1925

Summer has passed all too quickly and here we are facing another academic year of publication after a three-months' respite. Much has happened during this period, without doubt, but little has been reported.

Of particular note is the reduction of our number through the passing of five classmates: Bill McNulty, Ed Hewitt, Bill Simms,Jack Mahool, and Tom Gedge.

While at the class officers' meeting in Hanover in May, we learned that six classmates, together with their wives, were planning to attend the Alumni College session. They were: Bob Canfield, Fred Dodd, MarkEmerson, Jack Norris, Jack Per-Lee, and Frank Kennedy.

We have reached the stage in life when retirements and semi-retirements occur with increasing frequency. As most of you know, our leader, Ford Whelden has retired as the Development Office's Bequest and Estate Planning Executive Secretary. In this connection the Association passed a resolution at its meeting last spring which declared "profound admiration and gratitude ... for his inspiring leadership ..., his many services to Dartmouth and higher education generally and especially for his unsurpassed love of this College."

Eddie Blake retired July 31 as headmaster of Rumson Country Day School, which he helped to start forty years ago. The news release reported that Eddie is considered a top track official and officiates at numerous events. He was instrumental in establishing Rumson Country Day School's annual field day and other traditional athletic events. A former Rumson councilman, he has served on the borough's Juvenile Conference Committee. A top softball pitcher, he played for the Monmouth County Firemen's League, the Red Bank YMCA and other teams. Last year he compiled a history of Rumson for the Rumson Improvement Association.

Tag Tagney is reported to have retired (early) from IBM and as a sideline entered the real estate business, which was always a hobby of his. Brad Smith has retired as president of Insurance Company of North America, the $1.7 billion property, casualty and life underwriter. But he will continue to serve as chairman and chief executive officer. Brad, incidentally, has been elected an overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. He is also a director of Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co., Esterbrook Pen Co., Western Savings Fund Society, the ITE Circuit Breaker Co., Adela Investment Co. and Pacific Employers Insurance Co., and a trustee of Drexel Institute of Technology.

Another retirement is that of Jock Brace, who is stepping out from the office of chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the First National Bank of Boston, after having played an active role in the bank's growth for more than four decades. He will serve as chairman of the executive committee and will continue to direct policy for the bank's investment and international banking activities.

Here are a few odds and ends, courtesy of Larry Leavitt, who incidentally is due a round of applause for having done another bang-up job during this year's Alumni Fund Drive, when he led the class to another Green Derby win. Scoof Newton's son, Dick, got his Ph.D. at Harvard in June. Stu Edgerly's son, Bill, was elected one of three vice presidents of the M.I.T. Alumni Association in June. He is vice president and treasurer of Cabot Corp.

Clint Martin and wife spent six weeks in Ireland last spring, covering a distance of 3500 miles. Bob McKennan spent the summer in Alaska on a grant and planned to do some hunting there after completing his mission. Bill Jenkins, Hap Hefler, and DickNye participated in the Bermuda race (in different boats). Dick came in first in Class B. Pete Kelsey's son, Preston, curate at St. Thomas' Church and chaplain to Episcopal students at Hanover, was married last spring to Mrs. James A. M. Hickin at Hanover.

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