1952
Wherever you live in the Continental U.S. you've probably been hit pretty hard by this winter. Guess we've had it about as mild as anyone here in the New York area, considering our latitude.
From reports I've had I guess Hanover is pretty well buried under the snow at this writing and that means several of our classmates are experiencing a real old Dartmouth winter. What got me thinking about those chaps up there is word from TonyQuimby. Tony's back in Hanover as assistant director of the Office of Financial Aid for the College. My informants report that the Quimbys are staying at the old Quimby homestead in Plainfield. So "Mother Quimby's" is once more open winters though, I suspect, on a much more restricted basis than it was in days of yore.
Tony has several other fortunate '52's to keep him company up there. Ray Buck, our erstwhile scribe, is still enjoying the rigors of north country living; so are ChuckQueenan and Dave Edson, all three being gainfully employed by Alma Mater. Making a living without the fold are Dr. AndrewStewart and Roger Eastman. "Ronald" (Doc Stewart, that is) is a pediatrics resident at Mary Hitchcock and will soon, we assume, be prescribing pills for the young Quimbys, Bucks, Queenans, Edsons et al., which pills, we assume, they will pick up from pharmacist Eastman at Eastman's Drug Store.
Another of our fortunate few who lives in Hanover was recently married there. On November 10, in St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Dave Rennie took Miss Marion Carole O'Malley of Gloucester, Mass., to have and to hold. And we send our best to the newly weds.
The dangers of scribing may not be apparent from my jolly, rubicund, middle-age appearance, but let me tell you this secretary work is full of pitfalls. From my column last month on educators I left out no fewer than seven names, air of which appear on cards right before my very eyes. So, in fear of angry words of recrimination, I forthwith amend last month's notes with the following:
Ed Baldridge is instructor of history at Muhlenberg College; Dick Gagne is head of the language department at Lawrence Academy, Lawrence, Mass.; Henry McKean is associate professor of mathematics at MIT; Bob Foley is alumni director at Kimball Union Academy; Chuck Schuck works for the Board of Education in Mount Vernon. N. Y.; Jock Morgan is assistant director of admissions for Pingry School in New Jersey; and Frank Logan has left Hanover to be director of admissions at Antioch College in Ohio.
A couple of December promotions in the business world are of interest to the Class of '52. Up in Boston Berkshire Life Insurance Company had the good sense to elect Al Fallows a vice president. Al joined Berkshire in 1959 and is founder and secretarytreasurer of the newly organized New England. Health Underwriters Association.
Down close to home here, at 730 Third Avenue, New York, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America has appointed Bill Fisher associate mortgage officer. Bill, who lives in NYC, started with TIAA in 1956. Before joining their staff he was affiliated with National Distillers, Inc., and the Plastic Film Corporation. TIAA is the non-profit organization providing retirement and insurance benefits to staff members of colleges and universities, including Dartmouth.
For those of you who have so faithfully followed Al Reich's convalescence I want to report that, as of this writing, Al should be moving from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to the Rusk Institute in New York City. Next month I'll try to have full details, but those of you in the area might make an effort to welcome Al to town.
In closing I shall just mention one note of extreme interest and some small apprehension which has come to my attention. Jim Fraser, editor and publisher of the Contrary Library in Wells, Vt., has become quite a popular lecturer around Vermont and upper New York of late. I mention this in hopes that he is not drawing inspiration for his subject from this column, the subject being: "Historical and Recent Examples of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Madness of Crowds." Albeit I'm sure we wish Jim good fortune on the lecture circuit, and I wish you all a Happy Saint Paddy's, or whatever else you want to celebrate, until April. Cheers!
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