1923
Brooks Palmer's friends in our class will be saddened by the news of Julie's passing in early October. Julie broke her ankle on September 11. After hospitalization, she seemed to be coming along nicely when the end came. Julie was very active in public service activities.
Frank Donovan had a colon tumor removed at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital last summer. He enjoyed his stay at Dick's House and is now back in the harness, representing Northwestern Life in southern New Hampshire. Frank did a wonderful job heading up the Initial Gifts Department in the Peterborough Hospital drive.
Larry Eager reports that Johnny Allen of Oakland, Calif., is in good spirits and enthusiastically busy on a bit of writing (a particularly interesting twist on a Civil War subject).
Cap Palmer's Parthenon 1962-63 pictures have made out well - a pair of plaques from the National Visual Presentation Association, five Chris Awards from the Columbus Festival, and, for the second successive year, 2 out of the 15 business films selected by N.A.M. to represent the U.S. in the International Industrial Film Festival. After years of writing for magazines, radio, and feature movies, Cap has finally settled into what he would rather be doing than anything else in the world - making movies for business people - such as Bell Telephone System, American Tel. and Tel., American Oil, Ford Motor, Am. Med. P.A.C., General Telephone, and Bank of America.
Vic Cannon writes that Chuck Calder won a trip to the Bahamas for himself and his wife by winning a two-day golf tournament at their club in Cleveland.
Phil Bowker was recently drafted by the City of Fort Lauderdale to help solve transit problems in this city, whose population explosion has far outstripped its facilities in moving people. Bus lines, railroad lines, taxi-cabs, all come under his supervision. This task prevented Phil from coming to our 40th, and from flying to Norway for a summer vacation. He has organized a Dartmouth Club in Fort Lauderdale, which meets at Herlman's Restaurant. Phil sees Ted Swartzbaugh quite often.
Roy Burgess was recently appointed to the faculty of Southwest Harbor, where his assignment will be English. Roy earned his M.A. at Bates and has taken several postmaster courses at the University of Maine.
Roy Brown reports he commutes quite regularly to Greece, where he is on a consulting job for an American company interested in a new asbestos mine. This makes two asbestos consulting jobs, one in California and one in Greece. He works out of New Preston, Conn., and recently returned from a trip to Rome, Turin, Munster, and Paris.
Jules Rippel is quite busy, visiting Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and way stations, on medical matters pertaining to the Foundation. Liberty and Go Bliss drove out to Los Angeles in November, where they boarded a small Norwegian freighter, and took off for various small islands and some of the larger cities in the Orient. They will be gone till March first.
The Metzels spent much of the summer aboard "Skiddoo" on Green Bay. The Gardner Akins also go in for sailing and cruising. They have a 28-foot auxiliary sloop, which they sail on Buzzards Bay. Ann and BillTaylor cruised into Padanaram harbor last summer to call on the Akins. Being business manager of "Yachting" keeps Bill very busy in June, at the time of our Hanover reunions. He told Gardner, however, that he was easing up on his working schedule, so perhaps we will see him in Hanover.
Last summer Lew and Doris Ross were able to boast that their daughter, Allyne, was enrolled in the Dartmouth summer courses. At the D-H game this fall, Doris and Barbara nearly had a sun stroke in the hot sun of that Saturday afternoon.
Karl Williams has been reappointed chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Clients' Security Funds. The committee is making a continuing study of indemnity funds to repay clients who suffer losses through default by their attorneys. Karl is a member of association's Special Committee on Civil Rights and Racial Unrest. He is a former president of the county and state bar association.
Karl Williams '23 (r) at the laying ofcornerstone for Rockford College's newplant on the outskirts of Rockford, Ill.
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