1937
We'll start off with a report on the State of Maine. Something new and gigantic has been added in the form of a forty-foot-high Indian situated in Freeport on US Route 1 which is attracting much attention and favorable comment. This is the brain child of Julian Leslie to promote interest in his Casco Bay Trading Post. It stands on a large specially made cement base just off the highway in front of the store parking lot commanding a long view down the road. Only totally blind people could miss seeing it. It's made of fibreglass and colorful with the usual feathered-type war bonnet. Les had it made somewhere in Pennsylvania and trucked over the road in one piece creating much attention, and it's the only one of its kind. This will be their new trade mark appearing also on the cover of their mail catalogue. Julian has sold his home. He and Tata are now building a new one on the side of a mountain nearby which should be a zinger according to his enthusiasm. Tata left for Fort Lauderdale in September to get that store rolling, Julian to arrive in December for the Christmas rush.
We also dropped in to see Stu and GinnyRichardson out on Wolf's Neck Road, Freeport. They have a charming old typical New England home in just plain country. He's particularly and justly proud of the unique way in which they fixed up their den. You will recall that he's the son of the Professor L. B. Richardson of our time so one wall is papered with a six foot blown-up photograph of Dartmouth Row (available at the bookstore says he) surrounded by covers from old ALUMNI MAGAZINES, some showing his Dad with people like Presidents Hopkins and Dickey. Stu teaches at the Freeport High School and Ginny keeps busy with work at Bowdoin College nearby. Their new pride and joy is a camper-trailer set up under a tree right beside the house, complete with all the comforts, which they use as a screen porch or for sleeping on hot nights when they're not out traveling around the country with it.
And we finally made connections with Wol Gaines. For years he was a state trooper on the Maine turnpike between Kittery and Portland. Don Dumont tracked him down a number of years ago but we never had that luck as he was always on the go. As reported last year he is a lieutenant and for the past two years Commanding Officer of the Recruit Training School in Augusta, a tough 12-week 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. course for a class of 40 young men. The school is located in an old state armory with a high fence which Wol describes as rather forbidding and somewhat akin to the appearance of a concentration camp. As you can imagine, it's a natural - he's been dubbed "Colonel Clink." He will be finished up with the State Police next May and is now making plans for other work. Wife, Midge, was corporate secretary and board of directors with the Community Life Insurance Company which has recently been taken over by Union Mutual Life. She's still secretary and, we might add, a pretty attractive one.
In Brooklyn Mort Berkowitz was elected a trustee of The Brooklyn Savings Bank. Not that he needs anything else to occupy his time since he is already president and publisher of Flower Grower Publishing, Inc., and publisher of Home Garden magazine. Furthermore he is vice president for special corporate projects, Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp.; a member of Magazine Publishers Association; and a member of the board of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Occasionally he's seen at home with Marj and their family at 32 East 64th St. in New York City.
Due to the summer interruption we have a number of old and new bits of news to share. Frank Butler has been appointed assistant counsel of the Reliance Insurance Company. He has been with them 10 years and lives in the Philadelphia suburb of Berwyn. Frank got his J.D. degree at the U. of Michigan Law School. Bill Cash has been elected a director of Bemis Company. Ben Doran, director, VP, and general manager of Union Camp Corporation has been elected president of the Pulp Chemicals Association at their annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale last spring. Fran and MaryFenn have moved from Hartford, Conn., to their new retirement home in Brownsville, Vt. Bill Timbers was made president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council for 1969/70. Charley Blaisdell was elected first VP of the Circumnavigators Club, an organization founded in 1902 to extend friendly contacts among men who have gone to the ends of the earth. To be considered for membership a potential circumnavigator must have crossed all the meridians of longitude traveling in one direction and returning to the starting point.
Alex Hunter was named chairman of the American Cancer Society 1969 educational and fund-raising crusade in the Irvington, N. Y., area. He formerly chaired the United Fund and worked with Red Cross and Heart Fund drives too. Dave (Butch to us) Nichols, principal of the Gilbert School, Winsted, Conn., accepted the position of associate general chairman for the 1969/70 area Community Chest campaign. Dave Todd was elected president of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Dave has his own firm primarily engaged in college and school planning and currently involved in the master plan for Lehman College, one of the senior institutions of the City University. Bob Ross is now with the G. K. Hall Company in Boston who make photographic files for libraries.
A note from busy Sey Ochsner explains why he has difficulty staying in one place. Last April, as Commissioner of Accreditation for the American Association of Medical Clinics, he was in Boulder, Colo., for three days, then Seattle for three in May. As vice-chairman of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology, he was in Boston, Philadelphia, and Dallas in the same two months for three days apiece. Says he "'lsn't it too bad I have work to do at home!"
Governor Peterson of New Hampshire appointed three "prominent citizens" including Bill Rotch to the executive committee of the Citizens' Task Force. This committee is making a study seeking to improve the effectiveness of state government and a special session of the legislature will be called early next year to consider their recommendations. Heading the task force is Royden Sanders Jr., president of the well known Sanders Associates.
We have belated word of the death last May of the mother of Yale Mintz. Bill Faiion says his son Peter graduated from Washington and Jefferson cum laude and went into training with VISTA in Denver. On a trip to Chicago he and ML had a "quick but delightful" drink with Fran and Fred Asher at their home in Highland Park.
Tune in next month for news on our Fall Reunion and the world-wide review of the famous Peerade to Cambridge. By now you can uncross your fingers!
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