1922
Scant scribbles this month mangled in a pother fussin' and feudin' over forty pounds. Dagnab it, "Why can't a woman be like a man?" Learn to travel light with forty pounds in flight? More of that later - maybe. Here's news of the clan.
Seven classmates had a pleasant evening together at the Boston Alumni Dinner on February 13. Bill Bullen, Carroll Dwight, Fran Leland, Len Morrissey, Steve Tredennick, Dick Willis and Bud Winkler were present. Steve and Reine have just moved in from Marblehead to Boston's Beacon Hill where they will be stone's throw neighbors of Bud and Barbara. Dick and Mary are busy with plans for a spring trip to Europe.
From grapevine reports, compliments are still being passed to Johnny Johnson for the fine job he did on arrangements for the class at Prexy Hopkins' dinner in New York. Several classmates sent in notes concerning arrangements or regrets on conflicting schedules but every blessed one of them would have been there if he possibly could. On one aspect or another, Johnny heard from Blay Atherton, Carl Davis, Carroll Dwight, Carter Hoyt, Spenny Smith and Joe Talbot.
Looking just as cheerful and congenial as a freshman 35 years ago is our Leroy F. Ball in a recent picture in the Grand Rapids Press. As director of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors, Roy is shown presenting a plaque to a young man selected in national competition as the outstanding junior executive of 1957. Roy went into the tobacco business directly after graduation from the College. He is president of the King Cigar Co., wholesale tobacco distributors of Flint, where he and Dottie make their home. Married in Mt. Vernon, N. Y., in 1925, they are the parents of daughters Barbara, Martha and Lorna. Good to see you looking so well, Roy.
Bill Bullen is giving his wholehearted energy and time in directing the Boston fund raising activities for Dartmouth. What more can a man do to honor the College and the class?
Bob Dewey's new address indicates he has successfully navigated to Rio de Janeiro and to his duties as vice president of the American Motorists Insurance Co., a member of the Kemper insurance organization. Bob's activities will be to direct the Kemper group's Brazilian operations. He brings an abundance of experience to his new responsibilities. Following graduation from the College, Bob got his Civil Engineering degree from Thayer School in 1923. He has been in the insurance business for 35 years. He began in 1923 with the New York Reciprocal Underwriters for whom he worked for twelve years in New York and in San Francisco. In 1935 he joined the fire insurance firm of Ernest W. Brown, Inc., of Philadelphia and New York. He worked with this organization for twenty years and became its vice president. Bob associated with Lumbermans' Mutual Casualty Co. of Chicago in 1955 as manager of the special risks division of the Kemper companies' business extension department. Last year he was elected vice president of the American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co., another Kemper division. Bob has also served as a director of the General Fire and Casualty Insurance Co. of New York and the Southern General Insurance Co. of Miami, Fla. Married in Minneapolis in 1927, Bob and Helen are the parents of Jean, Bob Jr., Peter and Virginia. The new address: Robert M. Dewey, American Motorists Insurance Company, Rua Uruguaiana 55, Caixa Postal 530, Rio de Janeiro, D. F., Brazil. Bob will find at least half a dozen other good Dartmouth men in Rio.
To get things done, alumni clubs naturally turn to Twoters. Dick Litchfield, presently secretary of the Charles River Club was a prime mover in its organization and its first president. Russ Putney is secretary of the Keene, N. H., club. It's a lot of work but the reward is high in friendship and in loyalty.
Dr. Richard G. Wood - our Dick - Director of the Vermont Historical Society, was recently guest speaker to the Montpelier Rotary Club. Dick explained the functions of his present duties and compared them with those of the director of the Division of War Records in the National Archives in Washington, D. C., a post he held for sixteen years. He drew a contrast between his federal work and the Vermont Historical Society where he handles records dealing mainly with persons. Dick also recently lectured on "Art and the Artifacts or How the Art Center may aid Local History" at the Miller Art Center in Springfield, Vt.
Daws Berry would undoubtedly appreciate hearing from any classmates. Details of his illness are presently unavailable though it is known that he is hospitalized. Letters will reach him: B. Dawson Berry, Treutlen County Hospital, Soperton, Ga.
Jim and Sally Hamilton got back to Hanover from Minneapolis for a few days in February. If they were looking for snow, they found aplenty.
As little lads, Twoters in their boyhood often heard "Won't you please stay still a minute?" Undoubtedly, it's an unreasonable request to a growing boy even from loving but harassed parents. And yet our new address changes show that Twoters are still boys at heart — still jumping around: Dr. Thomas N. Barrows, RFD #1, 92 Riverside Place, Carmel, Calif.; Phya Donovanik, Montri — 61 Bahurat Road, Bangkok, Thailand; Templeton M. Innes, 1399 — 23rd Ave., San Francisco 22, Calif.; John N. Norton, 533 Suwanee Circle, Tampa 6, Fla.; Dr. David Rivo, 450 Elmwood, Buffalo 22, N. Y.; N. Osborne Siegfried, First St. and Sixth Ave., North Naples, Fla.; Van Alan Shem, 1229 Lexington Ave., New York 25, N. Y.; Francis L. Zoller, Box 443, Mount Dora, Fla. Happy landings to all, but the rumor some Twoters are requesting the College to move from Hanover to Florida is unfounded.
Forty pounds? Simply, Gramp and Gram Morrissey are off to Californiay in a few days to visit son John '50 and wife Mary Jane and son Charles '56 and wife Brenda. It's now or probably not this year — so it's now. Only trouble is Gram likes to bring all the comforts of home and play house wherever we go. The gal never learned the difference between an airplane and a station wagon and it's pretty late now. "Well you married the girl didn't you?" Yip, 35 years ago and mighty glad of it. But how does one get a portable refrigerator aloft?
Secretary,: 46 Myrtle St. West Newton 65, Mass.
Class Agent, Apt. 3-G, 5 Roosevelt PL, Montclair, N. J.
