1931

Our Class must be one of the movingest classes going. The last few releases from the Alumni Records Office have averaged nine members per notice. In the interest of keeping the column within bounds of space, as explained in last issue, the address changes will be forwarded to Beany Thorn for his news letters.

After a great deal of time and effort Mrs. Morrison was able to get our Class records up to date — which is a fine thing for the Class. I promise to keep them up to date during my tenure of office, and sincerely aope that future secretaries will do likewise. With the records now in my possession please feel free to write me for information about classmates. Whatever information they contain will be forwarded promptly to you for the asking with one provision, namely, that your request carries with it some bits of information about you and yours and/or a classmate or two.

Mai Pratt has done it again! Mai is math instructor at Weymouth High School. This is the fourth National Science Foundation Grant that has been awarded to Mai for summer study at the University of New Hampshire. Previously, Mai studied sum- mers at the University of Colorado and at Lafayette College.

Too bad I didn't read the following bit of news a few weeks before tonight. "Dr.Lincoln Ridler Page is chief of the Branch of Regional Geology in New England with offices at 270 Dartmouth Street, Boston. He lives in Melvin Village, N. H." On September 18 and 19 I spent two very pleasant days at Bald Peak Colony Club in Melvin Village at an association meeting. I surely would have looked you up, Line. The news release says he has a son in the senior year at Dartmouth and another is a freshman at New Hampshire. Nice goin', Line.

Going back to March 9, it was a pleasure to get a nice long letter from Frank P.McCord. "Monk's" first paragraph endeared him to me more than ever. It reads as fol- lows: "I have enjoyed your column and for the first time in my life I am attempting to help a poor, overworked secretary with some filler." "Monk" bumped into Mr. Chase Manhattan Bank (Vic Rockhill) when Vic was headed for Northampton to visit his daughter. He also met "B" Ball (Socony Mobil) since "B" now is in New York. He reports that his good wife Alice and he helped Dick Cukor step over the line into his second half century. All had a merry time of it "and even though Dick has a year or two advantage on most of us, he does look to be much younger than most of us." At the time of last contact, I would have nominated Dick for most-handsome-at-the- age-of-fifty member of the Class. He could out-pose the Calvert ad boys any time for my money. Good old Forsha Russell beat out Len Clark for the honor in the senior year, remember? (How can you — that was thirty years ago!)

Incidentally, Harriet and I are looking forward to a visit from Len and Dottie over the Columbus Day weekend when we expect to drive up to Hanover for the Brown game. We also are anxious for the Yale game to come along so we can visit Friday night at Charlie and Dot McAllister's new summer home at Candelwood Lake in Con- necticut and then see the Yale game the next day with them and their son "Skeff" and his fiancee.

With apologies to Johnny Goodwillie for the delay in presenting the news in his nice letter, I submit the following contents. "Betty and I had a very nice visit with BobRyan and his wife Jessica in their recently purchased home in Holmby Hills, just outside of Beverly Hills. Bob looks exactly the same and has kept himself in excellent condition. He hopes to spend some time out east in the near future." Please get in touch with us if you come east, Bob.

Ed Brummer also "ran into Bob Ryan on the street in San Francisco — very snazzy in matching hat and belted overcoat."

Johnny also met BUI Palmer who is one of the top V.P.'s of the California Bank "with quarters in a beautiful new building located in the financial section of downtown Los Angeles." He also further states that Frank Hardinge is still with the California Savings and Loan Association and is doing an excellent job. All three of these guys certainly look as though they have life pretty well under control and are enjoying it to the fullest in the most beautiful climate. Lucky guys and thanks for the news from the west, John.

Fred Tetzlaffi visited Johnny Benson re- cently. Jim Lyall from Pleasantville, N. Y., sent a very newsy clipping about Wallace (Mr. Music) Thorsen. It's quite an article which will be forwarded to Beany so he can put the contents in a letter.

Don McKinlay '37 was thoughtful enough to forward the following from his father, Judge Donald S. McKinlay of Chicago. "At my table on the 'S.S. Argentina' en route to South America I found Harry Townsend '3l and his charming wife. He has been in Brazil for twelve years and is manager of the Wayne Pump Company. His wife, Helena, is a native Brazilian and speaks Portuguese, Spanish and French as well as English. They have a son Charles. They are one of the nicest couples I have met in a long time, and we all missed them when they left the ship at Rio de Janeiro." Thanks to your dad and yourself for the help, Don.

Adrian O'Keefe keeps adding them to his list. Now he's a director of Gillette Com- pany. Pretty soon he'll have a say in just about all our big companies in the Boston area. Nice goin', Adrian.

Russ Woodward is listed as a patron of a Music Series at the Maple Street Congregational Church, Danvers, Mass. This interest no doubt stems from his days in the Glee Club.

A stray memo just popped up stating that Johnny Benson met Bill Palmer at a bank- ers' meeting at Boca Raton, Fla. All of a sudden Bill shows up twice. We'd all like a letter, Bill, telling us about your travels which I hear are rather extensive!

At the Boston Symphony Orchestra "Pops Night" for Dartmouth the Bensons, Chases,Frames, Hobbs, Kents, Lovelands, McCarthys, Moores, Symonds, and Wolffs spent a very pleasant evening together both at dinner and the Pops.

This weekend (September 30) Harriet and I take off for four days of business and fun in "Big D" Dallas, Texas. Will tell you the results next issue. Where have you been? Where are you going? We'd love to hear from you about it — short, quickie notes will do. How about it? Please?

Donald B. MacPhail '32 (r) is sworn inas Director of the U. S. InternationalCooperation Administration mission inLibya by J. T. Walden of ICA. Now inTripoli, Don formerly was AssistantDeputy Director for Operations of ICA.He has been with the economic aid program since 1951 and has served in Paris,Tunisia, and Washington. His son Bruceis a Dartmouth senior this year.

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