1930
Through the newsletter and a brochure being prepared by Earl Seldon you have probably already been fully informed of the Dartmouth College Alumni Reunion Holiday in Venezuela. This is a rare chance to see an amazing country with the added attraction of visiting out of the ordinary places under the guidance of Bob Bottome. Non-stop Viasa passage from New York on February 2; visits to Caracas, Canaima, Puerto Ordaz, Margarite Island, and Maracaibo; with return to New York on the 11th. Even for seasoned travelers it would be hard to top this one, and we do have seasoned travelers, as evidenced by the following reasons for not attending our Connecticut reunion last May: Shaw Cole (Italy), Marsters (England), Bowes (Europe), Weaver (California), Morrill (Tunisia), Wooster and Butterfield (London), Sturman (Japan), and Callaway (Spain). Lina and Sandy McCulloch spent three weeks in England, Scotland, and Ireland occasioned by son John's marriage to Doris Billingham in Hassocks Sussex in early May.
In December we intend to have a class and executive committee meeting, time and place still undecided, and on May 9 and 10, 1969 will gather at the new Hanover Inn for our spring meeting. This will open with a dinner on Friday in Alumni Hall at Hopkins Center. A block of rooms has been set aside and it is not too early to make individual reservations.
The August picnic at the Boomas in Swampscott was a great success and we are most grateful to Dot and Rollie for providing perfect weather and refreshments. HarryCondon was presented a 1930 Class Award for his outstanding work in class affairs. It was especially good to see the John Birminghams, the Merrill Hayeses from Swarthmore who were vacationing in Maine, and our regional manager from Washington, FredJaspersen, who extended an invitation for classmates to attend a September outing at Grace and Wayne Van Leers' summer place on the Severn River near Annapolis. Bill Brown, although 200 miles away in Chuckatuck, Va., is counted a Washington suburbanite and writes "one reason I moved to this little village (from Kansas City) was to keep away from the temptation to go back to work. During the good weather, which is about eight months a year, I play golf every morning except Saturday and Sunday, work in my garden and do odd jobs on the many properties owned by my wife's relatives. Right now I'm about to get involved in some part-time teaching and just finished a two-day session put on by the Norfolk Distributive Education Department. Our son Bruce will be a junior at Kansas University next fall. He works for TWA during summer."
Dr. Henry Kohn has been appointed first David Wesley Glasser Professor of Radiation Biology at Harvard. Henry's major concerns have been the effects of Mutagenic agents, including ionizing radiation and other environmental factors in animals and man. He has been a member of the Faculty of Medicine since 1963.
Bill Fenton has acquired another doctorate, this one an honorary Doctor of Laws awarded by Hartwick College in Oneonta, N. Y., at their June commencement. Bill, a noted authority on the Iroquois Indians, has two titles: Director and Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Museum and Science Service as well as Research Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. Previously he was Associate Anthropologist at the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution.
Congratulations to Fran Horn who was honored with an honorary degree from D'Youville College and on the side delivered five commencement addresses. He also has been elected a trustee of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia. Fran and Win Stone are now neighbors in lower Manhattan. Betty and Win relaxed in August at their Alton, N. H., summer home. Win "by cutting vast acres of meadow. Bought myself a tractor with a rotary cutter and sulky. So now I ride over the grass for all the world like a country squire - and love it." We are very happy to have three of our family in Dean Stone's New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this fall; Chip and his wife Jan working towards their doctorates in sociology and Alan '68 entering the School of Politics.
The 40th reunion report is under the editorship of Charlie Widmayer who was honored last May by a gathering of classmates, members of the faculty and administration upon completion of 25 years as editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
In August Eleanor and I spent a weekend with Ann and Fred Watson at Spofford Lake near Keene, N. H. They hope some day to make this location their part-time retirement home. Kathy who is attending the University of New Mexico and Bob, a senior at Dartmouth after military interruption, added to the pleasure of our visit which was topped off by having Gwen and Dick Bowlen join us for dinner. They plan an October visit to Oklahoma to visit with Mortie and husband Bob Harrington who is stationed at Fort Sill. Howie Heimbach visited Hanover in June for conferences with Thayer School people. He is involved in personnel, public relations, and long-range planning for Rockwell Manufacturing Company. Daughter Ada is married to Norman Logan '52 and lives in Wilmington with their five-year-old daughter, and one-year-old twin sons. "Virginia and Mai Gallagher expected to visit this summer with Joan and her four children in Miami. Their younger daughter Cynthia graduated from Hartwick College in June.
Steve Martyn writes that this has been a rough year and that he is convalescing in Cuttingsville, Vt., after fracturing his hip in March. Steve has spent his business life at Bryant Chucking Grinder in Springfield, Vt. Horace Weston, vice president of Plymouth Home National Bank, has been named a director. He also serves as moderator of the town of Kingston. Carl Jensen, real estate editor of the "Hartford Courant," has been cited for "his outstanding service, cooperation and generous contribution in time and labor over many years to the real estate profession in general and to the Greater Hartford Board of Realtors in particular."
There will be tailgate parties at the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton games with EdButterfield promising again to arrange for 1930 reserved parking in Cambridge.
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