1924
Sometimes the letters that come back, after a birthday card arrives, complains when this column includes a lot of "vital statistics"; but that coin has two sides, the other being the expressions of interest I also get for including those very same facts. My only rule-of-thumb is not to include data just to fill space. And so, this week's "Hanover Gazette" has two items, in the same column of local news, referring to close neighbors with children of classmates. #1 is the announcement of the engagement of Ralph Miller Jr., son of Betty and RuffMiller, to Pamela Gunderson, daughter of another Hanover doctor and one of a considerable family of doctors. They plan to be married in Maine (whence came Betty) in July. Pam was '60 from Smith, studying in Switzerland her Junior year and the Hanover "Community Ambassador" last summer, in Nigeria. Ralph Jr. is well known for his skiing, both as a graduate of Dartmouth and member of the World Championship Ski Team in 1954 and of the U.S. Olympics in 1956. He is a co-author of the book, "Expert Skiing." Since graduation from Harvard Medical School last year he has been an intern in our local hospital.
Down the same street a ways live the IvesAthertons, Ives being our postmaster. The daughter of Doris and Ives, Lynn, announces her engagement to Karl Caton Kopp, of Saxonville, Mass. Lynn graduated from Middlebury, after high school here, in '56 and is currently teaching in the Cathedral School for Boys, in San Francisco. Karl is Yale '55, and teaching in Berkeley at the University of California in English Literature while he studies for his doctorate. They also will marry in the summer. So the local sons and daughters of '24 are hereby congratulated and given our good wishes.
The plans for a '24 reunion in Europe this spring have taken heavy blows, but perhaps we'll hear from some who are making late plans. The first to go are Alma andPete Wheatley, who sail on the Vulcania March 14, for Italy, Majorca, Spain, etc. until they fly home about April 20. Margaret and I sail March 28 for five months, as I've indicated, coming home in late August. Perhaps we'll catch the Wheatleys in Italy. Then Dolores and Dick Morin head for Greece the day the Wheatleys are coming back; thence to Paris, London, etc., and home on Independence Day. Sorry ButtsLamson and Harriet had to change their plans for a business trip out west.
Anyway, we'll all be back and at Bonnie Oaks for the fall reunion, the second (Penn) football game. Reservations are coming in to assure another and even better gathering of the clan. Always room for more, but the choice of rooms or cottages is, as always, on a first-come-first-served basis. Let me hear now; no obligation until the time approaches in late August or early September.
Republican readers, and this is said without prejudice, will have seen Ted Lamb's picture on the financial pages of the N. Y. Herald Tribune for Feb. 20. After considerable ups and downs he announces control of Seiberling. I'm sure many of you read the account which indicated that this was an unusual achievement for an individual buyer. Down Boston-way. we read that RayHopkins has come far up the ladder he started with the United Shoe Machinery Co. in 1931. He is now the manager of the Goodyear department. After graduation, Ray studied electrical engineering at Lowell Institute, went with the Brockton Edison Company until 1928, and then with Sikorsky until he joined "The Shoe." He is well known in Hanson, where he lives, for civic work; and many friends helped Marjorie and Ray celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary last June. An older daughter is married and working in a Michigan hospital in research work; their younger daughter is a freshman at Skidmore.
Other business tid-bits: Ken Davis is bidding to join the twelve N. H. and about 3,000 country-wide insurance agents who are members of the "Million Dollar Round Table." John Loeb, senior partner now of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades and Co., has joined 20th Century-Fox to represent his security firm and their customers on the Board of Directors. Bill DuBois commutes from Englewood, N. J., with other classmates, to his post as Senior Vice-president of the Chase-Manhattan Bank in New York.
In striking contrast to the above-mentioned tycoons, others fill rewarding niches where personal-contact rewards are the characteristic of their work. George Spargo, native of Vermont, has had his years of journalism at home and in New York State, served in the Illinois Legislature, returned to New York State and is currently a partner in The Spargos - Antiques; that's in Ilion for those traveling that-a-way. Off in Battle Creek, Mich., Bryson Reynolds has turned from investment banking to sales and industry to a current listing as Assistant Superintendent of the Haven of Rest Rescue Mission. He left college just forty years ago.
At the Boston Dartmouth Club dinner: Alex Gibson, Spud Spaulding, Arn Jenkins, Walt Bernard, the Luit, Nat Ryder (whose son John I now have in class), and Frank Harrington at the head table as Trusteeelect. My spy must have missed some others. Oh yes, Don Wilbur, whose son is also here at Dartmouth. Others?
Another traveler, and one I overlooked: Charlie and Marion Amelung will leave in May for Italy and on up into England in June. Just a slim chance we may meet; will certainly try.
The basketball season has just ended. Note: Gordie Bridge hasn't missed a game in 23 years!
Watch this space for the June issue; I'll be with you in May but a familiar hand will hold you enthralled in the June issue. Read, and heed his words.
Secretary, 2 Brewster Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 328 Orchard PL, Ridgewood, N. J.
