1915
If March runs true to form, it will be a fitting windup to a winter as heroic as any our fathers raved about. No wonder so many '15ers have been traipsing around in sunny climes!
A brochure from Howie Fuller gives an interesting roundup of the development of the V. A. Hospital at Buffalo, now in its eleventh anniversary year. A section devoted to Guides to Growth and Happiness is quite stimulating with such thought-provokers as
"It is what we learn, after we think we know it all, that counts." As manager of that project, Howie has done an outstanding job.
Which brings to mind Charles M. Schwab's "Ten Commandments of Success," all of them quite apt, with No. 7 particularly appealing: "Cultivate Personality - which is to a man what perfume is to a flower."
Ralph Brown reports the birth of their first grandchild - Curry Haydock Brown, "a charming little girl born August 15, 1960 to our oldest son, Nathaniel and his wife, Derval Cohelan Brown, in New York City." Ralph says he looked for familiar faces at the Princeton game last fall but didn't see any as he sat with his Princeton son on the other side of the field. Traitor — you might have at least carried binoculars, Ralph!
And out of the distant past comes another "vox clamantis," Voyle Rector, proclaiming the advent of a grandchild, Sarah Lee Rector, born January 15, 1960. Her parents live nearby in South Pasadena and the new addition made a happy Christmas all around. "Rec" and Lillian ("Jimmie") seem hale and hearty in their home with surroundings a far cry from the rigors of our wintry blasts. "Rec" says they hear now and then from Miriam (Mrs. Dick) Redfield.
A note from Gib Campbell says they were leaving for Florida mid-January.
Eben Clough comes up with this definition of illegibility: "A doctor's prescription written with a post office pen in the rumble seat of a second hand car." Eben and Margy attended an annual reunion of the Clough clan last fall and find that Eben has a cousin who is "a recognized paleontologist who has unearthed fossils of echinoderms 300 million years old - and to think I'm only his brother Elk!" Eben also claims relationship to Hannah Dustin whose peregrinations are too lengthy to record here, but Eben says if you don't believe it, just motor out U. S. Route 95 and there you'll see Hannah done in bronze standing out there on the Island. Eben says that Marty and Mae Martin got so excited they sent out their Christmas cards without stamps and it must be nice to have that kind of credit with Uncle Sam! He and Margy would have made more calls during the holidays, but it was so cozy there at "Wee-Too" with the warmth of hot Bourbon and honey with a drop of lemon they just couldn't make it. Wotta life!
A nice note from Catherine (Mrs. Fred)Ballou expresses appreciation of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, will always be interested in Dartmouth doings, and asks me to thank the Class for continuing the subscription.
Dale Barker Claims they ushered in the New Year with dignity, dining out and returning home to watch the lighted ball in Times Square drop into darkness at midnight and then "to the electric blankets" you can't go wrong on that kind of a schedule!
Kent Smith was scheduled to leave for Europe about March 1 to be gone a year which means he's going to be missed at Reunion!
Bud Doe's persistence was finally rewarded down at Cocoa Beach when he landed a 26" sea trout off their boat wharf. It is not reported whether the king-size fish pulled Bud into the water or "Whether Bud dove in and wrestled the fish to shore. It must have been one or the other, because Bud had to have a new hat and coat after the battle!
Art Nichols' son, Arthur '45, has moved to a nice new home in Morristown, N. J., to be near his job with American Insurance Company in Newark. The Johnny Mullins sailed for Peru in December.
Ralph Sawyer, now Chairman of the Board of the American Institute of Physics, hopes to get back to the Reunion in June, although it conflicts with commencement week at University of Michigan. Don't let a "mere" commencement interfere with your one and only 45th, Ralph! And I'll take you up on that lunch when you're in New York!
Hal Smith whiles away his time writing a monthly Newsletter for the Detroit Outdoorsmen, an organization devoted to promoting the Wise Use of — Woods, Waters and Wildlife - he says "at the same rate of pay, no doubt, as Jack Ferguson." After making some nice remarks about this column, Hal says: "Maybe you have a soft job that makes column writing a diversion - like shooting paper clips out the window." No comment!
Roscoe DeWitt '14 writes in from Dallas for Max Wilcox's address. Collecting a bet. Max? And who lost? Bob Fredericks phones in that Warren Montsie is in Clearwater, Fla., and wants to know how to reach him there. How about it, Warren?
Had lunch the other day with Carl Gish and I believe we settled most of the affairs of the universe. I may add the stock market reacted violently - how did they know we got together? At another luncheon, it was interesting to have a brief chat with Amos Gile '51, son of J. Gile '16 and a nephew of Jack Bowler's wife, Madelaine.
The New York clan of 'isers is scheduled to foregather at the Dartmouth Club February 8 for our annual informal "klatch" and dinner. At this writing, it is anybody's guess what the turnout will be. Whether or not, weather or not, we always have a good time. Details next month.
With which, let's close with this one: "O.K. now gang, what say we take a ten minute break for work!"
Changes of address: Frank MacF. Collingwood, 4851 Gandy Blvd., 7th Blvd. Lot 21, Guernsey City, Tampa, Fla. (that's what I call an address!); John D. Pendleton, 501 Pinewood Drive, Dunedin, Fla.; George E. Walker, 224 Cascade Lane, Riviera Beach, Fla. (Oh, to become a Floridian!); Voyle D. Rector, 454 Mission St., South Pasadena, Calif.
'16 Class President, Gen. Willard StewartPaul, greets Ken Tucker's wife Mary at the40th reunion held in 1956. This year 1916 returns to Hanover for its 45th reunion.
Secretary, 245 Avenue C New York 9, N. Y.
Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass.
