1924

Just a reminder for those who intended to make a note on their calendars last month and forgot to do so. The 35th Roundup of '25ers will take place at Hanover on June 15, 16 and 17. Incidentally, it is expected that the distaff side of the family will be included in your plans.

A small reunion of occurred at a recent stag sports night dinner sponsored by the North Shore Dartmouth Club at Salem, Mass., when Bill Sleigh, Whitey White, BenBowden, Bob Bishop, Frank Wallis and yours truly met with a large group from other classes to view movies of "The Dartmouth Ski Way," featuring Ralph Miller '55, after a few preliminary remarks from Howard Chivers '39, and of the Cornell and Princeton football games with comment from Wilbur Wolz, head backfield coach.

At the last meeting of the class executive committee, it was voted to purchase as a memorial for the Dartmouth College Art Collection, a Wendell Jones painting, "The Blue Door," at a price substantially reduced through the gracious benevolence of Wendell's widow, Jean Jones. In acknowledging our check Churchill Lathrop, Director of the Carpenter Art Galleries, wrote as follows:

On behalf of the College and especially of the Carpenter Hall Art Galleries I wish to thank the Class of 1925 most deeply and warmly for this very generous gift that both honors a creative member of your Cass and enriches the cultural resources of the College. We are very happy to add this outstanding example of Wendell Jones' work to the group of paintings by other Dartmouth men who have been professional artists.

I hope very much that when the Class of 1925 has its next reunion in Hanover many of Wendell's classmates will enjoy seeing this valuable gift on exhibition in Carpenter Hall or, when the happy opening day arrives, in the new Hopkins Center.

Again thanks to each and every member of the Cass for this very desirab'e and important addition to the artistic resources of Dartmouth.

People continue on the move. Here are the latest address changes: Line Price, 163 Wiltshire Avenue, Louisville 7, Ky.; Harlan Statzell Jr., Delta Apt., 1670 Penn Ave., Wyomissing, Pa.; Charles M. Annis, 434 South 11th St., New Castle, Ind.; Richard K. Pierce, 2412 North view Road, Rocky River 16, Ohio; Carl Smith, Arlington Towers, Arlington 9, Va. Al Perkins wrote recently "I took a long, long chance and retired from business at age 53, preferring to do it while broke but alive, rather than well-to-do and dead." His address appears as "The Cork Tree," Somerset Bridge, Bermuda.

Jim Andrews, former State Senator from Adams, Mass., is reported to have submitted his name to Governor Foster Furcolo for appointment to the labor and industries conciliation board vacancy created by the death of former Governor James M. Curley. RalphJameson apparently has gained some political influence since moving to Wayland, Mass., in 1933. He was recently named by the selectmen to fill a vacancy on the town's finance committee. The newspaper article announcing this appointment indicated also that Ralph has a son, Craig, at Dartmouth.

Edward W. Roessler

We are extremely fortunate in having a man of the character, ability and resourcefulness of Eddie Roessler to serve as our class treasurer. He is among the foremost of those who should get unlimited credit in this column for unselfish devotion to affairs of the class. And it gives us great pleasure to present a "profile" on him this month.

Eddie was born in Washington, D. C., and prepared for Dartmouth at Taft School, Watertown, Conn. While at Hanover he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key. After graduation Eddie obtained a B.S. degree in electrical engineering at M.I.T. in 1928. While there he roomed one part of a year with Sky Foster and another year in the same house with law school contingents from '25 and '27. During this period he served as secretary of the Dartmouth Club of M.I.T. In the fall of 1928 he went to work for General Electric in Schenectady, becoming active in the air conditioning department when it was formed in 1932. Meanwhile he had taken an advanced course in engineering during which he recalls having been introduced (!) to Bill Jenkins. Three years later he was transferred to Bloomfield, N. J., where he remained until his retirement in 1953.

In 1937 Eddie married Miss Susan O. Olmsted of Yonkers, N. Y. They lived in Caldwell and Essex Falls, N. J., where they remained until 1949. By that time the noise of trucks and buses drove them out to the country and they settled in Mendham Township about ten miles west of Morristown, to the great confusion of all with their Chester mail address. Driving 60 miles a day to work proved too great a chore and finally Eddie retired to a more leisurely life after having earned his 25-year service pin with G.E.

Shortly after moving to Mendham Township Eddie joined the local volunteer fire company, serving as engineer and later as chief. His experience in driving a piece of apparatus into the city are a proper subject for Puck. He also served on the local election board and apparently exercised enough influence and respect to be elected to the Township Committee in 1956 and to become chairman (mayor to any outsider) in 1958.

While Eddie and Susan have no children,, they do have four nephews, three grandnieces and one grandnephew, together with four dogs, five cats and a "sufficiency" of chickens, which together with the duties he performs as class treasurer and other activities not listed here give them plenty to do. In addition to the fire trucks which are available to them on occasion, they also ride around in a foreign "bug," Eddie having adopted a virulent resolution against the modern, "overexpensive, overdecorated, overgadgeted" American automobile.

Secretary, 225 Wyman St., Waltham 54, Mass

Treasurer, R.D., Old Mill Rd., Chester, N. J

Bequest Chairman,