1924
It seems as if a good many classmates have been holding their breaths over-long ... before the first game and right through Yale, at least. We expect some of you here for the Cornell game and weekend festivities, including ed and Norma Maloney, whom we saw in their lovely bay-side summer home at South Duxbury. See you in Princeton; Margaret and I will be there, reuning with friends we made in Korea who are studying at Princeton this year.
You'll find obituaries again, in the usual column, and again it seems as if most are over-short because the departed classmates have not been in touch in recent years. Next month, I'll have to write another — this one for Gil Voorhis, known to many of us (as Spud wrote in the 45-year book) as Chinny. He withdrew at mid-years 1922 for financial reasons. Our last records were his war record.
Perhaps it is not un-natural for those of us who are still here to look forward to June with even more-than-usual pleasure in renewing many old friendships. The publicity is good and I am beginning to receive replies to birthday cards which say they plan to attend our 45th. Barbara and Mony Monahan are the most recent ones. From down in the same area, Lee Ramsdell sends word of his latest climb up the advertising ladder: he is past-president of Ramsdell, Buckley & Co., and now chairman of the board of a merger with Kampmann & Bright, and also chief executive officer; headquarters will be in the Ramsdell offices. Lee is good enough to bring us up-to-date again on his family; John is a financial analyst with SCM Corp. in New York; Jim is married (others are not) with a final year in Parks College of Aviation Engineering (St. Louis) - pilot, instructor, et al. #3 son, David, plays both JV and varsity soccer at Colorado College. And the parents (Louise and Lee) are Nantucket refugees, come summer heat.
We have more and more classmates in Florida, and yet one of the most recent, Cleve Poole in St. Pete, wants to know who is where. I'll try to make that a project, but meanwhile others can identify themselves by investing 6 cents to 3926 Overlook Drive, NE, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33703. See Butts' full list of new addresses. I hear most often from Bevo Beers, in Crystal River; he and Quecha miss the gang at Bonnie Oaks in the fall. ... "You don't know how much we suffered over the Bonnie Oaks weekend"; but they come in summer, now, when Florida is hot (he says). Guess some of us will have to come down your way, Bevo and Quecha. He even had to suffer a wrong report giving news as Harvard 24-D. 10 ... until the national news corrected it. Glad they missed a hurricane headed their way for a while.
Next, the Foreign Legion returnees: Emilio Lanier is now a professor of English at Tuskegee, having been at Fiske and TSU between 1951-1966. Of course we all remember him best for the many years he taught in several Japanese universities under a program of the Institute of International Education. In addition to Dartmouth's A.B. he also earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1944-45. For him, it is full cycle, for he was born in Mississippi, went to Talladega H.S. and College and transferred to Dartmouth in the first semester of his senior year. Then there's Red Newell to whom I wrote saying (on his birthday card) we had touched in Shanghai... what a blooper ... of course I meant Singapore. I have already told of his retirement and again urge the clan to get him out again into Dartmouth affairs out there where the hippies in Berkeley and San Francisco stretch his comprehension. (Mine, too.)
Artists' comer: Good to hear from JoeButler who has just lived through the 50th anniversary of the museum there, "much more important than my 68th." Too bad he finds so little time to paint, but hope some of you nearby can bring him along to reunion despite earlier negative plans. I'll show you some slides of Maine to make you drool, Joe. ... And Rollie Gibson continues to exhibit Japanese and Italian modern art at historic Page's Corner, in Dunbarton, where he shows his paintings, has a sculp- ture garden of modern metal pieces "and brightly colored Roland Gibson balls." I must ask more about that last item. ... His "Japanese Art of the Sixties" exhibit travels to many places ... including out West as far as Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; similarly his "Italian Abstract Art" traveling exhibit. We see him here in Hanover frequently, at concerts, art exhibits, lectures, etc. ... Dick Morin tries to find time, now he is "retired," for his excellent water colors ... and over in Springfield, Vt., the Stu El- dredges ... all of them are very artistic, as I've described many times ... are hard at it. One day the present birthday card by Stu will be replaced ... and, of course, by Stu again. ... And finally, we are going to feature '24 art at Reunion Dick - Morin is heading this exhibition up for the class.
Incidental items: Arn and Grace George missed Bonnie Oaks, regretfully, this year - although seen at the Penn game ... we hope to have a get-together one day, but the weekends are awfully full so far. ... I did manage to see the Bleike Reeds earlier this week and they will be in Hanover with us in a few days. Doris almost commutes to Brown University, where she is the only lady Fellow, among their Trustees for the past two centuries .. . that sounds much worse than "200 years" ... sorry. This is an outstanding achievement and honor.
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