1928
While on his annual junket to Hanover for Freshman Fathers' Weekend, John Phillips ran into Lane Dwinell talking politics with Jim Campion. Lane was standing in a snowstorm with a white jacket in his hands, about to take off for Australia to sell the World's Fair to the Australian government.
John called our attention to the fact that Bill Edgar '62 is playing goalie and Jack Phelan '63 is one of the wings on the Dartmouth hockey team. Their dads didn't play hockey in College but they did distinguish themselves on the football field.
While wandering around the gym waiting for the basketball game to begin, John noticed that the only record still standing of any age is that of Jeff Glendinning's for the 220-yard dash of 21.4 seconds, made in 1927.
Johnny Brew, director of Harvard's Pea-body Museum, is chairman of a committee which is conducting a world-wide campaign to save the Nubia monuments which are threatened with extinction by the Aswan Dam.
Phil MacKown says he is as happy as a Georgia porker in a corn patch with his job as field representative for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, a division of United Aircraft. For the past six years he has been at the Air Proving Ground Center at Eglin Air Force Base, 45 miles east of Pensacola. His daughter, Carolynrose, is a sophomore at Georgia Tech and one of the first two girl cheerleaders Tech ever had. Tech became coed in 1952 and presently has 36 girls enrolled with 6,000 boys - real good odds.
Ham Hankins' son, Frank, has been notified he has passed the written exams for NROTC which would pay four years' tuition. He hopes to go to Dartmouth. Tim is a junior at Dartmouth; spent last summer in Spain on The Experiment in International Living. Anne graduates from Skidmore in June; spent last summer in Holland, while the old folks cruised around Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod in a chartered 34-foot sailing cutter.
Bob Andrews says his son Mike, Dartmouth '61, is a Shakespeare bug; plans to teach English; and is getting married March 19 to Gail Vollrath of Wantaugh, Long Island. His other son, Peter, USC '58, is now in his third year of graduate study there.
Van and Dorothy Curll went to Europe last October, picked up a Mercedes in Stuttgart and toured Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France. Daughter Adelaide is a junior at Swarthmore, Jessie is a freshman at the University of Colorado, and Cindy is a junior at Verde Valley School in Sedona, Ariz.
Bill McRoberts has been nursing a broken right wrist. Skating has been excellent at Mountain Lake, near Belvidere, N. J., where he lives and he engaged in his favorite sport, hockey, with the above result. He and Judy have four children ranging from six to thirteen years of age. Bill's roommate, Prof. Stretch Davis of Lehigh University, came over to have dinner with them recently. They had not seen each other since 1926.
Jud Whitehead 3rd graduated from the University of California at Berkeley on March 6, and left immediately to report to Fort Benning as a 2nd lieutenant for a 3-year tour of duty.
Jim Montague's painting, "In the Meadow," is in the New Hampshire Art Association's traveling show.
Elliott Donnelley's last vacation was to Alaska in June, where he took his three older boys fishing, and in March he is going fishing in Yucatan and Guatemala. In April he is going around the world, and in June he is going back to Alaska to fish. When he is home (which doesn't seem to be very often) his hobby is operating his own backyard railroad, which consists of a mile of track, three steam locomotives, one gasoline locomotive and fifteen cars. It is called the Stet & Query Central, the Line of Uncertainty. In addition to being vice chairman of the Board of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Elliott is a trustee of Lake Forest College, chairman of the Chicago Youth Centers and a director of many philanthropic organizations. His youngest son, David, a freshman at Dartmouth, is on the hockey squad.
Carl Lundgren, Ansonia, Conn., attorney, writes, "To set straight the record, particularly with that Back Bay Baudelaire, Neary, I report that I continue to practice law and live in Oxford next door to my former roommate, Lawson Van Riper. Van is vice president of Anaconda's American Brass Co.
"In the summer the Van Ripers and the Lundgrens fight crabgrass, beetles and tent caterpillars. We eat each other's outdoor cooking and play bocci. Van throws the slider (but not so fast) and I aim with my cane. Then Van's Kay and my Ottilie beat both of us and we retreat to the company of Van's three wonderful grandchildren, including a lovely little lady whose other grandfather is Bill Heep and whose father was a later day varsity pitcher at Hanover.
"Ottilie Wilke of Waterbury joined our class in April, 1960, by marrying me." Our star reporter, John Phillips, saw ChuckBennet at the Dartmouth Club in New York recently. Chuck is recovering from five broken ribs - broken when he fell shoveling snow.
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