1921

Do you worry about the irresponsibility of the younger generation? Listen to this. The daughter of Bart Bartholomew, Sue, in Ghana with the Peace Corps, was requested by an English husband to assist his pregnant wife, desperately ill. She took off in an African deluge while he rushed after the local doctor. Sue drove the expectant mother to the hospital nine miles away, but three miles before the hospital, labor pains began. More than that - but let Sue tell the story. (She had never delivered a baby but had had instruction about "the facts of life" in college.) "Well, let me tell you, once that kid got some headway, so to speak, she came like a bat out of hell! We got the cord tied with our trusty Penn's thread, and the cord cut with a pair of scissors. Nothing was remotely sterile. Poor Kate suffered like crazy, but she didn't say a word the whole time. Oh, to be half so brave!"

In Rochester, Minn., recently for a physical, Roger Wilde had luncheon with Nelsand Flo Barker at the Pinnacle on top of the Kahler Hotel. Clinic doctors went out of their way to shake hands with Flo and Nels, obviously much beloved. An avid bird photographer with a telescopic lens, Rog asked Nels about his 60 birds in his backyard feeding station and about the natural bird bath with running water. Widely in demand to show his pictures, Nels does not confine himself to Minnesota. Rog saw a stunning reel of Florida and Everglades birds, many exotic. Rog's favorite was a picture of that rare and brilliant wader of the South, the roseate spoonbill, perhaps headed towards extinction with only a few left in Louisiana and possibly 1,000 in Florida.

Ken Thomas is proud of his son Ken '56, who, after two years of internal medicine at Minnesota in preparation for surgery, is now in his third year of surgical residency at the University of West Virginia, doing laboratory work on the heart. For the next two years he will specialize elsewhere in open-heart surgery. The doctor's father, our Ken, has music as a hobby and plays the organ. So does Mary Palmer, who may soon have a new organ under dramatic circumstances.

How are you about retiring? If a yea man, you will find yourself in good company. Take Ev Reid. No longer will he have to worry in Perth Amboy, N. J., about porcelain and vitreous china plumbing at Fords'. Free as air except for occasional meetings to make life seem freer than air, he and Carolyn intended to spend most of last year in Europe, but, alas, she fell seriously ill at their summer home, Nantucket Island, is under the care of doctors still, and cannot venture far from New York City.

On the other side of USA is Jack Garfein of Daly City, Calif., who retired from John Hancock Sept. 1 and persuaded Flora to sell her health-food store, a little of a wrench, for her customers are her friends. Jack's retirement was exactly two years from his wedding day. Flora married Jack at 11 P.M. Sept. 1, 1961 in Las Vegas (they left San Francisco at 6), and then saw a midnight show and a midnight spectacular.

Back to the Atlantic. John Herbert, who has bidden farewell to his position as District Sales Manager of the Marshall Field Enterprise Education System, has "a magnificent sense of freedom." He is murmuring, however, "Don't retire; retread." Already partially retired, Dud Robinson will take the final step soon. Out from lithographing, Stan Gorham boats and fishes in Vineyard Haven and would like to share the sport with '21 men on Cape Cod and to show them Northern Pines. Retired Jan. 1, 1962, Dave Plume and Mary completed their European jaunt before his accident. He fell down on some New York City ice and broke his shoulder, which immobilized him for several months. Now active, Mary and Dave have fished and golfed at the Manoir Richelieu in Canada and Grand Lake Stream in Maine and in Shawnee, Pa.; and Mary startles Dave with the size of her fish and golf prizes. Reg Miner and Dan Ruggles had a good visit in Boston recently with IkeChester of Kokomo, who retired last year as President of the American United Life Insurance Co. of Indianapolis but is still Vice Chairman of the Finance Committee. After Dartmouth at the University of Indiana he was a classmate of Byron K. Elliott, President of John Hancock.

Joe Lane and Bill McClintock have lived too far away from Hanover to be willing to join the '21 group who have returned for permanent residence. Bill is fascinated by the cultural possibilities of Hopkins Center; however, for though he reads and listens to classical records, he wishes he had more time for the artistic life. Retiring soon, he will. With one office building completed, he is now concentrating on two sizable developments, a small residential sub-division and an apartment house. Keen about boats, Bill has nearly talked himself and Marjorie into buying a 36-foot power cruiser.

Frank Lambert will bid farewell to the A. and P. in 1965. Secretary of the Central Division, he sees Dartmouth men in the company. Dick Burlingame '26, Sales Manager for him in Buffalo, is now National Personnel Director in New York. Also in New York, Charles Fleischer '27 is Assistant to the Vice President and Sales Director. Don Crane '31 in Jacksonville is Southern Division Personnel Director. Bill Lambert '50, Frank's son, in Youngstown, O., is Warehouse Superintendent.

Grandfather of 14, Pick Ankeny played golf during the summer with two of the Dartmouth golf team of 45 years ago: RynieRothschild, a sharpshooter still, and Jake Wetherby '19, who with Pick is a trifle less sharp, but they had fun recalling the golden days of the low seventies.

In Hanover on a peculiar mission, to put some Boy Scouts on an Appalachian trail back of Lyme, N. H., in the dead of night, Ralph Pendleton lamented his ignorance of Lyme geography to a gas station attendant. A perfect stranger at the garage, one Charles Carr, insisted on driving 12 miles out of his way to guide Ralph and the Scouts into the wilderness with their frying pans and sleeping bags. Delighted with Yankee kindness, Ralph tried in vain to reward the stranger with money.

In an impressively large advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, readers were promised that Lawrence Nardi would show them Saks Fifth Avenue's complete and new collection of suits, sportcoats, slacks, topcoats, overcoats, and formal wear, all cut in the most fashionable patterns from the world's finest cloths.

Bishop Charlie Gilson of Taiwan Sheng Kung Hui (the Episcopal Church in Taipei, Taiwan, China) writes that though he is thousands of miles away, the Class of 1921 means a great deal to him. In a letter to a Hanover classmate, Charlie has given the College one of the most heart-warming compliments it has ever received. "You may be sure that second only to the Almighty's influence in my life, no other influence could possibly be compared to that which I have been privileged to have from Dartmouth - not just the four years I was there, but ever since. And, of course, the older I get the more obvious this realization becomes. Amongst the many young couples in whose lives Dorothy and I have become involved here, one of them wrote us recently trying to express his gratitude for some small thing we were able to do for him. He said in his letter, 'I was born in your home, when I first met you there four years ago.' Many, many times, I have expressed the same idea thinking back on my life, and I can well say that I was born in Hanover in September 1917."

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