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Sherry and Elizabeth Baketel have been to the Bahamas staying at the Picaroon Cove Club. The world is getting smaller all the time for during the four years they have been going there, one year they met EddieBowen on the dock; another year they met Jack Hubbell '21, Ross Gamble from Hanover and George Swoboda, the former proprietor of the tobacco shop; and this year, they met Courtney Bird, Roger Bird's ('22) younger brother. After leaving the Bahamas they planned to stop over at Nassau and expected to see Dartmouth's rugby team play, remembering that it was the championship team last year. They also planned to stop over in Miami for a convention meeting on their way home, and I hope we will be seeing them in Hanover in May.
It was a coincidence that while we were on the east coast we drove up in front of Ted and Margaret Weis' apartment and who should be just leaving but Red and GwenTillson. The Tillsons were making a quick trip to see if, and when, and where, they might like to locate in Florida.
I notice Almus Russell had an article published in the Outdoor Journal, February 1966 issue, entitled "Transplanting Sugar Maples for Summer Shade," And now - a Dartmouth cookbook "Favorite Dartmouth Recipes" has been published by the Dartmouth Women's Club of Boston and for the benefit of their Scholarship Fund.
By the grapevine I have heard that Edand Ginnie Bowen were in Marrakech, en route to Beirut. Eddie apparently brushing up his technique on the sheik circuit. Nostalgia is getting the better of Ralph Roberts as he is planning to get back to Hanover for the Princeton game this fall and take a look-see at our New England foliage in mid October.
Mugs Morrill gave a cocktail party in his plush directors' suite in the Prudential Building. This was before the annual dinner at the Sheraton-Boston on February 1, the big evening at which the full Dartmouth Glee Club gave their usual fine concert, and President Dickey also gave a report from Hanover.
The '20s attending the dinner were Ebenand Ruth Wallace, Mugs and Lucia Morrill,Paul and Lydia Hutchinson, Red and GwenTillson, Gugga Fiske and perhaps more.
We are grateful to Warren Hollis Jr. '24 for sending a clipping telling that Ken Fenderson was one of the retiring directors of Florida Power Corp. who was honored by the firm at the employees' club in March of tms year. He had been a member of the board since 1952 and remained as a director even after retiring from the general counsel for the firm in 1962. He had been with the Florida Power since 1925, a forty-year tenure, and was made vice president in 1947. Ken's long legal work with the corporation has included negotiations of hundreds of franchises, handling company mergers, rate hearings, and bond issues. Congratulations to Ken.
In addition to the testimonial dinner and honors that were bestowed on Cfaet Smith, who recently retired from the Pittsburgh Press, was the proclaiming by the Mayor of a "Chet Smith Day." Quite an honor, Chet.
Dr. Tom Dudley really took a bit of time off from his faithful practice in Concord. He was on the West Coast of Florida in Sarasota for over a week. We enjoyed beaching with them several times and they went with us to the Dartmouth Sarasota Club's luncheon held annually at the Holmes Beach Yacht Club. From here they went to Ft. Lauderdale for the 'lB POWWOW at the Sheraton and later to Boca Raton for another week.
Florida is quite well populated with Dartmouth people both permanent residents and winter visitors, and the '20 class is well represented: Laddie Myers now living in Clearwater: Bing Whitaker in Redington Beach; Cliff Aulis, William Anderson, Ken Fenderson, and Pick Hill in St. Petersburg; Harry Bower in Bradenton, Ty Green in Crystal River; Hank Dearborn in Daytona; Ed Bowen and Jack Brotherhood in Delray; Dr. Charles Piper and Boots Leßoutillier in Englewood; Al Palmer in Eustis; Jake Gorton, George Loehr and Charlie McGoughran in Ft. Lauderdale; Ed Curtis in HollywoodJohn Bedford in Jacksonville; Tom Carpenter in Jupiter; Hersh Chandler and Art Earle in Vero Beach; Warrie Chamberlain and Charles Garnsey in Miami; Clint Johnson and Wes Jones in Palm Beach; Ted Weis in Pompano; Ted Bliss and Charlie Stevens in Sarasota; Max Moyer and Dick Watts in Winter Haven; Phil Greeley in Winter Park; Leo Ungar sometimes on Longboat Key and sometimes in Hollywoodand yours truly on Longboat Key: and there perhaps are more that I do not know about.
Hitch and Dorothy Hitchcock have been at Madeira Beach for a couple months for several years and this year Dal and Marguerite Dalrymple were near them for a couple weeks. They all came to Longboat and we had a nice day together beaching, etc. Nate and Mildred Whiteside stopped for a quick call en route to St. Pete after having spent some time on the East Coast and about three weeks at Ft. Myers Beach. Al and Emilie Palmer came to Longboat for a weekend, and Paul and Lydia Hutchinson stopped in to see us on their way to Winter Park after having spent two weeks playing golf at Belleair-Biltmore in Belleair. We also enjoyed having Ralph Sunergren stay near us for a few days after having spent about ten days on the East Coast with his son Charlie. And Margaret, widow of FredBuschmann, had a house not far from us with a childhood friend of hers and we enjoyed beaching and playing cards with them.
Laddie Myers had planned to come down for the Yacht Club Luncheon with Sig andBetty Sigler especially to see Charlie Stevens as Sig and Charlie had been roommates in college freshman year. Betty, however, had a little upset and had to send regrets at the last minute. I did, however, take RalphSunergren to see Charlie Stevens at his new home in Blue Heron Lagoon on Siesta Key. They also were roommates during freshman year but had not seen each other since graduation; in fact, I think all three, Sunergren, Sigler and Stevens roomed together that first year.
The '20 table at the '18 POW-WOW in Ft. Lauderdale started small, but grew as the '20s appeared: Charlie McGougSiran,Laddie Myers, Ed Curtis, Dick Watts, Leoand Alice Ungar, Tom and Dot Dudley, and Hazel and myself; and we were happy to have Rog Wilde '2l with us at our '20 table. We had hoped to see Jack and CatherineBrotherhood; but they had houseguests and apparently couldn't get away. Also I had hoped to see Jake Gorton who is anxiously awaiting the return of his son who has made 119 missions in the Vietnam war.
A letter was awaiting us from Margaret Weis telling of the death of Eric Stahl on March 17. Eric put up a wonderful fight against cancer, having special treatments and surgery which slowed it up from time to time. He thought travel would be good for him so he took several trips, one being to visit his newly married daughter in Ankara, Turkey. Eric was affable and knowledgable and is going to be greatly missed by his friends in Tulsa and also by his many Dartmouth friends. The sympathy of the Class goes to his wife Mary, his daughters, and the other surviving members of his family An In Memoriam will appear in this or subsequent issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
A new address for Mrs. Roger Pope - she now lives at 9 Mariners Lane in Marblehead.
By the time this MAGAZINE is received we will probably be back again in the north country.
With President Dickey looking on, AlFrey '20 (r) receives a Dartmouth AlumniAward from Alumni Councillor RupeThompson '2B (c) at the annual dinnerof the alumni in Pittsburgh, March 23.
Secretary, pun 1 R.F.D. 1 Center Harbor, N. H. 03226
Class Agent, 90 Iron Mine Dr., Staten Island 1, N. Y.
