1943
Nothing like facing a blank page first day of 1966 and waiting for the Muse to strike. Been counting how many New Year's days I've spent trying to make the January deadline. Conclusion: too many. Thanks for your Christmas cards. Heard from long-silent Ernie Sauls, postcarding from Nuclear, N. Mex., where Irma and he have been developing a process for expediting the hatching of chicken eggs. Everything in the broiler industry, Ern says, is automated except the eggs. If Irm and he can track that problem, they'll revolutionize the industry. Ern's had a colorful career. .. . EddieO'Brien could win a photographic prize for the seven handsome children on his card. Eddie attended Dartmouth games this fall, claims no relationship to Dartmouth star Bob O'Brien, advised Bob Blackman not to go to lowa, and sent him congratulatory wire borrowed from an old Irish ballad: "Like the black sheep of old, he returns to the fold, Little town in the old County Down."
San Marino, Calif., is a long jump from New York City, but Paul Harvey jumped with wife and five daughters, 7, 5, 4, 2 and six months. Paul is chief of the orthopedic section and associate professor at the University of Southern California Medical School. Good Dartmouth man, Paul laments that the best he can do with all those women in his family is chaperone a Green Key dance one day.
Larry Johnson claims the details of suburban living in New Canaan, Conn., can await our meeting at the Twenty-fifth Reunion, as if being parent to four daughters - 15, 13, 10, 8 - isn't about the most challenging, frustrating, irritating, compensating experience any happy commuter can have. Larry is an attorney at Ted Bates & Company where he works with Mike Frothingham, another modest guy who assumes details of suburban living are interesting only to those who live it.
One guy not exactly suburban is Fred Wallis, Captain USN and temporary resident of Teheran, who spends considerable time in the Persian Gulf working with the Iranian Navy. Weather in winter is lovely and in summer ranges between 130-140° F. Prof, and Mrs. Sykes of the Dartmouth, music family dined with the Wallis family during their recital and lecture before the Iran-American Society in November. Fred's two years' duty expires next summer and he'll return to the States,
The Keene, N. H., Sentinel reports that Robert M. Clark, distinguished insurance tycoon and familiar to millions as Popular Bob, is making his first try for public office (office unknown). Bob has two children, thus explaining his Hanover absence these past reunions. Bob Bowman somehow finds time to be advisor to the League of Women Voters in Norwalk along with bank directorships and many civic activities. .. . Neglected to mention last month I had seen one of the Cook brothers at Cornell. Could have been Kermit or Kevin; I gave up 25 years ago trying to identify them. Both nice fellows. . . . Bob Lappin needs your support in those $7.50 class dues if you haven't already paid. Our busy treasurer is just warming up on us in his role as general chairman, North Shore Committee, State of Israel Bonds; he's helping raise a hundred million bucks. From his community activities guess he doesn't spend too many nights watching TV.. . . Al LeMarbre recalls when Bob Lappin twisted his ankle climbing Mt. Moosilauke in the fall of freshman year. Al is an M.D. specializing in anaesthesia, whose seven children keep him awake at nights. One boy is senior class president and track star at Natick and hoping for Dartmouth. . . . ChurchLeonard has one son in the Navy, one son at Wittenberg University, a daughter senior in high school, and a daughter freshman in high school. All this in Pittsburgh, which Dorothy and Church plan to leave someday for Hanover. . . . Stan Calder is back in the Montclair circle after some New York City living. His son is a junior in high school. . . . Missed seeing AI McBean at Cornell. He planned to attend. Al's happy face beams from the Hamden, Conn., Chronicle, where he is chairman of the Northern Branch YW-YMCA. Al is assistant vice president, secretary and treasurer of the Southern New England Telephone Company.
Larry Noble left Puerto Rico and all seven Nobles settled in West Redding, Conn. Larry works in lower Westchester (doesn't say at what) but doesn't like that 100-mile commute. Saw Ernie Ball and Tuss Hand at Yale and later dined with John Jenkins and family in Westport.
Lots of names which should be in this column. So what's new with Paul Randall or Henry Keck or Dick Lansburgh or Larned Waterman or Shorty Shaw or PaulWeinbrenner or the other 163 guys who haven't graced this column in the last two years. Unless you have a passion for anonymity, let's hear from you.
Secretary, 414 Rosedale Dr. Pottstown, Pa.
Treasurer, 60 Little's Point, Swampscott, Mass.
