1925

After three months of respite from the task of gathering news for this column we embark upon another academic year. It is hoped that the summer months were enjoyed to the utmost by all and that the coming months will be accompanied by good health and happiness. By this time a majority of the class is retired or on the verge of retiring from active business life, which means you should have ample time to send in a note or two on your new activities.

Among those who attended Alumni College this summer were Frank Kennedy (a perennial subscriber), Fred Dold, Jack Norris, Ed Yates, Mark Emerson and Bob Hardy.Bob McKennan left town late in August for an International Conference in Japan. He was hoping to return in time for the bird season.

Mott Garlock has been elected to the Monson Academy Board of Trustees. Mott is also a trustee and a member of the business administration faculty of Western New England College. Stub Dwinnell has retired as director of the Friendly Town Department of The Fresh Air Fund and has been retained with the title of consultant.

Dot and Larry Leavitt, after his gruelling grind with the Alumni Fund Drive, for the results of which he is due a hearty round of applause, enjoyed a cruise with the Bill Jenkinses with the Cruising Club of America. They spent three nights on Pete Haffenreffer's mooring at Mt. Hope and enjoyed the use of his swimming pool. During his trip he learned that Bud Petrequin had re-married - also that Pete Kelsey soon was to be married at La Jolla (by his son, young Pete) to Mrs. John Henry Goodwin (Mary), a friend of nearly twenty years.

Hap Hefler is retiring from the U. S. Naval Academy, as is also his love and joy, "The Freedom," the two-masted, 88-foot schooner, which has served as the queen of the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron since 1940 and at whose helm Hap has spent many an hour.

We hope you-all noted in the July issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE the Wah Hoo Wahs for Ted Geisel, recipient of the honorary Doctorate of Humanities from American International College, and Dr. Jack Norris, recipient of the Albert David Kaiser Award from the Rochester Academy of Medicine.

Charlie Moore was the "principal re- source person" at a series of discussions on the forthcoming national elections on Cape Cod. Charlie was well qualified to perform this function, having worked on several campaigns, including that of President Eisenhower and Governor Romney of Michigan.

Two of our classmates have retired from active service to the College: ProfessorAlexander Laing and Professor Arthur Dewing. Alex was best known outside the college as a novelist and poet. In 1929 he received the Walt Whitman Prize for Poetry and in 1934 he sailed around the world on a Guggenheim Fellowship awarded for creative writing and the ethnographic study of peoples in the Pacific. He is currently coeditor of the bi-monthly political letter, "Groundswell for the American Voter." During his Dartmouth career, he has also served as assistant librarian and as educational services advisor.

Art returned to Dartmouth in 1930 as an English instructor. He received an M.A. degree from Columbia, studying on a William degree Tucker Scholarship. He was made an assistant professor in 1937 and has been a professor since 1947. In recent years he has been chairman of The Advanced Writing Course in addition to teaching American fiction, composition, and freshman English. He is the editor of "This Is Our Purpose," a collection of the addresses and writings of the late Prexy Hopkins, a project authorized by the College trustees in 1946.

We're all approaching the age when we find ourselves absent-minded now and then. For this reason you are reminded here and now of the annual fall meeting of the Class Board of Governors on the morning of the Princeton game in Hanover (probably somewhere in Baker Library). Whether you're a member of the Board you are welcome to attend and observe the proceedings of your governing body. Pre-arranged dinners for classmates and their wives and friends will be held on both Friday and Saturday eve- nings. But you should let Ford Whelden know of your plans in advance.

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