1941
It is either a feast or famine! Last month a little news trickled in about our brethren in California. This month there was practically a deluge from an area not heard from in some time. It must be because it is the rainy season out there. Bruce and Kathy Friedlich encountered all sorts of people on a recent business (?) trip to California. While motel hopping with John and Helen Dorris, they, by coincidence, pulled up for the night at a motel owned and operated by Wes and Dorothy Hadden at Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. It is known as The Inn. Wes is most enthusiastic about his new undertaking in a new location, his last abode being in Pasadena. Bruce recommends it highly for an ideal spot to enjoy sunshine, water sports and a "little" quiet, with the emphasis on "little." Wes and Dorothy are such gracious hosts that they would "hot allow things to get too quiet.
Bruce apparently did not have enough of Fred Leopold as a roommate at Hanover. While in Los Angeles the Friedlichs had dinner with the Leopolds. At least Adele was on hand to keep things on an even keel. Fred also unlimbered his right arm recently and wrote to me on the very impressive letterhead of a law firm located on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Fred is a senior partner in the firm, - yet he claims he has been "struggling along" there the past ten years. I'll bet! But he admitted to having a lot of fun doing it.
Drs. Bill Dignam and Elmer Crehan are also kicking up their heels out Southern California way, byway of being active participants in activities of the Dartmouth Club of Southern California. Both attended the January dinner of that organization in honor of Eddie Chamberlain '36.
Returning to these parts, White Creek, N. Y., reports the appointment of GeorgeMorse as its Supervisor to fill the unexpired terra of his predecessor. As Justice of the Peace, George has been a member of the White Creek Town Board for seven years. He is also senior partner of a law firm in nearby Cambridge, where he has been practising for ten years. George is also Chairman of the Republican Committee of his town and formerly was an estate tax attorney for his county.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., reports another promotion for Tom Willers to that of general manager of the newly-formed Eastern Chemical Division of Hooker Chemical Corporation, manufacturers of chemicals and plastics. This new assignment will not entail a move for Tom and Mrs. Willers and their three sons and daughter from their present home in Niagara Falls, as headquarters for this division will be there. If it did, most of the civic associations of Niagara Falls would be the loser, as Tom is President of the Niagara Community Center, Director of the United Community Chest of Niagara Falls, Visiting Nursing Association, and Treasurer of the Niagara Falls Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Bankers win promotions too, occasionally. Charlie Putnam was just elected Investment Officer of the Securities Management Section of Old Colony Trust Company in Hudson, Mass. Charlie joined Old Colony in 1946. He is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University, and thus is a fellow alumnus of banker Dick Hill. Charlie is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society and a member of the Board of Directors and Finance Committee of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention. Mr. and Mrs. and the three little Putnams live in West Acton, Mass.
The story of the ill-fated canoe voyage through Canada's Barren Lands by the late Art Moffatt was published in the March issue of Sports Illustrated, with a second installment to appear in a later issue. The two-part article will feature portions of the diary left by Art and his five companions as they headed north on the Dubawnt River, the first white men to make the hazardous canoe trip since 1893. Art met an untimely death on this trip in September 1955, when two of the party's three canoes capsized and pitched their occupants into icy waters. His diary and color pictures were preserved by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who transported his body to its final resting place in a settlement just below the Arctic Circle. A color movie of the trip was shown in Hanover in 1956 with narration by Skip Pessl '55, who was Art's deputy leader. The Sports Illustrated articles feature pictures and maps, as well as an account of the journey by one of the six canoeists. The National Geographic Magazine is also planning to publish an article on the voyage later this year.
Speaking o£ articles, I am sure that everyone read Charlie McLane's interesting article in the January 1959 issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE on "Pasternak and the Russian Community." Charlie is also the author of a recent book entitled "Soviet Policy and the Chinese Communists," an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between the Soviets and Chinese Communists in the period 1931 to 1946. Charlie's book is compiled from a prodigious amount of research. He ferreted the information out of libraries from California to the East coast, and visited Tokyo and Hong Kong to fill in the gaps in his Project.
During the spring recess the Dartmouth Glee Club was busy making a tour of the Eastern circuit. The sponsorship of its tour was largely engineered by some of our classmates. One of the ports of call was Long Island, where certain aspects of the arrangements were handled by Frank Hall, and where Bob Darbee wore out plenty of shoe leather to assure a good turnout. Then it hopped over to Madison. N. J., to appear in the Madison YMCA. Danny Provost, head of the "Y," was one of the spark plugs behind this event.
The best news o£ all - of new arrivals in the '41 family: Shortly after Christmas, Roy and Helen Rowan had their third boy. Then Bill and Ruth Galbraith followed suit by contributing a member to the freshman class of 1977. This is the second addition to their family and to the Dartmouth family, since they were last heard from; another boy was born in October 1957.
Our deepest sympathy to Ab Combes on the death of his Father. Ab's Dad was a distinguished physician who practiced medicine on Long Island for 39 years.
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