1914
"Those who first see light in June to lifelong happiness attune," from Old Icelandic: Breslin, Buckley, Cook, Fahey, Fairfield, French, Giles, W. H. Gould, Morse, H. H. Smith, Snow, and R. C. Woodman.
There is good news at the head of the column this month! Lay Little was married April 22 to Mrs. Ruth Stoddard Smith. The whole class unites in wishing many, many years of happiness to this outstanding member of the Dartmouth community and his wife.
Still in the Pawtucket division: Mary Mrs. Lewy Litflefield writes that Lewy is recovering nicely from a serious operation in Rhode Island Hospital. He is now able to sit up, and I suppose already considering just where to put those shots over the tennis net.
I suppose the rarest pleasures are the more enjoyed. This refers to an excellent, long letter from Ken Fuller in Lenox, Mass. Ken, after graduating from the Harvard Business School, started to devote his talents to the banking field, starting with a small savings bank which he built up to a commercial bank with over 800 employees. Even so, he has managed to get in several trips to Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Ken is now retired in one of the fairest villages in New England. Ken has two daughters - loan, married and living in New York, and Martha, living and working in Boston.
Win Ross has finally heeded the appeal for news and writes the following: 1. He is still alive, 2. He is not hospitalized, 3. He is not confined to his bed and states that the same three classifications apply to his good wife, Katherine. He concludes with the wish, "Hoping you are the same or more so."
If you don't believe in miracles you are about to change what may have been a lifelong conviction. We've had an excellent letter from Win Mayo in Leominster, Mass. Win has long been known as "Mr. Leominster." He has been active in all sorts of civic affairs, is on many directorates, has been president of Leominster Hospital for many years, head of a company that makes famous shirts for men, and his major commercial interest is in one of the most successful plastics organizations in the East. Win's son graduated from Dartmouth in '38 which made three generations of Mayos on the Hanover plain. Win lays modest claim also to two daughters, one of whom is graduating from Colby this year, and five grandsons. He and Claire have been married for 47 years and have managed to go round the world more than once and now spend a good deal of time in Florida. Win says "The wintry blasts of good old New England do not seem so stimulating as they used to in bygone days."
His right name is Carlton L. Kingsford, but you don't know him under that name because he always was "Doc" and always will be - the active sage of East Wakefield, N. H. He is a good man to cultivate if you live in that town because he is the tax assessor, mingling these somewhat unpleasant necessaries with all sorts of town activities largely slanting toward the educational needs of the youngsters. He didn't write whether or not he still tinkles a mean piano, but I assume this talent never leaves. It isn't far from East Wakefield to New London, Doc, and we'll rent a piano if you'll come over.
Would you recognize a man by the name of Paul Howe - or would you identify him more quickly if we called him String? String is still living in Bridgeville, Penna., and still active in behalf of the class donations to the Alumni Fund. He is retired, but that couldn't last long in the case of String though. He's no-& a consultant for a firm with which he was formerly a serious competitor. There can be no higher tribute.
The last letter we sent out must have rated with the megaton bomb because LeonHobbs responded beautifully. Leon is busy indeed with two Hobbs Realty Trusts and is Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Middlesex National Bank, Treasurer and Secretary of the Hampton Beach Improvement Association, has the same wife with whom he started and two grandchildren. A large part of this happiness may stem from the fact that Leon spends his vacations in New Hampshire. If this is bigotry, make the most of it.
Our Treasurer, Charlie Bachelder, is another '14er who has recently tested the efficiency of the anesthetists and the keenness of the scalpel. Charlie had no doubts about these important features in New England so he tried it out in St. Petersburg. According to all the reports, the results are very good.
Mat Hallett has finally gone into complete retirement as an officer and director of the far-flung Kendall Company. This will give him plenty of time to continue working on the beautiful furniture for which this erstwhile pitcher is justly famous.
The letterhead is printed in Dartmouth green and the head of the outfit is our own Gordon Sleeper. Gordon writes from Scarsdale, N. Y., but beginning May 1 Gordon will be at the Dart-Well Nurseries in Newport, Vt. We hope to get over there this summer to see if we can pick up a cart load of trees at the 1914 price level. Gordon extends a cordial welcome to all '14ers to come visit his very worthwhile tree farm.
Magic again! Abe Newmark writes that he and his brother, Joe, Dartmouth '16, are still active in their "Country Store" in Salem. Abe may call it what he wants to — it's his store — but we've seen it and to our untutored eyes it looks a lot like Saks Fifth Avenue. Abe has a very good work arrangement whereby when he wants to travel the little brother takes over, and when the brother's heel begins to itch, Abe signs the checks. He closes his letter with a rather cryptic "Please remember me to that quondam cribbage player, Bill Breslin."
We continue to get reports on the progress of the Golden Book. The specifications that we have seen indicate that Ellsworth Buck and his committee will give us a book which will certainly take rank with the best ever produced for such a momentous occa- sion.
When the du Pont Company chose Jesse Stillman for their research department and gradually elevated him to the top echelon, they perhaps didn't fully realize what an excellent correspondent and doer Jesse is. He's still President of the Delaware State Council of Churches which makes him a regular commuter to Dover. Jess and his good wife have just returned from a meeting of the Central Atlantic Area Council YMCA and have also been able to visit his married daughter in Akron, Ohio. Now that Jess is retired from du Pont, one of his major projects is building a grandfather clock. We can guarantee in advance that it will be a very worthy successor to Daniel Quare, Benjamin Rittenhouse, Thomas Bagnall, and the others who made this style of home decoration a thing of rare and cherished beauty. When we come down to Wilmington, we certainly want to see this masterpiece.
Bert Symonds writes from Marblehead, Mass., that, while he didn't graduate from Dartmouth, he made a great many warm and wonderful friends while there. Those of us who remember Bert can understand why. He's that kind of "fella." Bert retired from one of the major banks some years ago and has been very active in public relations and public developments with the Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Company. Bert is another one of those New Engenders who cannot take the winters for long and has to see in person what other '14ers are basking in the sun of Florida.
About that Alumni Fund: I know a man who was in college with us and whose record was promising. The first years after graduation saw him gradually rising to a position of deserved and secure prominence in his chosen work. He was on his way to industrial acclaim and wealth. Then came tragedy - and his shattered family was forced to move to a far country and to start again at the bottom. Again the slow rise, the dogged determination to justify the line, her faith in them remains." Again the bright future and then — 1929! Just to provide bare subsistence and shelter he was reduced even to selling the family silver for what little it would bring in those grim depression years. Again tragedy - a series of major operations - more borrowings, more "lights that failed," more letters to relatives. They couldn't do much, but they all helped a little.
And now, after his years of trials, struggle, and desperation, but never of hopelessness, that man has just received a card from the Alumni Fund Office. "You should be proud of your record as a son of Dartmouth for your unbroken record of contributions to the Alumni Fund since the beginning."
Have you done your part for Win Snowand Dartmouth?
Secretary, Far well Lane, New London, N. H.
Class Agent, 21 Orlando Ave., Winthrop 52, Mass.
