1900
Your secretary is fortunate for once in being quite accurate in prediction. George Tong has taken off from Libertyville to avoid the boisterous weather of Chicago's winter months and has fled to the far-West, not to a Pacific atoll, but to that lovely and charming city, Santa Barbara, Calif. He has taken a small apartment where, if he desires, he can do light housekeeping, although George alleges he is no cook. He claims that he has been badly brought up since his wife was an expert in kitchen lore as she was a graduate of the Boston Cooking School. George plans to stay at his present address, 1615 Bath Street, until the swallows return to Capistrano when he expects to return to his daughter's home in Libertyville.
Jo Manion's wife, Catherine, and her daughter, Kathleen, have moved from their former residence in Cambridge to 12 Wendell Street in the same city. They moved into their new apartment on December 3, and so were all settled for the holidays. The apartment is much smaller than their former home, but is conveniently located, is very pleasant, and meets well their immediate needs. We certainly hope they find much joy and happiness in their new location.
Mrs. Lida A. Prouty, wife of our Jed Prouty, speaks of Jed as a loyal and superior man who was absorbingly interested in everything pertaining to Dartmouth. We his classmates know that no words of commendation are too high praise for him. In college he gave every evidence of loyalty, integrity, sincerity, and worthiness which became him in his mature years. It is good to realize how many fine, sturdy men were members of our fellowship; men who in quiet, unobtrusive ways have contributed and are contributing to the progress and well being of college, local community, and nation. In a recent letter Lida gave me some information regarding her children. Her daughter, Phyllis, married John Dexter who is connected with the American Seating Co. in Grand Rapids, Mich. They have three teenage children, the youngest, who bears the name of Jed, is thirteen. Jed and Lida's other daughter, Betty Jane, married Ralph Remecke who is with the United Founders Insurance Co. in Oklahoma City. They have no children.
Martha Fowler, wife of Alvah Fowler, spent the Christmas holiday season with her daughter and family in Troy, N. Y. It was an enjoyable experience for her to break away for a short time from the political atmosphere in Washington. Now that she is back home the pressure of congressional debate over administrative plans and policies once more bears down on her. She is a great admirer of Ike and some of the congressional eloquence stirs deeply her emotions, as it undoubtedly does some of the rest of us. However, the democratic process has to go on, and out of it, we may hope, will come more tolerance, kindness, and goodwill among all the human family.
Betty, Paul Redington's wife, has taken great pains to write me detailed information about their children. In the careers of these children she takes great interest and pride, and like the Roman matron, Cornelia, mother of the Graechi, she can truly say: "These are my jewels." Her oldest son is Comdr. Edward Dana Redington II, named for his paternal grandfather who was a dedicated Dartmouth graduate and for many years a Trustee of the College. Edward is in the Navy and at present is Special Assistant to the Comptroller of Bureau of Ships, and located in Washington, D. C. He is married and has six sons ranging in age from 2 to 17 years and this in itself is quite a record. We hope some one or more of these boys may enter Dartmouth and carry forward the highly esteemed Redington name at Dartmouth. Betty's daughter, Mary Ann, is the wife of Lt. Col. Guy N. Church now stationed at Orleans, France. Lt. Col. Church is Quartermaster of the U. S. Army Garrison at Orleans. Mary Ann besides her duties as housewife and mother has taken on certain voluntary activities connected with the military offices. The two boys, Mike, 17 and Geoffry, 14 are both in school. Mike takes to sports and in this connection has had trips to Paris and Germany. Geoffry is of a mechanical turn of mind and at present is especially interested in electricity. Both are real boys, enjoying good health, and develop- ing sturdy characters. Of Mike, Betty says, he is shooting upward and when he gets his full growth he may equal the 6'-2" of his grandfather, Paul. Betty's younger son, Paul Goodwin Redington, commonly known as Jack, is living in Waukegan, Ill. During World War II he enlisted in the Army and saw overseas service in New Guinea and the Philippines. For several years after his war service he was in the banking business in the Washington, D. C., area. For the past three years he has worked for the Walgreen Drug Company. He has a considerable interest in chemistry, and eventually may take pharmacist training. It is with this son that Betty is now living for a time. She originally planned to come back to Falls Church, Va., after New Year's, but recently has decided to stay with her son in Waukegan until spring.
Early in December Arthur Wallace spent two days with his daughter Helen and sister Ina in Littleton, N. H. He reported skiing on Cannon Mt. at that time. True enough! The ski-tow was also running on the Golf Links Hill in Hanover, the earliest date, according to one who for many years has had the hill under observation, since the start of the ski-tow in this area. However, snow enthusiasm was soon sadly dampened, and snow on Hanover Plain became something one might dream about as occurring in those He-Man days before the present century arrived on the scene. For all of six weeks Hanover and vicinity apparently had the weather about which Floridians are so prone to talk. However, as this is being written, Carnival is just around the corner and we have a fine cover of snow. The gods are still with this gala event.
Secretary, 3 Pleasant St., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 34 Carruth St., Dorchester, Mass
Bequest Chairman,
