1920
Seems like this winter never will end and that provides no inspiration for your secretary to indite these notes!
If anyone gets the idea from the column in a previous issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE that Al Frey is retiring, let me assure you that the contrary is quite the fact. While he is resigning from Tuck School, that means only that he'll have more time for other chores which he'll be undertaking. As Al puts it, he expects to be working for at least another forty years!
From Eddie Bowen comes news that John P. (Mac) McAllaster has moved recently from Albany, N.Y., to Concord, N.H., where he will become Division Engineer of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (Department of Commerce). Mac spent twenty years or so in Albany and many are the major accomplishments in his chosen field that are chalked up to his credit. As District Engineer in the New York State area he planned the difficult New York City metropolitan system of highways in cooperation with New York State and New York City officials. To appreciate the extent of his contributions all one must do is take a ride on the Greater New York Expressways. Mac was honored at a luncheon in late January at Albany and more than a hundred of his associates and friends were on hand. Since the McAllasters will now be only sixty miles away from Hanover no doubt we'll see them more often.
A few nights ago Jake Gorton called Fredand Dorothy Hamm on the telephone to announce his plans for attending reunion. He and Harry Gortner are going to drive up with wife Irene. It will be good to see both these guys as we have seen all too little of them in the last many years. The Hamms are all doing well despite the cold down in Vero Beach, Fla.
A nice note from James (Dan) Daniell, the first in almost forty years, reads: "I have not been active in Dartmouth affairs because of my transfer to the University of Michigan, but have kept in touch all these years with my roommate, Ken Hardy. My twin daughters ters met Ken in Boston a few years back and had a very enjoyable visit. My own activities are very limited as the result of a bad heart attack a few years ago. I married Myrtle Miller in December, 1923. She died in September, 1949. In June, 1951, I married Martha Long, a graduate of the University of Indiana, and a Navy nurse in World War II."
Colonel Charlie Mills' handsome features appeared recently in the Minneapolis Star along with a lengthy article descriptive of the Colonel's interest in antiques. Charlie was. pictured in front of a cabinet containing some of the antiques he loaned to the Antique Show of the Women's Club of Minneapolis. His is rated one of the finest collections tions in Minneapolis. Charlie and the late Mrs. Mills were great collectors all through the years. While stationed in Berlin at the close of World War II they started a collection which includes some of the finest Meissenware; handmade china figurines and continental silver, as well as Belgian gold leaf-on-crystal Rhine wine glasses. Charlie's apartment is a replica, even to the arrangement of the antique furniture, of the apartment he and Mrs. Mills occupied in Flushing, N. Y., when Charlie was stationed with the Army at Governors Island some years, ago. Charlie, now retired from the Army, is. Regional Vehicle Manager for the U.S. Post Office Department in Minneapolis.
Spence and Mary Snedecor are of? on another of their fabulous trips about which Spence wrote as follows:
Once more I find I will be unable to attend the class dinner this January because Mary and I are off again for points West and East. I have to go to Medical meetings the last week of this month in Chicago and Memphis and then on February 1 we leave for the Middle East. The enclosed itinerary will give you some idea. It will be another one of our junkets to visit Medical Schools and Mission Hospitals in the underprivileged countries and work for a few days in each one of them we find it always stimulating and rewarding as well as an opportunity for a little adventure and some good pictures.
Incidentally, we had a fine house party down at our country cottage at Blue Point, Long Island, on January 8. when the Popes and the Spaldings came down to visit with the Swezeys and our selves. The enclosed picture looks as if we were enjoying the evening.
Our best wishes and we look forward to reunion in June.
The Snedecor itinerary is stupendous andincludes Amsterdam. Rome, Beirut, Kuwait,Bahrein, Muscat, Karachi, Bombay, Madras,Delhi, Patna, Katmandu, Agra, Cairo, Athens,Vienna, Salzburg, Munich and Paris. Theyarrive back in New York on the evening ofMarch 31. Certainly sounds wonderful andI'm envious!
I learn from Carroll Swezey that the same group appearing in the picture Spence Snedecor sent along had planned a Hanover weekend but that the night before they were to leave Henrietta had the misfortune to break her hip. The Long Island house party was a compensation for not going to Hanover. We all send Henrietta our kind regards and best wishes for a speedy recovery.
"The Foster Democrat" of Dover, N.H., recently carried the handsome features of Jim Powell, Dover's new finance director. Since his graduation from Tuck School Jim has done accounting work with the Flintkote Company and I.B. Williams and Sons, of which latter firm he was Treasurer for many years.
Mel Merritt stopped in at the office recently but I was tied up in a meeting at the University Club and, accordingly, did not get to see him, I am sure he came loaded with news about classmates in the Boston area Clint Johnson has recently returned from an extended trip to Europe. He's top brass - Executive Vice President — in Chemical Bank New York Trust Company
Reub Warner and his insurance activities are written up again, this time in the Eastern Underwriter published here in New York. Reub and his partner, Robert J. Keane, rated almost a full page!...Bud Phillips is spending the winter as usual in Tucson, Ariz. When you come north, Bud, I'll be expecting you to drop in. In the meantime, keep pitching !...Al Frey was in Detroit not long ago and ran into Art Stockdale, our long lost friend. Al says he looks as young if not younger than he ever did Berford S. Oakley, who retired recently, now lives at 4703 North Connolly Drive, Scottsdale, Ariz.
I hope everybody tuned in his television on February 28 to watch the team of four Dartmouth students take on four young ladies from Bryn Mawr in the College Bowl. Our boys were really on the ball and shellacked the Bryn Mawrs!
In the next issue I am going to bear down on the Fortieth Reunion. There's quite a lot that needs to be said about it, but in the meantime I want only to urge everyone who can possibly make it to get started early on their plans.
Bob Burroughs '21, who was one of President Eisenhower's personal representatives at theceremonies marking Cameroun's achievement of independence, is shown shaking hands withPrime Minister Ahmadon Ahidjo of Cameroun.
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