1928
The mail in the last few days has brought the sad news that Chuck Davis, George Douglass, Al Houston, and Gordon Lowe are no longer with us. Today a note tells of the death of Beatrice Moore, wife of HankMoore, on February 1. She leaves a son and three daughters, the youngest of whom is 17. Their home is at 2 Strawberry Hill Road, Acton, Mass.
Chuck, George and Gordon died of heart attacks, Al died of cancer after a long illness. Details of their deaths will appear in the In Memoriam section next month, after more information has been received. After learning of Al Houston's death, Craig Haines called at the funeral home in Quincy and met Al's wife and daughter. Al's son, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, had not yet arrived home.
We have sent appeals for news to a number of '28ers whose names have not appeared in these columns recently, and the response has been very encouraging. While coping with the problems which follow a two-foot snowfall and thirty continuous days of subzero weather, it is wonderful not to have to worry about whether there will be enough news.
Speaking of weather, the 30-degree below zero temperatures we had several nights recently are the first I have encountered since Wat Dickerman and I climbed Mount Wash- ington in February of 1927.
Virg McNeil says his main activity is shoveling snow at his home in Pine Orchard, Conn. His son, Jim, has three children and his daughter, Mary Lou Welch, has four children. His younger daughter, Peggy, is living in Boston and working in the Polaroid Laboratory.
An unscheduled '28 reunion took place New Year's day at the Air Terminal in Paris when Rappie and Sue Bavier ran into Tedand Jeanne Howard. Both couples had left New York by plane December 17 (without coming together) to spend the holidays with a daughter.
The Howards took their son John with them and divided their time between Edinburgh, London, and Paris. Their daughter, Ann, is living in Edinburgh where her husband is doing graduate work at the University. John Howard is a junior at Yale and plans to become a physician.
The Baviers were visiting their daughter, Sally, who is taking her third year in Paris at Reid Hall. After five days in Paris, they were happy to leave the cold, raw weather there for Nice. They rented a car and for seven days enjoyed the Riviera - after Christmas in Hyeres, near Toulon, they went to St. Raphael, Cannes, San Remo in Italy, back to Monte Carlo and Nice. They spent New Year's Eve in a night spot in Montmarte where they were the only English-speaking People.
Speaking of meeting the Howards, Rappie said, "We found that we had a similar experience in doing the French night clubs, having been singled out for attention by the entertainers and picking up a little lipstick en route. There must be some significance to this experience along the lines that characters 32 years out of college have the harmless look."
Warren and Alice Burding have announced the engagement of their daughter, Barbara, to Malcolm G. Chace 3rd of New York. Barbara is a graduate of Wheaton College. Her fiance graduated from Yale in 1956 and is with the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Doug Pease's son, Doug Jr., Dartmouth 'SB, is now an ensign in Navy Air Intelligence, married, and based in California. Alan, Dartmouth '62, has interrupted college to get his military stint out of the way. He is in U.S.A.S.A., in Bavaria, near Alpine skiing.
Buck Serrell says general surgery and being chief of staff at Greenwich Hospital take up all his time, but he did get to Rome for the Olympics last summer. Howard Jr., a senior at Dartmouth, does not plan on going into medicine. His oldest daughter is a student nurse at Greenwich Hospital.
Ed Atkinson's oldest daughter, Sally, and W. John Powell Jr., Harvard '57, were married December 28. John is in his fourth year at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Sue is teaching in the Denver public schools, a booster for that wonderful place and ninth ranking woman tennis player of that state. Ellen Atkinson is working in Columbus, Ohio, in the national headquarters of her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Hunt Parrish, Hamilton, Ohio, attorney, has a daughter in Rollins College and a son and daughter in high school. He is looking forward to a vacation in Palm Beach next month; last year they went to Scottsdale, Ariz.
Chris Hackett is now with Lord and Taylor in New York, and lives at 320 East 42 St. ... Dave Thompson is in the export business and owner of the Thompson Cotton Co., Los Angeles. . .. Phil Sherman says "no news" he is still at 235 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, Fla.
Cal Billings of Hartford, Conn., ChuckBruder of New York, Rick Rickenbaugh of Denver, and Maury Cogan of Cleveland attended the Alumni Council and Regional Conference Meetings in Cleveland January 26-28. Cal reports he spent one evening with Al Fowler.
Bill Kimball has asked to be relieved of his duties as Dean of the Thayer School in order to devote full time to developing a new concept in civil engineering education. Prof. Myron Tribus of the University of California will take his place as Dean in the fall.
The grandchildren of Lydia and Ros Nichols '27 displaying their Dartmouth diapers on Christmas day in proper rear-view fashion.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.
