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Ort Hicks '21 swung around Florida stopping at Sarasota on March 20. About 75 Dartmouth alumni and wives turned out to greet him at a luncheon at the Forest Lakes Country Club. From '20 Class were the Howard Hitchcocks, the Ralph Sunergrens and yours truly, and our house guest, Helen Crathern who is a sister of Charlie Crathern.
Paul and Lillian Richter sent out announcements and AI Foley also announced in his recent Newsletter that the Richters are new grandparents to Rebecca, born in Denver, Colo., on January 27, daughter of Martha and Jeff Welborn. Charlie Stevens has returned from his Caribbean cruise and is much improved from the freak accident to his elbow (believe it or not) while playing shuffleboard. The cruise was made on the Sun Line owned by Onassis and Charlie recommended the Greek line highly.
Hal Bidwell of Simsbury, Conn., as many of us know, has Parkinson's disease. He had frontal surgery a few years ago which relieved the rigidity at that time. It is remarkable that in spite of everything Hal has attended Alumni College in Hanover each summer and showed up at many of the Dartmouth gatherings near and far. Strides have been made in the treatment of this disease and he is in Miami undergoing a new drug treatment at the Parkinson Clinic. This will take the better part of four months and while there he is living at the Tower of Hope, an apartment building contributed by Bob Hope and connected with the Clinic. Between the time he completed the preliminary tests and the starting of the treatment he came across to Florida's west coast to have lunch with us and to look up other Dartmouth people. He deserves much credit for his perseverance and persistency and is already talking and planning for the 50th Reunion in 1970. Give him a call 758-3311 or drop him a card at Tower of Hope, 880 N.E. 69th Street, Miami 33138, Apt. 12P. I am sure he will appreciate it.
We have good news to report about Laddie Meyers who is recovering satisfactorily from a heart scare. He was in the hospital in Clearwater close to a month but is home now and on the mend. A few days before he was hit by this heart attack Bill Currie, the sports writer of the Clearwater Sun, recoganizing that Laddie was one of the nation's great in pole vaulting, asked him for interview to tell about his greatest moment in sports. An interesting article appeared Sunday, March 16, in which Laddie had told of his attempts to break the world's record in pole vaulting by clearing the bar 13 feet 3½ inches only to have the bar fin down after he was back at his seat on the benches, which ruled him put. As he told Currie, he held the worlds indoor record for over a year and the outdoor record for the length of time it took him to walk over to his bench seat before the bar fell from its then record height.
Warrie Chamberlain has a new hobby — cooking. He thinks Florabel has done it for 45 years, now he'll take a hand at it using Time-Life cook books. He seems to think he has mastered the chicken. He still plays aolf about every other day and is looking forward to the 50th in 1970. Others that are looking forward to June 1970 are Pike Emory from Hawaii, Kinney Smith of Chebovgan, Mich., Dick Welch of Newburyport. and Howard Hitchcock of W. Hartford', Conn.
A post card from Paul and Helen Giffin mailed from Lahaina, Hawaii, tells that the weather there is some better than what they left in Detroit. Many pictures have been received from Maine and New Hampshire showing only rooftops hiding behind great piles of snow.
The telephone company on Longboat Key has been putting in new lines and our phone has been out of order more than it has been usable and this in addition to the fact that the number in the book is incorrect. The Baketels persevered when they came up the West Coast and although they couldn't reach us by phone they poked around till they found us. We were sorry not to have seen Nate and Mildred Whiteside while they were on Sanibel Island, or en route. ClintJohnson came out of a gall bladder operation with flying colors. He and Annabel are continuing their pattern of Florida in the winter and New Jersey in the summer.
Bill and Laura Carter took advantage of the Easter recess to visit their family in Phoenix, Ariz. On returning to Kalamazoo they will go to Ann Arbor where Bill will "chair" a meeting of the Michigan Economics Society. When they return east in June they will stop over with son Doug and family in Virginia while he, like father, is going to "chair" a meeting in Colorado.
Even though little news comes from Charlie Ashton of Waverly, Ohio, "T. L." Millspaugh of Walden, N. Y., Larry Rubel, of New York, Cy Rounsville of So. Swansea, Paul Sample across the river in Norwich, and Eb Wallace in Weston, Mass., we were glad to hear from them and to know they answered the roll. It must be their modesty that keeps them from letting us all know about the interesting things I know they are all doing.
We first learned about the death of Sam Stratton from Phil Gross. Phil had been practically snowbound for about a week but finally got a Boston Herald only to open it to Sam's picture. Sam had been in Virginia for treatment for emphysema and had a fatal heart attack on a Seaboard Coast Line train on his way home to his New York apartment. He has a long and impressive list of accomplishments and will be greatly missed among his academic and business friends as well as his '20 classmates. The deep sympathy of the Class goes to his surviving wife Janet and his daughter Nancy and her family. Only recently a short note had been received from Sam saying he hoped to make it in 1970. As Jerry Stone used to say "It's later than you think."
I talked with Harry Bower, who lives in Bradenton, going to Ipswich, Mass., in the summer. He is very much interested in checking up on the eagles, and their nesting habits here in Florida.
A good picture of Rus Jones appeared in the February 6, New York Times, telling of the start of his becoming a cooking teacher. Going back to World War I when he attended officers' training school he volunteered for kitchen duty. One of his many accomplishments is his breadmaking and since he lives high on a hill, while kneading his dough he can view the Hudson River, Bear Mountain, Mt. Beacon, and even the Catskills. It was by request that he started giving cooking lessons which have grown and his classes consist of "women well-todo" who arrive in Bentleys and Mercedes together with a group of outstanding 15-year-old girls from nearby Ripowam School. The Times gave three of his favorite recipes, Bisque Tortoni, Pekin Dust, and the Do-itahead Mixed Salad. He (with C. McKim Norton, "a great blue-water sailor") is the author of a best-seller book "The New Cruising Cookbook" published by Norton. Rus seems to be doing all right with his newfound avocation, having retired as vice president of Cunningham & Walsh in 1962.
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