1916

News of classmates from whom we hear all too seldom: Art Barak retired about a year ago as Treasurer of the Udylite Corp. in the Grosse Pointe area and recently moved to Arizona. His address there: 11623 Hacienda Drive, Sun City. I tried to find this place in a medium old atlas with no success. It must be one of the new towns in that fast growing state. He and Ethel ask that anyone going out that way be sure to look them up.

When Bill Biel wrote me he and Mrs. B. had just returned to New York after spending the holidays with their daughter, Joan, who lives in Los Angeles. She is a film editor and they had the pleasure of watching her working on a movie for Paramount.

Prof. Roy Brahana was just turning in grades to end his fortieth year at the University of Illinois. His older grandson will enter the University this fall, - the younger is learning to walk. There are three granddaughters in between. To account for the spread Roy explains that there are two families. He reads the ALUMNI MAGAZINE with interest and sends best wishes "to all the boys."

Charlie Campbell wrote me a fine long letter. Upon his retirement in 1952 he went to Geneva, Fla., to live, and spends October to May of each year there. Then he comes up to his camp about twenty miles from Albany where his two daughters and four grandchildren live in fairly close proximity-Occasionally he takes on a consulting job in personnel administration but most of the time he labors in his garden and works at landscaping his three and a half acres. Stirling Wilson and Hiram John McLellan are the only '16ers he has seen in years. He and his wife of 43 years have enjoyed Pretty good health though his wife is just now considerably improved from an illness of last September.

Howard Buffington was retired from his job in the Home Office of the Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Co. in June of last year and now finds himself busier than ever with reading, stamp collecting, gardening and such outdoor recreation as he can manage following a coronary about three years ago. His daughter, Ann, will graduate this month from Mt. Holyoke where she majored in Math. He and his good wife, Mary see Herbert and Helen Kimball now and 'then. They have tentative plans for Hanover in June.' Make that old Forty-Fifth, Buff. - you will never regret it - but you will if you don't.

Hank Blaney, from far away Bothell, Wash., regrets that he will not be able to make Hanover in June. The Class will miss you, Hank. He had recently seen Perc and Aline Burnham who were planning a leisurely trip to reunion by way of Aline's home in "Ole Miss" and' then New York. Hank reported April in January weather for the Northwest and much work in the garden with only one snow, gone in a day: grass still green, violets blooming, flowering prune showing color. He urges Florida and California '16ers to take note.

Du Behnke writes that he always reads the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and the Newsletter with much interest. He adds, though, that Hailover seems a long way from Tulsa both in time and distance. He is not sure about making Hanover in June but adds "it would be fun." You bet it would, Du.

Bob Brown has retired from all business activities. Although he still maintains his Nashua residence he spends all the time he can at Wolteboro, his principal hobby being painting. He adds that this gives him many happy hours, although the results are some-what dubious artistically. A clothesline exhibition at Loch Lyme would be just the thing, Bob. His son, David, is a doctor in Darien, Conn., while his son-in-law is a doctor in Rochester, N. Y., both Dartmouth graduates. Bob is doing well with eight grandchildren.

Roy Burghart, for many years a school master, retired from the Pittsburgh schools in 1952 and is living in Tryon, N. C. He says that he hasn't got enough tar on his heels, but that he enjoys a trip North. He visits relatives in New York state in the summer, and keeps busy at home with woodcutting and gardening. There is a wonderful library in Tryon and he is doing more reading now than he did in college.

A nice letter from Bill Brown, Principal of Glen Falls Senior High School since 1930. He reports that there is never a dull minute and that he finds great satisfaction in his work. He kindly sent me a copy of the school paper "The School Bell" which contained an article on "A Principal of Principle" and a picture of our Bill, alert and smiling, and the image of all the nice things that the article had said about -him.

The Class will be pleased to learn that Charles A. Bonnes, the recipient of the Class of 1916 Scholarship established by Sig Larmon '14 in memory of his brother, Pike Larmon, is doing well. In his sophomore year last year Charles had 3 A's and 6 B's for a 4.3 average. The grading is now on a 5.0 scale, and a three-term, three-course program. In the first term of his junior year he received 3 A's. Charles is now majoring in international relations and has decided to become a lawyer, via the Harvard Law School. His only extracurricular activity listed last year was "Dartmouth Students for Rockefeller."

When Sam Cutler learned that I was out in Estes Park, Colo., last summer visiting some of my family he wrote me that in the summer of 1922, on a rock in the middle of a high mountain stream out there Lou had proposed to him after she had turned him down twice, and that they were married in August at her home in Kansas City. Lou tells me that she had reason to believe that the proposal was not out of order and would be accepted. While I'm not very well versed in these things it seems to me that such an unusual proposal put Sam in a very good tactical position, and one that he could even maintain today when Lou informs him that she is packing up and heading home to mother.

Dick Parkhurst sends me a copy of the invitation to the Boston exhibition of landscape paintings by Audrey Soule, wife of our genial treasurer, Rod. For me, an old State of Mainer, the catalogue listed such mouth watering items as Monhegan Light, Lobster Wharf - Deer Isle, Stonington Fish House and South Freeport Road.

Our president, Stew Paul, has a busy and involved June. On the 4th and 5th, Gettysburg Commencement (his last as president), and his wife, Lou's 30th Reunion. Her daughter, Nancy, graduates from the University of Vermont on the 11th and her son, Tom, from the University of Miami on the 12th. She will fly from Burlington to Miami and will join our Class at Loch Lyme. Nancy will come down from Vermont with Stew to our Reunion. Later Stew has a reunion of his outfit, the YD (26th Inf. Division) in his old home city of Worcester. If he and Lou survive they will be ready to put their feet up and take a good long siesta at Gettysburg.

You will be reading these notes practicallyon the eve of our Fabulous Forty-Fifth.These are the last class notes for the summer and I will close them with thanks to all who have helped me this past year, and with two requests: first, come to Reunion if you can possibly make it (you'll never regret it) and, second, remember the Alumni Fund in this our Reunion year (you'll never regret it).

Class Notes Editor, 7 Swarthmore PL, Swarthmore, Pa.

Secretary, Box 1998, Ormond Beach, Fla.

Class Agent, Box 151, Sagamore, Mass.