1924
Just as the last column was written after the Princeton game, so this is delayed after the Columbia game - partly because of the game but more because this retired man is doing more than ever before ... and that's the word I am hearing from several of you who have "stepped down" only to find it is a different but often increased pace. So far, none would have it otherwise. On a light vein, Arn and Grace George now have the time and the inclination to see all nine of the football gamesi this year; we were delighted to find ourselves sitting next to his daughter and her husband, the Mannings. and to get together briefly with then all. At the game, we also saw the Tuppers and bringing with them a long-time-no-see classmate and wife, the Dick Ludwigs. Come again ... sign up now for the fall reunion.
We're putting together another picture page; send in your favorite and give us all a treat. They don't have to be family, or Dartmouth activity pictures; serious or good for a laugh. I'll be receiving Christnas cards and letters from several of you soon; first one came in yesterday, and every one appreciated - especially the half-dozen family letters we are privileged to read. (Anything sent in that you'd prefer not being used here or in Butt's class letter will be enjoyed but not shared; we promise.)
S.O.S.... and to be a Santa Claus: One classmate has lost his Yearbook and we'd like to find a replacement. Perhaps some reader (especially a widow of a classmate) can help. Write or phone me if you have an Aegis to pass on; I'll give you the name and address. By coincidence. Herb Marks is happy to have both Aegis and Green Book from George Lourie's widow, Marion. Credit her offer in the Class I etter with making this happy outcome. (Butts, please copy for the next issue) And thanks, Marion; come and join us in our various class affairs, and bring Beattie Adams, or Sally Luitweiler....
We again have to report deaths in the class. Elsewhere you'll find obituaries for Bryson Reynolds II, and Raymond Shine.(I also have to add that details of their lives have not been available, to our regret, and the ties that were unfortunately broken many years ago (1923 and 1923) have never been mended. I can also add that many such "broken ties" - failure to graduate here at Dartmouth or with the class in 1924—have, on the contrary - becone very strong over the years. We have some who are "officially 1925," but they want to be and are very much a part of this class bless them.)
On the positive side, we continue to hear from some of you long silent. It's a delight to hear from George Spargo, for example. He is another busy-retired man: after 38 years in the newspaper business, with a possible free-lance-writer status, perhaps a book to write, and sharing an interest in buying-selling antiques with his wife, Mildred, and younger son Thom (Hersevs,Blodgotts, et al. please "copy"); his older son. John, is a military electronics engineer with the government - now in Hawaii, but off to some other continent when sent; he was in Germany with his French wife when their daughter was born there. Thom is an inferior decorator-painter, "currently in Boston." (Well said; our children do get around more than we ever did, although some of us are catching up a bit.) Sorry to have missed you when you were here a while back, but plan on seeing you on that "more extended visit."... He reports having met Tom Bailey, son of our Ed, on duty in the Old Bennington (Vermont) bank where George lives.... Heard again from the George Traftons, whom I reported as having re-discovered Dartmouth this past summer at Alumni College, with also Keith Draks and the Sew Bowers. Margaret glad to find Marie Trafton is a sorority sister (P.E.O.), as are other '24 wives. After leaving the Alumni College, Keith took off for more bicycling and in the grand manner up in Canada where they have a 130+ mile tour; good letter, Keith, and more always welcome. ... Also on the retiring list, the Alex Gibsons, from Andover Academy French Department to the family homestead up north of here at McIndoes Falls, Vt. Bulbs planted and landscaping have been taken care of against retiring there next summer, and with some renovation to do this fallwinter. ... From the Charlie Woods, over on Schroon Lake, N. ., the exact sunmary for the Prin.eton weekend: "The weekend ... was so perfect. To us it's the important event. Nothing we do gives us so much real pleasure." Even so. they went to the Yale game, which they have been doing for 32 years with an old Yale friend; and will be at Cornell this weekend, as usual when the game is there at Ithaca Cap Whitney writes again of his wanderings: this time a two-week auto trip through the Rockies — Onaha to Salt Lake City (where met George Allen '26, for a personally conduced tour) to Brice-Zion-Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and back through the High Rockies on the Navajo Trail... and back to the "Retirement Routine" and busier than he has time for.
More tid-bits: Ted Morehouse plans now of getting to our 50th reunion; good man, you're hereby lis ed #1 on the records Returned from two weeks in Europe this summer, with Norway and Brittany the highspots. ... Ray Hopkins is now the assistant to the manager of the Shoe Machinery Division of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation; he had been manager of the Good-year Department since 1961, but with the "Shoe" ever since 1931 (Brockton) with transfer to Boston office in 1951. .. Dr.John Coyle retired after 36 years in our local hospital as ophthalmologist, starting his lecturing in 1931; he has been a consultant for two Veterans' hospitals, at White River Junction and Springfield, Vt. ... JoeBurleigh gets around to talk with several Rotary clubs, as an important complement to being Principal at the Franklin (N.H.) High School. ... Bill and Virginia Jones celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in the home of their only son. Richard '50, in Reading. I wrote of his editorship of the business news for the Boston Globe since 1948. ... Harry Wolfe, who retired from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet advertising to teach the young advertisers-market researchers of the future at the University of Wisconsin, is going strong and expects to continue until he is 70. He writes of the heavy production schedule he sets for himself, along with his teaching. His latest is "Evaluating Media"; in manuscript, "Budgeting for Advertising." And another being co-authored with a psychologist (strong approval from here. Harry) on planning and managing promotions. Lee Ramsdell, Spud Spaulding ... all the rest of the clan ... note well. And many of my former students in my own Psychology of Advertising course ought to make sure they get and read everything Harry writes. This is not a puff; just a citation on merit.
See November issue: excellent article by Cleve Poole on Eleazar W. Sons of '24 (p. 27): John Chittick, Phil Gray, and Bill Moyes: ... Don Barilett's son, Don Jr. in Cincinnati office of Public Health; epidemiology.
Bob Misch '25, giving a lecture on winein Alumni Hull, managed to put onemember of his audience sound to sleep.His I. test book, "Quick Guide to Wine,"was published in October.
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