1923
BIRD CHATTER
There is less time than you think. If you haye not sent in your reservation form for the biggest and best reunion the Class has ever held act now. Last minute reservations can be handled by writing or phoning Ted Caswell. (Frederick H. Caswell. 124 Kirksatll Road' Newtonville, Mass. Phone 1-617 He will be glad to seek accommodations in your behalf and be on hand to greet you on Monday, June 17.
Kanky Chun writes that Karl and Lee Klaren visited the Chuns in Honolulu in early January. The Klarens are taking slow boats on their way to Japan and then around the world.
Halsey Mills is the athletic director at Kinsley Hall School. In addition he directs soccer. Who remembers Halsey's record punt return of 114 yards in the Harvard Stadium.
Les Stevens is associated with Manhattan Shirt Company. Les and Ruth head for the Berkshire Hills every summer where they have a country house in Worthington, Mass.
This is written to remind you we have a railroad tycoon still in our midst, namely President Lewis A. Putnam of the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad. For forty years Lew has played around with small marginal railroads in varying numbers at varying times. Many of these have been subsidiaries of the Boston and Maine Railroad. He is now concerned with just the one mentioned above in which he has no ownership. In addition he is Eastern Regional Vice President of the American Short Line Railroad Association. He adds a school directorship and a bank directorship keeps me from going entirely to seed even though the inclination to do so is very strong - the 'guy upstairs' has certainly showered his blessings in giving us health food, and shelter."
After 15 years with "Doc" O'Connor and the March of Dimes Nick Bernard is now with the Americana Hotel in New York City where he is in sales. Nick will be happy to spread out the red carpet for Dartmouth men at this hotel.
Paul Morgan and the firm of which he is president, F. P. Morgan Company, is doing an outstanding job in real estate in New England. This Morgan firm "assembles" large tracts of land to create shopping centers such as Franklin Simon's, Filene's Center in Chestnut Hill, Shoppers' World in Framingham, and the new Bay Colony Center of Allied Stores in Raynham. Such tasks truly require business know-how, patience and the capacity to weigh accurately the economical potential of land in a given area for a given purpose. The latest venture of the firm is Brookline's Boylston Executive Center. Paul's hobby is being an instructor in appraising in colleges and universities in the Boston area.
Gardner and Jean Akin are enjoying Gardner's retirement to the fullest. In April of 62 they took the "Independence" to the Mediterranean. Leaving the ship in Naples they traveled all over Europe spending the last two weeks of August in England and Scotland.
Robert K. (Cocky) Lewis, Lyndon Institute s headmaster for the past five years, will end an academic career spanning 39 years when he retires next September. Cocky came to Lyndon Institute in 1924 to teach Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History, and to coach football and track. In 1930 he began teaching American History and three ears later became head of the History Department He took over the post of assistant headmaster and in 1957 became headmaster. During his administration he was instrumental in the setting up of a guidance prom-am and in bringing about improvements fn both school facilities and academic departments.
Rav and Peg Barker had a wonderful seven-week trip through Austria and Italy last summer. They sailed on the SS France" had a car and driver from Paris to the Riviera, then flew to Athens, Rome, Florence, Salzburg, and Vienna. Only one rainy day in seven weeks.
jog Pollard was honored at the football hanqauet given to the Ivy Champions of 1962 by the Alumni Council and Athletic Council He received a beautiful wrist watch at this banquet. Joe, the medicine man for the Rio Green, is the owner of the longest "viewing" stretch in college football. He has worn his grey hat and carried his black bag at 254 consecutive Dartmouth games.
Lou Wilcox, our dedicated Class Agent, is shooting for $40,000 for this our 40th reunion from Dartmouth. Lou says his and pea's only activities outside the Telephone Company are the Fund and their grandchildren.
Ed Stacker writes
In June, 1960 I retired from the practice of law Since then my principal interests have been mathematics, minor historical research, and golt. I live alone in an efficiency suite at an apartment hotel in Cleveland on 13700 Fairhill Road.
Mathematics is an ideal hobby in that each step forward opens new vistas of interest. Having never studied calculus at Dartmouth, I find somethin" of the thrill of discovery in learning the techniques of differentiation, integration, differential equations, etc.; undergraduate stuff but in the footsteps of Leibniz and Newton. Because these studies are more interesting when carried on in company, I have taken several semesters of work at Western Reserve University.
Ced Swett's background to his long tour of duty with Chevrolet consisted of being a ship chandler in Portland, Me., and a farmer in Alberta, Canada. He did very well with General Motors and moved hundreds of carloads of Chevrolets over the past 32 years. Retiring in April '60 he and Ella took a five-and-one-half-month tour of the world, returned home just in the nick of time to have a gall bladder operation. A year ago the Swetts drove to Alaska and way stations. Since then he has been very busy playing golf, collecting money for Dartmouth, United Fund, Republican party, and the Church.
Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.
Class Agent, 218 Wells St., Westfield, N. J.
