1921

Mobility past and present. Let Joe Walker speak. In just one day in 1899, his father, a New Hampshire lumber merchant, in a sleigh drove his Morgan mare from Newmarket to Pittsfield, 80 miles. In a car today, Joe, covering the distance easily in 80 minutes, does not worry about its getting the heaves. Now it's jet planes to Europe. With a church group Joe and Mildred were transported from Galway Bay around the South Irish Coast to Dublin. They flew to London and visited the Winchester and Salisbury cathedrals. Moving with more than Morganmare speed they looked in on Copenhagen, Malmo, Dusseldorf and Cologne, Frankfurt and Heidelberg, the Austrian Tyrol, Switzerland, and Paris.

Far from the New Hampshire blizzards Carleton and Evalyn McMackin at the Desert Hills Lodge, Safford, Ariz., indulge themselves as zealous rock hounds, emeriti. They were graduated last year. Rock hounds are those who go into the back hills with a bag of marbles, and each time they pick up a rock they drop a marble. In 1968 the McMackins laid out vast sums on marbles and amassed a fine mineral collection in that shrinking frontier, the Chiracahua Mountains. Now again they are clicking cameras and digging for Indian artifacts.

Bob and Roz Loeb are heading for Tobago, a Caribbean island as undeveloped as Jamaica 20 years ago. Bob will get his outdoor exercise by reviewing a book for the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, "The Jurisprudence of John Marshall." Robert Kenneth Faulkner '56 concentrates on the political and economic views lying behind Marshall's famous Supreme Court decisions. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked, "If American law were to be repre- sented by a single figure, skeptic.and worshipper alike would agree that the figure would be one alone, and that one, John Marshall." Bob's comments may interest men close to the law like Ray Mallary, Ken Sater, Bob Elsasser, Ned Price, Nelson Smith, John Sullivan, Bill Fowler, and Warren Ege.

Harry and Carolyn Mosser like the London theatre, the Dorchester, and Allan McAfee shoes. An "estate wagon" and Samuel Chamberlain's "British Bouquet" serve them well for English countryside. At Woodstock, The Bear. Fly from Manchester to Copenhagen with better food and more friendliness than overrated and hostile Paris. Rotterdam rather than Amsterdam for construction, flowers, and museums. In the Mediterranean stop at Majorca and Son Vida, that castle resort hotel near Palma, excellent and expensive.

Harold and Mary Palmer Hoch sailed recently on the "Christoforo Colombo" for Spain, Morocco, and Portugal from which they will move north through France and Germany to return home to Easton, Md., March 29 on a 12-passenger freighter. At arecent country-club dinner dance Mary for the first time in her life sat in for the organist in a four-piece orchestra and enjoyed herself enormously.

After 38 years, Gerald Cutler has retired. As President of the Cutler-Dickerson Company, founded in 1910 by his father and grandfather, Jerry has been popular among Michigan farmers because of his services in bulk feed, mobile feed grinding service, and the purchase and sale of grain. He and Helen played a considerable role in the January issue of "Impresario of the Arts," the magazine which arranged the first European tour for performing-arts patrons. For an article Jerry provided 23 photographs of Moscow, Vienna, Rome, and Paris. Helen was author of "A Critic's Report" on the Bolshoi Ballet, the Hermitage, Peter the Great's Summer Palace, the Vienna opera, Rome concerts, a Notre Dame organ recital, and Amsterdam museums.

'21 men are becoming time conscious. Dutch Bausher recalls Doc Bowler and his sound theories about health. Why? 1. Dutch's first hospital sojourn in 40 years when, unable to do pushups, he reflected on how competent his nurses were and, with inflation, what they cost. 2. He has become increasingly fascinated by obituaries and reads them first. 3. The problem his internist saddled him with: Dutch delights in a glass of wine, but his doctor recommended an ounce of whiskey at bed time. But Dutch feels the need of it only in the day time, and the internist was reluctant to prescribe whiskey for a Methodist who felt dizzy long before dusk. Dutch continues to praise Hugh McKay who gave Rudy his start in Refined Sugars and Syrups in Yonkers.

The year 1968 elicited from Guy Wallick nostalgic memories. Pinecrest Cabin dates back 34 years. He moved to Palo Alto 40 years ago. He recalls his buddies in World War I. He married Kenneth 50 years ago. To celebrate the Golden Wedding, he invited Ken for a dinner at Coco Palms, Kauai, and for sojourns in three other Hawaiian islands. Asked about their impressions of the "Paradise Islands," the Wallicks replied that they "enjoyed the venture but were not overwhelmed." Why? Because of their own "God-given Paradise in California."

And 1968 was fruitful for Ellis Briggs. His "Anatomy of Diplomacy" was favorably reviewed. He and Harvey Hood made excellent suggestions to Jim McFate about the Hanover Inn wine list and glassware. This is good news for Bob Burroughs (globe trotter), Marshall Exnicios (London connoisseur), Werner Janssen (partial to Moselle), Bob Loeb (who holds his glass to the light), Ray Mallary (lover of French champagne), Harry Mosser (a pragmatist), JohnSullivan (early adventurer), and Roger Wilde (late adventurer). Though Ellis's 1968 shots were not heard round the world, with modesty he reports that he did not "miss all the woodcocks he flushed along the New Brunswick border." He defended the Greek colonels "to the rage of innumerable Greek Americans, who sent me letters with the varnish melting on them." He "denounced those seeking to sell out the Panama Canal, including Senator Muskie, who thereupon helped carry Maine for the Democrats against my dissenting Topsfield vote."

As a colonel in the U. S. Air Force, Corey Ford recalls being shot at by fighter planes on the "other side" of the Yalu River where American pilots were not allowed to venture in pursuit. That frustrating memory may be one reason why Corey has joined 219 writers and members of the Authors Guild of America in signing a petition urging "the vigorous prosecution of the Vietnam War to an honorable conclusion." Quoted in "Valley News," Corey observed, "as long as you are at war, you use all the military capability you possess to end the conflict and don't proceed with a limited warfare approach." The petition was circulated in reply to an earlier one signed by other Authors Guild members opposing the war.

In a justice-of-the-peace office to which Ken Sater jocosely refers as Winchester Cathedral, by virtue of his legal powers he performs marriage ceremonies. In a gesture of good will he offers to marry any 1921 man free. For Charlie McGoughran's Class (1920) and Bill Bullen's (1922), he will charge only $2 and put on his black robe and pontifical manner. Ken plans to attend the baptismal ceremony of any baby born in 1969 to a 1921 father and furnish French champagne for the baptismal guests.

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