carnival weekend chaperoning the DU houseparty, and evidently had considerable success. Kay reports: "We were on the go every minute. Glee Club, ski jump, events, etc.,and considering our age we feel that we did very well and kept right up with '57, '58 and '59 — we had to for '27's reputation - and really surprised some of the young fry." The Prescotts are now on their way to, or have already arrived at, Sea Island for their winter vacation, with the next stop the THIRTIETH in June.
Ed Fry's son, Sam, is studying political science in the British Isles, on a fellowship granted by Dartmouth. During the Christmas recess Sam traveled to the continent, looked around Vienna, and even managed to get a foot inside Hungary and see some of Yugoslavia.
Anyone who expects to need the services of an attorney in the vicinity of Hanover during the early part of June might contact George Friede, as George says that this is probably the only way he can get there. Having just come back from a three weeks vacation in southern Central America, George says that his only chance for getting anywhere for a long time to come is for a client to require his services in that locality.
Joe Gintzler has recovered from a serious eye operation, and hopes to be able to make Hanover in June. Joe wonders how many of the Glass remember him from 404 Russell Sage, and mentions particularly Joe Creamer, Sam Wormser, Lev. Lyons, and Duke Murray.
As you all know who read your College mail, our new Class Agent, Rog Salinger, has come up with a great new idea, which he has christened "The Middle-Age Spread." The thinking behind this is that a great many of us want to do more for the Alumni Fund than we find ourselves in a position to do in the waning days of the campaign in late June. To overcome this, we are being given an opportunity to indicate our intention to give whatever amount we wish each month from now through June. We will receive monthly bills from the College, to preclude our forgetting our good intentions. This is a project dear to the heart of your secretary. Ever since 1949 when he was Class Agent, he has been arguing with the Fund Office in Hanover for some sort of divided payment plan. As a member of the Alumni Fund Committee during the past three years, he renewed his plea. Perhaps this may have set the stage for their acceptance of Rog's specific plan, as this is the first time that I know of, in the history of the Alumni Fund, that the Committee has approved a plan which in- volves billing from the office in Hanover. If enough of us cooperate, 1927 has an opportunity to again pioneer a new development which may have a vast impact on all future Fund campaigns, and which may set a pattern for all other classes.
New addresses, for those of you who are keeping their Class Directories up to the minute: Bruce McKennan from Palo Alto to 140 Northridge Lane, Woodside, Calif.; Theophilus P. Reckefus from Philadelphia to Bristol Road, Churchville, Pa.; Edward D.Ruth, who very recently moved from Detroit to Chicago, to 425 East 63rd St., New York 21, N. Y. (this is fast moving, even for General Motors); Evan A. Wilder from Mount Pleasant, S. C. to 208 Linden St., Apt. 1, Boston 49, Mass.; Lt. Col. Bedford Williams, Wing Legal Office, H&HS, MWHG. FMAW. F.P.O. San Francisco, Calif.; Victor J. Duplin from Fanwood, N. J. to The Babcock & Wilcox Co., P.O. Box 785 Lynchburg, Va., residence Rt. 3, Box 225; Milburn W. Murgittroyd,11644 S.E. 46th, Bellevue, Wash.; William V.Quinn, address earlier in these notes.
Secretary, West River Road, R.R. 2 Perrysburg, Ohio
Class Agent, 149 Dorset Rd., Waban 68, Mass.
