1930

Hello, Thirty - Well, hello Thirty! Theme song for a rip-roaring reunion June 14 to 16, 1965. Start planning now, all your old friends want to see you and your family in Hanover those dates. Bring your children, or as many as you can persuade to be with you. This correspondent has been going to Dartmouth reunions since 1912, and remembers with a lot of pleasure those held by his father's class, including the privilege of meeting his many distinguished classmates. Your children attending our reunions will have similar memories in years to come.

This leads me to essay another matter. It has always been fashionable to list the sons of a class; conversely I think it might be of interest to list those of us whose fathers attended Dartmouth, and hoping I have not forgotten any, the roster is as follows:

Thirtyman Dick Barnard Nels Blake Wally Blakey Si Chandler John French Ave Gould

Ned Grant Ranny Hobbs Jack Keating Pete Lillard Bill O'Brion Bill Putnam Fred Watson

Father Frank E. Barnard '91 Herbert W. Blake '98 John M. Blakey '87 James R. Chandler "98 John French '86 Wilbur C. Gould '80 (grandfather) William W. Grant '03 Don P. Hobbs '04 John F. Keating '97 Walter H. Lillard '05 William L. O'Brion '97 George W. Putnam '05 William H. Watson '03

Now, to introduce a lively new citizen, one Peter Marsters Mitchell, born November 16, who, as far as is known, is the first who will be able to say for the rest of his life that both his grandfathers were Thirty-men, Al "Special Delivery" Marsters and Jim Mitchell.

Charlie and Eleanor Raymond's son Alan, a freshman at Dartmouth, won a "Yuletide" scholarship in a contest sponsored by Marvel Engineering Company of Chicago, among children of its customers. Twenty scholarships were awarded competitively, among hundreds of contestants and were set up in lieu of the usual type of Christmas gifts which had been the custom for many years.

Antiques Magazine devoted a feature article in a recent issue to the collection assembled by Tom and Mary Dunnington, in the ten years prior to Tom's death in 1963. Mary is continuing to live in their home in Dover, known as "The Brick House," built by Tom's great-grandfather in 1850. The furniture, paintings, clocks, and pewter shown are worthy of museum status and are tremendously admired by this correspondent who by comparison is indeed a rank amateur.

In last month's Connecticut Life Meade Alcorn outlined a nine-point program for rehabilitation of the Republican party, after the November debacle, and the manner in which it can work to recapture the confidence of the people.

Merit White, C.E., M.S., and Ph.D. (quite a string of degrees, but still several behind Dr. Horn) will lecture this year at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and will deliver other guest lectures in Europe, plus visiting several laboratories and doing some research work. Merit is head of the civil engineering department at the University of Massachusetts; he is known internationally for his research into the effects on buildings and other structures of high intensity forces, such as nuclear blasts or earthquakes. He served as a bomb damage analyst in Germany after World War II and as an official observer at the Eniwetok Atoll bomb tests.

In ceremonies held at Otis Air Force Base, Falmouth, Mass., Lt. Col. Carl Jenson earned a 20-year service medal for his participation in the activities of the Connecticut Air National Guard. In civilian life Carl is real estate editor of the Hartford Courant, which, as a matter of general interest to you all, has been celebrating its 200th anniversary this past year.

Herb Garratt is president of the New Hampshire Council of the Telephone Pioneers of America; previously he served as member-at-large and as vice president. Herb and Mary live in Portsmouth where he takes a serious interest in numerous civic programs; their two children are Gail and David.

Ed Troidle, long silent, wrote a good long account of himself and his family, which, to condense to a few lines, reports that he and Elsa now have six grandchildren, that both their sons graduated from Holy Cross, that Ed has worked for the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets for 29 years, and that he is senior auditor in the Division of Milk Control, necessitating a considerable amount of regular travel throughout the state.

Milt and Edith Fleischman took their three children to Europe last summer, buying a VW bus and, able to speak French, German, and a smattering of Italian, toured for eight weeks seeing many places of interest off the beaten paths, also visiting the more routine tourist spots. Having used up his accumulated leave, that of a U. S. Government employee and looking forward to doing Europe again, Milt says his returning for 1965 reunion is precluded.

Bud and Annabel Day have been in Europe for well over a year in his assignment for International Standard Engineering (ITT). He writes "What's the matter? Don't any of you fellows ever get to Frankfurt - the hub of Europe? If you do, please call me at my office - 779423; or at home - 520604." They are enjoying life in West Germany and have had a chance to do some extensive traveling this past year. Strangely enough, here is a note from Ray Bernhardt telling that Ray Jr. enlisted in the Army and currently is stationed in Frankfurt.

There have come to hand a couple of copies of the October issue of "The Geisinger Indicator," written and published from 680 West End Avenue, New York, by our classmate, Bob Geisinger, who also has had a career in management consulting: While his outlook on the forward trend of national activity seems optimistic, he does include a paragraph of caution - "With all of the optimism prevailing, now is the time to peruse a new book titled 'Bear Markets' for some interesting ideas about how to survive and make money in them" (book not authored by Bob).

Milt Shultz wants it recorded that recently he too has been a successful written exam taker. Leaving Interwoven in the fall, he has been taking the courses in stock market techniques necessary to sit for the exam for registered representative. Having passed, he is scheduled to start managing the Reading, Pa., office of Coggeshall & Hicks in February, giving him and Grace a chance to move from Mamaroneck back to the Pennsylvania Dutch country, where they will be living at 105 Octagon Avenue, Sinking Spring, Pa.

Quickies: From Jim Dunlap - "For a real challenge, get in the livestock business." Ray Olsen has been named a vice president of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston. From Dick Funkhouser - "After ten years with Northrop, I retired September 1. We moved back to northern California and are living in Saratoga, facing the Santa Cruz mountains in one direction and San Francisco Bay in the other." Art Schwartz is serving as relocation aide of the New London, Conn., redevelopment agency. His previous occupations have been with Electric Boat Company and more recently in real estate. Ted and Betty Wolf's son Roger '60 is teaching law, in Spanish, in La Paz, Bolivia, and his wife Nancy is teaching English in nearby Cochabamba. Paul Duback, practicing law in Milwaukee and with a son attending Princeton, takes a dim view of the national political situation and the endless maze of regulations and directives emanating from Washington.

For about two weeks after Thanksgiving there was a tremendous bridge tournament going on in Dallas wherefrom, in the daily reports by the bridge columnists, Sam Stayman's name appeared with clocklike regularity. Indulging only in what Sam would call country club bridge, we enjoyed reading about how he and the other experts do it. Unfortunately he missed by a whisker qualifying to represent the United States in the 1965 international championship tournament to be held in Buenos Aires.

For running beyond my word allowance, news from Gilly Gilbert, Al Smith, Harry Casler, Hank Wood, Si Chandler, Gene Zagat, Ed Sprankle, Sandy McCulloch, and others will wait until next month. If you haven't written genial Ed Butterworth your intention about the June reunion, he really would appreciate knowing as soon as you possibly can tell him with reasonable certainty.

Secretary, 30 Boxwood Dr. Stamford, Conn.

Treasurer, 6 Emerson Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass.