1933

Since last we monologued you, we have been visited by Dar and Marion Bates who were in Niagara Falls as refugees from Cleveland on a short second honeymoon; and at a fine annual Christmas Luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Western New York, we saw Stan Colla accompanied by his son Cole (Butch) '58. Butch, incidentally, recently made Phi Beta Kappa and traditionally therefor and in celebration thereof the students at his former preparatory school were given a one day's vacation. Blessed is Butch's name at Nichols School in Buffalo!

Also to visit us briefly was Uncle John Meek, in Buffalo on college business, and Don D'Arcy, stopping" off on Memorial Fund business on his way to Detroit and Chicago on further M.F. business. Speaking of Uncle John brings to mind (and you will see why in a moment) a good letter received just too late in December for inclusion in the January column and written by Ro Burbank concerning a pleasant '33 reunion on a small scale at Cardigan Mountain School on Canaan Street Lake, Canaan, N. H., of which school Ro is the headmaster, as you know. Ro writes:

Wood Foster, one of my roommates, has a son, Dutton, in the Freshman class. Wood and Betty came on from St. Paul to visit him and spent the Cornell weekend with us. We all went up to the game and afterwards were joined here for dinner by John and Jean Meek, Swede and Virginia Branson and Bill and Marion Starr. We had a grand time and are looking forward to the reunion in June.

Connie and I have been here two years now and are beginning to get our roots down very pleasantly. The school has built us a new Headmaster's house which we occupied last February. Currently, we are constructing a new class room building which will release the old class room building for dormitory space and allow us to increase our enrollment to just above 100 boys.

(This expansion program is designed, no doubt, to take care of the applications for secondary education for the younger sons of 1933 - Ed.)

Another letter which we know you will enjoy reading comes to us from a printed message contained on the Theriaults' Christmas card, on the front of which appear three indistinguishable people (apparently George, Ray and Terry) astride three distinguished-looking horses. The card reads,

This Christmas season the denizens of Bedlam Manor send you greetings from another Land of Enchantment, New Mexico. A sabbatical leave was the magic carpet that wafted us westward. Leaving Hanover in mid-August, we enjoyed a delightful 4000-mile camping trip across the country to the Rockies; then southward through Glacier National Park, the Tetons, Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain National Park. We visited Andy and Peggy Marshall in Colorado Springs before they, gracious hosts, settled us into their summer home here on the Fort Union Ranch.

We live in a charming old adobe house, nestled against a high mesa, nine miles in from the main road. Our living room window frames corrals, where Snips, R. C., and Coondog, our horses, await our pleasure; a duck pond, locust trees, a cattle guard. Beyond, we look out over miles of pasture to the Turkey Mountains. Looking south, we see the ruins of old Fort Union, which 100 years ago sat astride the Santa Fe Trail, the main military post of the Old Southwest. Arroyos crease the plain, canyons cut the mesa behind us, providing some of our favorite riding trails. Wildlife is abundant; jackrabbits, kangaroo rats, deer, antelope, magpies, hawks, ravens, larks, an occasional coyote. Looking west, the imposing range of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, snow-capped since late October, stands in majestic splendor.

Far from our 135,000-acre ranch home this winter, Marcia is enjoying an adventure of her own. Graduated from Hood last June, she is teaching English in the Lycee at Morlaix (Finistere), Brittany. Her major in Romance languages and her years in the French House at Hood prepared her well for this opportunity, which has been a dream of hers for years.

Now we're alternating skiing with cow punching and this western skiing is tremendous.

We will be in Colorado Springs with the Marshalls for Christmas. Hanover will call us back to classes in February. Until then, our Christmas greetings, laced with manana, and very best wishes for the New Year.

We have been advised that since last October the following members of our class, and undoubtedly many others, have sojourned briefly in Hanover: Jim McFarland,Bill McCombs, Walt Libbey and Jud Pierson of in Quimby Street, Westfield, N. J. This gives us an opportunity to thank Jud, without writing a letter, for a note he sent to us last March enclosing a good picture of Mannie Sprague shaking hands with the President while Automobile Charlie Wilson, the father of a Dartmouth man and formerly Secretary of Defense, beamed appreciatively. Thanks, Jud, I'm appreciative, too!

Let's move from East to West in regard to our brethren who may have more modern addresses: Dr. Ralph E. Alexander, Physician, has offices at 233 Alexander Street, Rochester 7, N. Y., and lives at 2090 East Avenue, Rochester 10; Hobart M. VanDeusen is a member of the Mammal Department of the American Museum of Natural History on W. 79th Street, New York 24, and lives at 12 S. Mountain Avenue, Montclair, N. J.; Henry H. Hixson Jr., can be found at 230 S. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, Ill.; and Richard E. Ryan has the gustatory address of 132 Blueberry Hill, Los Gatos, Calif.

We have two notes from the press of more than passing interest. We learn, for instance, that James J. Doherty Jr., until recently eastern installation manager for Western Electric, has been appointed plant buildings, supplies and automotive engineer for the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Jim has forged steadily ahead since he began his telephone career in 1946 as an engineer with the Western Electric Co., and his new job sounds both important and responsible. Congratulations, Jim Also, we learn from the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press that Doug Field, for the past five years head of the department of Mathematics at Berkshire School, Sheffield, Mass., has become the Dean and in charge of instruction in mathematics and physics at a new boys' winter prep school to be known as Sterling School which will be established in Craftsbury Common in the fall of 19.58. The Craftsbury Summer School will continue to operate at its present location. The new school expects to enroll approximately 30 boys next year in grades seven through twelve in college preparatory courses. Four masters in addition to Doug will direct the boys' studies. Now we have at least two (see supra) schools to which your younger sons may apply.

This about winds up our offering for the month. The Reunion pot is bubbling and coming to a boil — only four months left until we shall see you in Hanover! If you haven't done so, please give some hard thought to your share of the 1933 Combined Gift (Memorial Fund - all cash received up to June 14, 1958; 200th Anniversary Development Program - all cash received during the 30 months after June, 1958; 1958 Alumni Fund - automatic participation by all donors to the 1933 Combined Fund; 1959 and i960 Alumni Funds - probably no formal Fund in 1959, but '33ers using 1959 and i960 to complete their pledges to the 1933 Combined Fund will receive full credit for participation in the Alumni Fund for those years). Consider the possibility of your pledging a big fat sum measured by 33 times the amount of your usual Alumni Fund contribution and payable in installments by the end of i960. It is our bet that there are a great many of the Class of 1933 who are going to do this and more for Dartmouth College! lege!It's a thrilling idea!

Late News Flash: Bob Fox, whose address is Esso Refinery, 30 Beacham Street, Everett, Mass., has just agreed to take on the job of Newsletter Editor. Please send him any bits of tasty gossip you know or can invent. Make his mail bags bulge!!

Robert L. Dickson '33 has been named Administrative Vice President and a Director ofWalter Kidde and Co., Belleville, N. J. Hewill continue as Controller also.

Secretary, 217 Goundry Street North Tonawanda, N. Y.

Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.