1921
Bob Wilson, who has lived in Europe, North Africa, and the Orient, was briefly puzzled in Yokohama. Enamored of rocks, Japanese will squander armored truckloads of yen for stones for which Bob would not give two cents. In all shapes and sizes, they loom up, from pebbles to boulders, priced in department stores from 10,000 yen to - where's Doug Storer? - 5,000,000. Tall enough to peer over miserable hovels, Bob finds tiny gardens with pools, dwarf trees, and ROCKS. Curiosity leads to adventure. Poor, a Japanese woman without beauty insisted that Bob linger until she cut sprigs from her early flowering tree. Though by American standards Japanese enjoy few luxuries, they love sharing whatever beauty they can conjure up. Bob is fulfilled and exalted.
When in Hanover you spell SCORE, spell it Braman. Hal, elected chairman of Service Corps of Retired Executives, Upper Valley Development Council, with the help of eleven Dartmouth men, studies and solves problems of small businesses in need of guidance. In the U. S., SCORE has established 180 chapter with more than 3000 retired and semi-retired executives who volunteer their services to concerns with 25 or fewer employes.
Ralph Sterner has joined Rudi Blesh in giving pleasure and profit to large movie audiences in Hopkins Center. Ralph's "The City," a documentary film with music by Aaron Copland, shown last summer, elicited this comment from John Grierson, the British documentary film maker, "I am grateful ... to Steiner for a visual sense of things that must be one of the greatest influences in our observation today." "The City" was shown by the Dartmouth Film Society directed by Blair Watson, who for the past several years has had a profound effect on students and Upper Valley devotees of the cinema.
Marshall Exnicios has been having a lovely time restoring his Georgian brick plantation home on the banks of the Potomac near Leesburg. The architect, a lifelong friend, was the original head architect at Williamsburg. Recent rewarding Marshall experiences were Elvas, Portugal, where he was interned for several months during World War II, and the Connaught in London where, a connoisseur of food and wine, he lingered to gain six pounds. He feels at home in England because his mother's family, English, received a manorial grant in 1634 on the lower Potomac River in St. Mary's County. Why "Exnicios"? Marshall's father, born on a sugar plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, was part French and part Spanish.
The son of Dr. Stan Oliver, Dr. Howard Oliver '40, a pathologist and head of the Keene Hospital, is a direct descendant of Olivers dating back to 1490 of Lewes, England. Dr. Thomas O. Oliver disembarked in Boston in 1632 as a "chiurgeon." Dr. Daniel Oliver (1787-1842), a graduate of Harvard Medical, professor at the Dartmouth Medical School and a practising physician for more than a quarter of a century, looms large in Dartmouth history.
Nelson Barker insists that he is no good as a grower of roses but lightens his selfcensure by wondering whether he has used the "right kind of culture." He may be judging himself by his success with dahlias for which during thirty years he is nationally known. At the Minnesota State Dahlia Society Show last fall he brought home no fewer than fifteen ribbons. Last winter he tried growing gloxinias under fluorescent light with "fair success."
"The biggest yet" is the way Russ Good-now describes his business during 1966. Schools continue to be his chief outside activity. He is making progress even though the bond issue for a new building was turned down by voters and even though teacher "negotiations," the result of a new law giving teachers more power about salaries and working conditions, have bogged him down.
Why has George Ferguson not put foot on European soil for years? Because Tucson is an excellent substitute for Paris street cafes. Eventually everyone passes by, native and foreign, with a maximum of color. Tales of wild adventure may lure to Arizona deserts timid northeasterners who in New York fear to venture forth after dark because of stilettos, brass knuckles, and sandbags.
Em Corbin has honored Laurence S.Faunce by donating to Baker Library "American Furniture, the Federal Period (1788-1825)," a volume of nearly 500 pages. It contains illustrations of 491 pieces with descriptions and evaluations, 127 illustrations of inlays in full color, 21 room settings (11 in full color), charts showing regional use of 15 native woods, 46 cabinet labels, and 39 furniture details for regional indentification.
To honor Seth Densmore, Hilt Campbell has presented Baker with two volumes. "An Account of Her Majesty's Revenue in the Province of New York, The Customs Records of Early Colonial New York," contains the earliest itemized accounts of the port collector, charged with overseeing and controlling trade laws and duties. The wealth of data is expected to stimulate study of early social and commercial history of the Province of New York. "Islamic Carpets," a lavishly illustrated book, contains information about the collecting and preserving of fine nomad and village rugs of the 18th and 19th centuries.
To honor Lyman Worthington, his classmates Reg Miner, Newc Newcomb, BillPerry, and Don Morse are donors of "Modern English Sculpture." The extraordinary transformations which English sculpture underwent in less than fifty years is shown by 128 illustrations, including 41 color plates.
John Woodhouse, Harland Manchester, and A. H. Steinbrecher '20 are donors of "The Japanese Print: Its Evolution and Essence" to honor Robert T. Daly. It contains more than 100 prints in full color of actors and theatrical scenes, landscapes, and comic characters.
Dick Hart, Senior V.P. of Drovers National, is still doing business at the same Chicago bank which welcomed him in 1932. Both sons are aviators, Dick '55, a major at SAC Headquarters in Omaha, and Charles a captain at Wurtsmith A.F.B., Mich. Dick Sr. sold his old homestead in 1964 and moved into a new apartment building nearby. Hobbies: 1. Yearly flying trips to Canadian fishing spots, possibly unknown to John Sullivan, Dana Lamb, and Rog Wilde. 2. Foreign countries. His last sortie, "a quiet, restful cruise" in the Mediterranean, which irrigates former oases in a troubled world.
Fitz Fitzgibbon and Dick could swap stories. Jack Jr. '62, artillery captain, has been stationed in Hanau, Germany, near Frankfurt. Retired from teaching in June, Margaret with Fitz sailed on the Queen Mary, met Jack in Southampton, and toured Ireland and Scotland. Fitz Sr., hobbies: 1. Bridge of superior calibre. 2. Improvisation on a Hammond electric organ.
Retired from Con Edison, Gerry Griffin owns two antique shops, Route 6, Baldwin Place, N. Y., and Fiddler's Green, Lincolndale, which his wife operates. Their hands are full of saws, glue, picture wire, nails, planes, and shellac, and their cars are full of mileage seeking out authentic pieces.
After Reunion Norm and Louise Carver wandered along the craggy cliffs of Maine and ate lobsters with Kalamazoo gusto from there all the way to Plymouth, where a northeast storm drenched their enthusiasm. In Michigan, Norm determined to eradicate weeds in his garden and developed consequently on the golf course what the pro called a hoe swing.
Phez Taylor away from Reunion was upset in more ways than one. No Hanover and no bank. The building for 25 years his Hailey office was torn down to make way for a new one, and so he moved not towards old Hanover but new Hailey.
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