1940
The Yale game traditionally attracts many classmates each year and this season's holocaust was no exception. Even though the weather was damp there was a loyal group of '40's in the stands and at the tailgates. Clustered around several picnic hampers, trying to keep their sandwiches dry and whiskey sours undiluted, we caught up to Stag and Ruff King, Bob and Lee Lake, Scotty and Loomie Rogers, Jack and Lois Moody, Eddie and Pat Miller, and Elmer and Joyce Browne. Our hosts for this gala, Diz and Gina de Sieyes, had last minute complications so had to forego the game. Once in the stands, all bundled up against the rain drops, we saw Ben Bacon, JackWillson, Bud Swenson, Bill Wrightson, JoeRinehart, and Art Ostrander. Holding down adjacent seats were the Unangst brothers, Ray and Bob. Up from Fun City to watch the Big Green were Bob Gensel, Larry Durgin, Bill Bumstead, and Jack McDonald. There to represent the farther-afield contingent were John and Betty Willetts from Milwaukee, Larry and Genie Cate from Westboro, and Powell and Dotty Holbein from Syracuse. We commiserated with Bob Rodday while making it back to the car, and finished up the day most pleasantly with Dick and Lee Bowman celebrating his birthday. Although we didn't see them, it was reported that George Sheldon, Don Fox, and Ray Hotaling were also there. Just wait until next year!
One of this month's most intriguing address changes concerns Gary Allen, who has moved from Laconia, N. H., to RR2, Box 774, Juneau, Alaska. Such a move must involve a big story and I hope Gary will let us know soon the why and wherefore.
Jim Kuhns says he's thriving on lots of work building a new iron and aluminum foundry for Garrett Corporation in Torrance, Calif. He and Faith will be grandparents for the second time soon.
it was good to see Gard Friedlinder here in Hanover last month. He and his boy were college-viewing and had flown their twin Cessna to New England. Gard is assistant to the President of Briggs and Stratton, which allows him to work in great detail on various special company projects. He and Mary and the three kids fly to Colorado to ski each winter and enjoy family camping and hunting as other hobbies. He reports seeing Bill Kieckhefer and JulesWachs frequently.
Jack Fitzgerald wrote of running into Paul Dyer back in Beantown after many years in New York. He also claims that Paul Hurley is still flashy on the tennis courts. Jack has also seen Johnny Allen, fellow DKE, and John McDonald, fellow Reservist.
There have been a few recent visitors to Hanover besides the large group which gathered here for the 1940 Fall Reunion, this year over the Penn weekend. These included Ted and Heidi Lewitt and two of their three boys who were heading for the closing days of Expo and stopped off for a short tour of Dad's old stamping grounds. Cliff Holmes was here for a more serious reason - bringing his dad to Hitchcock Hospital for surgery. Also, Lew and JanetChipman spent a couple of days of their vacation renewing old ties around this area. Bill and Pattie Squier met in Hanover with the other club officers at their yearly conference. Bill is president of the Boston Club. At the same conclave Mickey Miller and Jim Moore represented two of the hard- working district enrollment directors. It was good to see them all and to have the chance to talk at greater length than a busy football weekend affords.
Being a traditionalist by nature, I was intrigued by the juxtaposition in certain Dartmouth classes of three generations of men in the Swenson and Moody families. It came to light recently that it all started with John Swenson and Howard Moody, classmates in 1909. They were followed 31 years later by Bud Swenson and Jack Moody in the Class of 1940, who in turn were followed 31 years later by John Moody and Kevin Swenson in the Class of 1971. That's an enviable tradition! There aren't too many undergraduate brother combinations on campus so it was fun recently to have three such sets at our house for dinner who shared the famous 1940 heritage. They included Dave and Bill, sons of Dick Seidman, Jim and Dennis, sons of Jim Moore, and Pete and Mitch, sons of Hal Wonson. All six of them are boys of whom you would all be proud, and I thought as I looked around the table that this is what the 200th Anniversary and the Third Century Fund are all about.
Honors for writer-of-the-month have to go to Fred Eaton (the fact that he was just about the only one has nothing at all to do with it!). While the family spends the whole summer at Martha's Vineyard, Fred's duties as president of Sears, Roebuck de Venezuela only allow him August to vacation "up north." But he crowds a lot of golf, tennis, and sailing into that month. He and Peg hope to buy a place at the Vineyard where they hope it will be more convenient for '40's to drop in - those who haven't made it to Caracas lately. Two of their five children are at school in the States - Brant at South Kent and Christie at Northfield. The three younger boys are keeping things humming at home. Fred is another classmate with his own plane which he recently flew to Puerto Rico for golf and on to St. Croix for a swim and a visit with Bob Austin. Fred's business hours are taken up with the 15 stores which comprise his corporation, the largest furniture factory in the country, a stove plant, and an electronics factory. Sounds like enough to keep six men busy, even without the occasional political upheaval which can disrupt normal business operations. All in all, the Eatons find life in Venezuela eminently satisfying and after more than seven years that's a good recommendation. Thanks, Fred, and if the fog gets too heavy at the Vineyard next summer, come up to Hanover for your golf game.
Rog Conant, Boston hides merchant by vocation and beekeeper by avocation, was lamenting the condition of fishing in Lake Winnipesaukee where he spends his summers. While the brook trout have been plentiful the salmon have been non-exist-ent of late. Rog wishes this trend of the past few years would quickly reverse itself so the sport and fun of other days would come back.
Bill Mercer is a recent addition to the board of directors of the Beekman-Downtown Hospital in New York City. Ken Elliott has written that with a son in the freshman class at Dartmouth, a daughter at De Pauw, and a son in the senior class at Illinois, he feels like he's on his way to the poorhouse. But he does recognize that it might be worse - his youngest is only in kindergarten.
That's it for another month. I hope you all have happy holidays wherever you may be. Keep in touch - it's easier than you think. See you here early next year.
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