1939
Andrew Calleja, who was last heard from in Havana, Cuba, many years ago and who has been one of only three members of the Class carried as "lost" in the College records, has been "found." Mail to him may now be forwarded c/o Rabassa, 2031 Brookside Drive in Scotch Plains, N.J. The detective work on this job almost compensates for the pay!
Jack Reeder has moved to 4458 Moraine Ridge Lane in Dayton, 0., for that pause that refreshes. Bob Richman is commuting between his home on Bayberry Hill in Avon, Conn., and his new job at the Kimball Towers Penthouse in Springfield, Mass.
Our famous Marine classmate, Brigadier General Jim Feeley, has been transferred to Hqs. Third MAW, MCAS E1 Toro, Santa Ana, Calif. Jack Gray, who lived in Sweden for a while, is right back where he started from at 227 Highland Terrace in Woodside, Calif.
Dr. Harold Robinson, who has been practicing internal medicine for at least seventeen years in Walnut Creek, Calif., suggests that puzzle fans take down his new address. The street where he lives is 1515 Ygnacio Road, it says here. David Thurlow, who was practicing naval architecture the last we heard, gets vicarious thrills at sea at 2604 Caldwell Mill Rd. in Birmingham, Ala.
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., has announced the appointment of our John P. Wood as their new controller. Woody will be responsible for the operation of their general accounting, cost, payroll, and order services departments, in addition to figuring out allowances for his eight children. He earned his Master's in Accounting and Finance at Harvard and has been associated with Dynalecton Corp., Federal Pacific Electric Corp., and General Instrument Corp., before his present position. He will be moving his big family to the New Bedford area in June at the completion of the school year in Bethesda, Md. Our congratulations to Woody and to mother Harriet, too.
We've found some more information on Boots Hoskinson, the new treasurer of the National Geographic Society. After graduation he entered the Army as an officer in the quartermaster general's office. He served in Europe in logistical support of the allied operational forces and later in the liberation of prance. He has been active with the United Give Fund and the Alexander Graham cell Association for the Deaf, as well as the Washington Board of Trade. A native Washingtonian, he attended Western High School here. His magazine, incidentally, has been known to cause a bit of friction in our house. Not that it's controversial, exactly, but my wife likes to keep 'em moving, and I tend to load the coffee table with copies with unread articles.
We had an interesting note from HankBagg, who reports everything about the same in Holyoke. He sees lumber tycoon RayMerrick and National Blank Book president Lou Oldershaw on the golf course and on social occasions. Hank's oldest daughter Marion is married (after majoring in Nursery Education at Marjorie Webster), son Jonathan is in the Air Force in Germany, twin Betsy works at State St. Bank and Trust in Boston, and twin Susan is at home teaching at a nursery school. Hank says Route 91 makes Holyoke very close to Hanover, and he maintains his interest in things green by interviewing prospective Dartmouth students in his area.
The Big Green Sports News last month had a feature story and photograph of senior righthander Dolph Highmark, who tops the list of Indian hurlers and trades on ability and experience. He may inherit his ability from proud father Lou Highmark, but let's credit mother Peg for his rugged handsomeness! Indianapolis must be a finer town for having a wonderful family like the Highmarks in their midst.
Changing the subject, and with no reflection on young Dolph, we read in the sports news that the varsity baseball team had a frustrating spring trip "with the absolute lack of outdoor practice prior to the trip hampering a potent attack." One wonders how, before the days of Leverone Field House, Georgie Hanna, Joe Urban, SwedeLinden, and Ev Woodman ever won a game!
Ev Woodman, incidentally, in addition to his well known duties in the beauty business, is secretary of the Governor's Commission for Higher Education, director of the N.H. Educational Broadcasting Council, vice president of the N.H. Council on World Affairs, and consultant to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers Field Service Program.
With a recent fine addition, our Class of 1939 Scholarship Fund stands at four thousand dollars, which is a great start toward the events at our Reunion.
Your class officers will have made the long trek to Hanover for Class Officers' Weekend. May 10 and 11 by the time you all read this foolishness, and we shall report on the festivities in our next column.
Here's a small thought for today. One of the fine things about Dartmouth meetings in general, unlike most other attempts at organization, is the speed with which officers' elections are dispatched. We all agree, I'm sure, that too many two-bit outfits we belong to spend too much time wrangling over elections. We may not get the best officers, but at least we get them quickly, and without speeches.
We had a great letter from Win Naylor,Esq., with attached documents to prove he is the official pack trial secretary of the Bay State Beagles. We greatly appreciate Win's kind remarks about this column. He had just returned from the National Beagle Club's Annual Spring Trials in Aldie, Va. "A good buddy of mine," writes Win, "acted as one of the judges and, naturally, I had to check on every decision." Can't you picture that old dog looking over the young dogs? Win made his annual trek to Scotland last February to see his daughter and grandson. He hopes to go back next fall to get in a little hunting in Ireland, but his first priority is the 1939 Fall Reunion on October 18 and 19 for the Brown game in Hanover. Win says his only problem is to try to recapture the warm glow he got last fall.
We prescribe that fall trip for each of you. Forget the time away from biz and forget the cost. Let's make Bob Kaiser work overtime in finding accommodations for all of us. We should all make an effort to return for fellowship with an extra fine group of men at the scene of the happiest four years we ever had.
And sometime this summer, after you've scratched the mosquito bites and before you sit down with a tonic, please drop a card or letter to Old Hank. He will need a few logs of interest with which to stoke the fires for the first column of the fall. Have a good summer, and keep up our amazingly healthy Class record!
Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina 28717
Class Agent, The Batchelder Co. 502 E. War Memorial Dr. Peoria, Ill. 61614
