1931
The news keeps pouring in, so here I sit continuing to pour it out.
Ned Pitkin brought me up-to-date with a fine letter. He's the supervising principal of Central School District No. 5, Newtonville, N. Y. - a burgeoning area growing 5% per year. Their entire school plant has been rebuilt during the past 15 years, consisting of seven elementary schools, one junior high school, and one senior high school. More building is in the immediate future. Ned's two daughters, Ginny and Anne, are now on their own, married and raising families. Ned and Muriel are active in church affairs, music, and dramatics. Their operetta group is producing "Brigadoon" this year.
Charlie Babbitt contributes a nostalgic and newsy letter. He refers to the song fests we used to have in Wheeler Hall while we waited for the toast side wagon. He claims to remember special lyrics which I wrote for a song called "Bye Bye Blackbird" but I'm sure he has me mixed up with someone else, like Luke Watson, Johnny Johnson, or EddieElmer. Or Frank McCord. I never did find out who fired up that wastebasket full of mothballs at the first-floor stairwell and drove out the third-floor tenants one winter's night. That was a mean trick. Charlie lives in Barre, of course, and sells Norton Company abrasives to the stone cutters and others in the north country. He sees GeorgeRobins who runs Houghton & Robins, a leading Barre emporium. Hilton Gale is works manager of Edlund Company in Burlington. Buck Carvalho returned to the Burlington area after a fascinating life of international insurance activities all over the world, and now distributes beer and fizz water throughout his area. Charlie still has a camp on Lake Morey, site of our forthcoming October 8 shindig, so we will probably see him Princeton weekend, provided he stays away from the radial saw he employed to chew up his left index finger a month or so ago.
An interesting clipping concerning BillyAlton was forwarded via Shep Wolff. Billy resigned as administrator for the Rockefeller Brothers Governmental Studies a few years ago to devote full time to the Christian Science encehealing practice. He is now a recognized teacher and practitioner of Christian Science in New York City and a member of the Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston.
Ed Gruen writes he is busy down Maryland way interviewing candidates for Dartmouth "70. Some 50-odd future possibilities have been seen by Ed - a most time-consuming job.
Charlie Widmayer '30, editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, queries "What are '3l men retiring for? We '30s expect to keep going for seven or eight years." My only comment in this connection is that it must take the '30s a little longer to pile up all they need. They're either slower or more greedy.
Jack Warwick is now established in New York City as a Management Counsellor, dealing in marketing, research, corporate expansion, executive recruiting, and other special projects. Jack has just resigned as president of the Carpet Wool Council and as chairman of Wool Carpets of America. He was known for four years throughout the house furnishings industry as "Mr. Woolcarpets," speaking at trade shows and conventions.
Parker Soule advises that Bill Steck is now a grandfather; it's a girl, born to the William L. Stecks ('59) of Boston.
Charlie Nims is state chairman of the New Hampshire Heart Fund Drive, also being a director of the New Hampshire Heart Association. You will recall he was the feller that dropped an outdoor fireplace on his foot last fall.
Bill Grant was elected a director of Astrodata, Inc. of Los Angeles. I must be getting old for I remember when the abacus was the very latest thing.
Orrie Hobbs was elected a director of the Maiden Trust Company, in addition to branching out in all directions in the fuel business. I wonder if Shep Wolff winces when he reads about these successful fuel oil merchandisers.
Ed Hutchinson had served thirteen years as a selectman for the town of Petersham, Mass., until 1963. Now he is seeking election again. He operates Hutchinson's General Store in that town, so he'll be readily available to the voters.
Arthur O'Brien, teaching in the Framingham (Mass.) school system, is seeking reelection to the Park Commission of that town. Si Leach was elected to the board of directors of Northern and Central Gas Company, Ltd., of Canada. Si is chairman of Searle Grain Co., Ltd., Winnipeg. Jim Hausman was elected governor of the New York Athletic Club.
Johnny Benson states he successfully survived his recent hernia operation. By this time he should have returned from his resttrip to the Virgin Islands. He says the following expect to make the '31 Executive Committee meeting at Hanover in May: Swift, Nickum, Wolff, Biesel, Boermeester, Austin, Steck, Benson, and Burrill.
MEANWHILE BACK IN 1928. Si Leach,Wally Thorsen, John Martin, and RalphNims were the first thirty-oners elected to the newsboard of the Daily Dartmouth, sharing an award of $120. Gray Magee starred for freshman basketball as Williston was defeated 30-18. Don Cruikshank placed eighth in the Claremont ski jumping meet with a mark of 97 feet. This was surpassed by two other Dartmouth men, but these latter failed to keep on their feet after the jump. Joe Linz starred in the carnival show "The Green Peach" as Teddie Lamour. '31 broke the scholastic record for freshman classes, showing a 2.048 average for the half year.
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