1932
These notes are being started at the end of January while the knee-high snow is drifting to the tops of the fences. Washington is snowbound. No plow, much less a car, ventured through our part of suburbia for several days. With wood burning in the fireplace, provisions ample and utilities operative, Anne, daughter Jane and I are comfortable and hope you were the same if you were in the eastern snow.
The decision to go to Hawaii was a good one - obviously influenced by the snow in Washington. Whether the decision to rebomb was a good one or not remains to be seen. What birdland image do you favor - hawks, doves or owls?
Coach Bob Blackmail gave an excellent talk on the football team's fine '65 season before a large group of Washington alumni. Among those present were Jack Pyles, Don MacPhail, Jack McRae, Dick Cleaves, Ben Burch, Chan Griggs (who likes the Class of '31 better) and your sec. Dick is leaving Louisville for Washington to take on a new job in economic development with the Dep't of Commerce.
Ted Ellis says he has "four kids: Karen, a soph at B.U.; Bob, a freshman at Ithaca College; Betty and Joe in high school. I'm with Sears Roebuck and Company for the past twenty years. Hobby - traveling (but still mostly through the N. Y. Times Travel section)."
Buzz Burrows tells of planned travel: "Helen and I leave February 18 for a five-week tour of South America. Final destination, Buenos Aires to visit our daughter and her family."
Glad to hear from Ben Marshall: Am alumni fund chairman in Boston area in '66 for my alma mater, Clark University, but will always stay close to Dartmouth and '32 in my loyalty and participation. Am enjoying life in Winchester, Mass., with wife Connie (Smith '33) and my job with Gulf Oil on wholesale fuel in Eastern Massachusetts. Have four grandchildren with the fifth due to daughter Lissa (Smith '63) in Cheshire, Conn. She is married to a teacher at Cheshire Academy. Son Stephen (UNH '60) is Navy jet pilot living in Norfolk, Va., with wife, son and daughter."
John B. Keller reports that "about three years ago I changed to a job with the city of Toledo in air and water pollution control. Since I am supposed to have a nodding acquaintance with science and I've always been bashful about tipping my hat in that direction, I've been plugging away at some elementary night courses at Toledo University. Often in the literature on sanitation I run across Dick Hazen's name and once a picture of his father, an early pioneer. Communities are fumbling out this way with the problem. I wish Dick lived nearer so I could ask him questions."
Milt Alpert was in Washington in January to help his mother celebrate her 80th birthday. He says son Bruce '69 is doing well at Hanover.
Ray Brookby gives his current picture: "Still in the real estate business in Tallahassee. Active in state association. Two daughters in college; the older at Parsons, Fairfield, La., and the other a freshman at Florida State. Activities - Elks, Lions, V.P. American Cancer Society, Chamber of Commerce. Would like to see any '32s going through town to South Florida. Being state capitol, politics is the primary hobby of most Tallahasseans. We have three other alumni in town, all at FSU. Come see us! Hope to get to Hanover for the 35th."
Paul sent us a card from Hackensack saying "So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." The earlier Paul wrote so many fine and lengthy epistles, we might feel that the latter-day son might have said a bit more. Granted - his message is basic and well to be heeded.
From Phoenix, Ken Todd writes that he is the vice president, trust department of Valley National Bank of Arizona. His stepson is stationed in France with the Air Force. His son is a junior at USC with a Naval ROTC scholarship.
From a V.A. hospital in Long Beach, Calif., Les Meister writes: "My job is section chief in medicine; I am an associate professor in clinical medicine, UCLA, but may switch to the new UC Medical School called California College of Medicine. My children (two) are grown and I am separated from my wife. I am thus saved the necessity of stating one of my hobbies - philandering. I like to sail, bike, hike, and cook. I'm with what W. H. (Ping) Ferry stands for in general; I think politics both evil and fascinating and necessary; and as a registered Democrat I'll vote Republican whenever I think that best."
Noteworthy among the 26 appointments President Johnson recently made to the National Council on Humanities were Albert W. Levi, professor of philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis and Dr. CharlesE. Odegaard, president, University of Washington.
You wrote a lot of interesting notes to your classmates this month. Send me more for them.
Secretary, 3154 Kenney Drive Falls Church, Va. 22042
Treasurer, 99 Lake Drive W., Wayne, N. J. 07101
Bequest Chairman,
