1924

This is written with real winter all about us; new snow, temperature dropped to 20 degrees below here and a minus 50 degrees alleged up north, icy roads that slow you down but plenty of skiers out; a full program of winter sports, and Carnival just a few days off. Snow statues a-building, but no Outdoor Evening this year by student vote. (There will be mixed opinions on that one, as well as on the recent vote on the long-discussed honor system. See other pages for a reporting.) The pace quickens, with final examinations for this Winter Term only a month and a half away ... as we discovered today in class looking ahead a bit.

Top news for '24 is the appointment of Frank Harrington as a life trustee (to fill a vacancy in the expanding Board, from twelve to sixteen members). Herewith we record our personal Wah-hoo-wah, and we don't forget that Bill Buchanan is also a member of the Board of Trustees. We all take pride in having these two '24-ers on the Board.

It won't do any harm to repeat the many achievements of Frank to remind us and also to let readers from other classes (and they do read this and many other columns, we know) the story. In college, Frank was Phi Beta Kappa; he prepared at Exeter Academy academically; he prepared for his distinguished career in insurance by being born into an insurance family. At Dartmouth, he was a member of a now-distinguished large group whose Aegis account lists neither fraternity nor varsity activities. He prepared for business via Law (Harvard), and entered the insurance business just before the depression in the fall of 1929. He had had the very great foresight to marry Louise (Cronin) in 1927 and Frank Jr. was born the summer of 1928. There have been three sons, all Dartmouth alumni: Frank Jr. was '50, Tom was '54, and George was '61. Frank became President of the Mass. Protective Association and Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, with whom he started as legal counsellor, in 1945. Other activities are many: Director of Health Insurance Association of America, President of Health and Accident Underwriters Conference and of the Insurance Society of America; locally, he is Director of the Worcester Gas and Light Co., and of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co., as well as Trustee of Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank and of the Hahnemann Hospital. The Class joins us in our pleasure at this new Trusteeship.

In a very different mood, I have to report one more and much-to-be-missed member has left us. It is an odd twist of fate that closes three consecutive pages in our class- book: Harold Fitzgerald in 1950, now LeoFitzpatrick, and Tom Fitzpatrick (who with- drew in junior year) in 1945. I have paid our respects to Leo elsewhere in this issue, as I'm sure some of the Class did at his funeral.

The above is more or less in the vital statistics vein, which one good '24-er deplores as the usual column fare. He won't be surprised to have me make two observations: (1) that even such bare bones are sometimes in very scant supply when we turn to the "cupboard"; and (2) we are sometimes taken to task for not enough details to suit some. He asks "How many ever sit down and write you?" He refers after they receive the traditional birthday card. "Are you limited to how much space you can use?" Yes, but I'm more limited by how much time I can manage to find before that 4th-of-the-month deadline, and how much material there is on hand. Sometimes a columnist could be accused of making a column out of nothing with the present material, especially this paragraph; in this one case, at least, this is not the case. This time I'm really trying to answer this and other questions I sometimes get. If I may add one more comment, and in good spirits and not to complain (which defeats and does not help) it might be to paraphrase the "joke" about the patient who asked his psychiatrist if it wasn't boring to listen to his recital of symptoms, etc., to which the doctor replied "Who listens?" Some times I wonder, "Who reads?" Any rebuttals will be gratefully received. Now to return to some bare bones.

I wonder how many other such marriages there are in 1924 - where a member marries the sister of classmate (perhaps roommate)? One, at least, is Mrs. Jack Parker (Marion, or Polly) whose brother is HobeyHolbrook whom she will have visited out in Santa Barbara (see last month's column) by the time this is in print. Jack followed her a few days later for an insurance conference in Phoenix; he is second vice-president of The Travelers in Hartford. Hobey is described as going a reverse-twist on the usual: never off the campus while in college nor far away from a hot radiator, Jack says Hobey is now "a one-man outing club . . . with safaris into the High Sierras." Good man. Jack's son, John the 3rd, is married and living in Hartford; Sally is near Hanover at Colby Jr. and soon to head to Pasadena to become a medical technician.

Earl Kees has been moved up a notch in General Mills; he was Director of Merchandising for Flour and Mixed Products; is now Director of Merchandising of Grocery Products. He has been with the firm ever since graduation in sales, marketing, and merchandising. He responds to my comment on classmates who are retiring; he'll be seeing some of you Florida fanatics when he retires in about five years from work he still describes as "fun." Good man to feel that way. I count myself fortunate to be another such.

A much more imminent retirement is that of Frank Jetter, in June. As mentioned a while back, he is Director of Music in the Amsterdam (New York) schools. His son, Robert '53, was married last November to a Syracuse girl; both are teaching in the schools in East Greenbush. I send instant apologies for once having indicated that Bob was a Princeton grad. Frank expects to renew his youthful Glee Club days when the current Glee Club sings in Albany come April. I'll do the same this (Carnival) weekend here in Hanover.

" Reservations for the fall reunion at Bonnie Oaks are coming in, some firm and some tentative. The Vaughn Berrys are in the latter classification. Make it for sure this year - and others who have only expressed hope, so far. I do not seem to have made it clear that Margaret and I will be back from our five-months in Europe long before fall arrives, and so will pick up the threads of reservations, etc., in late August. The weekend is for the second game, which I believe is to be Penn again. When I can find a few moments soon, I shall write those whose names I have on my list for the Fall Soiree. If you don't get such a note, write me pronto not later than March 15; preferably by March 1.

We sail March 28 from New York. It is regrettable that the Dick Morins will not cross our paths on their trip; that the ButtsLamsons have had to cancel for a business trip out west. As of now it looks as if the only '24-er we'll see there will be DickMoyse, in London where he lives. We'd be glad of news of any others, to toast the Class, the College, and each other wherever we may be. Watch for our guest-editor for these trite phrases. Send news to Butts, please from now on.

Charlie Zimmerman '23 (r), president ofthe Conn. Mutual Life Insurance Co.,studies his firm's new program aidinghigher education with Alva Morrison,executive director of the New EnglandColleges Fund, Inc. Conn. Mutual isthe first insurance firm in Connecticutto support the New England CollegesFund of which Dartmouth is a member.

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