1916
Let's start with good news: Gran Fuller has recovered so well that he and Ruth are catching up on the Washington sights they have missed during their ten years in the capital and in mid-March are driving to their winterized New Hampshire place on the ocean, near the Beans and the Georges. Their address after April 1 will be 34 A Ocean Boulevard, North Hampton, N. H. 03862.
Dan Coakley and Esky also are coming along and appreciate the many cards and letters you have sent. Should other classmates be at that point of convalescence where remembrances would be welcome, just let your Secretary know, with guidance.
Esky had a visit from his son Donald in late January before the latter, an accountant with the Greyhound Corporation, proceeded to his new assignment February 1 at Chicago. Kay English is visiting with Betty Wilson in Ormond Beach until mid-February. Perc and Aline Burnham's Christmas card drifted in with little to identify its source but a Mexican stamp. When they are in Seattle, Porter Blaney writes, Perc regularly visits the Veterans Hospital and the University Hospital to aid with rehabilitation work, and Aline is active in several agencies. Just like them both. Of themselves, Porter and Marion Blaney write from Bothell, Wash.: "We have a little over an acre with a variety of fruit trees, berries and a good-sized vegetable garden - all on a hillside which overlooks the small town, river valley, and the wooded foothills to the snow-capped Cascades. I enjoy the outdoor work needed to keep it up." A picture to ponder.
Peripatetic is the word for Hiram and Laura McLellan: Following reunion and Lake Morey, they summered in the White Mountains; over succeeding held reunions with their young people variously at Cloudburst, N. M., Atlanta, Ga., and in West Texas, and in between visited several resorts and a relative in the Colorado Rockies. The beautiful and uncrowded golf course near Hi's Tyler home sounds neglected. Just before spending Christmas with her daughter at Tyler, Louise Behnke wrote: "I am a greenhouse lady now. Have sold one big one and have a prospect for a second. Would anyone like an illustrated booklet? They're lovely."
When he recently sent in information on career and family to bring his record card up-to-date (a good idea, brethren), Ray DeVoe wrote from Boca Raton that "the 1966 Ivy League result for the first time made five of my family happy: two Dartmouth, two Harvard and one Princeton." Ray retired on age from Continental Can Co. in 1960 as director and financial vice president, spent the next four years as a vice president and director of Harriman, Ripley & Co. Bankers, and since 1964 still has been doing some interesting consulting work that takes him around the country. Carry your little class directory with you, Ray, and give some of your old friends the pleasure of a call.
John Stearns kindly contributes from Ben Moxon: "Our twenty-three-year-old son Edwin graduated from M.I.T. in 1965 and is still there as Student Instructor in Electrical Engineering. Ed was with us at the 50th and got a kick out of us old guys. That was a great reunion." And from Bill Biel: "I am pleased to report that seven months ago I became a grandfather when my daughter, now resident in California, gave birth to twins. This moved me into a new generation which I don't mind at all." Twin congratulations, Bill.
In view of the current resumption of authorized state lotteries by New Hampshire and New York, Vermont readers especially may wish to look up a long article on the early lotteries in that state by Phil Nordell. It is an expansion of a talk Phil gave at the annual meeting of the Vermont Historical Society last August and appears in the current January issue of its quarterly magazine, "Vermont History."
Eight regulars gathered at the Dartmouth Club in New York on January 11 for the first '16 dinner of the winter: Charlie Brundage, Jib Dingwall, George Dock, Dutch Docnecke, Burt Lowe, Frank Pettengill, Fred Smith, emcee, and Wilby Sully. Irving Wolff explained his absence in a long letter from Phoenix, Ariz. - surely a tough place to spend the winter. In reporting the evening, George wrote: "As usual it was pleasant to sit around and bandy talk, on matters as diverse as Vietnam and skiing, Louis" Dow, and the ancient ritual of riding the rods to North Walpole for grog. And, naturally, to gabble, in the words of the old French toast, about good friends, past glories, and the memory of comrades who are gone."
The deep sympathy of the Class is extended to Florence Howell and the members of her family on the death of our esteemed classmate Llew Howell. His obituary will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent MAGAZINE.
The sincere condolences of the Class are also extended to Ralph Mendall on the death of his wife Marjorie, at Middleboro, Mass., on January 20. A talented pianist, she was a past president of the Middleboro Music Guild, a director of dramatics for local organizations, prominent in the work of the Central Methodist Church of Middle-boro and for thirty years director of its choir. Surviving, besides Ralph, are three daughters and their families. The Class was represented at the funeral services by JimColton, Dick and Vi Ellis, and Ben and Ev Moxon.
Delayed confirmation has recently been received of the deaths of two Sixteeners who shared Hanover with us for only a year or two: Ethelbert M. Friedman and SargentR. Powell. "Once a Dartmouth man-," however, so such information as was obtainable will be found in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE.
Two nights and a day in Hanover in mid-January with the doughty John Stearns and college officers, and a later overnight visit with Charlie Brundage at his Dover, N. J., farm opened up enough work for your rookie Secretary to keep him out of mischief until the Hanover meetings of Class Officers in May. If you want something pleasant to remember, get up while the campus is still dark and drive down Rt. 91 as a red and yellow sunrise comes up over the snow-blanketed Connecticut River valley at 20° below. My speedometer squealed all the way down to Keene.
Phil Nordell '16 with several classmates in Baker Library last June at his exhibit ofof early American lottery tickets. Framed in the nearest case are six tickets boughtby George Washington. Besides Phil (from right) are Rog Evans, Park Hayden, andJohn Ames. Phil emphasizes the good standing lotteries enjoyed.
Secretary, 2-C Swarthmore Apts. Swarthmore, Pa. 19081
Treasurer, Singletary Ave., Sutton, Mass. 01527
Bequest Chairman,
