1933
Do you feel better now that you have paid your income tax? Don't you wish you had had more deductions? Don't let paucity of deductions make you unhappy next year! Prepare now - keep that pen unlimbered - write a good big check for the Alumni Fund so you will have satisfactory deductions to report for '57!
Dick Jackson, reported last month as general solicitor for the Boston and Maine Railroad, has in reality been the railroad's general counsel since January 1 according to an announcement of Patrick B. McGinnis, which has just reached this desk. Nice going, Dick. We knew the B & M must come to it sooner or later, and we're glad that it's sooner.
Dr. and Mrs. Alvin Strode and family were seen in Hanover recently.
Just read an interesting article by Haydn Pearson from a recent Boston Herald telling about his trip to The Shop in the Woods owned and operated by Paul E. Burtis and Adrian Nitschelm '32, at North Conway, N. H. From 1947 until 1953 the business was known as The Yankee Cratt Shop, but since 1953 it has been running under its present name. We suggest that any of you sojourning in the Eastern Slopes Region see for yourself the splendid line of gifts which Paul and Adrian carry. You might even decide to stay at Stonehurst Manor Guest House which happens to be under the same management (double plug).
Dr. Dick Goldthwait, recently reported in the Arctic, drilled through the tundra and came out on the other side of the world at Christchurch, New Zealand, where his address is Geological Survey, P.O. Box 2110, and from whence he writes "I have a Fulbright Research Scholarship and will be in New Zealand for one year."
Prof. Bob Goodell, involved in some sort of diplomatic work, the nature of which he saith not, can still be reached through A.P.O. 757, New York, but the first part of his address has changed to AMConGen. Annex A. We guess this could be translated as American Consulate General, but the locale of his intrigue escapes us.
Bob Freeman, recently reported living in Winthrop, Mass. and managing a Childs Restaurant in Boston, has hopped across the country to 885 Marshall Drive, Palo Alto, Calif. He now manages Blum's Restaurant. Pettus Kaufman can now be found at Port Leyden, N. Y. Bob Winger is seeing the world with the Ford Motor Co. He can be contacted at W. Villafane #4O (32/1), Buenos Aires, Argentina, S.A. Ed Staudt has moved in Washington 23, D. C. to 3002 Parkway Terrace Drive, S.E. Don't know what he does, though, because our last record shows him twelve years ago as a storekeeper in Malabar, Fla. Harv Wood now lives at 904 Delene Road, Jenkintown, Pa. Don't know what he does, either, because our last record shows him with United Parcel Service in New York City.
Hugh Henderson, still out in Libertyville, Ill., can now be found at 505 Butterfield Road, probably still working for Ditto; while Ken Henchey has moved out of Wakefield and is now at 15 Country Club, N. Reading, Mass. Probably still with New England Mutual, though.
Saving the dessert till last, we wish to give you the European and Mideast trip of Robert B. Allen in capsule form as reported by him in his delightful letter. Bob states that he took Architecture at Harvard. Has been working as an architectural draftsman in and near his home town of San Francisco, now works for John Lyon Reid & Partners, Architects and Engineers (nationally known for school work, their specialty), is secretary of the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California, had war service in Europe and the Philippines, and is a confirmed bachelor. About his trip in 1955, Bob -writes,
"I started out in Naples and Rome at the end of February after an uncomfortable crossing. I returned to Rome at the end of May after visiting Egypt, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan (Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron), Turkey (Istanbul), Greece (Athens, Nauplion, Olympia, Sparta, Delphi). The high spots of this first leg of the tour were the first week of spring in Isfahan, Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem, Istanbul and Delphi.
"In Rome (my favorite city), I spent nearly a month, then bought a badly used Fiat station wagon and headed north. Italy is a fascinating country and I won't say more than that Venice is justly called 'Queen of the Adriatic.' At the end of July I crossed into Austria - Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna. Then back to Munich and southern Bavaria, and north through the medieval towns and cities such as Augsburg, Dinkelsbuhl and Rothenburg to one of my favorites: Heidelberg.
"I proceeded on down the Rhine to visit the area I knew during the war. The totally destroyed towns of ten years before were bustling modern places now with handsome modern buildings and carefully rebuilt replicas of treasured old buildings.
"On across the Ruhr - Munster, Hannover, Hamburg, Schleswig, and on the first of September into Denmark. Copenhagen is one place I definitely would like to revisit - a very friendly city. As I crossed the Sound in the very shadow of Hamlet's castle in a damp drizzle I could feel winter coming. A good deal of my driving in Sweden was in the rain and on the left of the road. Strangely enough it wasn't difficult to get used to this on the highway, but in the towns I had to watch it. It was really more frustrating to walk on the left and to remember to catch the trams on the left side, worst of all to go through a revolving door clockwise.
"The car broke down on the way from Stockholm to Oslo so I took the train while expensive repairs were made. It was a shame that my visit to Norway was so limited, but when I returned to Sweden in the first week of October I was ready to come home. Unfortunately, I had to return the car to Italy and this part of the trip wasn't a total success. There was a good deal of cold and rain and the car didn't like to start in the morning after a night outside. So it was sort of once over lightly through Hamburg, Amsterdam, Liege, Nancy, Strasbourg, Basel, Geneva, the Riviera (dead as only a resort can be in the off season). I finally coughed into Rome on October 28.
"Transatlantic bookings were so filled even at that late season that I took passage on an Italian freighter which turned out to be an old Liberty ship. I wasn't going to pay double for an air ticket. That voyage really wrapped it up. Twenty days from Naples to Newport News - half empty so we rolled all the time. Very dull, but the two big Italian meals a day were far better than the Italian Line's third class slop. And most wonderful of all, for the first time I was not sick.
"It was a trip to dream about and I hope I can do a little bit again."
We hope so, too, Bob, and thank you for giving us stay-at-homes a birdseye view of this wonderful world. How about the rest of you travellers writing your impressions of far places visited? If they're good enough, we'll print 'em. If you can't write travelogues, at least write a check for the Alumni Fund, for which we shall exhort you again next month.
Paine Knickerbocker '33 (left), drama critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, and movie starBob Ryan '32 shown together at lunch, where they discussed Ryan's new film, "Men in War."Ryan had just finished playing the lead in the stage production of "Tiger at the Gates" inSouthern California, which was produced by Harold J. Kennedy '34.
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