1915

March! What gives in March? Oh yes - Form 1040 and signs of Spring! Regardless of your sentiments on private enterprise, you must admit it's nice that Social Security comes under the heading of tax-free income! And - under the heading of "signs of Spring" there's the old duffer's check that bounced back marked "Insufficient Fun!" Oh, Brother!

One of the ten "Outstanding Citizens" in 1961, chosen from a distinguished group of nominees by a Buffalo newspaper, is Gen.Howard E. Fuller. Picked "for compassionate public service", Howie is given quite a write-up for his devotion to the needs and care of his patients at the Buffalo Veterans Administration Hospital of which he is manager A member of The Creative Education Foundation, Howie has also been chosen Hon. Conference Chairman of the Tri-Scientific and Clinical Conference to be held July 14-20, 1962 at the Statler-Hilton in Buffalo.

Eben Clough says he's been laid up with a bad thumb from fooling around lacing up a Venetian blind. What's that again, Eben?

I understand the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Dinner is being held this year at the Harvard Club. That faint rustling sound you hear is from the grave of Eleazar Wheelock!

"it is reported that Norvie Mil more initiated wife Lois into the wiles of Kike n'Pearl Richardson's Brunch for the first time last October. I'll bet it was worth it!

The sentiment on the Leo and Ottilie Burt Christmas card is worth repeating "to wish you a wonderful, splendid, opulent, magnificent, glorious, grand, unsurpassable etc." And that interior home scene of the Jack Bowlers, with the "snow trees" through the picture window, is a beauty.

"' Bud Doe reports the apples all picked and in storage, the largest crop yet - 90,000 bushels, but prices not too high - too d-- n many apples around! Bud says they hope to go South in the late winter and look for another fish. He also allows as how there are some nights when he feels like he was born in 1860! Which leads me to quote a recent crack by another classmate's family doctor: "What t'hell do you expect at your age?" - a bit of wisdom that some of us choose to interpret as somewhat reassuring when those irksome aches pop up. And then there is that much quoted line by Robert Browning - "The best

Matt (Shorty) and Margaret Gray still think San Diego is a marvelous place and are enjoying 80 per cent retirement - "doing enough tire business to keep the old wolt backed away a few feet from the front door and it may not be long until we can even retire from that." Shorty also gripes that moving to California seems equivalent to excommunication from Dartmouth.

Duze and Helen Lounsberry (lucky people) spent a January weekend in bright, cold and beautiful Hanover - "wish you were here"1 Walt Kennedy from Yonkers and Art Ford from Butler, Ind., send greetings and best to all (how about some news items?). Hal and Althea Claflin still enjoy life m Brewster on the Cape and hope for another get-together soon (so do we). Voyle Rector out in Pasadena refers nostalgically to various events of the past - how Joe Beer 14 used to drop in occasionally to talk Dartmouth and football, Zeke Carpenter being made King of Ak-Sur-Ben a year ago at Omaha, and how he and I passed each other on the streets of New York without realizing it. "Rec" asks me to let him know if I ever find out anything about the "Rector who was named for Rector Street in New York. Sounds like a large order, Rec!

Frances Folan regrets missing us in Florida last fall and so do we - but she thoughtfully sends a rain-check!

A New York newspaper quotes a Dartmouth freshman who bids fair to make his mark as a social commentator - in his first essay in Philosophy I, he summarized as follows: "Socrates was a famous Greek who went around giving people excellent advice. They poisoned him".

A clipping from Akron, Ohio, pictures Appeals Court Judge Perry Stevens swearing in a couple Municipal Court jurists. DickClarke, who sent in the clipping, comments: " 'Red' looks good"!

I am sorry to report that "Speed" Gale's foot trouble, referred to in our February Notes, necessitated amputation. We're all rooting for you on the road back, "Speed"!

Jack Burbank celebrated his birthday by shooting a 47 for 9 holes in the wind "otherwise a sunny pleasant day" says Jack. Teaming up with Bob and Eleanor Frothingham of a Saturday evening at their home, he reports the Frothinghams were scheduled to take off for a few weeks in Arizona about February 10.

If you want to generate some interesting correspondence, try writing a letter to the Editor. A recent one of mine generated various and sundry reactions - all quite expressive. Trouble is - not much of them can be printed!

Kent H. Smith, former president of Lubrizol Corp. and former acting president of Case Tech, has been appointed chairman of trustees of Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation, a new organization formed to administer a $2,500,000 fund to study and develop ways of meeting such major com- munity problems as juvenile delinquency, problems of the elderly, effects of automation and the renewal of the community's older business and residential sections.

An inviting invitation comes from BillReynolds to "stop in on our way south" at Pompano Beach where he and Jeanette are sojourning until early April. These "southlanders" certainly make it tough for some of us - Stirling Wilson '16, nicely ensconced at Ormond Beach, wants to know if it isn't about time we moved to Florida with all the other Dartmouths (with the temperature at 4 degrees outside my window this morning)!

Via an indirect channel, I understand Jackand Madelon Ferguson were headed for a mid-winter trip to the West Coast - which should provide some fodder for a forthcoming issue of the FRONTIERSMAN.

So much for March! And when no one is looking, try this one and see if it adds up: "Whenever you point a finger at someone else - you point four at yourself."

Changes of address: Isaac W. Carpenter Jr., 1620 Farnam St., Omaha 2, Nebr.; Edmund R. Dewing, 125 Grove St., Wellesley 81, Mass.; Irving R. Gale, retired, Box 951, Lake Worth, Fla.

Secretary, 245 Avenue C New York 9, N. Y.

Treasurer, 60 Stevens Rd., Needham 92, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,