1920

Now is the time for all good men, and particularly Twenties, to come to the aid of the Alumni Fund!

Ben (Benjamin W.) Ayres writes that he and Ellen are back in Worcester and since their return have learned through the grapevine that Nate and Mildred Whiteside were at Fort Myers with mutual friends. Maybe next year all of us can get together down in Florida. ,

According to the April 18 issue of the Staten Island Advance Jack (John S.) Mayer has been appointed a trustee of the Richmond County Savings Bank. Jack is Vice President and Director of Dealer Relations for Distributors Group Inc., sponsors and investment managers of Group Securities Inc., with which he has been associated since 1935.

Jim (James S.) Parkes brings us up-to-date as follows:

Still living in Rumson, N. J., and still in the fuel business (oil and coal) plus heating equipment sales and installations, along with air conditioning and summer cooling. Hobbies for spare time are restoring old clocks and music. In the music department, my main pleasure is playing a Baldwin 46 electronic organ, on which I have become fairly proficient (according to Grace who sits quietly by while I perform).

Our daughter Jessie and her husband, Dr. C. V. R. Halsey, and four girls still live in Pelham, Mass., and Amherst College still has "Court" on Dr. Halsey on a dual assignment, that is, Assistant Professor teaching American Studies and also acting as Associate Dean of Admissions, which keeps him quite busy.

Our son J. C. '57-'59M graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1961 and has just completed his second year at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City where he is a resident in surgery. After that he will go to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center as a resident in orthopedics for three years, and then as a chief resident to teach for one year. Then if the U. S. Navy doesn't grab him for a two-year stint (he's a senior grade lieutenant now in the Navy Medical Corps), he hopes to go back to Hitchcock Clinic, if they have a place for him there.

That's about it as far as the Parkes family is concerned, except to say "hello" through this column to anyone who may remember me.

The Boston Herald on March 11 carried an item to the effect that the Trustees of Middlebury College, after screening 125 candidates, had named Dr. James I. Armstrong, Professor of Classics at Princeton University, to succeed Sam (Dr. Samuel S.) Stratton as President. Sam has served Middlebury for the past twenty years and is to be congratulated on the fine job he did there over the years. A month later the Boston Herald reported that Prentice-Hall, Inc. had named Sam Vice President for Education. Congratulations to Prentice-Hall and good luck to you, Sam.

Tom (Thomas R.) Carpenter writes that he retired in 1962 and moved to Jupiter, Fla., leaving two daughters and eight grandchildren in Rowaton, Conn. At the time Tom retired he gave part of his library to Dartmouth, principally an Arctic collection. He is now enjoying golf at the Tequesta Country Club and does quite a bit of fishing in the adjacent Loxahatchee River and the ocean. He presently is enjoying a brief interlude from these diversions by reason of ticker trouble. Tom says he'd be glad to see any Dartmouth friends when they are in the vicinity of Jupiter. His address is 123 Point Circle.

I am indebted to Kenneth W. Weeks '26 for news of the retirement of Jack (JohnW.) Holt, Vice President and Manager of the Rourke-Eno Paper Company in Hartford. Jack joined Rourke-Eno in 1929 and was named Sales Manager in 1934. He was made Vice President and Industrial Division Manager in 1945 and was elected Director in 1959. During his career Jack served on the Fine Paper Advisory Committee to the OP A and on many mill and merchant advisory boards. He is a member of the Boston Paper Trade Association and a charter member of the Hartford Sales Executive Club.

Sherry Baketel, General Manager of the Union Central Life Insurance Company in Philadelphia, was honored at a reception on April 22 in recognition of his 40 years of service with the company.

Here's a great human interest story which appeared recently in the Chicago American's column, "My Greatest Day in Sports." I might add that the photo which accompanied the article shows a very benign, scholarly gentleman of the old school.

Gust Cost Myers a World Record—Edwin E. (Laddie) Myers was one of a host of great track and field athletes who performed in the 19205. Myers won letters in track and football at Dartmouth and after graduation in 1920 made the United States Olympic team as a pole vaulter. He was named to the Olympic team in 1924. In the years between Olympics and for several seasons after his final Olympics, Myers competed regularly in national track and field meets. Here is his story, as told to Staff Writer Dan Moulton:

The 15 or 20 seconds during which I held the world's pole vaulting record provided me with my greatest thrill. At the same time, though, the circumstances surrounding the event furnished the greatest heartbreak I ever experienced in sports. The final tryouts for the Antwerp Olympics were held in July, 1920, in Harvard stadium. I had broken my collarbone while playing end for Dartmouth against Penn in 1919 but I'd spent a lot of time building myself up for the trials and was in peak condition on the day my event was held. For the first time in my vaulting career, I made all the heights up to 13-1 on my first at- tempt. In fact, I was told that I cleared 13-1 by better than a foot. Another Chicagoan, Frank Foss, a Cornell man, also cleared 13-1. When they moved the bar up to 13-3½, "which would have been a world record, I was certain I could make it. But at that point, my mental apparatus started functioning at a much lower level than my physical powers.

All I needed was two and a half inches, which, that day, I would, have made using my regular grip on the pole. But I made the mistake of moving my top hand several inches up the pole. I didn't make it up to the bar properly, although I was high enough and I came down on the bar On my next try, I brushed the bar off. I made a few adjustments for the third attempt and as I pulled myself up I could see that I was well above the bar. I landed in the pit, looked up, and saw that the bar was still in place. As I sat down on the vaulters' bench, I looked up to see the bar falling. The wind had blown the bar off the pegs several times that day and I thought that had happened again. But because I had come close on my successful jump and might have brushed the bar, my effort was ruled unsuccessful.

I m sure you all will be interested in a recent note from Laddie (E. E.) Myers which reads in part as follows:

"Don't tell anybody, maybe I'm not too smart, but I started bowling again after six years. Not strenuously (at least I am trying to keep it restrained), but I have joined a group I used to bowl with on a once-a-week basis. They are badly in need of substitutes since most of the regulars are vacationing south and west at this time of year. The important thing is that my hip and back have been feeling well enough to permit me to do this, and I hope I can continue to do so without injurious effects."

Keep up the good work, Laddie!

Have a good summer, all of you ... see you in October.

Secretary 600 Fifth Ave. New York 20, N. Y.

Class Agent,. 90 Iron Mine Dr., Staten Island 1, N. Y. . i