1925

Each fall when the executive committee meets, it is customary to adopt several resolutions, prepared by Bob McKennan, our perennial chairman of the resolutions committee. It is your secretary's pleasure to send these resolutions to the persons involved, among whom Prexy Hopkins invariably is included. His acknowledgment this year was such that the impulse to publicize it is natural. It read as follows: "It would be a rank affectation for me to pretend that I do not feel a very considerable happiness in receiving such a note as yours of November 19. Furthermore, the satisfaction is very great in receiving the resolution of the Class of 1925. I shall be greatly obliged to you if at the proper time you will convey to the Class my very deep appreciation. Such an assurance as has been given is something which I treasure very greatly."

Phil Cole, who many of you will recall was elected a member of the class in 1958, has returned to his law practice in Colorado Springs after coaching Dartmouth freshmen heavy crews for the past four years. Bob Borwell has been elected to the newly-created office of senior vice president of Marsh & McLennan. Charlie Haywood received a "Bouquet of the Week" from his local paper, the Lynn Item, as a salute to "a gifted native son whose literary achievements have brought the community favorable notice in many parts of the nation." Francis Van Orman has been elected executive vice president of the American Insurance Company having served as vice president and general counsel of the American group of insurance companies since 1941. Jock Brace has added the name of General Motors Corporation to the long list of his director-trusteeships. Duncan Upton was recently the recipient of the coveted Silver Beaver of the Boy Scouts of America award, the highest given any volunteer Scouter, in recognition of his steady devotion to the interests of this national organization since the early thirties.

In reading up on Nort Canfield's new book we were reminded that he is president of the Audiology Foundation in connection with his effort to get help and attention for the hard-of-hearing, a field in which he has gained great prominence. Our good doctor received his M.D. from the University of Michigan. From 1935 to 1951 he was associated as a professor with the Yale School of Medicine, in the interim (1948 to 1946) serving in the Army Medical Corps with a final rank of colonel. A member of various national and international organizations concerned with rehabilitation of those with impaired hearing, Nort serves on the board of directors and the advisory board of the American Hearing Society.

June Bryant calls our attention to the fact that Coop Rhodes is a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Reserve. Stuart P. (Stud)Wright is a Major General (now retired) in the U.S. Air Force. We would doubt whether any other Dartmouth class had two living generals in its membership.

On Thursday, December 31, Vice President Orton Hicks '21 gave a luncheon for twelve at the Hanover Inn. The guest of honor was Mr. Jacques Kahn Jr. of the staff of The New Yorker. Mr. Kahn is doing a Profile on our own Ted (Dr. Seuss) Geisel and was in Hanover for background material. The following 25ers were guests at the luncheon: June Bryant, Nort Canfield, Phil Coykendall, Andy Foster, Alex Laing, Larry Leavitt, Bob McKennan, Rad Tanzer and Ford Whelden. ... Ted and Helen's ears should have been burning.

In the last week of the year the Capital Gifts Campaign gained an additional $9000 when Frank Kennedy, Dutch Schroedel and Ford Whelden all increased their previous pledges to the Campaign. The coming Alumni Fund campaign also got off to a splendid start with a gift of $1500, more than four times greater than any previous gift to the Alumni Fund by this classmate. It's a splendid opening note for Larry Leavitt's initial campaign.

Ellery and Norm Martin extended Christmas greetings simultaneously with an announcement of having moved to 55 Wildwood Glen, Longmeadow, Mass. News of the passing of Cliff Bricknell at Plympton on December 21 was reported by ever-helpful Homer Tilton, who wrote: "Never knew Cliff until a few years ago when I started Alumni Fund work — but I got to know him quite well since. Cliff was with us in Hanover only first semester of freshman year. Believe he had to leave on account of his father's death. But in spite of the short stay in Hanover, he was always interested in hearing about class doings."

Andrew B. Foster of Norwich, retired U.S. Foreign Service officer, has joined the Dartmouth College administrative staff as of January 1. Andy will be special assistant to President Dickey and executive secretary of the Trustees Planning Committee. As such, he will be staff co-ordinator for the College's long-range planning as projected by the committee.

Secretary, 225 Wyman St., Waltham 54, Mass

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