1920

"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in thy flight." The summer has certainly flown and your secretary finds himself a little bit rusty getting back into the old groove of writing this column.

Bill Farnham made the trek from Spokane to Seattle recently and encountered Cliff Corbet '21 and his wife who were down from Vancouver. About this time Bill will be in California looking up Abe Winslow in San Francisco. Bill complains that all too few Dartmouth folk, and Twenties in particular, stop by in Spokane. All you longdistance travelers kindly take note and do something about it.

The eminent Professor John P. Amsden has been elected a Director of the newly formed Hanover Historical Society. The purpose of the Society is "to preserve the heritage of the past 200 years." That's a lot of heritage, but John is the boy to handle it.

Dorothy and I were in Hanover for Commencement Week and for the Alumni Council meetings which followed several days later. In all we were in town nine days and although I was pretty busy a good part of the time it was a grand and glorious feeling to sit on the Inn porch with my feet on the rail and watch the passing parade. Any number of old friends came and went including some Twenties such as John Amsden, HarrySampson, Bud Weymouth, the Baketels, Al Foley, the Leo Ungars and very high up on the list Isabel Morse who came over to see her son Jimmie, a soon-to-be senior, off for Alaska for the summer. Isabel lives in Middlebury, Vt., and reports an occasional glimpse of President Sam Stratton.

Unfortunately there was no baseball game during Commencement period and it seemed that the band didn't play quite as often or as long as they did in our day, but by way of compensation there was a crew race on the Connecticut about two or three miles above the College. The Dartmouth crew looked awfully good against Columbia and M.I.T. M.I.T. won with Dartmouth a good second. Those who have not been in Hanover in recent years will be interested to know that the new power dam across the Connecticut at Wilder has made a beautiful placid lake reaching several miles up river. That's one reason why crew is becoming a popular sport at Dartmouth.

While we were in Hanover we had a very pleasant visit with Sherm and Rachel Adams. Sherm was on hand at the bookstore autographing his new book entitled "FirstHand Report." (Have you bought your copy?) He looked fine and so did Rachel.

Paul Richter continues to be an active contributor to this column. He reports that Captain William Polhemus, navigator of the 858 Hustler bomber that flew from New York to Paris this past May in three hours and twenty minutes, is the son of Mrs.Charles Crathern. He also sent along the following clipping from a Concord paper:

"S. A. (Sal) Andretla, a top career employee, has been reappointed Justice's Administrative Assistant Attorney General. In taking the action Attorney General Kennedy said 'lt's our good fortune to have someone so skilled and experienced to rely on in the administrative field.' "

Sam Stratton received the full treatment in an extended two-page article in the Sunday Advertiser entitled "Samuel S. Stratton Rules' Middlebury." Here's just one brief quote from a really spendid tribute to a great educator and a grand guy:

After all, it's quite clear that too much honor can't be heaped on Dartmouth-grained, Harvardpolished Stratton, 8.5., M.S., Ph.D., sometime associate professor of economics and erstwhile expert in the service of the government in Washington and abroad. He has merely trebled the net worth of the college (Middlebury), doubled her reserve funds, increased enrollment and the faculty, raised the salaries of the latter by 153 per cent, contrived the construction of eight major buildings, induced the renovation of old structures, effected the purchase of still others - and has so husbanded the cornucopia of the curricula that her academic riches are coveted by her envious sisters from coast to coast.

Following Commencement Sam took off for Paris for a few days, but had to hurry back to sparkplug a very busy summer school session.

Sherry Bakefel reports a very pleasant visit at their place in Bryn Mawr with Tom and Mary Ainsworth and son Tommy who came up from Bethesda. Young Tom enters the University of Virginia in September. Sherry says he is a fine chap and resembles his old gent in many ways.

Spence and Mary Snedecor are joining with Carroll and Henrietta Swezey on a jaunt through the Canadian Rockies and on to Alaska. They ought to be back home by now and I am hoping they had a chance to visit Twenty's northernmost outpost, Warrie Gault, Comptroller of the Alaska Housing Authority at Anchorage, Alaska.

Carl Newton had a great time this summer with a visit to Italy, Greece and Istanbul. En route he visited Ellis Briggs '21, U. S. Ambassador to Greece. I hope Ellis kept his hands in his pockets if Carl started any of that well-known legerdemain. Incidentally, it is not so well known that for some twenty years or more Carl has been developing the avocation of oil painting. Last winter he entered a painting in the amateur show of the Century Association in New York and was awarded first prize in the portrait group. There is a well-rounded guy, I would say.

Dick Kimball, checking in from Long Beach, Calif., rejoices in the fact that three boys from Long Beach High School and a fourth from a nearby town have been selected to enter Dartmouth. Dick promised to do a proper job of indoctrination before the boys left for Hanover and I guess that means simply that they will all be sunk Beta!

Laddie Myers keeps me posted on ''The White Collar Girl" column written by DonMacKay's gifted wife Ruth. The particular column that Laddie sent along this time was a beautifully written nostalgic item on the delights of country life. That article is more than apropos because Ruth and Don are making Fish Creek, Door County, Wis., their principal place of residence. Of course, they will commute occasionally to Chicago, tut Don plans to hang out his shingle up there and that will be his main base of operation. I hear it is a delightful spot.

After 37 years with the DuPont Company, Bob Farwell retired at the end of July. While he expects to do some traveling, he will continue to spend time in New England. He says he would be glad to spend some time on Dartmouth matters if he could be helpful. That's sweet music to these old ears, and you may be sure, Bob, that we'll take advantage of your offer.

Howard Hitchcock retired in June as Assistant Principal and Science Teacher at the Talcott Jr. High School in West Hartford, Conn. He spent the summer boating on Long Island Sound. How about letting us in on your future plans. Howard?

Pop (Dr. Henry B.) Rollins, Vice President and Medical Director of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, retired on August 31 after 33 years with the company. The item which appeared in the Hartford Courant on August 5 made no mention of Pop's future plans. How about dropping me a line, Pop, as to what manner of excitement you have cooked up for your leisure?

A note from Kinney (William McK.)Smith to the effect that come December he will retire as District Manager of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (National Produce Division) in Louisville, Ky. Then he and his wife Mildred will start on a roundthe-world jaunt. Their son David is with "NASA" at Cape Canaveral, Fla. They have two grandsons - Dale who is seven and Bruce who is three.

Sorrowfully I report the passing of Jim Powell on June 15, Tom Greene on June 16, Craig Sheaffer on July 9, and George Winter on July 10. To their respective widows and families I send sincerest sympathy riam notices will appear in this or a subsequent issue.

Hope you all had a wonderful summer and remember our 45th Reunion comes up in 1964. Better get the piggybank ready!

The following paragraph did not pass through the class secretary's hands but came directly to the MAGAZINE from Sherry Baketel:

"Aware as I am of the inherent modesty of our peripatetic secretary, I am sure that no word about his handling of the 1960-61 Alumni Council will ever leak to his classmates unless it stems from some other source. Having sat in on the recent meeting as a past member of the Council, I know that Leo Ungar, a present member, would agree that no better job could have been done. Not only did Charlie have presidential poise, urbanity and wit, but he also displayed the tact and sense of the general fitness of things which marks the outstanding parliamentarian. In short, the guy was good."

Secretary, 350 East 57th St. New York 22, N. Y.

Treasurer, Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 13, Pa.