1916

Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main! By the time you are reading this Sam andLou Cutler will have completed their "tour du monde." They got as far as San Francisco on the "S.S. President Monroe" when the tour was cancelled by a longshoremen's strike. Undaunted our voyageurs boarded the P.&0.-Orient liner "Orianna," "a bigger and much more luxurious ship," and got to Europe by way of Australia and the Fiji Islands, instead of Yokohama and Hong Kong. Lou reports that Sam was taken for a professional tumbler when he did a double somersault across the lounge on a particularly rough night.

Bill McKenzie retired from Goodyear April 30. However, he got some time off for good behavior, and he and Ruth left earlier with another couple on the "Leonardo da Vinci" for nine weeks in Europe.

This column has not paid tribute to pur modest and self-effacing (Professor) Ed Kirkland. A recent issue of the magazine, Forbes, in reviewing his latest book, "Industry Comes of Age," refers to him as the United States' foremost economic historian. This work was also reviewed in the January issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE and in several other periodicals.

Word from the irrepressible Stirling Wilson that the porch addition to Dartmouth House (South) has been completed. Bob andMargaret Harvey were visitors there in February. Bob is having trouble retiring, he is much too busy to put his feet up. Bill andElizabeth Gaylord, from South Hadley, Mass., were also visitors. Stirling reports that his quartet is coming along well and he and Betty have brave travel plans for the summer. He adds, however, that if the postage rates go up again he is going to use smoke signals.

Reg Chutter has returned to Turkey at the request of the Turkish Government to work on the elements which affect the Balance of Payments Position of that governm ent, which balance, Reg says, is currently woefully imbalance. The assignment is a continuation of what he has been working on during his previous assignment. Reg adds, "Best of luck to SIXTEENERS." His address: Industry Advisor, U.S. Government, AID, American Embassy, APO 254, New York, N. Y.

Mine host, Freddy St.George Smith, reports a pleasant '16 get-together in March at the Dartmouth Club in New York. Those present: Brundage, Cressy, Doenecke, Evans,Jones, Pelletier, Wilby Sully and Freddy.Dick Parkhurst and Stew Paul had hoped to make it, but lost out. Dr. George Paine has changed his address from 22 Lazy Lane to 220 West 23d St., Hutchinson, Kan. Don't tell me he is just getting down to work at his age. Bill Brown, after 32 years devoted to achieving excellence in secondary education in Glens Falls, N. Y., is retiring as principal of the Glens Falls High School at the end of this school year. However, you can be sure that Bill will not sit back and take his ease. I'll bet he has got another book in the planning stage. At any rate the Class congratulates him on a job well done and wishes him all things good in the future.

I was glad to have a word from WalterMorton, who lives in East Milton, Mass., but sorry to learn that he suffers from arthritis, which hinders his getting about. Walt is retired and lives in East Milton in the winter with his wife and daughter, and at a South Shore beach in the summer.

Ev Parker's daughter, Elizabeth, is a student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston. This is a tribute to her ability, as I understand that girls are rarely admitted there. She graduated from Smith in 1960. A newspaper picture not long ago showed the dean and her welcoming the Ambassador to France, General Gavin, when he came to the school to lecture.

Having retired at the end of the year from Bethlehem Steel in Chicago Ed (Guinmey) Gumbart has reversed the philosophy of "Go West, young man" to "Come East, old boy." He started work in Washington toward the end of April. His business address: Director Iron and Steel Division, ness and Defense Services Administration, Room 4812 Commerce Bldg., Washington 25. Home: Calvert-Woodley, Apt. 204, 2601 Woodley Place, N.W., Washington 8. "BillBrett lives here."

George Dock wrote an article for the New York Times a short while back calling attention to the unsightly condition of the Gettysburg battlefield, what with motels, snack bars, and such, blossoming in great profusion. He is genuinely concerned in properly preserving the battle site as a national monument.

It seems a bit incongruous to be bidding you goodbye while spring is timidly tiptoeing through the tulips, but such is life. So in early April your secretary is wishing you happy motoring and a pleasant summer wheresoe'er you go. This has been an easy year for him, - for once you and his good friends in the other classes have sent in more news than could be used in these limited columns, and he is more than grateful.

Finally a word from our class agent, JimShanahan, now in his freshman year: "When the tumult and the shouting dies and we look back at ourselves what monuments we have helped' to build are better or on firmer foundation than Dartmouth? Kipling in his 'Recessional' warns us in a few brief words: 'Lest we forget - lest we forget.'

"This is the 1962 Fund campaign. It is not too late to plan your own campaign for a passing mark on your answer to Saint Peter's last question, 'What have you done to fulfill your moral obligation to Dartmouth?'

"Only you can supply the answer."

Secretary, 7 Swarthmore PL, Swarthmore, Pa.

Class Agent, 1155 Union St., Manchester, N. H.