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Despite the complete chaos of the holiday season just passed, we have managed to salvage some news items for the column.
Dick Seidman, chief engineer of the Development Engineering Company in Norwalk, Conn., writes that he is inventing and designing from dawn 'til dusk. One of his latest ventures had been concerned with wholesale bakery equipment, as a result of which Dick has become a first class baker. In his spare time he displays a keen interest in sailing and skin diving. One day, growing tired of activating the fog horn on his boat by hand, he came home and developed an automatic signal timer which blows the foehorn on a small boat at predetermined intervals. This device was given wide and favorable publicity. You, too, can have one for $39-50! The Seidman offspring still number two, David 11 and Billy 7.
Dee Jones has recently been elected a vice. president of Leo Burnett Co., advertising agency in Chicago. Congratulations on this important promotion.
Rick Davidson has been elected to a three year term on the New Rochelle (N. Y.) Hospital Board. Always active in college, community and social affairs, he is a past president of the Dartmouth Society of Engineer and of the University Club of New Rochelle For his livelihood he serves as vice-president of the Chesebro-Whitman Company of Lone Island City, ladder manufacturers.
Hugh Schwarz reports that the cold weather in Florida has not only caused severe damage to fruit crops, thereby causins great distress to Minute Maid Corp., but it also resulted in considerable inconvenience to Hugh when his water pipes froze. He sees Jim Thomas, also employed by Minute Maid frequently and they are combining their efforts in trying to direct a few studious ballplayers northward to the Hanover Plain In view of the recent Florida weather, the reputed cold of New Hampshire should be no deterrent.
Dick Goulder informs us that he became the proud father of Marilyn Ruth on November 13. It's wonderful to note that some of our revered classmates are still mentally equipped to cope with infants. God bless 'era for their ranks are thinning.
An amusing Christmas letter from Fred Porter says that "Swallow Farm was sold Easter Sunday and new construction started The new construction is our new home on Foxboro Point, Essex, and named 'Swallow Swamp.' The design is slightly revolutionary in that we are building it with the children in mind. The plan is based around a large playroom and terrace. The playroom is 20 by 28 feet, big enough to leave a ping-pong table standing at all times with the exception of dances; adjacent to and on the same level as the kitchen so that Ann can look in from her culinary duties and enjoy the fun we are all having. There is a large fireplace that Ann can see from the kitchen. The children's bedrooms are a half flight up and my bedroom and the living room a half flight down. Swallow Swamp' is on tide water and we hope someday to have our own dock but when you come to see us consult your tide tables for the smell is pretty bad at low water.
Joe Harpham is flying the Boston to Richmond run for Eastern Airlines with an occasional trip to northern New York and Vermont. Even on vacation he had to be in the sky, so spent his time climbing around and over Mt. Katahclin in Maine.
John Fitzgerald has been appointed general chairman of the 1958 reunion and convention of the First Marine Division to be held in Boston. With 7000 members, this sounds like quite a job.
That former old bachelor and bon vivant, Bill Bumsted, who unexpectedly took a wife and spirited her off to Venezuela some months ago, is, we are now informed by usually reliable sources, about to become a father. Will wonders never cease? Bill VVrightson went to the Princeton game with Bumsted, who came north from Caracas ostensibly on a business trip.
Bill Harriman writes from Dallas that he is a geologist with the oil consulting firm of Golyer and MacNaughton. He has been doing oil and sulphur jobs in Trinidad and Mexico and was planning an assignment in Cuba. The itchy feet keep moving. His sons, Billy 14 and Larry 12, are respectively fullback and guard on school teams in the very competitive Texas circuit and both were junior AAU medal winners in swimming last summer. Susan, 7 mos., has shown no athletic bent to date. Bill bemoans the lack of '40's in the area and wishes anyone coming to Dallas would drop in on him.
Gard Ashley is a professor of romance languages at Franklin College in Indiana. After an extended G.l.ed tour of Iceland, England, Holland, Belgium and Germany in 042-45. he took his Master's degree in French Literature at the University of Arizona. Since that time, he has been indoctrinating students in the mysteries of French Literature, first at 'the University of Vermont and now at Franklin College. He is writing a thesis for the University of Paris, which "unfortunately" will necessitate a third trip to Paris to complete research. He says, "Je cherche toujours la femme". We say, "Bonne chance"!
Tud Lyon is also a professor but this time of English. He is in his second year as Chairman of the Humanities Division at the New York State University Teachers College at New Paltz, near Poughkeepsie. This is a rapidly expanding college of 1200 students now undergoing a modification in curriculum. ]ud reports that his children continue to sprout. The oldest boy is now big enough to hit back and bright enough to win most of his arguments with his father.
Hi Welding in Riverside, Calif., has four children 15 to 4. He is a general surgeon for the Riverside Clinic, a 14-man group, most of whom trained at the Mayo Clinic. He had seen Bud Czerny in Tucson where he is also a successful surgeon. Hi bemoans not having been back to Hanover since graduation, but he hopes to show Dartmouth to his son next year. That young man will be ready for college in two years. Ouch!
Major Trenny Trenholm is now stationed at Westover Air Force Base, Mass., and is enjoying New England for the first time since College. A big treat for him this fall was seeing Dartmouth wallop Brown in Hanover, as this was the first Dartmouth game he had seen since the fall of '39. Trenny is catching up with his old classmates, having seen Ben Bacon, Mickey Miller and Dick Mitchell in the past few months.
Beezie and Ruth Smallwood moved to Watertown, N. Y„ last July where he is understudying the sales manager of a large stone and gravel plant. The only disadvantage to the move is that buying another house puts him back in the poorhouse again.
Dick Funkhouser is still in the tennis court business in Hagerstown, Md. He visited Bonnie Oaks for a couple of weeks in August while his children were in camp at Lake Fairlee. Willie and Dottie Flohr were in Hagerstown last summer for their annual visit with the Helms and Funkhousers. It is our understanding that the Flohrs are also expecting an addition to their family.
Don Rainie still hasn't received class dues from all of you. If you haven't done so already, please mail your dues to him pronto.
Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N. Y.
Treasurer, 88 North Main St., Concord, N. H.
