1916
It is perhaps appropriate that this column should open with the last item received by our late secretary, Pete Cleaves. It came from Dick Parkhurst and summarizes the notable participation of our classmates in the Dartmouth Alumni Awards, of which a total of 103 have been given since 1954. As for the 1916 record: The first award (1954) was made to Ernest Martin Hopkins and was presented to him by Kenneth Henderson, then president of the Alumni Council. Among the classes, 1916 is tied with 1921 as having the highest number of recipients, eight. Of these, Fletcher Andrews, RoswellMagill, and Stewart Paul - a record number for one year - were so honored along with thirteen other alumni at the time of the Anglo-Canadian-American Community Convocation at Hanover in September 1957. Pictures of those individuals were not printed but the citations of all appeared in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for November 1957. Our other awardees were Charles Brundage (July 1961), Richard Parkhurst (March 1962), Kenneth Henderson (May 1962), Clifford Bean (March 1963) and John Stearns (July 1966). The dates in parentheses are those of the MAGAZINE in which both the man's picture and citation were printed. Congratulations.
Your secretary is in the process of reconciling with the Alumni Records Office the present Class membership and In Memoriam list with the original corpus of 1916. Class address stencils on December 8, 1966 numbered: 139 living graduates, of whom seven were listed as not interested; and 66 living non-graduates, of whom twenty were listed as not interested and eleven, as lost. There were also stencils for 76 widows or next-of-kin.
Thoughtfully to help the new hand. KenHenderson has written of his happy life in retirement, and illustrated how "the secret of a pleasant let-down after a busy career is to have worthwhile but not too demanding things to do, not just whittling. ... On leaving Ditto eight years ago after forty years in the harness," he writes, "I fell into the greatest piece of luck, a job teaching business policy at the School of Business at Northwestern," variously to undergraduates, evening, and executive groups. After three years of this, came the writing of cases for use in the Business School. As that tapered off a year or so ago, he took on, in effect, the business managership of his big church, including the acquisition of adjacent property for future expansion. On the side, he has had a hand in establishing a successful publishing company. And I seem to recall that he is. the treasurer of the Chicago YMCA and a director of Ravinia Concerts. No wonder Ken's happy.
The many friends of our experienced travellers Ken and Barbara Stowell will get vicarious pleasure from sharing the highlights of their latest summer of leisurely travel around Europe. Proceeding this time by bus, train, and plane, and during the last month guiding their elder daughter on her first such trip, they had a "relaxed and refreshing five months visiting a dozen or so of our favorite cities" in Italy, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Scotland, and England. On getting back to Friendship in mid-August, they were surprised to be greeted by their younger daughter Betty, Allen and their three children 9, 8 and 6½ who had come on from San Francisco to welcome them and stay for two weeks. By Thanksgiving, Ken and Barbara had had two happy days in Boulder visiting Ken's old friend, roommate and traveling companion George Ingalls '15 "so enthusiastic about our great National Parks, Indian lore and art," and were settled for the winter in their own apartment close to the young people and the nine-hole, par-three golf course in Golden Gate Park.
A Christmas card pictures George Smith winning a game of solitaire in his French home at Tinchebray while his house staff and two dogs kibitzed. After spending October and November in the hospital, Esky writes that he is home again and feeling much better, surely helped by visits from Dans Dinsmoor and Lindsley and from Betty Wilson and her daughter. Chan and Peg Green were able to drive up to Mt. Hermon for the annual Thanksgiving gathering of their big clan. Karl and PollyShedd were happy to receive the place-mat from our reunion dinner in Hopkins with 79 signatures on it, and now to have Karl's brother Clifford and his bride settled near them in Athens, Ga.
Frederick G. Torrey, son-in-law of Chanand Peg Green, has been named headmaster of the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn., effective in July, under a plan whereby Loomis and the Chaffee School for girls will both coordinate and expand. Mrs. Torrey is the former Margaret Green, a Chaffee graduate and mother of four children. The Greens' oldest son David has moved nearer home too: the Navy has transferred him from Honolulu to Washington.
Fred daCosta passed away at Middleboro, Mass., on December 12, from the illness that alone kept him from our reunion in June. Susan has conveyed her deep appreciation to the Class for its red roses, tributes and Ralph Mendall's presence at the services. Fred's obituary, also that of Stan Lyman, will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE.
Catharene Cleaves too was greatly helped in her bereavement by your many remembrances and expressions of sympathy. For ten days over Thanksgiving she was with her son Jim '48 and his little family at Ho-Ho-Kus; and over the Christmas and New Year period has been at Barrington, Ill., with her daughter Betty (Mrs. Nick Turkevich '40) and her family.
Your new secretary would add his thanks for the good wishes so many of you have sent. He will need them. Your further cooperation in two respects will also help greatly. First: There are serious gaps in our biographical records, especially as to careers since 1930 and as to present names and data on family. When John Stearns and I can be specific as to needs, we hope you'll be ready and willing. Immediately, the better to enable us to serve all concerned, we hope that every classmate will arrange now to have your secretary furnished fully and promptly with whatever information and guidance you wish to share, and with whom, in case of serious illness or other vital situations. He is no master of ESP and also would wish to observe the amenities. Note these two new addresses: Henry R. Brahana, Dennis, Mass. 02638; Alexander J. Jardine, 20 Chatham Circle, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181.
Secretary, 2-C Swarthmore Apts. Swarthmore, Pa. 19081
Singletary Ave., Sutton, Mass. 01527 Treasurer,
Bequest Chairman,
