1921
Her name is Anna Rosa Cvancarova; her college, Karl's University, Prague. She is hardly known to 1921, and she should be. She is the wife Bill Beers married Oct. 10, 1935 in Prague. Now the U. S. Treasury Representative at the American Consulate General, 67-69 Frankrijklei, Antwerp, Belgium, Bill retires March 31, 1959, and he and Anna Rosa with an automobile will look for a permanent home. They do not know more than that they are interested in the Puget Sound area, San Diego, Flagstaff, the Eastern shore of Maryland, but then again it might be Rhode Island, or Connecticut. Bill still travels widely in Europe and wonders what the satellite countries are like now which he once knew so well: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Albania.
Phez Taylor might tell Bill it should be Sun Valley. What his classmates have said about him and Dorice he says is true: they have really found their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Sun Valley is wonderfully cosmopolitan. Right now Ernest Hemingway is there working on a new novel and hunting in his spare time. Phez is a lawyer; Dorice, Publicity Director of the Sun Valley News Bureau. Though the Taylors keep a red carpet rolled up right beside their front door for 1921'ers, so far in 18 years only Rog andCaroline Wilde, Merrill and Dorothy Shoup,Connie and Irene Keyes have walked on it. Phez renews his cordial invitation to 21.
But Furb Haight might tell Bill Beers that it should be Taos, N. M., from which he and Mary have just returned after a purchase of 154 acres of sage brush on which they may build. In Los Angeles Furb does not want to push his good luck too far. He has married a good teammate, licked T.B., made enough money to pay off the mortgage and eat so much good food that he is way overweight so the doctors say as they point out to him that he is not only the oldest textile salesman who has not had a heart attack but also President of the Textile Association of Los Angeles, the second largest textile market in the U. S. Furb has the brilliant idea of working in Taos on the Pueblo Indians and encouraging them to send in contributions to the Dartmouth Indians*
If Furb is toying with the possibility of resettling, Dave Plume is agonizing in the actual process. With the recent deaths of both his wife and older brother, he is moving away from 41 Oakley Ave., Summit, to SummitKent Court, 15 Norwood Ave., where any '21 men able to track him down will find a sack in the apartment. Feverish though Dave's year has been, he has had the happiness of being honored for 20 years of service with Rohm & Haas at a formal dinner in Philadelphia though attendance at a recent Plastics Pioneers meeting at Shawnee-on-the-Delaware has given him a poignant sense of the passage of time. Dave has a new plaything: a one-piece Rohm & Haas plastic dinghy capable of proving to the Delaware River what modern chemistry can do in a highly fluid world. Six Plumes, if a son-in-law may be called one, had a cook-out with Gus and Betty Perkins at their Walpack Center farm not long ago.
John Dain of Mahopac, N. Y., has also a problem about moving, but it is a different kind. After a mild heart attack in 1955, he found that he had to decelerate and has withdrawn from all but essential activities. One might say that he has done enough, small though his little hamlet of Putnam County is. Though he and Ruth, whom he married as far back as 1928, have had no children, they have had a wonderful life doing things for other people and in making Mahopac a better place. John has organized a half dozen corporations operating near-by and served as officer in them. After being President of the Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association, he served first as director and then for three years as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. Historical note: John left Dartmouth after his freshman year to take up electrical engineering not offered here at that time. Consequently he has divided loyalties: Dartmouth, Union, and Columbia. Since 1929 he has been President and Treasurer of the Dain Supply Co., Inc., a lumber concern.
Chan and Lorna Symmes have pulled up stakes in another fashion. They have sold their summer place at Harwich, for Parker and Jane with two sons and a new house in Concord and Marcia and John Caldwell, now living in Winchester, will have little occasion to use it.
Some children settle near their childhood homes. But Dick Rolfe's eldest daughter Cynthia, married to Steven Rolfe Jones, may be setting some sort of a record in flying from the parental nest. She has an address which perhaps that indefatigable traveller IkeChester hardly knows: Ipoh, Malaya. Ike will probably whip out an instantaneous answer that Ipoh is a rail center and the largest city of Sultanate of Perak in the heart of the Kinta tin mining region where marble and rubber are also in evidence. It is understandable that Dick and Marjorie are beginning to feel some urge to travel, but Dick's mobility will for the present be limited to Concord and Warren and North Main Streets where he will watch the completion of the new Concord Savings Bank of which he is Vice President and Treasurer.
Henry Palmer is moving into something fresh also. He has been appointed Technical Director of the Kirkhill Rubber Co., Brea, Calif. In the September issue "Rubber Age" ran a sizable profile about Henry, for sizable it had to be with Henry's 33 years of service to the rubber industry and his 30 articles and patents. Art Ross will soon become Henry's neighbor for Art retires from the government on January first and will live in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
For years an avid reader of books dealing with the philosophy of economics, Russ Good-now, president of Machine Parts Corp., Providence, spent two days in Hanover last month. He called on Profs. Marx, Sikes, Dankert and Segal and attended several lectures in his attempt to learn what Dartmouth's new curriculum is doing to reorient its thinking and meet the challenge of communism.
Cliff Hart has recently been associated with a big job at Cornell University and is now doing a much smaller building running to no more than a million dollars at a Westchester college for girls.
Kent McKinley's baby is now four years old. That plump infant is the Sarasota News, "nationally known for its vigor," to quote Kent. The birthday edition was almost as fat as the Sunday edition of the New York Times. Called "Your Invitation to Sarasota," it contained scores of alluring pictures of women, fish, golfers, boats, beaches, and palm trees. Each ad outdid the preceding one coining phrases suggesting Sarasota felicities, spiritual, mental, and, last but not least, physical.
Physical infelicities will be the concern of Doc Fleming travelling this fall with the Idaho Vandal Football Team and trying to keep enough of them patched up to keep playing. Vermont felicity was the word for him and Dorothy this summer visiting their son Dr. Peter Fleming '51 living in Hartland and taking a residency in surgery at Mary Hitchcock. Difficult to find is a suitable adjective to go with felicity as experienced by Grandfather and Grandmother Fleming viewing their new granddaughter, Sarah, aged 1½ years, a mighty interesting age, as Doc no doubt observed to Genial George Frost who no doubt nodded in sage agreement.
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