1927
At the time this is written (approximately a month before you will read it) the questionnaire referred to in last month's column is in the hands of the printers, and should be in the mail within a very few days. If you haven't already completed it and sent it winging its way to Perrysburg, Ohio, I hope that you will dig it out and get it to me right away. When I asked the Executive Committee for a budget for this project last fall I thought that I was allowing for all contingencies, but it seems that inflation has been even faster than I realized, and I don't have much left to spend for follow-up postage.
For the first time in several years, and the second time since 1927, I had the privilege of being in Hanover in the wintertime. The occasion was the joint meeting of the Trustees and Alumni Council the weekend of January 23. The meetings were most interesting, with members of the Trustees, the Administration and the Faculty describing in some detail the very exciting plans that the College has for the next several years. The climax of the weekend was a dinner on Friday night in College Hall celebrating the successful completion of the Capital Gifts Campaign, which to me stands out, along with the Hopkins Dinner in New York a few years ago, as one of the most inspiring experiences of my more than 32 years as a Dartmouth alumnus. The Class was represented by Joshand Jill Davis, Bob and Peg Funkhouser, and your secretary and Sue Broer.
A note from Fen Min Tung, sent from Hong Kong, states that he is still hale and hearty, and is teaching every day.
Bob Page has been elected president of the Minute Man Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Bob's revolutionary ancestor was John Page, who took part in the battle of Lexington. Bob is also treasurer of the Massachusetts State Exchange Clubs, and has been a member of the Needham Town Meeting for many years.
Paul O'Connell was recently chosen as president of the Worcester, Mass., Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Paul is president of the Dartmouth College Club of Worcester County, and president of the Worcester County Musical Association, an organization which conducts an annual Music Festival for the people in that area, and last year celebrated its 100 th anniversary of continuous festivals, which makes it the oldest organization of its kind in the country with such a continuous record.
A note from Steve Tracy reports that his older daughter Barbara graduated from Swarthmore in 1957, received her Master's degree in science this past fall from Simmons. She is now on the staff of the Fogg Museum at Harvard. His younger daughter, Anne, is a junior at Middlebury.
Howie Mullin was appointed by the State Department as U.S. delegate to the meeting of the steel committee of the Economic Commission of Europe, which began on January 11. When last heard from, Howie, accompanied by Edna, had visited Paris, Geneva, Zermatt, Milan, Florence, and Rome.
Bill Munnecke has been elected presidentof Miniatique Mills, of Ministique, Mich., aproducer of newsprint, in addition to his duties as vice president of Field Enterprises.
Dr. Phil Corliss, who in addition to manyother activities is a noted horticultural expert, conducted a garden tour to Europe thispast summer and fall. Quoting from his report on the trip:
Our party sailed from and returned to Montreal by Canadian Pacific. I had ten people who went all the way but we were joined by others and lost some along the way so that I averaged seventeen in my flock on the Continent. What a job of shepherding it was! When seventeen tickets from Copenhagen to Hamburg turned out to be only seat reservations and I had to dig up cash to keep us moving; when a German bus driver kindly laid all our bags in a row and then drove over two of them; when members of the party disappeared into rest rooms without warning and we lost them - I thought I had "had it"—but the worst was yet to come! In Italy we had our own bus for eleven days. The driver did not speak or understand English (nor French, my only other language); he was a native of Milan, which we did not visit, but had never been in Ravenna, Rimini, Rome, Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Genoa, nor any of the other cities we did visit; and although he was a good driver, he had no sense of direction.
We landed on the coast of Scotland and had perfect weather all the way. From Scotland we went by sea during the reign of the midnight sun to Norway. Hotels, meals, transportation - everything was wonderful as we moved to Denmark, Hamburg, Holland, the Rhine country, southern Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Riviera, Paris, England.
We will never forget: electric train ride from Flam on fjord to Myrdal in Norway past hundreds of waterfalls more spectacular than Yosemite. and several glaciers ... fjord boat trip ... Rhine steamer trip, Koblenz to Rudesheim ... train from Garmisch to Cortina ... train ferry, Copenhagen to Lake Thun ... the public gardens of Innesbruck at night ... the chair lifts and other me- chanical means of being elevated to mountain tops ... the - beaches of the Adriatic, especially the one at Rimini ... luxurious hotels. Favorite cities: Bergen, Oslo, Hamburg, Innesbruck, Florence, Genoa, Nice. Geneva.
Entertainment highlights of the tour: Ballet in the courtyard of the Pitti Palace in Florence with male leading dancer of La Scala of Milan doing Stravinsky's "The Prodigal Son" .. . opera ("Aida" and "Carmen") on world's largest stage outdoors at Baths of Carace1 la in Rome . . . outdoor opera on the Rhine at Koblenz . . . Josephine Baker in the most memorable revue I have ever seen, in Paris.
I expert to stay home and live on dreams of the tr'P in 1960. Let me know if you want to go back with me in 1961.
Brief notes on activities of various members of the Class: George Provost is spending much of his time traveling about the country, addressing meetings of electrical distributors, in his capacity as president of their national association. The Willings and Chabots were among the guests during the past summer and fall at Bill King's Dexter's Lodge at Sunapee, N. H. Fritz Kortlucke has been sunning and skin diving at Barbados, hoping not to repeat last year's encounter with a barracuda. Van Ingham made a strenuous, though unsuccessful attempt to unseat the local politicians on the New Brunswick, N. J., Township Committee, following what Van considered to be their unwarranted interference in school affairs.
The reservoir of news accumulated over the holidays is nearly dry, so I hope to hear from a lot of you soon.
Secretary, 29150 West River Rd. Perrysburg, Ohio
Treasurer, Apt. 10C, 3908 N. Charles St. Baltimore 18, Md.
