1925

For those of you who don't appreciate fully the obligation of meeting a deadline, let it be known that these notes are being scribbled at the final hour during the New Year holiday weekend while Dame Nature is depositing a fresh blanket of snow to the delight of the ski enthusiasts in the North Country. It is not necessarily because of this circumstance that this dissertation will be brief. Last month the editor of this publication allotted to the class more than the normal quota of space and your scribe consequently feels obliged to hold his remarks down to a minimum this month.

Actually, litle news has appeared on the horizon. Perhaps one of the most significant items was the profile on Dr. Seuss (our own Ted Geisel), which appeared under the title, "Children's Friend," in the December 17, 1960 issue of The New Yorker. The Class of 1925 is credited with being perhaps Dartmouth's "greatest class!" While notice of the article was received with reasonable promptness, it was too late to permit a review. Ye editor indicated several months ago his intention to write a similar article for this publication. It is probable in view of developments that his plan will be deferred; so, if you're interested, get the specified issue of The New Yorker now.

Lest you who live in the North Country forget you're fast fading toward the age of sixty, let us report that one of our number failed to recognize this fact and wound up in the hospital following a snowstorm in December as the result of having exerted himself too strenuously in shoveling snow. Fortunately, the heart attack proved to be only a warning and the individual is recovering nicely. But it could have been worse! So — be sensible, you-all! We don't want your name to be inscribed prematurely on a memorial book in the library.

An international honor in the field of rehabilitation has been won, for the first time, by an American doctor, none other than our own Herb Talbot, Director, Professional Services at the West Roxbury (Mass.) Veterans Administration Hospital, who has been selected Chairman of the World Committee on Spinal Paraplegia of the International Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled. Herb, who has gained world renown for his .work in rehabilitating paralyzed veterans, says the Committee's main function is to stimulate and educate others in the field of rehabilitating victims of spinal paraplegia.

Those of you who were guests of the Ford Wheldens at Hanover last fall during the Holy Cross game weekend and expressed their appreciation monetarily as the result of a letter from your Secretary, will be interested to learn from a report by Marty Huberth that our hosts have been presented with a three-and-a-half-quart silver ice bucket, with prior approval by the Bob McKennans, engraved as follows: "To Gertie and Ford, October 15, 1960, the constant affection you give to the class of 1925 is warmly appreciated."

Among address changes of significance, reported recently are: Roy Adams, 2560 Tyler Way, Decatur, Ga.; Charles Annis, Mgr. Harper House, 208 19th St., Rock Island, Ill.; Milt Emerson, 1294 Fayette St., W. Englewood, N. J.; Dr. Charles Flint, Absarokee, Mont.; Fred Reed, 3875 Waldo Ave., New York 63, N. Y.; Bob Reynolds, 277 Dwight St., New Haven, Conn.; Reynolds Smith, 25 Country Road West, Bedford Center, N. H.; Bob Sweetser, 1110 Jefferson Ave., Toledo 2, Ohio; Ham Thayer, 56 Westgate, Wellesley, Mass.; Karl Lipsohn, Box 62, Stockton, Minn.; and Hal White, who is now performing at the Hotel Bond in Hartford, Conn.

Pictured in a recent publication was Sumner L. Poorvu receiving a three million dollar check covering the largest mortgage ever taken by a single Massachusetts mutual savings bank, which was on the new U.S. Post Office Annex and Parcel Post Handling Facility on a ten-acre tract in Springfield, Mass., owned jointly by Sumner and his brother.

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