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Doug and Hazel Storer in "Amazing But True Stories Behind the Stamp," a self-liquiding stamp offer, hope to surpass their "Ivory Stamp Club" 30 years ago when in return for Ivory Soap wrappers and money, they gave away 700,000,000 stamps and 1,250,000 albums. This time 100,000,000,000 stamps? Doug set up last summer a motion- picture project for Bob Considine, the story of the Military Air Lift Command, carrying all persons and supplies to Vietnam and Southeast Asia, with a half-hour and a five- minute film for TV and a ten-minute short for theatres, all in color. To cover this assignment, with Hazel he flew to Norton Air Base (Los Angeles), Travis Air Force Base (San Francisco), and Anchorage. The Storers took full-color motion and still pictures of the loading, changing of crews, servicing, and refueling at Elmendorf AFB, no soft job because, with the sun rising at 2 a. m., they had to report at the air strip at 3 a. m. and work until sunset, 10 p. m. Doug is in love with Alaska, "fresh, clean, and beautiful." In December he wrote "Christmas Greetings from the Wild Blue Under," which carried messages from the Polaris submarine "Daniel Boone" submerged in the South Pacific. In a secret location, it was permitted to receive but not to send radio messages. Incidentally, for your comfort and safety, it has 16 nuclear tubes with nuclear warheads, ready at all times, capable of crippling China in ten minutes.
Son of Stan and Evelyn White, Lieut. Jonathan '66, Artillery, 101st Airborne Division, took oil Dec. 15 via Anchorage and Tokyo for Vietnam. It was quite a Dartmouth affair when last summer he married Cynthia Everett, Mt. Holyoke '66, daughter of Doug Everett '26. Cindy attended the Dartmouth Summer School in 1964, her brother Ted is '54, her sister's husband is Bob Purse '53, and her Aunt Barbara is the widow of Sid Hayward '26, her Aunt Miriam is the wife of Bill Macurda '36, and her uncle is Bob Foster '34. The best man was Tony Blecher '67 with whom Jon roomed his senior year. A dozen or more guests were Dartmouth men.
In an Air France jet Jerry and HelenCufler have again circled the globe with the English Speaking Union. Highlights: Cairo's archeological museum "as intoxicating and limitless as the Louvre." Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda: elephants, leopards, gnus, gazelles, zebras, and 17 lions only ten feet away. Ceylon: disappointing, swarming humanity, and oppressive heat. Singapore: the muezzin call to prayer now on records over a loud speaker from the minaret. New Zealand: the high point with a DC-3 flight to Mt. Cook (12,349 feet) and a Cessna landing on Tasman glaciers (11,475). Fiji and Tahiti: a comedown despite dancing girls and fire walkers. Though the Cutlers flew 30,730 miles, not including side trips, they were airborne only 62 hours out of 744, which gave them 682 hours on land, more than they would have had on a three-month ocean voyage.
Skinny Moore points out that even if de Gaulle tries to ban bananas from France, "he is not the guy who put the ban in bananas," and Skinny believes that United Fruit will be too much for him. Tina has a sparkler on "that finger," put on by Air Force Lieut. Dereck Warren, but Tina won't say when. Skinny says after her M.A. in English December 1968; he expects to lose.
Bob Burroughs, Joe Lane, and Rog Wilde to honor Randolph E. Hodgson have presented the Dartmouth College Library with "European Illuminated Manuscripts," sixty reproductions of extraordinary beauty and fidelity from the Austrian National Library.
HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE. Feeling chipper, Rog Wilde has made a remarkable recovery from his heart attack. ... Joe and Ruth Schultz enjoyed London as much as ever after their Scandinavian trip. ... Ellis and Lucy Briggs are spending the winter in Hanover. Rollo reason: a combination of penury and recklessness. Real reason: a new book, "Anatomy of Diplomacy." ... Corey Ford and Jack Hurd were among 50 guests at the Hanover Inn dinner party given by Herb West '22, Book Seller, to celebrate his 70th birthday, Jan. 6. ... Rolandand Jessie Batchelder's children are busier than ever: George, sales and marketing manager of a growing industry; Ted, teacher at Norwalk Technical College; Robert, under increased pressure with ship shortage; Jessica, an Occupational Therapist carrying a heavier load at Vermont Rehabilitation Center. ... Joe Folger has not set foot off Nantucket since Christmas 1965, but Marion and Allen have sojourned in Boston. ...
Dave and Edith Bowen in their boat with Abe Weld sailed to Nantucket last summer and gave Joe Folger news of the mainland. ... Now in San Diego, George and Madeline Harris are renewing friendships in a four-month stay .... Abe Weld spent his birthday with Ken Bean playing bridge with him and Paul Richter '20, and Abe and Paul drove earlier to Tryon, N. C. ... Les Lambert is back in his old house at 136 Woodland Drive, Pittsburgh. Reason: his son Bill '50 was transferred to New York. ... Son of Cliff Hart, Jeff, Associate Editor of "Studies in Burke and His Time" has a book review in the fall issue: "Ogg, Europe and the Ancien Regime, 1715-1763." Janis Oliver, the granddaughter of Stan Oliver, also the granddaughter of the late Arthur C. Barwood, manager of the Hanover Nugget Theatre until his death, is going to marry. A Bryn Mawr junior, she is engaged to Frederick L. Bissinger Jr., Yale '65, presently studying at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture.
At Florida Southern College where stands the McKinley Music Building and where for two years Marje was Honorary Chancellor, the first woman thus to be honored, KentMcKinley had the courage to give what most speakers fearfully refuse, an unwritten and spontaneous graduation address. He stressed the importance of political leadership and closed with the Robert W. Service poem, "Somebody said it couldn't be done." It taught Kent as a boy before final examinations, at football rallies, and after Monday morning gloom sessions that with the right kind of service it could be done - and done well.
Although David Seegal loves England, he regrets that he did not spend at least several weeks in Ireland. If he had there captured a leprechaun, he might whimsically have spirited it into the Vale of Tempe. Retired, Dave continues to hold conferences in his home with senior medical students to discuss chronic diseases and the philosophy of a clinician. A manilla pad and a sharply pointed pencil play a major role in Dave's life. He writes essays, medical editorials, western verse, haiku, and limericks. Some 40 of the western verses have been published in five medical or college publications with another 40 in press. Haiku are making their way. Two samples:
LOST LOVE
Spinster leafs through book powdered rose petals drop out Tears reach wrinkled cheek.
DISCIPLINE
Boston symphony audience in rigid stance New England gothic.
Andy Marshall recorded wife Charlotteand classmate Don Donavanik '22 in afar setting - Bangkok, Thailand.
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