1917

Quite belatedly news of the remarriage of Wesley Thompson has been received. On March 31 he married Mrs. Karl Martin Waters at a ceremony in the Chapel of Covenant Presbyterian Church at Charlotte, N. C. Though it is somewhat late to be extending good wishes to the couple, I am sure that all 17'ers join in wishing them a very happy life together.

Jack Saladine has sold his stock in Electrical Supplies, Inc. and its fully owned subsidiary, Sprague Electrical Division, to his employees of many years' standing, and is now on the retired list. However, Jack is to remain as a director of both companies and will be available for advice and consultation. Welcome to the Retirees' Club, Jack!

George Clark, one of the youngest men in our class, has a son, Cary, in the junior class at Dartmouth. Cary is a member of Green Key and assistant manager of the basketball team. George himself gets down to Hanover frequently and takes in most of the major athletic events.

While in Detroit a few weeks ago Don O'Leary got together wtih Fred Husk for a brief visit, the first time they had seen one another since 1917. Don reports that Fred looks well, plays golf at the Oakland Hills Country Club, bowls at the Detroit Athletic Club, and seems to be enjoying life to the fullest. From the questionnaire returned by Fred, I learned that his wife Esther suffered a paralytic stroke during June 1957. but has recovered to such an extent that they have been able to go fishing in the Florida Keys and on Lake Superior.

Bob Adams is back at his office, part time, after having been hospitalized during part of June and July because of a heart attack, and during August because of other complications. At the moment he is investigating the merits of the Eastern Shore of Maryland as a spot to which to retire during 1961.

Here's another belated report - that of a leisurely eight-and-a-half-month-trip around the world taken by Al and Janet Shiels just about a year ago. They left San Francisco in February and visited the Orient, Africa, England, Holland and the Scandinavian countries. Tokyo, Hong Kong and the Scandinavian countries stood out, according to Al, though he found Africa to be particularly interesting, with the game preserve in Portuguese East Africa beyond description.

11 Ray and Pearl Sault also went to Europe during July and August of last year, visiting seven countries. Their longest stay was one of two weeks in Switzerland.

I wonder how many of you missed, as I did, the In Memoriam notice in the December MAGAZINE in which the untimely death of Robert Christopher Nuese '59. son of Josephine and Bob Nuese, was reported. Young Bob was killed on September 25 in an airplane crash near Redwood City, Calif. A note of sympathy has been forwarded to Bob and Josephine Nuese.

Bruce Ludgate reports that he is engaged in the public practice of Christian Science at 1830 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia.

Howie Stockwell writes that he still is president of the Shuffleboard Club at the Ellinor Village Country Club, Ormond Beach, where he plays most afternoons. He also reports a good visit with Bob and Anita Scott who stayed overnight at a nearby motel on their way south to Fort Lauderdale.

Here's more REUNION dope from our chairman, Bill Sewall: "May I through your column ask for a bit of help from everyone in the class? It shouldn't be burdensome to anyone and will make our reunion job vastly easier.

"With the next SENTRY, around the middle of February, you will receive a questionnaire asking you to record your intentions (as of that date) about coming and, if you are, certain statistics we will need to complete preparations. Our request for help: please fill in the form completely and legibly and return it within a week from its receipt.

"So far, your reunion committee has been busy laying the groundwork for our Festive Forty-Fifth, - building a program, perfecting plans, checking sources of material, contacting key people, - but have not asked for, nor needed, any commitment on numbers.

"But the time is fast approaching when we will have to have some idea about how many are to be provided for, - hence the questionnaire for a preliminary count. If your first answer, whether it's a "yes," "no" or "maybe," has to be changed between February and June, that can be handled later. What we need right away is a first indication of who's coming and a sampling of class interest. Are you for it or against it? We'll still do our best to provide an enjoyable party and program, regardless of how many show up, but we'll have a lot more fun if we know that there are going to be a goodly number of Seventeeners looking forward to those three days as much as we are.

"We won't ask any questions that are unnecessary - and it will take you all of five minutes to fill out, put in an envelope, stamp and mail. You do that for us - it will help a lot."

A good letter has been received from none other than Finney Houghton. It seems that after he left Dartmouth at the end of our freshman year he went to the University of Chicago, graduating from the college and law school there, and then practiced in Chicago for 23 years. He then moved to California and was admitted to the Bar there in 1945. During 1950 he visited his brother at Las Vegas, Nev., and becoming fascinated by a fifteen-acre ranch below the Charleston range of mountains, he bought it and has added considerably to his real estate holdings since then. In Finney's own words:

I have done some very satisfying work as unofficial agent of the county in acquiring important rights-of-way for county roads and take an eager interest in developing other roads in the county, especially those radiating out into, other sections of the state and surrounding states, including the federal freeway.

I am president of the Smoke Ranch Road Jolting Jeep Jimkana which means that my dog "King" and I penetrate deep into this marvelous western scenery over roads bearing such lugubrious designations as "primitive," "impassable," "impossible," "jeep trail" and "travel at your own risk," etc. I like the song, "Hector, the Garbage Collector," because I have the same spirit.

Word has come from Herb Jenks that he is now a Santa Barbara, Calif., associate broker with Kelleher Associates, selling residential and estate properties. When, in 1954, he sold his Evanston, Ill., real estate business he intended to retire but instead, he is keeping moderately active and interested in working in what he calls "this idyllic terrain." His business activities are interspersed with occasional long excursions to France and England. Last year, for example, he took a fifteen-week trip to Europe, picking up a car in Stuttgart, and drove through Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Britain. He plans to go again next year and to spend more time in the French Provinces and the English shires.

Less than 25 percent of the questionnaires which were sent out with the October issue of the SENTRY have been completed and returned - a discouraging response, I assure you. If you are one of the guilty parties, won't you complete and return your questionnaire pronto before you receive the one from the reunion committee, mentioned above? If you have mislaid your copy, just let me know and I'll send you another. The information requested, particularly your marriage status, is urgently needed for Class records.

Secretary, R. F.D. 1, Box 27 Woodstock, Vt.

Treasurer, 315 Oxford Rd., Havertown, Pa.