1916
Back at the time of the fall elections I wrote to a native Vermonter and enclosed with the answer I got was a political sheet with a cut showing a good-looking Yankee, with keen, shrewd eyes peering out from the picture, - none other than our own Albert D. Lawton, now representative from Essex in the 1963 session of the Vermont legislature. Al was superintendent of schools in the Chittenden Central District for 22 years. There was also a list of other offices and accomplishments, much too long to list in this vignette. Your Secretary was much impressed and so were the electorate, for Al won handily in a year in which a Democratic governor was elected for the first time in 108 years. Unfortunately Al couldn't pull his Republican colleague through on his coat tails. But I suppose you Vermonters already know of this, and to whom you can now turn to have your grievances redressed.
Stew Paul writes that he and Lou are busy with community and church affairs, and with a bit of traveling, visiting the members of their family. Their daughter, Nancy Gorman, who graced our Fabulous FortyFifth, has a fine young son, Daniel Bruce Gorman. His father was U. S. Naval Academy '60. Stew's son. Dick '44, is studying at the University of Miami for his Master's degree, which he hopes to receive come June. . , , .
Jib Dingwall has been elected chairman of Smith, Dingwall Associates, Inc., formerly known as the executive selection division of John Orr Young Associates, New York.
Tex Rogers has written Ed Craver a most interesting letter bringing things up-to-date in Tex's life and Ed has kindly sent it to me. As some of you may know he was associated with the Dallas Times Herald for many years as reporter, dramatic and music editor, and book editor. Then followed a brief interlude with the Chicago Sun, where, at the invitation of Marshall Field, he was book editor. After this he returned to the city of his birth, and to the Times Herald. He did not come back empty-handed for in the brief year in Chicago he met Kenneth Horan, the novelist, and in six months they were married. Shortly after E. P. Dutton published Cleveland Amory's "Proper Bostonians" they asked Tex to do the similar book on Dallas in the same series. He wrote "The Lusty Texans of Dallas," which was published first in 1952 and reprinted in an enlarged edition a year ago. Tex is no longer active in newspaper work, and adds, "Not having a guardian quite yet my personal interests demand a good deal of my attention, enough for life not to hang heavily on my hands."
Our retired but restless and active BillBrown has been appointed chairman of the Warren County (N. Y.) Sesquicentennial Observance, planned for this year. As chairman he will act as coordinator of all activities in connection with the event.
George Harding Smith, whose wife, Germaine, died in November, and who is now making the hard, sad adjustment, writes me a fine letter from France. George has two daughters. Jean is married to Nathaniel C. Groby, a Navy lieutenant, who has been with the United Nations in New York since 1956, and prior to that for eight years with that organization in Geneva. They live in Rowayton, Conn. The other daughter, Colette, is married to Paul W. Douglas, Senator Douglas' son. He is chairman of the board of the Sulphur Export Corp., and their home is in New York City. When George wrote Colette had been with him since the funeral and his sister and her husband, Senator Gruening of Alaska, were coming for a visit. George plans to stay in France for the winter and writes that he would be glad to put up any classmates who might find their way to his home in Tinchebray (Orne).
At the November '16 Dinner and Gettogether at the Dartmouth Club in New York Brundage, Conley, Cressy, Dingwall, Doenecke, Lowe, Pettengill, Fred Smith, Streeter and Wilby Sully were present. Old Faithfuls Charlie Jones and Johnny Pelletier were under the weather and not able to make it. And Irving Wolff was not there because he and his family are now residing abroad in Geneva, just for pleasure, education, and skiing, as Irv puts it. He plans to be there until August and "Sixteeners visiting Geneva are invited to look me up." His address: 11 Avenue Ernest Hentsh. Phone: 35.25.77 Geneva. What a pleasant prospect for Irv and his family. He is now retired from Radio Corporation of America where he was vice-president, Electronics Research. Of all the cities I know Geneva commends itself as the ideal place to live. It has everything.
A while back when Stirling and Betty Wilson flew up to Pennsylvania in Stirling's partner's plane they dropped Betty at Patuxent, Md., where their daughter lives, and proceeded on to the Barbershop Convention. Stirling started the story there that Betty jumped from the plane via parachute because they were not allowed to land at the Navy base at Patuxent. He said that ninety per cent believed it, and, knowing Betty, were not too surprised.
As I was about to mail these notes to Hanover came word of the death of JudgePhillips on January 16 in San Francisco, and we mourn the passing of yet another classmate.
Judge was ill for quite some time prior to his death and several of his classmates were most solicitous for his care. Larry Davidson, Ken Stowell and Jack Little called often to see him, as did Guy Carpenter '10 and Muirison Taylor '28. Hiram McLellan, en route to Honolulu, stopped by to see him shortly before his death.
Mention is made in Judge's obituary of his extraordinary reading habits. Last year he told Stirling Wilson that in 1954 he started making a list of the books he read and in March 1962 he was then reading No. 1000.. either Cassirrer's "Essay on Man" or Clote's "The Fiercest Heart," an average of over 128 books per year. But Judge added: "The World Almanac shows that U.S. publication runs currently at 15,000 titles a year, which brings my percentage down to .0856. And I believe British production alone, not to mention all the other countries, is greater than ours."
Also in the same mail a note from Polly Shedd telling me that KaH has gone to the Warm Springs, Ga., Foundation for an "in patient evaluation admission." Polly accompanied him in the ambulance ride from Athens, and their son, Don, who lives in Atlanta, met them at Warm Springs. Polly has visited Karl once since then but had had no report from the resident physician. She is hopeful that the treatment there will be beneficial to Karl, a hope in which every member of the Class shares. Please drop a line, and do it today to Prof. KarlE. Shedd, Room 206 East Wing, Warm Springs Foundation, Warm Springs, Ga.
Secretary, 7 Swarthmore PL, Swarthmore, Pa.
Treasurer, 684 Burr St., Fairfield, Conn.
