1924

Secretary, 2 Brewster Rd., Hanover, N.H.

Class Agent, 328 Orchard PL, Ridgewood, N.J.

Easter dawned cloudy and cool; snow in the air as the sugaring and syrup season comes to an end. And this time the boys are in town, for the third term started on Maundy Thursday - despite their protests, and to get two solid months of classes in before June with this accelerated three-term program. Before we started, had the pleasure of talking with the mother of Staff Keegin, son of Duke Keegin, my freshman year roommate; she is now Mrs. John Wooldridge, living in Princeton, N.J. Also the pleasure of having Stan Chittick's son Woody and his skiing date is one of our dividends on this job. Margaret and I hope to persuade some doubters that we welcome such visits. Some of you who come to Hanover, or nearby, try us for a brief hello or longer.

Last year we were on the road, both talking to alumni groups and battling the wintry snow and sleet in Richmond, Florida, and adjacent points. This vacation we got only as far as Boston but didn't see a classmate in the rush of shopping, theatre, and sundry base-touching.

To Ash Castle, and others who have replied to the birthday cards briefly and asked about my son and his bride: work on the Ph.D. thesis has the call for this summer; no west coast trip. Wish I might substitute.

This time I have two items from one employing company: Larry Kugelman, manager of Woodlands for the International Paper Company in New York, sends me a copy of an excellent booklet written by Stewart Holbrook, entitled "Yankee Loggers"; it is probably his brain child, and is wonderful reading for anyone who likes New England history in general and this part of it in particular. Also from Charlie Kearns, same business address; to him and one or two others who responded to my recent note in the "24 Hour Notice" thanks for asking for a reservation at Bonnie Oaks for the fall reunion. Glad to have you and Rose aboard, Charlie; and thanks for the two items which bring my record more correctly up-to-date. And thanks to the one staunch supporter who asked, to make sure, whether he had completed that buff-colored questionnaire from Alumni Records Office. If others have any doubts what I mean, it was the one sent out in October last fall. As for the reunion, time will be short and so next month I'll be asking you for your early reservations. First come, first served, for a wonderful party. I'll be writing those who came last year and expressed intentions of repeating (100%), but we'll take care of any and all.

Two grandsons of the founder of W. E. Hutton and Co., an underwriting and stock exchange firm, are now senior partners and a third generation for the firm; one is Jim Hutton, and a fourth generation member is Jim's son, James M. Hutton III. Jim, as well as his father and founding grandfather, served as President of the Cincinnati Stock Exchange. Jim withdrew from college in 1923 to enter the family business.

Win Sturtevant, of Springfield, Mass., area, is the treasurer of Mutual Fire Assurance Co., and marks thirty years with that firm by reporting a record premium income and paid dividends (in 1960), largest since 1944. He was recently re-elected as a director.

Errors creep in, sometimes my human failing and sometimes not. No matter whose fault, I know better than to have said (as the printed column had it last time) that Fred Maguire's son Bob is an assistant on the Faculty. Of course I know, and am glad to set the record straight, that Bos is an Assistant Professor in our Russian Civilization Department, the class was 1951 and this was incorrect in my records. His Ph.D. is coming up from Columbia, with the unusual distinction that his dissertation will probably be published for general circulation. Thanks to two spies who put me right for father and son. The record shows that Fred's other son, Tom, was '58; also a brother, Paul, class of '30. Must be hard for Fred to exist out there in the middle west, where he is an Associate Professor in Ohio State's School of Journalism: I'll bet Maine's salt water and low-tide-clam-flats-air are still a part of him. Join me there this summer, Fred.

Johnny Parker was elected a second vice-president in the Group Department of the Travelers Insurance Companies, earlier this year. He joined them in 1937 and came in to the home office in Hartford in 1953. He was one of our relatively few graduates of Tuck after undergraduate graduation.

Frank Mandel is reported as the new President of Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, in Chicago. No details have been received; we don't see the Chicago papers. We would be glad for more news of this and other events in that area.

Howie Bardol has been active in Wilton, N. H., as a Selectman for the past six years; now he will work with the local School Board, which many of the class have found a rewarding and taxing experience. I was at Exeter twice in March, working with local children-in-trouble and was impressed with both the Academy's and the public school's concern with children as human beings as well as students vs. pupils.

Before I forget it, a tip-of-the-hat to Butts Lamson for the new head on the "24 Hour Notice" (and to Ted Bremble '56 for his art work). I hope we may be able to fill it with interesting content. One plan I have is to let you know more about the Memorial Books the Class gives upon the death of each classmate. Until that time comes, here is an idea I'd like to pass on for your personal thought: perhaps you would like to contribute, in the name of the Class and also your own name a Memorial Book when and if some special friend in the Class leaves us. This could even be retroactive, I think; at least for the last few for whom the hunt still goes on to find the most appropriate book in each case.

Time does not permit including an obituary in this issue, because I have no details other than the fact that another classmate has passed on: Forrest M. Weeks. I'll have details for the June issue. He left no immediate family.

Before this column is read, Margaret and I will have had the very real pleasure of being with the Class Officers, who meet here May 5-6. I hope to do my homework well before that date so I can answer some of their questions about my department. They have reported slim '24 attendance at Dartmouth gatherings in both Boston and New York perhaps because weather was "miserable" on both occasions.

One of those who started-and-stayed-put is Stub (Bleike) Reed - the State of Mainer who went to New York to work, as opposed to Mutt (Carlton) who grew up in Flushing, N. Y., and went to Maine to work. Stub started with Western Electric in 1924 and is now Eastern Distribution Manager; Mutt started as City Manager for Stratford, Conn., and didn't get to Maine until 1930 (according to my records), with the family business of bridge and building construction. It's a funny world!

Seen on campus: Stu Eldredge sketching Dartmouth row from a parked car while his good wife does research in the library. Cold weather, but a "warm" picture.