1930
The big news at hand this month is that Dr. Bill Putnam, returning from the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice in Dallas, brought with him the Ross Award of the Academy. The Award carries with it a stipend of $1000 and is granted for one of the two outstanding papers published during the past year in G P, the journal of the American Academy of General Practice. Bill's paper was entitled "Long-Term Anticoagulant Therapy." The press release goes on to say: "Dr. Put' nam, who is a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School and Jefferson Medical College, has been practicing in Lyme, N.H., for 22 years. For the past nine years, he has been secretary of the N. H. Chapter of the American Academy of General Practice."
This well earned recognition prompts us to add that few letters are received at our house that equal the Christmas letter the Putnams put out and the following paragraphs are from it. We are all vitally interested in education and Bill writes:
Christmas was this year for the first time marked by the return of one of our children from college. You will remember that last year hepatitis Kept Kendrick from leaving for college until the beginning of the second semester. In spite of this bad start, he got full credit for his freshman year at Haverford, having spent the summer on a course in Geography given by one of our neighbors here in Lyme, in addition to the work he had previously done on his own. He has found college more satisfying this year, and he seems to be getting along well.
When he went back after Christmas our two girls and Sue Butterworth went with him and beyond, to Chambersburg for an interview at Wilson College. Mount Holyoke is still first choice, but this is one of the alternatives and they came back enthusiastic about it. It has the reputation of being.strong in the Classics, which appeals to all of us. Both of our girls are taking the traditional four-year high school Latin course at Thetford Academy, which I have learned with a shock is not only no longer customary, but not even available in many schools.
In the meantime while I have been taking care of my own needs for change and relaxation, my wife Billy has never had a real vacation, and we are now finally planning one for her. She will go to England for two months this spring to visit a college friend. Such a vacation would be long overdue had I no more noble motive than to keep her efficiently at work! As most of you know, she runs the household as a sort of sideline, while doing all my stenography and secretarial work, most of the laboratory work and office nursing, and some of the x-ray and bookkeeping. I'm sure I have left out much, and haven't even touched on the innumerable jobs in the church and community, for various state organizations, the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Council, and so on.
Most of us are growing older, I notice and may be interested in advances in the treatment of heart disease - although Bill is equally concerned with instrument sterilization.
Another new drug that may never make the headlines, but could make a very perceptible change in my daily work, is chlorothiazide, a diuretic. The well known and steady increase in the number of elderly people means among other things that there are very many people with heart disease who are kept active and comfortable by the frequent injection of diuretic drugs; now for the first time a really good and effective oral diuretic appears to have been devised, and if this works out as it promises to, we may have an appreciable decrease in the daily load of syringes to sterilize.
We sure do roam "around the girdled earth" as indicated by these new addresses:
Frederick Bowes Jr., Ramhorne Road, New Canaan, Conn.; Russell E. Colby, 14 Agawam Ave., Bradford, Mass.; Harry Casler, American Embassy, Apartado 68, Caracas, Venezuela; George D. Crosier, 310 University St., Hastings, Nebr.; George W. Geiger, 916 El Camino, San Bruno, Calif.; Winslow R. Hatch, 4030 South Bldg., Dept. of Health, Education & "Welfare, Washington 25, D.C.; Arthur L. Hayes, 7 Edgewater Drive, Old Greenwich, Conn.; James H. Beckham, 940 Ocean Front, Santa Monica, Calif.; Donald D. Cole, Apt. 216, 2203 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, La.; Robert M. Marr, 20 EdgeclifF Road, Upper Montclair, N.J.; Edward S. Meyers, 33-60-21 st St., Long Island City 6, N.Y.; Randall M. Snow, Trade Association Director, Institute of Heating & Air Conditioning Indus- tries, 1822 South Burlington Ave., Los Angeles, 1560 Placentia Ave., Costa Mesa, Calif.
A brief note indicates that Scott Van Derbeck has just returned from Florida. And so far as I know at the time of this writing, the McFarlands, Alex and Caroline, are still on a cruise with friends in Florida waters.
We think you will all enjoy this letter from Al Bolte:
As I murmured to you at the Hopkins dinner, nave terminated my association with This Week Magazine after ten years and have been busily sxploring employment possibilities in and around New York's advertising business. So far I have nothing final to report, although several situations are simmering.
My wife Bonnie is deeply involved in spring recitals which are an important part of her dancing school business. I keep busy as her combination electrician, stage manager, and general factotum. Warner Bentley's early training in stagecraft comes in mighty handy for this role.
Bonnie Jr. is now 21, a Junior at Goucher College in Towson, Md., and about to announce her engagement to a young doctor. Brown, age five, at the other end of the ladder, goes to kindergarten and is mildly disgusted that he has to learn his 3 R's at home. "All we do in school is play." In between are a couple of teen-agers, Brenda, 15, and Alan Jr., 13, who alternate between being angels and demons with a somewhat stronger tendency towards the latter.
I have no particular news of classmates with the possible exception that Bill O'Brion has recently joined Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne, New York advertising agency.
Our Editor's plug last month for me was most helpful in bringing letters from various fellows and here's one from Dick Parker that should be interesting to you.
A belated but thorough reading of the last ALUMNI MAGAZINE has made me aware of your latest step upwards and I want to add a word of congratulation from Gladys and myself on this most recent recognition of your ability.
We hope though that it doesn't mean that you will be moving your home to the Midwest. We wouldn't want you to be that far away.
We had a fine trip abroad last summer, both professionally and as mere tourists. I got in a lot of valuable work, some of which at Vienna has enabled me to finish up another book and get it off to the printer. The Congress of Orientalists at Munich was very well attended and was a great success. Beatie particularly enjoyed meeting the German language for the first time and now wants to begin studying Russian in preparation for the next Congress in 1960 which is to be held in Leningrad!
I haven't seen anyone from the class in years, outside of Bob Whittlesey with whom I lunch once in a while when I happen to be in Boston.
Actually the Bowlens are going through a reorganization, business-wise. Bryant Chucking Grinder Company and its two subsidiaries were taken over on February first by the Ex-Cell-O Corporation of Detroit and we look for a most beneficial relationship. Meanwhile Chris is preparing for her comprehensives and looking for a job and the rest of us have skied and skied many weekends at the Dartmouth Skiway which is excellent. We have made several trips to Stowe plus February vacation there, and just the day before Easter we were collecting sunburns in shirtsleeves. Next weekend we go to Sugarloaf in Maine which still has twelve feet of snow and the local inhabitants are entering their houses through tunnels from the street. That we want to see.
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! The next 1930 Class Dinner at the Dartmouth Club, New York, has been set for May 15. If you're near New York then, plan to join the metropolitan brethren.
Secretary, Reading, Vt.
Class Agent, 1501 River Rd., Wilmington 3, Del.
