1929
Table No. 6 in the grand ballroom of the Statler Hotel in Boston became the focal point of ten men at 6:30 o'clock in the evening of February 23 in the year 1961. They were five lawyers, a country doctor, a prospector for precious metals, a dispenser of fine foods, an insurance executive, and a retired investment counsellor. Their names were Andres, Barrett, Capalbo, D'Elia,Holmes, Laffey, Quebman, Redding, Stein, and Tucker. They quaffed, they took dinner, they conversed, they laughed, they sang, and they reacted with respect to a speaker named Dickey. It was the occasion of the Annual Dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston - many Dartmouth men - many other dignitaries - the Glee Club - the Injunaires were present. Table No. 6, however, was something quite special.
The next day, John Dickey flew to Poland as the head of a mission to select sixty Poles to participate in the Ford Foundation's Polish Exchange Program. John and his selection team will interview mature Polish scholars, leaders and other qualified candidates for awards that will enable them to travel to the United States or Western European countries for study, research and consultation. It is encouraging that the people of Poland feel free to consider the proffer of our distinguished classmate.
Bill Andres flies in another direction to select fish off the coast of Florida.
The postman brought us an announcement of the publication of a "new work that will make a valuable contribution to research and practice in the field of Massachusetts taxation." Two big books proposing to make more intellegible the complex array of Massachusetts tax laws concerning farm animals, alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, gasoline, meals, motor vehicles, and other such matters as corporations, incomes and inheritances. We hastened to send our order and now the two imposing volumes bearing the names, "Barrett and Bailey," adorn a prominent shelf in our office. The authors, Richard F. Barrett and Andrew C. Bailey, have received the accolades of a "grateful" Tax Department for the admirable way in which they have informed the citizenry, thereby safeguarding our free society.
Three new Class Agents who launch their 1961 Alumni Fund campaigns on April 1
Will Torbert writes from Nursery Lane in Rye, N. Y., that he is not newsworthy. That business address does, incite curiosity. His son, Elly, is a member of the Class of 1962 at Dartmouth. Consequently, Will makes monthly trips to Hanover and, during the "open" seasons, he conducts a "steaksate." For the uninitiated, this is a charcoal pit dinner consisting of all the steak one can eat and served at an Outing Club cabin. The thought of it has sweep and grandeur, as Woody would say. Will has already visited the new Peaks cabin in the Grant - he recommends it to anyone who is hardy enough to make the trip in the middle of the night over the long, rocky path to the toilette. Son Preston is turning his back on the primeval origins of his father and will enter Princeton this fall after graduating from Exeter. Daughter Isabel, who was born while Will and Dorothy were in Iran, is now a gay, young sophomore at Northfield. Will's steaks, trips and all are paid for out of pills, elixirs, tonics, ointments and powders.
Phil Rising is the skipper of a jolly boat in the Falcon Class. He yaws on Lake Massapog in Sharon and fearlessly bends sail on the upper top-gallant yards. His boat is noted on the Lake for its Irish pennants. He is preparing now for an early season on the water. Phil is also a bee keeper and in his spare time he engineers sales of school equipment for J. L. Hammett Company throughout New England. His eldest son, Donald, graduated from Worcester Tech in 1957 - spent two years in Alaska with the Army Engineers - married Marcia Bittle, of Wingdale, N. Y., last September - and presently works for Arthur D. Little Co. Son David is a junior at Tufts University. Wife Millie keeps Phil fit and trim and in good humor.
Dick Exton extends a cordial invitation to all to visit him and Lillian at 4230 Rickenbacker Way, Northeast, Atlanta, Ga. At least Four Hundred will stop in this winter. Dick sells houses the "Southern" way and could not be lured north "for all the tea in China." We don't want their tea, either - but we will take the invitation. It's snowing hard tonight.
Ray Hedges received a letter from LarryLougee written in Heidelberg, Germany on February 14. Larry reports that he has been very sick since early December. He and his family had been traveling in North Africa and Turkey and he thinks that he may have picked up some strange malady from the ageold camel dust. He entered a hospital on December 15 and is still there. He is now much improved but tips the scales at a weak 130. Larry will retire from the Army on October 31 and he and Mary are looking forward to settling down as civilians and becoming part of a permanent community. It will be wonderful to have them back in the States.
Carter Strickland '29
Art Browning '30
Henry Richmond '31
Secretary, 10 Cranston Road Winchester, Mass.
Class Agent, Smith-Lee Co., Inc., Oneida, N. Y.
