1938
Merry Christmas, fellows, and check your living in 1963. Make every today terrific so that all 365 of them make a bountiful year of life and love. Writing this column, the editor is aware that some of our fond members are getting the call from the Master Builder. He is reminded that this marvelous, marvelous drama that we all play is a temporary role, and that we should not only play it well but get enjoyment from every minute of it. There is a power in positive thinking, even for those of us with handicaps.
Phip Thompson will be in Hanover in June to compare notes with old friends. He's in Portland, Me., doing medical research "matching disease and genetic templates."
If you read the medical columns, particularly in New York, you'll know that Dr.Arlington Bensel, Orange, N.J., dermatologist, has been fighting for "free medicine." We don't mean cashless. He's for laissez faire practice, I interpret it, and has been very active against Medicare, etc. Ben has also written a "Stereo-Atlas of Dermatology" for med schools and libraries. The Bensel youngsters are Jeff, 18, and Marianne, 15. The family visited Howie Fogg's Uncle Charlie in Maine during the summer.
Jim Carpenter has his own insurance office in Hartford on 11 North Whitney St. He writes that Dawkins wowed the local Sales Exec. Club (musta been on some of my stories). Also claims Pete Merritt really goes on the local tennis courts. The Carpenter Kids are: Jim, 15; Jane, 13, and Beth, 10.
The Baron Boy sends along word that Fred Piderit, an officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has written a key paper for the banking industry called: "A Director's Stake In An Audit and Control Program." Come help us with the family budget, will ya, Fred?
Rog Baker is doing a top job for the Community Chest in Westchester County, N.Y. Hoby Rockwell got the diploma of a Chartered Life Underwriter, one of the top professional awards in the insurance business. How to go, Hoby.
Bud Devlin, I gotta have empathy for. He lives in Houston, Texas, and has his heart in Hyannis ... and not for political reasons. He just doesn't go for Houston, Texas I didn't either, Bud ... and that was before air conditioning; but when the company is right and the job too ... what are you going to do about geography? Nothing, but get to like it, I guess. Bud and Ann drove a Triumph, TR-4 through ten European coun- tries last summer. He saw Fred Mayne of J. C. Penny, now living in the Tower of London ... sounds like he did something wrong. Also met Adrian Weiss at Idlewild Airport on the way home. There are two young Devlins: Connie, 13; and Dela, 8.
Never have I known more spirit packed into one package of human flesh than that of Eddie Perrin. Remember him in baseball and hockey? On days that he couldn't hit a balloon with a snow shovel he'd talk all eight other guys into hitting .500. Then he'd argue like Stengel and Tebbitts. I learned as much from Perrin as I did from professors. Well, ole Ed is a part-time scout in Eastern Connecticut for the New York Mets ... and he'd better get to work. He's doing real well for Dartmouth as a scout. This lad, Mike Nyquist is one honey Eddie got, and only a knee injury this fall prevented Mike from being one of the East's best flankers. He'll Captain baseball this spring. The little Perrins are Sally, 14; attending Chaffee School, and Gray, 11, who is coming up behind the old man as a Little Leaguer.
Red Boutilier has forsaken the trotters for the shelled claws of Maine Lobsters and the wonderful pace of way down East. He writes: "We bought a 100-acre farm with 2,000 feet of fresh water frontage and adjacent to the ocean. After six years of chasing the harness horses from Maine to Florida and the Midwest, we tired. The daughter went to Wellesley and we came to Maine with our son, who attended Loomis.... I have been doing literary odd-jobs and publicity. There is a hell of a lot of hard labor with the boy who has four cows. We are rebuilding the barn and making hay. It's back to nature. I have knocked my weight back from 195 to 175. If I can get the boy settled, I hope to try some serious writing, and see whether or not I have it."
Red says that his daughter, Pat, has won a scholarship to Columbia. Boots lives in the town of Bremen, Me., a fishing community. He sees John Chapman '37, who once ran the Pressing Club in Hanover, and Jim Briggs of Damariscotta. He also sees Art Nissen '34, former hockey player and hammer tosser, who is now municipal judge in Wiscasset. Good luck, Red.
See you all again in 1963. Happy New Year.
Margaret and Chuck Hotaling '37 boneftshing in the Florida Keys and using the testmodel of a fiberglass boat Chuck is developing for this sport.
Secretary, 2945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio
Treasurer, Hunter Lane, Rye, N.Y.
