1939
Our monthly devotional comes from Jerome Beatty Jr.'s recently published "Trade Winds" column in the Saturday Review. It in turn is credited by our Jerry to Dartmouth's own Dr. Suess and is aimed at all you ageless youngsters. . . . "A kid is the last container of a sense of humor, which disappears as he gets older and he laughs only according to the way the boss, society, politics, or race want him to. Then he becomes an adult. And an adult is an obsolete child."
Whit Cushing wrote a three pager from 247 Royal Palm Way, Palm Beach, Fla., where he maintains an art studio a block from the beach with a porch patio surrounded by jungle. He describes area Dartmouth gettogethers forty strong with surprise visits from former President Hopkins as well as at least one of the Tanzi freres. Whit intimates that starving artists are still what the reputation connotes, but he welcomes all 39ers in the area to test his hospitality as well as his wares if you're around the Palm Beach vicinity. "I even have one painting," he writes, "that I did on location for the ill-fated Budd Schulberg '36 movie 'Wind Across the Everglades' showing big Burl Ives and his bunch of cutthroats, Tony Galento, Sammy Renick and Emmet Kelly. Kelly watched me sketch and remembered me from my days in Sarasota when we used to go out to the Ringling winter quarters and sketch the goings on Henry Conkle gets up from Delray every once in a while and I guess everyone knows about his gift shop in the Smokies." Anyway, thanks for a good letter, Whit. We'll go into your comments on Castro when and if we hear from our classmates in that locale by next column time.
Before we leave Florida we might add that Peggy and Art Larkin were seen on the beach at Boca Raton in the midst of a coffee convention. They are living in Summit, N. J. Our correspondent reported they were being as good as that last drop. (Our ex-correspondent, that is.)
Johnny Litchfield, listed as sales manager for Outboard Marine Corp., is now living at 800 North Grand, Lamar, Md. Major John T. Evans Jr. is Chaplain, McGuire Air Force Base. He lives at 38 Vine Way, Bordentown, N. J. Dr. Andy Ruoff, 761 Alps Road, Wayne Township, Wayne, N. J., and Charlie Stack lives at 2156 Ashton Ave., Menlo Park, Calif.
John W. Thornton Jr. is manager of the color service dept., Interchemical Corp., Printing Ink Division. He works at 67 W. 44th St., N.Y.C., and lives at 200 Fifth St., Mamaroneck, N. Y.
During Reunion last June we gave a hearty handclasp to a friend we hadn't seen in a long time, Henry Haskell Davenport Ill and his wife Doris and a couple of kids. They live at 107 Woodley Road, Winnetka, Ill. Hack is president of the John R. Thompson Co., a sizable restaurant chain. Shortly afterward we learned that he was the winner of the
"Golden Plate Award." This award is presented annually to three of the otustanding restaurant operators by the Institutional Food Manufacturers of America. The citation on the plate reads: "In Recognition of Outstanding Service to His Community, the Public Feeding Industry and Those Who Serve It." Remembering Ozymandias, we are anxious to visit you, Hack, and read what's on the bottom side.
John Kelleher, associate professor of modern Irish history and literature at Harvard, has completed a series of eight lectures on "The Old World Comes to New England" at Essex Institute in Salem. His future plans include a history of Ireland from 430 to 1172 A.D.
About this time last year Hank Hastings was having a devil of a time with the local and state authorities around the Stowe-Mansfield area of Vermont. With a miniature potbellied stove that actually smoked affixed to the roof of his mobile "gift shop," he was known around "these" parts as "Smokey Stover." With characteristic Hastings humor and vigor, he defied the police with his $50.00 peddler's license and said he would park his vehicle, and sell and ski wherever he pleased. Defending his contraption, he philosophized, "The smokey stove is Vermont's answer to the Vanguard. Everyone wonders when it will go up - if it will go up - and whether it will orbit." Since no later clippings from the Rutland Herald have reached us, Hank, can you fill us in? About Vanguard, I mean.
We had the pleasure of breakfast with Junie Merriam the end of January. He traveled way up to 42nd Street to meet us and, as two old friends will when they get together, we discussed nothing but the forthcoming Alumni Fund Campaign. Junie is our Head Class Agent. Being Navy, you of course know what that is. The Alumni Fund Campaign will be sort of merged with the Capital Gifts Campaign and our Head needs help and that's for sure. The plea is there, the cause is worthy, the time is ripe. Put that in Latin and feed it through your I.B.M.!
R. N. Funkhouser '40, currently vice president of the Ruberoid Co. of New York, is to be general manager of the newly formed Funkhouser Mills, a division of Ruberoid.
Head class agent John W. Little II '40 and his brood: Liza, Lucy, John, Carl and David.
Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio
Treasurer, 15 Meridan PL, Huntington Station, N. Y.
