1921

True to his name, Speedy Fleet is moving speedily into the quickened life of the Dartmouth 1961 Carnival, and he boasts that he will have the prettiest babe of all the 1,000 present. A local girl, she is a honey, a fast little cutey whose middle name indeed is Fleet. Born July 19, 196o, she will be about seven months old when putting on her evening dress; she will be escorted to the Carnival Ball by Speedy. It is about all that Grandfather can do to keep away from Hanover now that his son-in-law, Russell Beede, out of the Navy, back in Tuck School, is living with the former Patricia Fleet in Sachem. Speedy's ambition is that Susan Fleet Beede on his arm will experience first-hand the refined delights of Dartmouth Carnival even before she enrolls in kindergarten.

Harry Chamberlain is also speeding up. He too, has a new baby, a Hearst offspring. So successful was he fathering Science Digest and the foreign editions of Popular Mechanics that he has been given a new assignment, by far his most challenging. His new title is Vice President in Charge of Research and Marketing of all the Hearst magazines. Not entirely easy in the shuttle-jog between New York and Chicago, Harry is pleased to be located permanently in New York. It is closer to Hanover.

Fred Benton has been told to slow down. With one eye peculiarly blurred, the energetic Vice President of the Philadelphia Transportation Co. and Director of the Broad Street Trust just before his 60th birthday worked beyond his strength giving testimony in a current case. The result was hospitalization. Fred had an engaged vein at the back of his eye, hypertension, and a slight coronary. Doctors tell him that next time he may not be so lucky to recover so quickly. When you read this, he may be recuperating in Florida. Technically he will be retired, but he hopes to keep on at the Broad Street Trust and to get a job teaching. Professoring appeals to Fred. His son teaches Medieval history at Penn; his daughter, math at Germantown Friends; and his son-in-law, European and Russian history at La Salle.

As for slowing down, Ken Sater in Columbus, Ohio, has news to interest Jack Hubbell. Ken has devoted considerable time and energy developing ulcers. Now he must eat only those foods and drink only those liquids which he does not like. To him bland diet and starvation diet are synonymous terms.

We hear that Frank and Barbara Livermore are poised for maximum velocity and maximum distance. On January 15, they are whooshing off by air for a ten-week flight around the world. At the Mountain View House, Whitefield, N. H., for a fortnight last month, they may have wondered whether any hotel in the Orient could be better outdoors or in.

The mobility of Ken Thomas of Northfield, Ill., still depends on his hip ailment, which may or may not permit him to attend the Fortieth. Ken reports with sorrow the death last winter of his business associate, Ralph Hinners '22 whose son, Gordon Hinners '45, is fortunately giving Ken good support in the office.

Some men come to a business stop at 65, but after being retired for some seven years, March Whelden of Rutland, Vt., close to 67, has gone back to work. He calls himself "general factotum" at the Killington Manufacturing Co. and expects to keep on until he is 80.

Hal Braman has slowed down but not to a full stop. Hartford, Vt., is considering him for Industrial Developer. Interviewed by the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, Hal said that he was a Personnel Manager of the American Brass Co., that he is building a home for Doris and himself in Norwich, and that he was seeking only a part-time job.

Harold and Martha Geilich are moving, in more senses of the word than one. In 1958, they visited European tanneries and fashion shows where Martha is looked on as an American authority. This year it was two months in Spain, where they ran into Prexy Hopkins and Dr. Jack and Mrs. Bowler. The Geilichs feel sad about moving out of the home they built and in which their children were raised, 29 Rangeley Road, Chestnut Hill, to 80 Fairview Ave., Brockton, only fifteen minutes from the tannery. Harold tempers his regrets with the realization that, born in Brockton, he is moving back home.

Walter and Marion Holt are mobile, and they own a highly mobile bungalow tent with nylon screening and a porch, admirable equipment for camping trips along the Bay of Fundy, the Adirondacks, and the coasts of Maine and Connecticut.

George Ferguson transported himself recently from Tucson to Berkeley to receive from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was praised for the beauty of his church in Tucson, his Christian leadership, and his book entitled, "Signs and Symbols in Christian Art."

In Sherman Oaks, Calif., Bill and Marjorie McClintock have leis to hang around the neck of Pud Walker. Away for the month they were in Hawaii, Pud without resting up even a little from his medical convention in the South Seas, impetuously sought out the McClintocks on the afternoon they were flying home, drove them to his house, gave them drinks, chatted with them, and returned them to their hotel. Our 1921 Californians, Furb Haight and Jim Wicker, Henry Palmer and Jack Garfein, Connie Keyes and Guy Wallick, have such high standards of hospitality that the McClintock leis are a true compliment.

At the time of our Fortieth, Charlie and Dorothy Gilson will be climbing up the gangplank of a slow freighter in Taiwan to take them on a three-months' leave, with the first stop England where they will visit their eldest son and family.

In 1958, Sherwood Bowers surprised 1921 when he completed degree requirements begun 43 years earlier at Dartmouth, and earned his B.A. degree in Government from the University of Connecticut. He has now surprised residents of Manchester, Conn. As the local paper says, "The political career of the real estate developer, who was twelve years a selectman, seven years a Director, Mayor from 1952-1954, and eight years a State Representative, was terminated in 1954 after a long battle over the construction of the Keeney Street school." Sherwood's present ambition is a town directorship.

Joe Lane, president of Cavalier Corp., the subject of a profile recently in the Chattanooga Times, was described as being tall (6-3), slender and sandy browed, a man who enjoys living and working. He is quoted as saying that among his most satisfying experiences has been his success in working out a harmonious way of life with his employes and their unions. He operated on the basis of mutual respect and understanding and was seldom disappointed in the results. As a young man Joe did have labor troubles of a peculiarly vexing sort. At Dartmouth he spent his summer vacations in hotel work in the White Mountains. As head waiter in one, he had 35 waitresses under his supervision, and he could count on 25 of them being mad at him all the time.

Bob Mayo and Cape Payson, both '21ers, make the '21 sign. The get-together took place at Cape's Cottages, West Harwich, Mass., in July.

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