1914

When the talented editors and staff of ALUMNI MAGAZINE take well-earned summer vacations so do the Fourteeners and Fourteenettes to whom I look for news.

I'm the more grateful to Mart Remsen that his summer review of all that has happened on the Hanover Plain includes not only our best of all reunions but news in depth that this space does not permit.

To our new leader, Vogie Stiles, goes a pledge of support from all of us. Thayer School graduate, Vogie's entire career has been one of distinction in the petroleum industry, and in government service as production and research engineer.

For his avocation in retirement Vogie finds gardening a very real interest. He has two grandsons in the U.S. Navy both officers, Jim, a Thayer School graduate and Peter, a graduate of Colgate and Virginia Law School.

Speaking of the Navy and of outstanding Navy careers, to reunion from perhaps the greatest distance came Arthur Herbert Dearing, N.D. and his lovely wife, Mary from Santa Clara, Calif. No amateurs in gardening they are specialists in growing roses, carnations, and lemon trees.

From odds and ends of news gathered during reunion I note that Doc Kingsford manages nine graveyards in his hometown of East Wakefield, N. H.

Add news oddities. ... At reunion were Larry Kingman, Les Bacon, Harold Dunbar with only Howard Bowman missing of the four Musketeers who entered Dartmouth from Brockton High School.

Add another ... Doc Cook, lifetime bandsman, still plays the cello in the band in his hometown of Tarrytown, N. Y.

Art and Eleanor Lowell studied painting and sculpture in Mexico attending the Fine Arts Institute of Albende, Mexico. PenAborn who as Reunion Treasurer was Vogie Stiles' able assistant reports that to their mutual satisfaction the happy event closed with no figures in the red.

Golden wedding bells seem to be ringing more and more for our Fourteeners. Your secretary thanks Larry Kingman for his report that he and Clara attended the 50th anniversary of the wedding of Ducky andMarion Louise Drake on June 18.

Note, too, from Mart's News Letter that Phil and Priscilla Smith observed their 50th on June 19 one day after the Drakes' and that Ellsworth and Constance Buck romantically celebrated theirs while en route to Rio, April 12.

Elmer Robinson writes of a delightful surprise visit from Forrest Blood and his charming wife Edna who in August were touring New England. "We climbed every branch of the memory tree."

Elmer and Cris could not make reunion but Elmer somehow popped in at the Hanover Inn just as the farewell luncheon ended. With him, equally unexpected, was Drew Sleeper '52 whom you may have met at our 50th - now a Lieutenant Colonel bombing pilot just back from his third combat tour in Vietnam. Both charmed the waitresses into a big dinner.

Secretary, Lake Road, Newport, Vt. 05855

Treasurer, 105 Carnarvon Circle Springfield, Mass. 01109