1931
I received some great letters this month again, and am duly appreciative. Someone must be reading this pot-pourri, or maybe noting the reduced lineage a couple of months ago.
On December 19 I received a letter from George Nickum from which I will quote: "Unfortunately while Bettie and I were vacationing with Si and Fran Leach in Florida at Si's cottage at the Country Club of Florida Bettie suffered a stroke on the night of November 30. ... I am happy to report that Bettie is making slow progress but she is in for a long siege of rehabilitation. If I had never believed in the value of Dartmouth friendship before, believe me, the support that Fran and Si Leach gave me during this ordeal, including Fran's flying west with me to get Bettie back to Seattle, would be enough to make me a solid citizen." To cap this, on December 28 I received a fast note from Parker Soule advising me that Bettie had passed away on December 22. I know that all of you will join me in extending sincerest sympathy to George. He had other business in his letter which will interest us greatly, but I am holding it for one month due to the circumstances.
Incidentally, Parker feels that we should get some snapshots in from some of our camera experts who have been active lately, such as the tailgating at his house on October 8, and other festive occasions. I have some dandies of the class officers taken last May, but they are all color slides. Good black-and-whites might make excellent material to enhance this sticky prose.
Josh Stickney has moved from Maybrook, N. J., to Lancaster, Mass. From Dick Hoibrook'sbrook's 31-year report I read: "After college Josh lived in Lancaster of the Bay State, and around that time worked for the Sunset Oil Company. He was married and had one daughter. But that was way back in 1938. No word since then." How about that word, Josh?
Tom Williams received the following from Shep Wolff which I think is interesting: "I just happened to notice that you folks are living in an apartment house, which calls to mind the fact that two years ago Harriet and I sold our home in Wayland, Mass., and moved into a lovely apartment in Boston on Beacon Street overlooking the Charles River. We thought we liked it for a while, but as soon as another house in Wayland came on the market we bought it the very next day and moved back to Wayland as fast as we could. We both feel now that we have had our dose of being cliff-dwellers, we will be perfectly happy to stay in the Woods of Wayland, at least until 1973 when I retire." You cliff dwellers and cottage dwellers - can you add or detract from the above remarks?
Bill White, vice chairman of the board of the South Shore National Bank in the Boston area, is pictured in a local paper in connection with his bank's joining forces with a travel service. Is this the first bank to absorb a travel service?
Leo McKenney is the new product evaluation manager at the Research and De velopment Center of Lever Brothers Company at Edgewater, N. J. Mac, who holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from MIT, joined the company in 1938. He was chief research chemist in the detergents section and has been household products development manager since 1963. He and Prit and their four children live in Upper Saddle River, N. J.
Len Clark wore a horse collar for eight weeks this fall, but apparently has got rid of his pain-in-the-neck.
Ernie Moore is collecting American Revolution memorabilia. Dick Holbrook is collecting jazz records. I am accumulating popular sheet music. If any of you folks have anything along these lines what will you trade for? If you want addresses, write to me.
Ed Hutchinson writes: "It's always very interesting to read of the accomplishments of the 193lers; however, I wouldn't know one if I fell over him." It's easy, Ed - After falling over him, get up and notice the gleam in his eye; he probably tripped you on purpose. Ed still is on the Board of Selectmen in Petersham, Mass., runs his genral store and claims to sell the best damn cheese in Worcester County. I don't believe I ever had any damn cheese from Worcester County. Send me a pound, Ed, and I'll remit by return mail.
Dick Fisher writes he spends a lot of time talking about 3Vx grandchildren and struggling to keep the golf game in the 70's at least some of the time.
Bob Baumrucker still plans to go to South Africa, but in September, and wants a '31 couple or two to join him and his wife for the five-to-seven-thousand-mile tour. He's going to be in Marblehead in February, and will return to California via the Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands. Sounds like a real short cut home.
Dick Holbrook now says "Who needs another Class Book at this time?" Possibly he's right, since we got not one ripple from our various trial balloons. Dick also has some great suggestions for columnar material when the well of correspondence runs dry again. However, right now I've got beaucoup news and no problems except how to cram it all into the allotted space.
Chan Griggs says '31 people seem to be scarce in the Washington area (D. C.) He's been our only representative at Dartmouth Night beer parties at the D. C. Club. There must be some of us around there, Chan. I'll see if I can locate a few.
Vance Dickerman is putting up with insulting notes from Bob Baumrucker, as well as chasing trout in Aspen, Colo., golfing in Kansas City with his brother. No stay-at-home, he.
Jack Reno made a brief foray into New England this fall, visiting son Jack in Winchester; also sojourning to Martha's Vineyard, and escaped from this area unscratched by '31 contacts.
Hank McCarthy and Charles Sullivan, with wives, opened the new Logan Tower Restaurant at the well-known Boston airport recently, along with 198 other couples.
Sam Groves has moved his office into the Prudential Building, Boston. He also now is a director of Reed & Barton Corp. of Taunton, Mass. Dick Hamilton, et al., purchased Wainshal Furniture Company of Greenfield, Mass. Adrian O'Keefe represented the College at the dedication of Higgins Hall, Boston College, in November. Malcolm Hall is now a vice-president of Old Colony Trust Company, Boston. LBJ appointed Gaylord Freeman as a member of the National Advisory Commission on Health Manpower.
Sher Guernsey and his son, Sherwood '68, dropped in to see the Soules just before the Christmas Holidays, en route home to Schoharie. His son had just completed his first-term final exams, and Sher had driven over from Schenectady after work. Sounds like a long night's trip after a busy day for both! Sher you know was our first highscoring Class Agent in the Alumni Fund (in 1964 and again in 1965).
'3lers tailgating at the Parker Soules'Princeton weekend are Bill Wilson, KenSampson, Bill Steck, and Bill Phinney.
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