1926

February 1, 1969 the directors of the Paul Revere Life Ins. Co., named Robert D Harrington, President of the Paul Revere Corp., parent of the Life Ins. Co., and a Division of Avco, as the Life Insurance Company's chief executive officer. Paul Revere employs about 1000 people in its Worcester, Mass., home office and has insurance agencies in 50 states and Canada.

Thanks go to Russ Webster for an interesting feature in the March 2, 1969, Columbus, Ohio, "Despatch" on the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Dayton, Ohio, Art Institute which "since 1957 under the direction of Thomas C. Colt Jr., has become a respected leader among American museums. Collections have been built and revised with a wide range in time and scale. Director Colt recognized and appreciated contemporary art long before the value skyrocketed. Proof of his wisdom, vision, and insight is recorded in the galleries at the museum."

Dr. George Snell, internationally recognized for his work in research in the genetics and immunology of tissue transplantation and recipient of the American Medical Associations Hecktoen Silver Medal in 1955, the Bertner Award for Cancer Research in 1962 and the Gregor Mendel Medal, has, after more than 30 years' service, retired from the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me., the world's largest center for research in mammalian genetics. George with his wife, Rhoda, will continue living in Bar Harbor. He will also continue his research activities as Senior Staff Scientist emeritus at the Jackson Laboratory.

A post card from another retiree, Class Valedictorian, Don MacKay reads "Voila! a view to enjoy and 'take' in retirement. Winifred and I came down here in October and have liked it so much we now feel we will just hang about 'indefinitely.'" Small wonder too, if you could see the face of the card. It is of picturesque Buzzards Bay where Mac has himself a house with a view of water from open land in three directions and for neighbors only the light housekeeper and one other house. An ideal setting for contemplation. Knowing Mac to be of a thoughtful and whimsical turn of mind one wonders what our Class Valedictorian, who very nearly forfeited a degree for dignified dissent about the College at our commencement, thinks of the fanfare, publicity, adulation and near hero worship by administration, faculty, and younger alumni accorded the undignified, self serving puerilities of his modern counterpart.

Herb Redman, in Jamaica reports, "Frances and I down here trying to recuperate from ravages of New England winter. Everything going Just great." Ritchie and Betty Smith, whom nobody can accuse of not knowing how to live, report "roughing it"in a chartered yawl, with a French chef, loafing their way through the Lesser Antilles. of sterner stuff but still no slouches in the art of living, Bob and Pense Cleary mnnrt from Tahoe, Calif. "Such a week of we tod at Vail. It was superb! The father perfect and Vail, an Austrian-American village. All ski. Today we leave for Tahoe after two nights in Vegas, the quintessence of vulgarity. It has to be seen he believed." From still another traveler this buried item of last fall from Brant Wallace sending a summary of classmates sPotted at last fall's Princeton game. Did a bit of traveling this summer, getting to Europe for the month of September, and touching England, Holland, W. Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and France. I find I could be a traveling bum without much effort."

The Ken Andler profile had some happy side effects. First it resulted in Dick Nichols,Grace Murdough, Helen Weeks, and "old Grad" of Newport, N. H., sending copies of the magazine's January issue. Next in my receiving the following delightful protest from Ken.

"You sure know how to hurt a guy into writing you I hope no one thinks that I am the quilty party who sent you the newspaper clipping about an article on me in the January rNew Hampshire Profiles.' I'm innocent and I haven't found the mailing culprit yet. I am not one to blow my own horn, one reason being it is too small to toot. Suffice it to say that any small town lawyer, doctor, or businessman who becomes a trustee or director of a bank (especially if he lives long enough to be Chairman of the Board) then becomes a 'Banker' through the courtesy of a polite fiction which has little more to recommend it than most such fictions, and is semi-pleasant, somewhat absurd and still a fiction. As for my hobby of painting, anyone who can paint a fairly pleasant landscape is not necessarily an artist. Now to separate a little wheat from a lot of chaff - except for my young people's books, and 37 years of a country law practice, I guess my only claim to anything of moderate note is an article I wrote in Harper's years ago which keeps getting into anthologies and textbooks, the latest being 'A Writer Teaches Writing,' by Donald M. Murry and published by Houghton Mifflin. As for our bank, we have a nice new little branch in Sunapee, and we're always glad to receive new Dartmouth customers in this growing Lake Sunapee area."

Finally we will give Ken the opportunity of adding sleuthing to his other accomplishments because from their distinctly different hand writing "Old Grad" and the original clipping sender are clearly not the same person though they both. hail from Newport, N. H. Let us know, Ken, how you make out as a Sherlock Holmes. We want to praise, not condemn "the guilty party."

Again I pass up closing with Book Title Thought of the Month to stress that the 1926 Collection is a collection of illustrations, not illustrators, of books published in New England during Dartmouth's first century; that for the period from 1820 to 1969 we are fairly strong; that the current major need is for illustrations from printers and illustrators of the earlier period 1769 to 1820; that we seek characteristic views in many fields, medicine, industry, engineering, botany, horticulture, herbia, architecture, juvenalia, natural history, etc., etc., and whatever, not just Belles Lettres.

Eagle-eyed for '26 news Ed Hanlon recently underwent surgery in the Greenwich, Conn., hospital. Happily he is now recuperating at home, 6 Stanwich Road.

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