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While this is written soon after returning from a fortnight with the children, grandchildren, and friends, and will be read in February, the first words must be a "thank you" to so many of you - and always some "new ones" who sent us greetings. The Karslake family picture and the Joe Burleigh family letter are perennial winners, but so many others give us real pleasure, too. And visiting with the classmates en route was frosting on the cake, and good for news of others. Glad to see Lou and Van in their #1 Van Huyck home and to hear of the #2 summer retreat they have built further north, and to know that Don Hull helped them find the spot in the community where he lives and paints (the 40-year book needs revision re. DH); also Doc and Marion Graham dropped in at the Doug Craigs’ when we were there. All very jolly and festive.
Latest wedding-to-be news involving Hanover and a classmate's daughter is the announcement in our local paper and also the Boston Herald that Sue Wheatley is engaged to Elliott Carr; her fiance is the son of an ex-faculty member who left Hanover to become president of Oberlin College. Sue is a Holyoke graduate with a Master's degree in Library Science from Simmons; Elliott graduated from Dartmouth in '60, and from Harvard Business School, is currently first assistant vice-president of the Massachusetts Indemnity and Insurance Company, Boston. Summer wedding. Our best wishes to all concerned, Sue and Elliott, and both families.
Seen in "Business Week" for Dec. 30, 1967, under the article-title of "Shorter Strides for the Giants," a current picture of our Earl Daum, vice-president, and general manager of its Oversea? Operations Division, of General Motors; he was quoted in comments on the uncertainties resulting from devaluation of the pound. "It's not what we do but what the Europeans think we could do that bothers them," delights this psychologist; more on an economic level is '"Devaluation hasn't automatically made Britain a better place to invest." (More on pages 40-42. I cite these details because my former reference to articles on other classmates has brought expressions of appreciation.)
Again at a level of big business: Ted Lamb has made changes of importance to many involved. As of August 23, 1967, Lamb Industries, Inc. became Lamb Comunications, Inc. Such business properties as White Products, Alumatic Corp. of America etc., have been sold and the new stress is "the development of the broadcasting and communications field." Toward that end, a news release dated Dec. 19 announced the Purchase of WICU-TV, of Erie, Pa., NBC affiliate; approval by the Federal Communications Commission was announced as of Dec. 20, 1967. Ted is president of the new firm.
Incidental news: One brave soul writes to thank me for the birthday card and then reports no news items of interest, although my "book" has just four lines since 1927; 40 years ago and the 40-year book note is equally brief; try again, X ... have a heart. Rolie and Edna Taylor have done much to help boys interested in getting into Dartmouth; their son, Paul '52 now has his Ph.D. from Harvard (June 1967) and is a member of the faculty at Sweet Briar, in the History Department ... he just may have the pleasure of teaching the daughter of a relative-by-marriage of mine. Bill Craig '64, and their nephew, has his law degree from Yale (also June) and practices in New Haven ... In case you missed it elsewhere in the' December issue, Larry Treat's anthology of mystery stories, "Murder in Mind," might interest you.
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