1925
Returning from a two-week absence, and with the writing of these notes already delayed, your secretary was delighted to find a number of letters waiting. Breaking a long silence, Mutt Martin writes from Chandler, Ariz.:
"After 30-odd years away from school and the attendant intellectual climate, largely among those of the 'sweat & guts' construction industry, I find myself at a loss for words to express myself. The eye weakness that made me decide to seek outdoor work still prevents me from doing much reading for pleasure but I guess I don't have much to kick about. I enjoy reading the 'Round-up'. Kitty and I are by ourselves now with the three boys grown up and away at work or school. Currently I'm project manager for Utah Construction Co., putting up an agro-chemical plant. The initial unit, a complex fertilizer plant which will manufacture sulphates, phosphates, etc., is nearing completion. We're about to start a sulphuric acid plant and the main unit of the project, a 60-ton anhydrous ammonia plant, will start this summer and be completed in late 1958. My avocation in recent years has been professionalism among engineers."
Charlie Haywood provides the following concise and literate model of a biographical note:
"You have announced that we should give you a little news bulletin about ourselves once in awhile, so here is mine, by departments: 1. Occupational. ... Continuing to practice law in Boston, Lynn, Salem, Beverly, and the Gloucester Branch - also points West and South. 2. Historical Research - have edited and published 'Town Records of Lynn 1701-1717' for Lynn Historical Society, of which I am a member. This is original American history source material & 81 libraries (and many individuals) have subscribed to this small volume. If any of the Class are on Public Library Boards, I hope they will shoot me along an order ($2 less 25% = $1.50). If I can get the Society's money back, then we can print another book of records, thus making this material available to scholars. 3. Lexicographical. 'Yankee Dictionary,' compiled by me has been appearing each week in Boston Sunday Globe Magazine since October. 4. Golf. Haven't got out there yet. Will release a bulletin on that later. Give my best to the boys."
And for those who may be interested in the lexicography, here are a few samples from Charlie's Yankee Dictionary:
"TROUT IN THE WELL — Put there by a careful householder to keep the water clean by eating insects, larvae and green algae. Old-timers felt water a trout could live in was bound to be good. Folks who had spring water piped into a half-hogshead in the kitchen kept a trout. He grew, of course, but when he got too large for his environment, he was fetched up in the frying pan and the head of the house set out for the brook to see about hooking a replacement. STIVVER — To move. A mother would say to her boy, 'Now stivver along to the store and don't be all day about it.' Sometimes it was used to describe hard going. An old lady might sigh and say, 'Well, I'll manage to stivver along somehow.' SORTILEGE - Old-time Yankees sought help in time of trouble by laying the Bible flat on the table, thrusting in a finger at random and opening at that point. Every verse on the two open pages was then studied to see if in one of them lay the answer to the problem. Generally they found that some one in Biblical times had traveled the same rough road and managed to get over it."
Ken Hill, happily restored to good health,is New England representative for the W. N.Fraser Co. of St. Louis, manufacturers ofdecalcomanias. ,His daughter Polly is HeadGirl and Captain of the basketball team atSt. Helen's School in Dunham, Quebec. Mostfaithful of correspondents (as an ex-secretaryhe has a proper compassion for the presentincumbent), he writes that Whitey Whiteis now recovered from a recent operation andis back at work as President of the Bryantand Stratton Commercial School in Boston,when he isn't at his place in North Conway.Bill Sleigh continues active in town affairsin Marblehead; having got an appropriationthrough to buy and tear down the old BostonYacht Club Station, he is now working onthe next step - to get the money to build anew town dock on the site.
Ford Whelden has been appointed Executive Secretary of the Bequest and Estate Planning Program of the College, taking over from George H. Colton '35, who is the new Director of Development. It will be recalled that it was under Ford's guidance and direction that 1925 became the first class to institute a Bequest Program.... Ed Burns has been elected vice-president of the National Canners Association, which, it is hoped, will not distract him too much from his duties as Chairman of our Executive Committee.
... Bud Petrequin is the new president of the National Paper Trade Association; he heads the Petrequin Paper Co. of Cleveland.... Jack Reeder was guest speaker at the March Luncheon Meeting of the Dartmouth Downtown Association of New York City; he is a director of Benton and Bowles, Inc., and has been consistently active in Alumni Club activities Horton Conrad's son, Horton Jr. '55, will be married on April 22 to Miss Georgia Slocum of Kingston, Pa.
El Lyman has been named South Hadley's (Mass.) "Outstanding citizen for 1957." He is the seventh recipient of this award since its inception in 1951, given "for his outstanding service over many years for the people of this community." El has been an hydraulic engineer for the Holyoke Water Power Co. since 1927. He recently resigned from the South Hadley School Committee because of ill health. He was town moderator for many years before serving on the school board.
Recent address changes are as follows: Robert P. Bingham, Rm. 711, 120 Boylston St., Boston 16, Mass.; Comdr. K. Philip Coykendall, Georges Mills, N. H.; Louis S. Kimball, 5062 Yacht Club Road, Jacksonville 10, Fla.; Karl P. Lipsohn, Room 364, Waterman Bldg., The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.; William J. Russell, 398 Parker St., Newton Center 59, Mass.; Frederick C. Stutzmann, 87-26 — 218th St., Queens Village, L. I., N. Y.
There is no obligation which presses upon us more urgently than the obligation to teach. There is no enterprise more vital than education. Since we have learned that it is perilous to over-simplify, we must try to insure that those who follow may be equipped to accept and explore and interpret the complexities of living. The mind that is at once informed and free may find these, not terrifying, as so many do now, but challenging and invigorating; may find, as Sean O'Casey put it, that "...life is not one thing but many things, a wide branching flame, grand and good to see and feel, dazzling to the eye of no one loving it." Dartmouth must be strong so that her sons may be strong, so that they may face life with insight and courage, with decency and humor and on eye for beauty.
Secretary,58 Winfield St., Needham, Mass.
Class Agent, Elm St., Norwich, Vt.
