1920
After having been away for four months as I was approaching the house I saw a car driving out of the driveway. My curiosity got the better of me so I made chase, and who was it but Ken and Hilda Spalding, stopping by to see if we had yet arrived home. From them I learned that Doris Richardson has returned to the Laconia area after a winter in Florida and that Marge Pope has been in the hospital for surgery. The best wishes go to Marge for a speedy recovery. Charles and Margaret Stevens have left Siesta Key, Fla., and have returned to their home in New Brunswick, N. J. I hear by the grapevine that he is going to build at Siesta Key. Another member of the rocking chair brigade - Hal Bidwell retired as president of Bidwell Hardware Company as of January 1, 1965. His brother, an M.I.T. man, will take charge and send the coupons to Hal. By the way, Hal was the one that traveled the greatest distance to the March Frolic in Concord. From Hal we learn that Art Smith has been in the hospital this winter with a lung infection. He is on leave of absence from his paper, the Hartford Courant. Best wishes for a quick' recovery, Art! We all remember him as publicity chairman for the Reunion last June.
Ned and Helen DeRouville of Worcester have been seen on the east coast of Florida, Ned having recently retired from his work at the U.S. Envelope Company. I understand they are looking for a place on the east coast for winter living.
Doc and Harriet Miller went on a cruise in March through the Caribbean area with landings in Venezuela to visit Caracas and Cartagena in Colombia. Harriet has been very active in the Civil Rights Movement in Massachusetts and son Dusty, who is finishing his third year at Yale Law School is writing his senior year thesis on the Civil Rights Movement. It so happens that Doc's father spent four years in the Civil War volunteering from northern New York State and was one of Sherman's staff officers. He took part in 22 Civil War battles including the last two at Gettysburg. Because of these interests Doc and Harriet and Dusty joined a chartered plane load of a hundred members of the Massachusetts Council of Churches and flew down to Montgomery at 1:00 a.m. from Boston on March 25 where they joined 50,000 other sympathizers in the Civil Rights Movement and took part in the last leg of the Selma to the Capitol building in Montgomery, Ala. This was a tremendously interesting experience for them and Doc feels he has had the opportunity to complete his father's Civil War mission. Doc and Harriet have signed up for this year's convocation of the Dartmouth Alumni College and as they attended the Alumni College last year they will enter as sophomores this year. Last year's Alumni College was a great success and Doc is hoping many other '20s will avail themselves of the wonderful opportunity and the fun that goes with it. In The Bulletin John Dickey said last summer that he had never known a visiting group to have a more enjoyable and meaningful experience than the gang at Alumni College. There are a few spaces open for those who wish to register for the August 15-26 Session. It is interesting also to note that parents of the student body are being offered an opportunity to enroll in the Alumni College.
Charles and Elsa Crathern went to Peterboro recently to see the movies of the Danube canoe trip taken by the Dartmouth boys last summer. They said it was wonderful to see the experiences the boys had and urged all to see it if and when the picture is shown in their vicinity. In fact, you might even arrange to get this film to show for some of your civic money-raising affairs.
I went to Hanover May 6 to see Dartmouth baseball team play Yale. While there I talked with Sherry Baketel who had just flown in for a Beta meeting and for the Class Officers' weekend. I also met the dapper Charlie McGoughran on the street on his way to buy a sweatshirt. What he would want a sweatshirt for I wouldn't know but that was his story. From him I learned that Laddie Myers has deserted Chicago and Hinsdale, Ill., for Clearwater, Fla. Mel Merritt has opened his new condominium apartment in Brookline near the Country Club which must have taken a lot of doing. I saw the Honorable Bill Carter who tells me that he and John Amsden are due to retire in June.
Al Foley is re-apportioning Vermont and trying to reduce the size of the Legislature which will amount to more pay for less men. Leave it to Al to dream that one up. I hear also that Eddie Bowen is stopping off on his way from California at Fort Knox to see his old Artillery School barracks - and to get a glimpse of the gold in Fort Knox. Eddie didn't have his goat with him when he started. A change of address just came in for Eddie also, from Fiddlers Lane, Loudonville to Fiddlers Lane, Newtonville. Which moved, Eddie, you or the town line?
Word just came from Jack Mayer that he would not be able to get to Hanover for the Class Officers' weekend over May 7. Jack and Margaret had been in Barbados for a week and were about to leave when Margaret slipped on a terrazzo floor breaking two bones in her wrist and badly smashing her hand. Although she is now feeling better she is not able to travel and Jack feels she shouldn't be left alone. Sorry Margaret, we'll miss you and have a speedy recovery and be careful!
We have for some time known that our John Beranek left the residue of his estate to Dartmouth but didn't know how much. It is now known that $309,262 has been received from his estate by the College recently. John, born of humble parentage in La Crosse, Wis., after completing high school went to work for Mr. Louis P. Benezet '99 who was then superintendent of schools there. Mr. Benezet became interested in and fond of John and not only urged him to go to Dartmouth but arranged for scholarship aid so John was able to attend college. After he received his M.B.A. from Tuck School in 1921 he worked several years with a Seattle paper company and a bank, and in 1929 he became personal secretary and assistant to the president of the Boeing Aircraft Co., a position he held until his retirement in 1963. John had sent in his reply card that he planned to attend Reunion in June of 1964 but died in January of that year.
The theme of the Hopkins Center this spring is Japan. A Japanese play is in process and the sculpture court has been transformed into a Japanese garden. And — if you didn't notice it, look back to the March issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE featuring Japan, and on Page 24 you will see a picture of Shiro Akahoshi taken in his garden in Japan last year with his wife and daughter and with them is Alice Ungar, as you know, wife of Leo Ungar.
Another has been called - Tommie Glines of Greenwich, Conn., died April 15, in the Greenwich Hospital after a brief ness. An In Memoriam will appear in this or a subsequent issue and the Class extends its sympathy to Louise and the other surviving members of Tom's family.
A Bon Voyage to Sammie and DorothySampson who with son George are leaving in June for a two-month tour of the European countries.
Don't forget - it is Alumni Fund time.
This will be the last issue of the ALUMNIMAGAZINE (except July which is for Reunion news only) until October. Let me know where you are and what you are doing — and if you are in our vicinity do look us up. Although our mail address is Center Harbor, we live in Moultonboro on Route 109 a little more than Vi mile south of junction of 25 and 109 in direction of Melvin Village and Wolfeboro. An old Cape, charcoal gray with maroon shutters. 'Bye for now! Have a good summer! Drop a card!
It is expected the College will repeat the plan of having a luncheon in Leverone Field House before the Pennsylvania game on October 9. There will be a meeting of the executive committee at this luncheon.
Secretary, R.F.D. 1, Center Harbor, N. H.
Class Agent, 90 Iron Mine Dr., Staten Island 1, N. Y.
