1925

As we approach the task of composing these notes, we look forward to our first visit to Hanover since last May, (1) to find out what kind of a football team we have to defend our Ivy League championship, (2) to re-acquire some of the campus spirit by joining the perennial kickoff rally around the bonfire following introduction of the squad members by the coach, (3) window-shopping up and down Main Street in the proverbial alumni fashion, exchanging greetings perhaps with Jim Campion and Leon Fiske, and (4) looking hopefully for some wandering classmate from whom a bit of news may be elicited and who may be doing likewise - just to pinpoint a few highlights of any visit to Hanover in the fall.

A telephone call to Whitey of Marblehead and North Conway uncovered the fact that he and Bobbie recently joined the Frank Wallises at a dinner in honor of the Lou Kimballs, who were en route home from a visit to England, Scotland, and Ireland. C. Allen Bickford has retired after 32 years with the U. S. Forest Service. This does not mean that Bick will remain idle. He has joined the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University as an associate professor.

A note from Julie Hewitt indicates natural pleasure over the arrival of a third grandchild, Edward Cooper Hewitt Bird. Last spring, she, Ed and son, Ted, took a cruise to spend Easter with the Birds in Lima, Peru, but "Ironically," Julie writes, "Just before we left, our son-in-law was transferred to Detroit, and literally their plane flew over our ship going in opposite directions!"

Allen Bickford, statistician for the U.S. Forest Service's Northeastern Forest Experiment Station at Upper Darby, Pa., retired in August after 32 years' service with the Federal Government. A month later he was on the job as an associate professor at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. Professor Bickford is teaching statistics to seniors and graduate students and will serve as a consultant to other members of the faculty. Allen, who first went with the Forest Service as a research forester in 1931, has numerous publications to his credit, and most recently has written about applications of statistical methods to forestry. He's also associate

General Electric late last summer celebrated its 25th anniversary of distributing major appliances from a factory branch office in Boston. Attending the celebration was C. M. "Woody" Wilson, New England district manager, who opened the Boston branch in 1938.

Larry Leavitt serves the class not only as its Head Agent but also tries to keep your correspondent informed on doings in and about Hanover. His last note indicated: "Bea and Jack Norris were in New London this August. They went sailing with us one afternoon. They are building a retirement home in New London for a future date. Dot and I dropped in to see Phoebe Coykendall for a few minutes one evening. She seems in good health now. Florence Perkins tells me she has become a grandma. Her son, Don '53, has a son - 'another Dartmouth prospect.' 'My work,' she said, 'continues to be very interesting in many ways. So much is being done at our school to provide teachers for deaf children.' Dot and I attended the wedding of the Braces' daughter at Northport, Maine. Pete Blodgett and Alice were there."

Pete Haffenreffer served as chief marshal of the Fourth of July parade at Bristol, R. I. Pete, in addition to being chairman of the board and president of the Narragansett Brewing Company, also is general manager of the Mount Hope Bridge Authority. He served at one time as treasurer of the Utah-Apex Mining Company, and as vice president of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. He is a trustee of the Rhode Island Hospital and of Impact, Rhode Island, a director of the Industrial National Bank, Providence, the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America, and of Nickerson House.

Dr. Robert E. Pike wrote the lead article in the July issue of the "Atlantic Monthly" magazine. The article, "Log Drive on the Connecticut," discusses the era of long-log drives - the lumberjacks and the rivermen who rode them - leading up to the final drive in April, 1915, when more than 65 million feet of logs coursed through the Connecticut River. Dr. Pike, who was exactly 10 years old that year and a native of northern Vermont, later became a lumberjack himself. He has also been a farmer, a surveyor, a military governor, an American army officer, and is the author of four books: "Granite Laughter and Marble Tears," "Contes Intimes," "Fighting Yankee," and "Spiked Boots." Bob earned his M.A. at the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He was a French instructor at the University of Minnesota and at Harvard University, and assistant professor of French, German and Spanish at Principia College. He has been chairman of the language department at Monmouth College since 1949.

Last month we reported on Hal Rider's election to chairman of the board and chief executive officer 01 the Fairfield County Trust Co., and in doing so we "scooped" this magazine's editors. They were having the small cut of Hal made up to go along with the news item. So that we can legitimately use the cut, since it's already paid for and to give you a 1963 look at Hal, let us also report Hal is a director of the Southern New England Telephone Co., Connecticut Light and Power Co., Stamford Water Co., Barnes Engineering Co., and The Phoenix Insurance Co.; also a director and former president of the Stamford Hospital; and local representative of the New England Colleges Fund - which, in gaining corporate support for all New England private liberal arts colleges, raised a healthy chunk for Dartmouth.

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