1940
Football fever is rising fast these days around Hanover and speculation about "going all the way" is both pleasant and easy. Writing of our chances for an undefeated season at this point, after six victories but with three tough ones to go, is sheer fool hardiness, for when you read this the season will be over and all bets paid off. But win, lose, or draw the 1962 Big Green has provided many exciting moments for football fans this fall. Probably the most excited and inspired alumni fan of them all is our own Fred Porter who has witnessed six straight games in person this year through fair weather and foul (none of your easy-chair TV coverage included either). It's a good bet Fred will go "all the way" with the team too for a full season of his own.
Bill Squier, a dedicated worker in all sorts of alumni fields, came to Hanover in late September for the annual meeting of the Alumni Club Association. He left town with the gavel in hand signifying his election as president of the association for the next year. Pattie, his attractive wife, is as enthusiastic a salesman for Dartmouth as Bill is so he will get lots of support on the homefront as he pursues this additional College job.
Another classmate who has assumed a new affiliation with the College is Ike Weed, designer and builder of furniture par excellence. He has been appointed an instructor in the Hopkins Center Workshops where he will function several days a week. The Student Workshop of former days has commodious and completely equipped quarters in the new building and now, with Ike's presence, a professional talent which makes this feature of a Dartmouth education a unique opportunity. Hopefully, his time here will include some evening hours so some of us adults can take advantage of him too.
Your Christmas shopping list should be easier by one gift this year if you take advantage of the December selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. The two-volume biography of John Adams by Page Smith was given this honor on top of its selection as the first winner of the Kenneth Roberts Memorial Award. This new book, the result of five years of research and writing, has been described as "one of the most important biographies of our time." Page is pro- fessor of history at UCLA and admits to being a frustrated novelist, but finds writing biography gives an author "a sense of reality missing in much contemporary writing." The Class is proud of you, Page, and rejoices with you in the warm praise being heaped on you and your book.
A most welcome letter from Bill Holman brings us up to date on his activities in Seattle where the practice of law takes up part of his time and pursuing the good life of the Northwest the rest of it. He and Emily and two sons and a daughter attend most of the University of Washington football games, and presumably are just now recovering from the influx of summer tourists to the Fair.
Brad Rowland reports interestingly on a new occupation in a neighboring location. He has taken the job of instructor in English at Cutler Academy on the shores of Great Hosmer Lake near Craftsbury Common, Vt. This is a young school, building up to a maximum enrollment of seventy, so the challenges are many, but, as Brad writes of it, the rewards are many too. He says his life in the family sphere is proceeding favorably as well. One daughter has graduated from the University of Vermont and is in California working on a Master's degree. His son is now in Puerto Rico with the Marines and his second girl is "bitterly contesting every step of the way through the eighth grade."
The letter which Heinie Heinz wrote to me for the whole class's attention came a round-about way on its journey from Africa where he teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. He addressed it to me c/o Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., which prompted the postal authorities to first try Hanover, Germany, then Dartmouth, England, before deciding on the United States. He responded to my birthday greetings by saying: "I feel very guilty for not answering your congratulations, and those of the class earlier. When it reached Johannesburg I was on an expedition in the Kalahari.
"Later I was swamped with piled-up work. Please extend to all the class my very sincere thanks and appreciation. It means a lot to know that here in S. A. one is not forgotten. It might interest you chaps to know that I have decided to work for a second degree and in November I should have my B.A. in Anthropology. Next year I want to go on to honours.
"It is too early to say what I will be doing when the 25th comes. I should certainly like to be there, but the rate of exchange is so unfavourable and the cost of living so high in the USA that an ordinary mortal just can not afford it.
"Please pass on my regards to all."
Another foreign postmark has brought news of a new life for Jane and SidneyPhillips who are now living in Karachi, Pakistan, where Sid is an advisor in Production Management at the Institute of Business Administration of the University of Karachi. The big sport over there is field hockey (for men yet) and all the attendant celebrations (liquor, etc.) must take place under a blanket where Allah will not see. Sounds like a good twist our tailgate picnics lack and maybe we should start some new traditions. Hearing about their staff of three servants for whom they pay next to nothing and the other fine attributes of their life on the other side of the globe makes me shed no tears for the "white man's burden." It sounds like a most enriching experience for all five Phillipses and I hope the USAID will allow them to come stateside for our 25th Reunion so we can all hear more of the details in. person.
A long letter from Jack McDonald, with whom I struggled through an Eccy major years ago, had lots of notations about classmates he had seen in and around his home base of Chicago. He had run into FrankWhaland who was in the windy city for an insurance meeting. Jack said Frank looked the same as he did 25 years ago which is good testimony to the pure New Hampshire air. Jack sees Bob Raclin occasionally between Bob's European trips representing Bache and Company on some of their international dealings. At the Chicago Club picnic last summer Bud Raymond, Hal Sommer, and Nick lurkevich made the scene along with Jack. Nick gave the other three a tour of his nearby home which he is completely rebuilding. Jack had also had lunch with Bob Armstrong in Benton Harbor, Mich., where Bob holds sway as the public relations czar of the Whirlpool Corporation.
Mrs. Pat Lyon Jones, widow of DukeLyon, thoughtfully sent me a newspaper picture of the dedication ceremonies of the Army Reserve Center in Durham which was named in honor of Duke and another Durham soldier killed during World War II.
One of Jack Schleicher's extracurricular functions is to lead seminar discussions on "Human Development" for one of our neighboring communities. Jack is a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hitchcock Clinic here in Hanover so is an expert on the prenatal development of our population.
That's all for now, but keep in touch before we get together next month. To you and yours, Happy Holidays and God Rest Ye!
Soaking up the Arizona sun on a visitto Tucson are George Mahoney '40 (left)and Bill McMurtrie '38, both of whomspend their working days in Indianapolis.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N.H.
Treasurer, 78 School St., Concord, N.H.
