1935

Slim pickin's this month. The snow has drifted so deep in this frigid corner of Westchester that the bottom branches of all our hemlocks are buried and broken. And the deer have nibbled the rest. I am wondering what high-waisted evergreens will look like with their middle sections chewed and only the tops surviving the winter in good shape. Used to like to see the graceful appearance of deer bounding across the meadow in the moonlight - but my enthusiasm is being tempered by fiscal realities.

This is the season when it's nice to hear how the other half lives. Foreign Affairs is, therefore, highlighted by a long newsletter from Howie and Mary Croninger plus una feliz Navidad from Montevideo, Uruguay, where the Christmas glow comes from the sun, "now sending the thermometer soaring, and the Montivideans to the beaches for baking." Howie got some time off from the chores of the International General Electric Company in 1960 and gallivanted around Europe after stopping in California and New York as way stations. Skip, Howie's son, has developed into a first-class tennis player and distinguished himself on the junior championship circuit in Kentucky, out west, and at the Nationals in Kalamazoo. Mary describes the year, in Spanish, as "lleno," with Howie president of the American Men's Association, treasurer of the British Hospital Board of Directors, winning golf cups, growing prize roses, and entertaining visiting dignitaries such as college presidents on tour in what some people think is the most progressive country in South America. "On the Fourth of July, the President of Uruguay, Sr. Nardone and his senora, came for dinner at our house to help us celebrate with our Ambassador and Mrs. Woodward ... and, also celebrating a birthday for Canada, the Charge d'affaires and Mrs. Birkett." Sounds like a Uruguayan summit conference with shoes on.

Not as far away as this but still traveling, our senior operative, B-b H-ge, spied Boyd Rogers catching a plane from St. Louis to New Bedford, Mass. Boyd is senior partner of Rogers, McQuillan and Company, which specializes in textiles and notions. B-b himself was going to the Dartmouth Regional Conference in Oklahoma City which also attracted John and Kitsy Bell and Bob and Ann Neill. The Bells were en route from a Florida vacation to their home in Boonville, where John continues as apple grower and mayor. (You will also recall his fluent versification in the Twenty-fifth Reunion book.) Bob Neill still manages the Oklahoma City office of Home Indemnity, is expecting the latest addition to the roster of '35 children in April (a boy this time, maybe?) and is working on those three-putt greens. Lou Whytlaw, the other '35 denizen of O.C., was a no-show and missed by all hands.

The rest of B-b's letter follows: "At a Dartmouth dinner in Detroit at which I spoke there was quite a "35 contingent, including Rem Ryder, Chuck Moon and Wally Hodges. Chuck took me around to several schools, including Cranbrook School where I met the sons of Chuck himself, Put Kingsbury and Tom Wilson. Wally is now in the real estate business in Rochester, Mich., after twenty years of farming there. Rem said he gave up Ducks Unlimited to join us that night!"

Another correspondent, in this case Jack Childs '09, has forwarded an item about Bill Hawgood of Shaker Heights, Ohio. "Bill dropped in to see Dave Johnson about some legal matters on Friday just before noon and Dave was so grateful for the business he took Bill to the weekly Dartmouth lunch and paid for it out of his own pocket, thereby practically dissipating his legal fee." A former associate of Bill's, Ben Patterson III, has recently left the family paint business to move to Houston, Texas, so if I can't get more Hawgood news one way, I'll get it another.

Jack Childs also wrote that he had seen Jack Gilchrist. Gilly missed reunion much to his disappointment but, still a bachelor, is enjoying the country in Mentor, Ohio, where he moved with his Great Dane some three years ago. He has slimmed his ponderous frame from 202 to a trim 170 which is more success than most of us can boast.

Not more than Ed Cary has achieved, however. He was the subject some months ago of a Headliner Profile in the Dallas News. Ed left Dartmouth before graduation to transfer to Southern Methodist University where he took his B.A. in 1935. As a scion of an old Dallas family he returned there to be associated with the Cary-Schneider Investment Company of which he is now president, and which has been responsible for much civic progress is Dallas. Right now he is tearing down buildings at North Akard and Ross Avenue, once far out in the family mansion area of Dallas and now hung in the heart of the city, to start a $10,000,000 residential and hotel building development due to be completed in 1962. Ed is also president of the Medical Arts Hospital, a director of the Republic National Bank, a trustee of the Southwestern Medical Foundation, a member of the Dallas Citizens Council, the Dallas Building Owners and Managers, and many other groups.

But his real interest, apart from a family with two children, appears to be centered on the guidance of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which his grandmother, Mrs. Jules E. Schneider, actively sponsored sixty years ago, and which Ed heads today. There is talk of a new concert hall and there is the record of accomplishment which Ed has provided for support of the orchestra since he assumed its presidency in 1959. As a previous president exclaimed and Ed reiterates: "Give us money. Audiences we've got." This sentiment I can echo. Just substitute news for money.

Meanwhile, a psychiatric note. Dr. John E. Ross Jr. has been appointed chairman of the department of psychiatry at the new Community Hospital in Syracuse, N. Y. In addition to heading the county medical health board for five years, John has for the past twelve years been director of the Onondaga County Child Guidance Center. Ben Harriman has joined the technical staff of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company as a research specialists in the duplicating products laboratory at the 3M Research Centre in St. Paul. He is now living at 528 Cretin (that's what it says!) Avenue, So., St. Paul, Minn.

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