1943

Took too many years to do it, but I finally made the San Francisco scene. Fabulous city living up to its reputation. Much as a trucking convention would permit, I attempted to check '43 s living there. Tried convincing Miss McGinnis, secretary to ChuckFeeney, that I was neither looking for baseball tickets nor offering advice on winning the pennant. "You don't sound like any of the Dartmouth men he knows," she said. But I persisted, and Chuck came to lunch. He looked great - tanned and eager from spring training with the Giants at Phoenix - and his club obviously the one to beat this year. We lunched at a camp place, The Iron Horse, whose maitre d' swept us to a quiet corner and proceeded to introduce Chuck to selected guests. His latest collateral duty is a Sunday night radio show when fans can telephone in all second guesses and advice on running the club (no long distance collected calls accepted). Margaret Ann and he live in Hillsborough about fifteen minutes from Candlestick Park, where Chuck worries through each ball and strike, away and at home. Oldest daughter Katherine probably will attend college in the east next year. The California life is kind to this man from Orange who still stays close to Dartmouth things in many ways. Nice being with him.

Tracked down Kent Hutchinson, really a westerner who went east and returned to native soil. Kent has moved from coast to coast with Chubb and Sons, giant insurance firm, now has his headquarters in San Francisco and works the Oakland territory. Kent called me from a client's office while we reminisced how long it has been (actually, at the Newark Airport several years ago). Ki and he live in Palo Alto, forty miles north of Stanford's lovely college town (and I believe Ki's alma mater). I briefly visited Palo Alto with Gloria and George Presley, former Hill School faculty, and can understand the genuine enthusiasm Kent has for northern California. Kent is one of TomKeller's Fund Agents; pickings out there aren't like Boston, but he's out to get his assignments.

Your provincial secretary thought Portland, Ore., was just up the coast a few miles, felt he could run there in an hour or so, found it was nearer 700 miles, telephoned Paul Hanlon. The Mole was weekending with wife Carole at the Alta Mira Hotel in Sausalito just across the Golden Gate Bridge. Couldn't reach him in this swinging place where art abounds and beatniks beat, but did so from a Los Angeles airport phone. The Mole was breakfasting poolside, was his usual laconic self, telling name, rank, and serial number. He used to talk more 25 years ago but maybe long distance makes him nervous. So goes the northern California scene - a hard place to leave.

Don Cole, 1945's good secretary, breaks the suspense on Ed Porter's campaign for Bangor City Council with a clipping showing Ed's victory by 151 votes in a contest that sizzled Bangor.... One of the best observations about Art Bolster's appointment as associate professor of education at Harvard is the Nashua paper's comment that Art is an outstanding classroom teacher - a skill often overlooked in the professional teacher's race for degrees and publishing. Mow many good classroom teachers do your children have — or did you have - especially in graduate school? At Harvard Art will teach curriculum and methods for future high school history teachers and participate in a long-range curriculum project supported by the U.S. Office of Education on the analysis of public controversy.

Mrs. Patricia Archer Legg and Stan Calder were married April 12, 1966 in Montclair and are at home, 52 Yantacaw Brook Road, Upper Montclair, N. J. Stan has been active in class affairs for many years, and we hope his bride will share his enthusiasm for Dartmouth. Our best wishes to them.

This class certainly has its share of Harvard lawyers. Clarke Lyon, one of many, is an active counselor in Holyoke with Lyon Curley, Scully, and Fitzpatrick. He has served as an instructor of constitutional law at Western New England College since 1954, is president of the Holyoke Taxpayers Assoc., Holyoke Rotary Club, trustee Holyoke Savings Bank, and Director Holyoke Hospital. Clarke's latest achievement is election to the board of Safe Deposit and Trust Co., one of the larger banks in the Greater Springfield-Holyoke area.

Early reports show '43 making a slow start in the Alumni Fund despite the excellent national organization established by Bob Field. He has cornered most of the doers of this class to gather this needed money. When they call, face it and give.

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