1919
Secretary, 11 School St., Hanover, N.H.
Class Agent, Route 1, Box 815-H, Venice, Fla.
Known 1919 travelers this winter seem to have been very few or else they neglected to send a post card to the Secretary. However, a few classmates did check in. From Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Ken and Marge Huntington write, "Stopped on Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach to visit Norm and Elisabeth Sterling. They looked wonderful. Fine weather here and a great change. Hope to see Larry McCutcheon in Pompano Beach this weekend." From the Coca Palms Hotel, Island of Kauai, Hawaii, a card from Hal and Ethel Parsons, "What a room for a fellow that likes boats. Fish nets on the wall and bed. Fishing poles as you come in. One of the most beautiful hotels I have ever seen. Better come here instead
The long distance traveler, and not for pleasure, was Bob Stecher just back from a five-week study tour of ten African countries. Quoting a Cleveland paper in part:
With the tide of nationalism in Africa has come an ebb in medical care for American civilian personnel in many of the countries of the continent.' The study tour, made jointly with James A. Hamilton (D. '22) was under the wing of the State Department. Its purpose was to evaluate medical facilities for civilian personnel. The team's visits included consulates and embassies in Senegal, Guinea, Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Togo, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. As a medical man and not as a spokesman for the State Department, Dr. Stecher commented also on the "unstable" position of Europeans stationed in various African countries.... Many European doctors have been deprived of hospital facilities, according to him, as a result of the heat generated by the nationalistic tide. Now the Africans don't care what happens to Europeans. "They want to do things for themselves," Dr. Stecher observed. They were accompanied by a State Department man who cleared the way for what the doctor described as "fast travelling." They did not visit any controversial area, but even so, it was far from a luxury trip.
Larry Eastman checks in, "Your note in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE that John Fornacca was in Tokyo was of interest in that I had recently written him asking him to look over our projected routing this spring. We plan to fly Boston to Paris on April 12, there rent a Dauphine again and motor down into Italy and Rome. Fly back to Boston arriving June 1. Another project is a Company trek to Honolulu in August. Why not, all expenses paid. I have a couple of old shipmates I'd be glad to see there too."
Don Lovejoy, well known Wall Street broker (Bache and Co.), writes, anent his birthday card from the class, "It is unbelievable that we are all getting into the higher brackets. I am able to spend a little time in my house in Florida, at Gulfstream, from time to time, during the winter. However, one of my first loves is the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and, even when I am South, I am always anxious to get back to the excitement. I guess you are enjoying being back in Hanover for good."
Trace Kohl, on the stationery of the Oak Creek Land Co., Sedona, Ariz., writes in, quoting in part, "Tomorrow is Monday the 27 th and the Dartmouth Glee Club is in Phoenix;. We are driving down and I look forward to an evening of 'playing Dartmouth.' I say driving down because we are in what is known as the 'High Desert.' We descend .from about 4200 feet elevation to 1200 feet. Which is one of the features that makes this area an all-year pleasant climate.... I get an additional chuckle out of the birthday card because we, at one time, went North (to Montreal) for our traditional 'Rum' and out here we go South for it (Nogales, Mexico). You know, George, I have visited more with '19 wen out here than I did in Oak Park. Last fail I had a grand visit with Bill and Nancy Eads, and in October Ax and Hebe Warden spent several days with us. I wrote Ax a month ago about joining us for the concert but that very week they were off - by air, of course — for a tour of the Orient. March 27 Ax is attending the Bangkok meeting of SEATO which should really be news this time. I hope some '19ers find this garden spot in the desert."
Chet Demond, retired partner of Price Waterhouse Co., claims that the New York snow was holding up their trip to Florida but assume that the Demonds have made it long since.
In my travels in New England for the Medical School campaign, I saw Rock Hayes, Spider Martin, Bob Proctor and Howie Cole in Boston, and Russ Potter in Hartford. Russ still commutes from Woodbridge to Hartford and is a busy associate of G. H. Walker Co. brokers, and still President of the Alumni Association of the Dartmouth Chapter of DKE. All of you must have seen the fine and well deserved write-up of Alex Henderson in the April issue of this MAGAZINE, and the class is very proud of our distinguished classmate.
If you haven't already sent your realistic contribution to the 1961 Alumni Fund Campaign, how about doing so right away.
