1923

One of the greatest shocks of your secretary's life occurred in the velvet and gold supper club room of the Casino at Monte Carlo. Barbara and I were having an omelet in this exclusive club with an old friend who has made the Hotel de Paris her home since 1938. A fellow passenger on the M.S. Oslofjord walked by our table and showed me a letter he had just opened, mailed to him by his family in Cleveland, and giving the details of the death of Tex Forbush. Only that day I had shown this person, Bill Webber of Cleveland, the 1923 directory and he had remarked how well he knew the classmates in that area, especially Tex. The shock ruined what might have been a very interesting evening and sent us back early to Ville Franche where our ship was anchored.

Greeting to Frank and Gladys Doten. The following A.P. News Release clarifies the above. Frank writes: To add to the trials and tribulations confronting the country in 1960, the news is now confirmed that the Dotens are returning to the United States early next year. After twelve years in Brazil we are heading North for good - and we plan to enjoy the American way of life in Hanover, N. H., where there is a "small home, but there are two who love it."

The new plot of our lives started to unfold last fall when we were in Hanover to see our first football game in eleven years. Without planning, we also saw a house which became ours less than 24 hours after we first entered it. Even the address intrigues us — 25 Rip Road, located at the base of "Pill Hill" where many doctors reside. So we had a house, but Gladys could not bear to have strangers within its walls. So why not use it ourselves? This only involved the slight detail of early retirement for.Frank, but Gillette graciously consented and the die was cast. Viva Gillette!

Our replacements are en route to Rio and we sail for the States on February 5. We plan to spend some time in New York and Boston and arrive at Rip Road early in April. We are hoping for an early spring after our numerous hot months in Rio.

Our most recent excitement was a fifteen-day trip to Montevideo and Buenos Aires on the French liner "Louis Lumière." Between the eight-course luncheons and dinners and wines neither G. or F. lost any pounds. 9ur food friends in Buenos Aires didn't make it easy to effect "regime" there either, what with all the delicious food the Argentine offers.

Needless to say 1960 looms up as a big and eventful year for us. We are delighted to be heading home although our years abroad have been interesting and happy ones for us. Since we will no longer be 5000 miles away, we hope to see our good friends in the U. S. more often and also expect visits from those abroad. You have the address of the new Doten headquarters, 25 Rip Road, Hanover, N. H. Please note it now and do plan to see us there.

In the March 29 issue of Look there is an article entitled "George Hamilton: Rich Boy Makes Good." On page fifty this boy is identified by his mother as the son of the late George Hamilton, a Dartmouth man, class of '23. Spike will always be remembered for his Barbary Coast orchestra and his song hits (Betty Co-ed and Bye Bye Pretty Baby). He died in 1952.

George Whiteside has an interesting and original retirement project, namely Great Masterpiece near Lake Wales, Fla. Briefly George wanted a project when he retires at 65. He organized two Florida corporations, namely the Tower Bay Exposition which holds a fifty-year land lease to 200 acres of shoreline property on Lake Pierce, a large lake in Florida with 51 miles of shoreline, white sand bottom and loaded with bass. His largest catch is a twelve-and-a-half-pound beauty on a flyrod. The second is Great Masterpiece, Inc., a 300,000 piece Leonardo Mosaic Recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's immortal "Last Supper." This mosaic was completed by Europe's most highly skilled mosaic artisans in Germany in 1930. Hidden from the Nazis it was buried in a Berlin cellar where it survived the bombings of World War II. To prevent its falling into Russian hands at the end of the war the mosaic was flown out of Berlin by the U.S. Airlift, in ten crates weighing 800 pounds apiece, and brought to America. It was displayed for a time at Rockefeller Center and in 1950 was brought to Florida for permanent exhibition. George Mid his associates have taken in over $400,000 in admission fees since 1951.

Peter Gale Fay '56 was one of the sons of 1923 who could always be relied on when we had the 1923 family weekends at the Inn. He was married February 6 to Lena Louise Lanning.

Now comes Sam Sammis' own version of himself. Sam is our executive vice president and it is high time some space be given to his autobiography. "After graduation: bond salesman; 1930-1938, putting a savings bank on its feet during the depression; 1939-1941, running a ski area, of all things (I had left the bank); 1942-1946, the U.S. Navy (again), this time an ossifier; saw Lynch at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, and almost caught up to Don Moore in Manila. Zimmerman didn't catch me to sell me a bond. 1946-1949, no one would give me a job (ski business folded) so I went into real estate appraising.

"1949-1956. the Mayor wanted me to be Chairman of the Board of Assessors. And then, in 1949 Nancy Davis Esmond consented to be my wife (Nancy says 'Irish and Joe Schiffenhaus please note'). 1956, left City Hall, and formed partnership of Sammis and Burbank, real estate and appraisals; Member Appraisal Institute. 1959, ran our 36th reunion; 1960, lost gall bladder and appendix; feeling fine."

In October of last year your secretary asked Jack Lee to spend the Columbus Day weekend at his Center Ossipee farm, with the Sollitts, Kimbalis and Metzels. Jack lives nine miles away on his farm in Brookfield, N. H.The reason he did not show up was because he was at the time on a three-month European honeymoon. On July 18 Jack married Miss Ann Conroy of Boston. While Jack likes to consider himself a retired gentleman on his Brookfield farm it is a well known fact that he is still the guiding genius, with his two sons John and James, of the John H. Lee Insurance Agency at 40 Central Street, Boston.

Don Bartlett '24 (extreme right), cultural attache with the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, was host to the Dartmouth Club of Tokyo at his residence in January. Left to right, back row: Emilio A. Lanier '24, Kyoichiro Takeuchi '22, Ed Jones '55, Lew Parker '38, Yoji Hirota '28a, Roger Haley '41, Monk Bancroft '57, and Hartley Caldwell '23. Second row, from the rear: Nat Jones, Nobu Mitsui '43, Kay Hirota, Tamiko Mitsui, Chick Onodera '57s, and Masuo Iwanami '25a. Third row, from the rear: Marsha Bancroft, Jane Stevenson, Barbara Hibbs, Dodo Haley, Hiroko Mitsui, Henrietta Bartlett (the charming hostess), Takanaga Mitsui '15, Mary Harmon, John Harmon '38, and Donald Bartlett '24 (the congenial host). Fourth row, from the rear: Joe Stevenson '57, Burton Martin '33, Irv Clark '56, Virginia Caldwell, Kunio Katakura '57s, Don Geis '50, Delight Tillotson, and Dave Tillotson '50. Not pictured are: Lee and Dave Hitchcock '50, Barb and Len Kokins '43.

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

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