1931
The inevitable changes take place among us as time goes on. Bat Austin and BevoWilson passed away since last we went to press. You'll find details elsewhere in this or a subsequent issue, so no more need be said here.
We do have a great mix of other kinds of news, so let's leaf through the pile of notes.
Alice and Jack Reno were in Brazil last spring, visiting daughter Lynne and her husband, also stopping at Rio J., Buenos Aires, Lima, and Cuzco. In July they visited son Jack and his wife in Boston. Jack became a grandfather for the first time: son Jay, born to Lynne.
Trout fishing is occupying much of VanceDickerman's time in Northern California. He says "the fish were all down on the bed of the creek and disdained our dry flies. I even stooped to trying my spinning rod and had even less luck which, I suppose, serves me right." Not knowing the difference, I nevertheless wonder why Vance thinks one has to "stoop" to a spinning rod.
Merrill Rosengren says Shep Wolff's house in South Pomfret is right on the line of flight from Boston to Montreal. Rosy said he couldn't holler loud enough for Shep to hear, but this sounds rather primitive to me. Why didn't Rosy try a note tied to a stone?
Since going to Reading, Pa., five years ago, Frank Pope states he has not had a vacation, but he enjoys the Pennsy hills.
Jesse Strassberger's son Peter graduated with Dartmouth '67 and spent the summer as a newspaper reporter in Hong Kong. Son Gerald is now a freshman in Hanover.
Another thirty-oner planning to retire to the Cape Cod area is Hawley Jaquith, now in New Jersey. He hopes to make the change in 1970.
Bill Wilson and Bob Dilley were witnesses, one after the other, at an I.C.C. hearing supporting an airport taxi service from the New York airports to Princeton. Bob runs the Princeton Chamber of Commerce. Boy, have we got that town sewed up.
Don Ewing, now back in the Washington area for the government foreign service, writes that he had planned to meet RalphCharlton for the Princeton game, but heard that Ralph was hospitalized with a bad back. We need details on this.
Another grandfather - Bob Dickey, whose daughter Carolyn bore Neil Edward Curtis on November 1. We are really getting to be the grandfather class!
The Shawmut Association, Inc., elected John Benson as president — this is the holding company which controls the National Shawmut Bank of Boston and a group of other nearby banks.
Our spies inform us that Dave Loveland has purchased a piece of land in Marco Island, Fla. What about Loveland-on-the- Connecticut, in Norwich? Maybe it'll be too cold in the winter time?
Mary and Bob Oelman announce the engagement of their daughter Kathryn to Edward Meagher 3d, of Whittier, Calif.
Two classmates have had books published recently. Ken Anderson co-authored "The Women in Our Life — Insurance." which describes the backgrounds and philosophies of women in the business of selling life insurance. Went Eldridge edited "Taming Megalopolis," a collection of essays on urban planning, which made page one in the New York Times' Book Review Section.
Marny and George Hawkins stayed in Hanover late in December in one of the Inn's new rooms, and had dinner with Helen and Parker Soule. Parker and Shep Wolff continue to be the most prolific sources of information for your correspondent, who is duly grateful.
Chuck Robinson and Charlie Ryder got together at Dartmouth Night in Los Angeles last fall. Chuck writes "some of us on the far west coast find the activities of you fellows back in New England to be wistfully stimulating. ... I have not seen more than four or five of our classmates in as many years."
Barbara and Dick Denby, on Easy Street, Nantucket, Mass., finally got heat in their house this fall, and are settling down for the winter, handling inquiries from people who want to buy and rent Nantucket property. Dick says "Have a wild goose in the refrigerator and expect venison next week." Speaking of wistful stimulation, Chuck?
Maryellen Donner told Parker Soule that Rog got home from the hospital in time for the holiday season. He's enjoying homecooked food for a change, and is trying to gain back some of the 25-30 pounds he lost. Check in your December ALUMNI MAGAZINE for Rog's address, and send him a note.
Spence Cram has moved from the unlikely Chagrin Falls, Ohio, to the unbelievable Islamorada, Fla. What's in a name? Maybe Spence will enlighten us.
And so, for February, whether you be ploughing, sweltering or jetting, make the most of it and continue to have a great year.
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