1927
Gordon Smith, Marblehead, Mass., had one of his cartoons in this summer's Boston Arts Festival. He took quite a fall from the "beat" art appreciation group. We 27ers who have had Smitty going for us in so many class publications over the years can almost feel just a little for the "beatniks" when he turns his revealing pen loose on them. Smitty is free-lancing these days; his wife is a practicing architect; one daughter is married and a second recently graduated as an art major from Wheaton.
Mart Heifer's son James, Dartmouth 1955, recently received Princeton's highest degree with highest honors - a Ph.D. in religion summa cum laude. James was a senior fellow while in Hanover. Another brother (Mart has five sons) was Dartmouth '51 and is now in Forset, England. Marty is superintendent of Binghamton, N. Y.'s public school system.
Joe Calcagni of Barre, Vt., says he is supposedly retired. He is in a new home which he completed himself, acting as his own carpenter, painter, plumber, and electrician. Joe has seven children, two still home in high school, two in college, and three married. Is this a class record for size of family?
Those of you who have a chance to see "A Shot in The Dark" on the road this winter, look up Bert Gruver, who is touring with the company — we can guess as stage manager.
Doc Greener took his son Jay to Hanover for an interview before he started his last year at South Kent Prep School. Doc will be at the Jolly Roger and is working on Roily Howes and Nat Morey "for a nucleus of an orchestra." What's he mean "nucleus" — that's it.
We grandfathers can feel a little younger as we hear of classmates with boys still in or entering college. Sam Martin, Portland, Ore., is saving his trip East for next June when his son Tom graduates in Hanover. Sam is Regional Chairman for the Northwest, but wants to know what made us Eastern territorial assigners think that North and South Dakota are "Northwest." He will celebrate Dartmouth night in Portland, also marking the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth Association of Oregon.
Sam Wormser and his wife Allie are vacationing at the Inn for a week or so early in October so will be on deck for all '27 festivities.
Tom Wheeler, that retired Troy, Ohio, farmer, still lives on his farm, manages a couple of others to keep his hand in. teaches history in Troy High School, and with his wife writes a human interest column for the Troy Daily News, where he also serves as Farm Editor. Whew! What does he mean retired? He sees Tom Kennedy and Dick Stowe at Dayton's Dartmouth-Princeton get-togethers, also Gail Borden '26. Tom's son Thomas just graduated from Vermont Academy and is a freshman at Denison this fall; his daughter is in school in Cincinnati.
Now that fall class meeting in Hanover is a thing of the past, Don O'Hara is beginning to plan the winter New York dinner. Should have a date set by next month so hold off planning your winter trip to New York until you know "D" day.
Josh Davis' son Bill '62 is back from two years' Army duty in Germany and is entering his junior year in Hanover. This will give Josh plenty of reason to visit the campus with regularity.
George Friede, '27's world traveler, is back from his trip to thirteen of Africa's new republics and sends along stories from Portland, Ore., papers. During six weeks he encountered only one person who considered himself a tourist - "a Mexican who was obviously running away from his wife." George flew both French and Russian airlines, says prices are exorbitant, water expensive and wine a poor substitute for teeth brushing. Costume was short shorts for the French, which made George's Bermudas make him feel "like a guy wearing an 1880 bathing suit." The great problem everywhere is education, or rather lack of it, and the new republics have a long way to go before they can be called democracies, he reports.
Dinty Gardner, our seagoing correspondent and hurricane fighter, reports gamming with Bob Dalrymple and Jack Draper in Christmas Cove, Me. Jack, on his own boat and with his doctor's hat on, prescribes cruising for keeping young and fit. See that Ed Ripley has succumbed and now owns the "Bonnie Doone," a 37-foot ketch which once sailed the Honolulu race. Ed and his family who live in Van Nuys, Calif., sail her on weekend junkets to Catalina or Santa Cruz islands. Looks like we should issue our own '27 Lloyds.
Jay Willing, that eminent CPA, attended the Eighth International Congress of Accountants in New York recently as delegate of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Jay, a partner in Patterson, Teele & Dennis, is a past president of the Massachusetts Society of CPA's.
Al Wise is the new chairman of the English Department of Loomis School in Windsor, Conn. Al has been at Loomis since 1948.
Woody Burgert is celebrating his 35th year with Harris Trust and Savings of Chicago, where he is vice president. Looks like he joined the bank when all of us fresh out of Hanover tried to get on someone's payroll.
Hope to see you at one of the games this fall for some first-hand news.
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