1925

During an early April visit to Florida your scribe enjoyed the gracious hospitality of Ray Guernsey and Mary, whose delightful home skirts the bay off Miami Shores. An all-Dartmouth foursome, which included the classes of '11 and '24, added to the pleasure of the visit, notwithstanding Ray showed no mercy in demonstrating his superiority (temporary!) with the golf clubs. Of particular interest was disclosure of the existence of a 100% Class of 1925 granddaughter, resulting from the marriage of a son and a daughter of '25ers, which occurred following a romance between Ann, daughter of the late Pinky Anderson and stepdaughter of Ray, and Bob Pierce's son, Bob '49.

George Amidon, Vermont state treasurer, spoke on a "timely" subject at a meeting of the Barre Women's Club. As a member of the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors, he discussed in his "Clock Talk" the hobby of collecting, repairing and restoring clocks. Jock Packard, in keeping with his custom of tailing the birds each fall and spring, has returned north and resumed management of Toy Town Tavern at Winchendon, Mass. Other address changes reported are: Norman Clark, Allied Van Lines, Norton Ave., Newark, Ohio; Dan Duffin, 326 Broad Street, Utica, N.Y.; Philip T. Molloy, 5507 Collinwood Street, Fort Worth 7, Texas; and Francis E. Tissot, 3231-169th Street, Flushing 58, N.Y.

Edward E. Burns

We give you this month a profile of our executive committee chairman, Ed Burns, whose loyalty and devotion to the class and the college is nonpareil.

Two years after graduation, Ed, together with his father, established the Alton Canning Co., Inc., of which he is now president. The new firm expanded under the aggressive application of modern techniques acquired during Ed's study of business administration at Hanover, added new lines and today packs a wide variety of canned fruits and vegetables. In addition, Ed is a director of the Central Trust Co., Rochester, N. Y., the Sodus Cold Storage Corp., the Alling-Lauder Co., Inc. of Sodus, machine tool manufacturer, treasurer of Hopkins of Sodus, Inc., a fruit freezing operation, and principal stockholder of a large-scale experimental fruit and vegetable farming operation, known as Burns Farms, Inc.

Ed has been active in the affairs of the New York State Canners and Freezers Association of which he is a past president, and of the National Canners Association, of which he became president early this year following a decade of service on numerous committees. He is active in community affairs, serving as chairman of apple and cherry festivals in the area and as a director of NewarkWayne Hospital, Lyons Hospital and the Sodus Community Hospital and as a worker for the Cancer Society and other civic projects.

During World War II, Ed served as a member of the Canned Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee of the OPA and during the Korean War in the same capacity with the OPS. He was also a member of Governor Dewey's Migrant Labor Advisory Committee in New York State.

In 1928 Ed married Frances Case, who presented him with four children: Betty, who attended University of Miami and married M. Curtis Hopkins, from which union Ed has acquired three grandsons; Ann, who attended University of West Virginia and married M. Dale Poe, who presented him with a granddaughter and grandson; Ed Jr., who is a senior at Dartmouth and plans to enter Tuck School; and Barbara, who is still attending school locally.

Ed's most enthusiastic hobby is photography, especially movies, which have given him an opportunity to look back upon familiar scenes of every reunion at Hanover where he always has had his Bmm. camera ready for action.

Edward E. Burns '25, chairman of the classexecutive committee, who is the subject ofa profile in the class column this month.

Secretary, 225 Wyman St., Waltham 54, Mass.

Class Agent, 306 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N.H.