1920

I guess things are tough all over. At least I get that feeling when I look into the mailbag this month. To use a classic phrase There is a paucity of news!

On April 1 Harry Worth will retire from the Royal-Globe Insurance Companies after better than forty years of service. Following that he and Caroline will pull up stakes and move to the West Coast. They hope to settle in or near Santa Barbara. Both of their sons are located in the West, Dean '49 as Professor of Slavic Languages at U.C.L.A. and Larry '52 as a geophysicist with Continental Oil Company at Ponca City, Okla. Harry says that he and Caroline are in good health and look forward to years of more or less quiet retirement.

A note from Warrie Gault way off in Alaska says that he and Mary have a real desire to leave Alaska behind them and spend their remaining years in New Hampshire and Handver. They've been out there in the frozen north for seven years and in that time they have made only one trip east. Sounds as though they are really homesick for their children and eight grandchildren. Recently they had a nice Dartmouth party at Mt. Alyeska which is forty miles from Anchorage. Jim Branch '52 is the Manager and Warrie says it is a beautiful spot with a thrilling ski lift and a grand view from the summit. Warrie closes with the hope that he and Mary can make our 45th reunion. It certainly would be good to see you folks.

Add to your list of recent retirees the handsome and personable George Sackett. George has retired after forty years of service with Eastman Kodak and its subsidiaries. He was Treasurer of Recordak Corporation, a subsidiary, at the time he retired. His farewell was marked by a reception and testimonial dinner at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City on January 3. Good luck, George. . . . I'll soon be in the same category.

Still another retiree is Kendrick E. Fenderson. Ken had been associated with the Florida Power Corporation for more than 35 years and when he shoved off was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director. He will continue as a member of the Board of Directors. More "power" to you. Ken.

I am delighted to report that GeorgeMather Harris, who was desperately ill some three or four years ago, is now right on the beam as an Inspector of the City of Binghamton, N.Y., Department of Public Works, with an office in the Binghamton City Hall right alongside the Mayor.

Dorothy and I were up in Hanover last week for the joint meeting of the Alumni Council and the Trustees. We had a very pleasant visit and among other classmates saw Pat Holbrook, Al Foley, Paul Sample and Leo and Alice Ungar. Unfortunately Leo was taken ill just before the sessions opened and they took off for home thereby missing out on a series of theatricals in New York to say nothing of dinner with Dorothy and me. I am glad to report that the word from Council Bluffs is reassuring. Leo is back in the groove again!

Not the least pleasant aspect of our stay in Hanover was an illustrated talk by Sid Hayward '26 and Paul Sample on their fishing trips to Labrador and Iceland. If any of you have the opportunity to sit in on this program don't miss it. Anyone who has ever fished for Atlantic salmon will probably take off on the next plane for Iceland. That's where the salmon really hold forth.

For a long time our classmate J. Ernest Martin has been listed as "address unknown." Through the good work of classmate Herb (Dr. C. Herbert) Marshall of Washington, D. C., Ernie has finally come to light. He is a successful practicing dentist in Bluefield, W. Va. Incidentally, Herb's son played freshman football at Yale this year. It seems Herb wanted the youngster to go to Dartmouth but he got the Yale virus while at Cheshire Academy.

Al Frey, world's champion class dues collector, has just returned from a three-week speaking tour on the West Coast. Believe it or not, he didn't even get a sore throat. Quite a tub-thumper, this fellow Frey!

Art devotees will be interested to know that Paul Sample has completed work on the wonderful murals that now adorn the walls of the National Life Insurance Company's building at Montpelier, Vt. PaulRichter sent me a color reproduction of the murals and I must say they are not only extremely interesting from an artistic point of view but also from the historical story which they portray.

By the way, Paul Riehter's son Alex is a cross-country hot shot at Concord High. Although he is only a junior he has already won his varsity letter. Now he's after a letter in hockey and I hear that he is good enough to make the ski team if he really goes after it. The gossip is that Paul is seen walking around town these days while Alex exercises the family car.

At the annual Dartmouth dinner in Concord our class was ably represented by LeeHodgkins and Mac (John P.) McAllaster. The same Lee Hodgkins was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Merrimack County, N. H.

I record with deep sorrow the death of Joe (Jean Amidee) Fraisier. News of his death in January 1960 has just come through from California. An In Memoriam appears elsewhere in this or a subsequent issue.

The days get a bit longer now but it is a little bit early to say that spring is just around the corner. Perhaps it is not too much to hope that along with the rustle of spring the secretary might hear the rustle of a note or two bearing news for this column. With that thought, gentle reader, we now call it a day.

Secretary, 350 East 57th St. New York 22, N. Y.

Treasurer, Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

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