1926
We had hoped to highlight this February column with a detailed announcement of the plans for our June reunion. Delayed in arrival, however, this announcement will be postponed until March . . . with this month's notes confined to comparatively minor miscellany.
Hugh and Charlotte Morrison have retired to Florida (dramatic address: 7910 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key, Sarasota) for Hugh's sabbatical year . . . with Charlotte's retirement from her Alumni Recorder position a permanent one. In the picture of the ceremonies honoring Charlotte for her 38 years of service to the College, '26 was much in evidence, with Sid Hayward handing her a portable typewriter and a scroll-of-tribute signed by her many Dartmouth co-workers and friends. More permanent retirements include the Monty Colladays, to 3633 Jewell St., San Diego; and the Bob Pattens, to Fox Chase Road, Box 2, South Sutton, N. H.
Some delayed quotes from Dick Haywood, on the completion of his own sabbatical year from New York University: -
In general we stayed close to Rome and the places within fifty or sixty miles. In the winter especially we had some delightful excursions on sunny days to ancient sites that could be visited in one day. In March we had a trip to Greece (at Delphi we casually met the Lattimores) and a cruise of a week to Crete, Rhodes, Ephesus, Istanbul, and Delos. Early in May I was invited to lecture and give a seminar on Roman Africa at the University of Milan, and just to see whether I could I performed both in Italian. I'm not quite sure whether this is bravado or a salutary desire to see now and then what I can do when pressed.
I occasionally ask myself whether the college gets value for the expense of a sabbatical year. It seems to me that it does in the case of anyone who takes his work seriously. Sometimes, of course, one can point to a definite and circumscribed piece of work brought to completion in that period. Probably more often a man works on something that cannot be finished within the year, does some travel, and just loafs some. It all is useful. I got in some very good licks on a specific project, but I also tried to study the ancient city of Rome carefully, and did some very useful reading on things that turned out to be nearer to the heart of my project than I had thought they were. I think that after ten years of the heat of the day and the noise of the battle since I came to New York it was well for me sometimes at bright February noontimes to be strolling in the Borghese Gardens.
Another eminent '26 professor, Ted Seely, author of a feature article in the Allegheny College Bulletin, is "introduced" in the Bulletin as follows: - "Professor Frederick F. Seely is one of two members of Dartmouth's illustrious class of 1926 (the other is Professor Philip M. Benjamin, Reis Librarian) who have contributed much to Allegheny over the last three decades. Dr. Seely is chairman of the department of English, and has a lively interest in historical personages, and events of this region, track and field: sports, and mountain climbing."
Still another professor, Dick Eberhart, is pictured in (of all places) "Tobacco News," as he smokes a multi-curved meerschaum pipe, and discusses the many famous poets-whose works have sung the praises of tobacco.
Bob Carr was a recent speaker at the Newport (Vt.) Rotary Club. We quote from the Newport Express: -
Mr. Carr has spent 17 years in the Life Insurance field. He is a graduate of a national insurance-company's Life, Basic and Advanced schools of Life Insurance, specializing in Business Life Insurance, Estate Planning and Pension Planning. He is also a graduate of the University of Connecticut course in laws, wills and trusts.
In 1955, Mr. Carr was appointed chairman of the New Hampshire legislative insurance committee. Mr. Carr is the recognized consultant in Family Estate Planning, by the Vermont State Medical Society.
A feature article in a Texas newspaper pictures a dignified, white-haired "Red"Boyce, captioned with: - "T. G. Boyce, general manager of Trevor Boyce Associates, has spent many years supplying the chemical and pulp and paper mills where corrosion is a costly problem. Mr. Boyce provides the skilled engineering background and know-how for this fast-growing enterprise. He is a member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, the Dartmouth College Club of Houston, and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church." Perley Merry is now New England distributor for Universal Electronics Laboratory Corp.
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