1934

Once again, thanks to the largesse of EdBrown, the articulateness of a whole slew of guys who wasted no time at all in English Honors, and the efficiency of the U.S. mails - herewith the Christmas edition of The Column That Almost Writes Itself.

George Engel (alphabetically #1 in this month's Brown Batch) reports that he was "awarded the William C. Menninger Medal for 'distinguished contributors to the science of mental health' by the American College of Physicians, Boston, April, 1968; appointed the Sigma Xi Annual Lecturer, State University of New York (Brooklyn) Medical Center, February 15, 1969, and the Franz Alexander Memorial Lecturer at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Society (Los Angeles), April 18, 1969; and will be going abroad in November '68 to give invited lectures in London, Hamburg, Bonn, and Zurich."

John Foley is newsy about his young: "Son, Thomas F., Class of 1962, was married August 10, 1968, to Susan J. Carroll of Woonsocket, R. I. (who graduated 1967 from Salve Regina College, Newport). Tom works for Industrial National Bank in Providence."

Phil Giazer, filing from Nashville: "Nothing new in Tennessee. Little Suzy is working in Cambridge (secretary to professor at Harvard Business) but will be on Dartmouth side at Harvard game. All of us enjoyed the reunion."

Len Harrison tells it like it is: "The Harrison family is now completely Dartmouth. Second son, Andrew, has just moved into 204 Woodward as a member of the Class of '72. First son, Walter, Class of '66, is now in his third year at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Philadelphia, having just completed a two-month training stint in Pediatrics at the San Diego Naval Hospital. Jean and I have just completed our fifth year at Dartmouth Alumni College and enjoyed every minute of it."

Rollie Morton socks it to the non-retired with "Ran into Chet Birch and his wife October 3 at Weston, Vt., Antiques Sale and they are enjoying his retirement at Dorset, Vt. Had two children married this past year. Still top golfer, as he won Club Championship recently at Equinox Club at Manchester."

Dana Redington enthuses from Romney country (even before Election Day): "Some change - from Southern California to an island in northern Michigan! Very much enjoying the new job as Registrar of Mackinac College - a thrilling new venture in liberal arts education. All our children are teaching now." [For complete list of Teaching Redingtons, see D.S.R. to R. A. Morton, 1934 News-Letter, 10/19/68.]

Charlie Strauss is "happy to report that Glenn '72 is our third son to attend Dartmouth - Andrew '65 and Charles '65 were the others."

And Wendy Williams seems equally pleased to announce that "My son, Christopher Williams '68, after a year's leave of absence from Dartmouth to study photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, has returned to Hanover for his senior year, where he will be Photography Editor of the Aegis.' "

Now, lest Johnny Spiegel or George Engel or any other of our classmate-psychiatrists begin brooding on this column's neurotic dependence on Ed Brown, let me report I got other friends, too (not many, but enough) - but like, for instance, realtor Al Seitner, down Florida way. Writes Al: "After several legal maneuvers (all unsuccessful to date) to stop it, the new Consolidated Government was officially inaugurated on October 1, and Jacksonville is now the largest city (in land area) in the free world. One of the hardest and most diligent workers in getting the new government underway was our own I. M. Sulzbacher. He was duly honored by his colleagues in being selected by them as the 'Councilman of the Year.' "

Dave Hedges, isolated though he may be in Houston, is another friend who don't forget auld acquaintance. Granted his letter was prompted by concern about my erroneous October report (corrected in November) on the vitality of Ike Powers (alive) and Hank Rigby (alive, all), still he wrote me, Ed, all on his own, saying "We are all getting so old that there isn't much to record on ourselves - but can at least tell you that son David - Stanford '65 - has completed his Army training and is at the University of Texas Law School. Son Dan - Dartmouth '68 — is at Navy OCS at Newport, R. I., until December 20. After that he will receive his assignment but, of course, at present he doesn't know where that will take him."

