1921
One of the joys of being a physician-professor is in watching students develop. Let Dr. David Seegal speak. "Through chance three Dartmouth College graduates joined our group at the Columbia University Research Service. Two were my former students; the other took a position as resident physician after World War 11. Here is the follow-up. Quentin B. Deming '41, a very popular Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College, heads the Division of Gerontology. Dr. Arthur R. Wertheim '35, Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians, Columbia University, was voted the foremost teacher by the senior class. Voted as the ablest instructor at the Northwestern University School of Medicine, Dr. Gene H. Stollerman '41 now heads the Department of Medicine at the University of Tennessee." David, proud of these men, wishes that some of the non-negotiables at Hanover could take a long, hard look at these alumni who continue to honor the Dartmouth spirit.
David is struck with how foreign travel has become an Ivy-League way of life. Before retirement, Ike Chester and Margaret had visited 150 countries or geographical areas and so may have outdistanced BillAlley, Gus Perkins, Bob Burroughs, and even Ellis Briggs. Now the Chesters discovering America agree with Connie Keyes that the best wine, women, weather, restaurants, and plumbing may be found throughout the U.S. This is not to say that he expects to find them all in the Everglades.
Lured always by the Orient, Red Kerlin's Rowene has completed her fifth journey to India. She praises to the sky the Bali Beach Hotel and the island is her dream of paradise, but, in this troubled world, nothing is purely celestial. The hippies, "such dregs of humanity," have found it and indulge in maximum sexual activity in maximum squalor. Rowene winced to see tiny undernourished American babies wrapped in filthy shawls, brushed by Mummy's snaky locks and dried by Daddy's ratty beard in lieu of a towel. But Rowene would speak rather of the Himalayas, the sun rising over Kenchenjunga (28,156 feet), and mountain- climbing schools of men and women on ledges with drops of several thousand feet.
Henry Palmer's widow Mary, now Mrs. Hoch, and her husband Harold have sold their Easton (Md.) house and are building in Stuart, near Fort Lauderdale, above the Indian River with an ocean view. After the conventional "Cristoforo Columbo" to Lisbon and Malaga they set forth by car with no hotel reservations throughout Portugal, North Africa, and Spain. In Madrid they entrained for Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam and took the Rhine River boat at Rotterdam for Mannheim. From Hamburg they sailed home on a freighter.
Rynie Rothschild might have been found almost anywhere, for he and Lee, without benefit of travel agencies, took a trip around the world. Now he is seeking the peace which immobility gives him. Summers his address is Alexandria, Minn.; and winters, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Charlie and Dorothy Gilson have ambitious spring plans: Portugal, Spain, France, England, Germany for the Passion Play, Greece, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Okinawa, Japan, Honolulu, and, come autumn, Providence.
Though Dud Robinson dislikes traveling, he has moved about from, Florida to California, from Wisconsin to Indiana, from Colorado to Connecticut where Nels and Terry Smith helped him celebrate his 70th birthday. On the golf course he is mobile enough three and four times a week, but his game is "just fair" with a 16 handicap. He enjoys companionship more than "low scores.
Dr. Allen Brailey and Alice seek out Bartholomew's Cobble. On its few acres in southwestern Massachusetts grow rare ferns, orchids, and other wildflowers. Allen delighted in a little garter snake warming himself on a ledge. The doctor and the snake viewed each other with mutual respect and forbearance. The snake did not reproach him for not having used over the decades snake medicine to cure patients, and Allen respected the sanctuary and rights of a living creature to sun itself in July without being molested by a superstitious human being with a prejudice stemming from mendacious information given Eve at noon when she was thirsty and longed for fruit created by God.
No more Florida for Fred Benton even though he loves shad fishing in the St. John's River. He prefers travel from Philadelphia to California where his son John, a specialist in medieval French, is on the Carnegie Tech faculty.
Judge at the Franklin County Municipal Court, Columbus, 0., Ken Sater continues to work so hard that he rarely has any time for travel. His longest vacation in 35 years was Williamsburg in 1968 for three days. Ken likes to recall our undergraduate days when we stayed up to greet the team on that Sunday night after it had lost 14-7 to Penn State, and he fervently hopes to keep that image untarnished. As for retiring, Ken will when it is no longer fun to be a judge, and that time may not be far away, though the police, the sheriff's office, and the highway patrol may continue to enjoy them- selves for an indefinite length of time.
Tom Staley to honor Dr. Nelson W. Barker has presented to the Dartmouth College Library with "Prehistoric Japanese Arts, Jomon Pottery" by J. Edward Kidder, Professor of Art History and Archeology at the International Christian University in Tokyo. The volume contains 17 color plates and 439 black and white photographs and deailed fold-out charts illustrating both major and minor Jomon pottery types from all parts of Japan.
Tom Staley has also honored the Rev.George W. Ferguson with "II Palazzo Delia Cancelleria" by Armando Schiavo, one of the most distinguished architects, scholars, and writers of modern Italy. Not well known artistically, paradoxically the palace is the most famous of the 15th century. This beautiful book of 215 pages contains 39 colored plates of persons, portraits, furniture, altars, doors, stairways, and tapestries.
Jeff, son of Cliff Hart, Special Adviser to '"The Conservative Idea," a Dartmouth undergraduate quarterly, asks in a recent issue what may be said to undergraduate radicals ". . . who have... somehow arrived at a college, a place which is prepared to spread before them the best which has been thought and said, which has made room within the pressing demands of the world for Keats and Kant, Virgil and Tolstoi, yet who prefer to fill the air with the shrill and tiresome slogans we have been treated to all this spring. The political activist... belongs where barbarians have always belonged: outside the walls."
At a Georgia Rotary luncheon in Cuthbert Bill Lies presented each Rotarian with one of the new Daniel Webster stamps in a crystal mount. After giving a brief talk about the College he asked each man, unless he were a collector, to use his stamp on a letter to a distant state or preferably to a foreign country to spread the Dartmouth spirit.
Now, a 21-gun salute to your incoming Class Secretary, Hal Braman, and, from your outgoing Class Secretary, gratitude for your support of him, the Class, and the College, and so, goodbye from
Secretary, New Boston Rd. Norwich, Vt. 05055
Treasurer, 1431 Hill St., Suffield, Conn. 06078
