1919
Three '19ers hit the headlines recently, one being Bob Proctor, senior partner of the well known law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart, of Boston. Bob was elected a member of the board of directors of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation of Burbank, Calif. He is a director and member of the executive committee of the State Street Bank and Trust Co. of Boston, a trustee of the American Optical Co., and a director of the O.K. Tool Co. of Milford, N.H. Bob is also a former director of the Air Force Association and was a member of the Procurement Task Force of the Second Hoover Commission. Moral of the above — if there's a job to be done, give it to a busy man. 1919 extends its congratulations to Bob on his achievements. Another headline hitter was Ralph B. Welsh, who was elevated to the position of chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Morris County Savings Bank of Morristown, N.J. Budd comes from a family of bankers. His grandfather, father, and brother all served as bank presidents in nearby Hackettstown. He is a past president of the Savings Banks' Association of New Jersey, and is presently a member of the Federal Legislation Committee of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks. Congratulations likewise to Budd and a recent note from him indicates that he and Leonora will be in nearby Pompano in March and we expect to get together.
The third classmate to be featured in the news was Roger A. Clark in an article in a Pittsburgh paper entitled "Retirement Can Be Fun." As most of you will recall, Rog retired three years ago as general agent in Western Pennsylvania for Northwestern Life. He decided to make definite plans for his retirement and came up with the idea of a 'retirement planning manual' and indexed a looseleaf notebook into ten sections to indicate the interests he planned to develop. They are, in order: business, travel, community service, reading, health (personal), new friends, adult education, entertainment, home projects, and hobbies. Quoting Rog, "It's necessary to adjust to the many changes that retirement brings. With a plan, retirement isn't quite the jolt that it often is for a person." A much more complete account of our distinguished classmate's activities will appear in the next Smoke Signal.
A note from Charlie Harney of Montclair, N. J., was most welcome as we haven't heard from Charlie in a long time. Quoting in part from his letter, "Many thanks for your birthday card. It's nice to be remembered even though the years seem to pass so swiftly. For myself, I've been taking it fairly easy since a coronary forced me to slow up. In fact, I am retiring from real active work the first of the month although I am planning enough activity to keep me from being lazy. Too, it will give me a chance to do a lot of things I have wanted to do but just never took the time to do them. I do hope that one of these days I can make Hanover a stopping point and I certainly will see you."
All of you who receive the ALUMNI MAGAZINE must have read the nice article about Mose Robinson, another distinguished classmate - again our congrats to Mose for his aids to the education of youth. We have caught up with a few '19ers on the East Coast, — Alex Henderson, who avers that his golf game is slipping to the low eighties; Chet and Virginia Demond, whose game is around those same figures, and who came to see us on Ocean Ridge; Jack McIntyre, prominent insurance man and perennial bachelor from Dayton, 0., who hasn't been in Hanover since April '17 - your Secretary did everything possible to try and talk Jack into a trip to Hanover; Guy andMuriel Cogswell who came up from Fort Lauderdale, accompanied by Charlie McGoughran and Gerry Stone, members of the young class of 1920, and Kay and Jack Brotherhood, same class, from Delray. We took in the Country Club of Florida for lunch and ran into Charlie and Opal Marie Zimmerman '23 and Jack and Barbara Blunt '22, down from Hartford and Chicago respectively to sharpen up their golf games.
Ray Adams, our most efficient but modest class treasurer, spent most of January in the hospital in Hanover, but is now back home in Springfield, Vt., recuperating. Quoting, "Cotty Larmon found out that I was marooned and he was most faithful in calling every few days, and I shall always be grateful to him." Bill (Grogan) McMahon always comes through with a gem, quoting, "Was sure glad to note in the last Smoke Signal that (Eddie) Fiske is opening up a catering system. He should do well since he should know the number of megatanes in that greasy kid stuff he has been handling, to properly grease the frying pans — he should be able to curl little swirls on the buns, and the birdies he says he shot on those miniature golf courses he plays should make a delicious deep crow pie. I'll recommend him to my next grandchild for her coming out party if he will give Batch a commission." Jack McCrillis notes that "I celebrated my sixty-sixth birthday skiing with Sherm Adams '20, who was showing me the fantastically steep and wide new trails on Cannon Mountain (N.H.). He seems to have as much steam and stamina as when we skied together in the D.O.C. days. I wish I did." Jack, all your classmates are glad that you are in one piece after that.
Holden K. (Lefty) Farrar, resident partner of Smith Barney Co. in Chicago, writes that "These class birthday wishes seem to come with increasing frequency. I am always glad to get them but it is distressing to realize how much shorter the years are becoming. (Secretary's note, - here Lefty gets in a plug for the Class Officers.) I think it is a great thing for this class to have held together as well as it has and it is, of course, due to a few loyal guys like you who have been good enough to carry the responsibility. I am not going to burden you with any details of my progress or lack thereof other than to say that two of our three sons graduated from Hanover in 1945 and 1949 and the third son broke out of the corral and is in the class of '52 at" Trinity. With considerable help from their wives they have produced a total of eight grandchildren for us to admire. With five of them being young men, it looks like more business for Dartmouth College."
The Miami Dartmouth Club sponsored a dinner at the South Pacific Polynesian Restaurant in Hallandale on February 28 and the affair was well attended by local Dartmouthites and us visiting firemen from the North. Representing 1919 were Si and Mrs.Stein, Guy and Muriel Cogswell and your Secretary and Marion. President John Dickey was on hand and gave one of his usual fine talks on what is going on in Hanover and emphasizing the role of the associated schools, Tuck, Thayer, and the Medical School, in connection with a liberal arts College.
Secretary, 3 Prospect St., Hanover, N.H.
Class Agent, Route 1, Box 815-H, Venice, Fla.