Letter of the Month (Lex Paradis - CSFA Division):

Taking early retirement at age 55 from American Airlines, after 26 years of service, my wife and I have moved to a Vermont hillside outside Woodstock, close enough to drive to Hanover at will. Since I have published a couple of dozen books during the last 16 years, we felt that we could make a go of it up here even if I did nothing more than just write more books. However, the challenge of using some of the communication and editorial skills and knowledge acquired over the past quarter-century prompted the formation of the New England Writing Associates which my wife and I head. We have a group of professional writers on call, the most distinguished being our own Bill Cahn with whom I conceived the idea of this enterprise in the Dartmouth Club of New York in 1961....

CSFA... is the Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America, better known as Dollars for Scholars [Lex is a Board member]. I am also continuing to serve as a trustee of the National Information Bureau and as chairman of the Advisory Committee of the National Association of Practical Nurse Education and Service. My main problem in life is finding enough time to do everything that must be done. I'm busier up here than I was in New York even with that full-time, job!

Woodstock seems to be where it's happening. Resident-retiree Howell Chickering departed thence August 14. says the "Rutland (Vt.) Herald" of 8/19/68, "to Seoul, Korea, on assignment as a member of the International Executive Service Corps [branch of the State Department's AID - Agency for International Development], to work with a Korean chemical company for the next three months or more. . . . Chickering retired three years ago from DuPont where he was sales manager for packaging films."

Meantime, back in the States, Ed Hill of Needham, Mass., took himself a bride - Mrs. Raymond Louis Dirks - on September 21 at the Marsh Chapel of Boston University. Best man was Ed's son, David. Ed is chief of the planning branch for the civil works program of the New England Division Corps of Army Engineers.

October was a gladsome time for a remarkable number of our classmates, who assembled in Hanover for the Columbus Day (Princeton) Disaster. Regrettably, it also marked the sudden passing, on October 27, of Bill Sheffield, at his home in New Jersey. A memorial service was held on the 30th at St. Bartholemew's in New York and was attended by Walt Blood, Bill Scherman, and your Secretary. An obituary, prepared by Walt, appears elsewhere in this or a subsequent MAGAZINE.

Scherman has already reported the Princeton-game-get-together in considerable detail in the News-Letter, but held out some goodies for this space. Like: "Bill Emerson reported daughter Sally had just made him a grandfather, of a youngster named William Charles; and Bill's wife, Millicent, showed us a picture of their daughter, Judith, who had the female lead in a new comedy, 'Transplant,' by Martin Kravit, which just opened at whatever corresponds to off-Broadway in Boston." And from TomBeers: "Dick Wells was a surprise starter, having come from Minneapolis on business and stayed over for the weekend. Jack Laidlaw was in Hanover for one of the Horizon seminars ... I can report he seems to be well, happy, and better preserved than most of us. . . . Johnny Lyle appeared and the reminiscing went on [Friday night] until nearly midnight. It was the last we saw of John for he is a doctor at Mary Hitchcock, and since all the other obstetricians were away he had the duty for the weekend. . . . The number of '34's at the game was tremendous. I would guess there were at least 50 with their wives. ... In addition to the old faithful there were Jack Hinsman, HankBryan, and Chester Birch. . . . I ran into Frank Cornwall and his wife . . . and I am sorry to pass along the information that Hugh Logan's wife, Anne, died suddenly last summer. . . . The après-game festivities were held in the Hanover Motor Lodge in the connecting rooms that Bill Emerson and Art Moebins occupied. There were some surprise starters here too: Nelson McClary,Jake and Shirley Edwards, Herb Heston and his wife, the Randy Klinefelter and John Foley among them." And from Ed Brown: "A local note: Walt Crandall and partner won the Varsity Courts Men's Doubles Championship this year."

And to all, a Merry Christmas and a productive, peaceful, glad New Year!

Secretary, Apt. 1-B, 333 East 55th St. New York, N. Y. 10022

Treasurer, Thayer School Hanover, N. H. 03755

Bequest Chairman, ARTHUR J. LEONARD JR.