1921

Born Monette Carre of Aigre, Charente, France, sister of Andre Castelot, French author and historian, and educated at St. Seurin and the College d'Hulst, France, she married Chuck Moreau in 1958. Recently Monette repeated her plea, "Tell me about your business. I should not know a thing if anything happened to you." Something did, and Monette has gone to work for Moreau Publications, Inc., engaged in job printing and in newspapers in East Orange, Orange, West Orange, Bloomfield, and Glen Ridge. What did happen? Two editors, a man and his wife, left for positions in Texas. When drunk, the general manager of one Orange operation jumped into his car and with no extra clothes and little money gave it the gas without stopping until he reached Myrtle Beach, S. C. He was fleeing from his sweetheart, the mother of his illegitimate baby, who was constantly hounding him for money and even beating him up physically on occasion just to prove her maternal dedication. The situation was even more complicated because the man was a confirmed alcoholic. With admirable generosity Chuck gave him a six-months' leave of absence on half pay. The man drove on to Florida where his wife had a job, and there they were reunited. Monette was the answer to these crises. She helps Chuck on details, moves from one department to another, and loves her work. "I never want to go back to being just a housewife," she asserts, and the Moreau empire flourishes.

After a year abroad, Captain Jonathan, the son of Stan and Evelyn White arrived home in December, and if he was whole, he might have been perforated. He had been shot at by a U. S. fire ship, but though one of his men was killed, he was not even hit. In another incident a chunk of mortar shell did sock him but not hard enough to wound him. He spent about three months in the artillery north of Hue, capital of the Central Province of South Vietnam and port near the South China Sea, in various capacities: aerial observer in a two-man chopper and front-line spotter for his artillery, for example. For being at times in the front line under intense fire, he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. In one engagement everyone in his military advisory group except two sergeants ran away and left Jon and his team and the two sergeants to do the fighting. He was under fire enough during nine months to earn the Combat Rifleman Badge. Theoretically Jon may apply for permission to resign June 15, but as he is Regular Army, not Reserve, he firmly expects another 18 months of service.

"Beats hell what a few months in Hanover will do for a guy forever after, eh?" wrote George Gaffield in 1950 to Don Sawyer. For 36 years he lived at some distance from the college, Derby Line, Vt., where he served in the U. S. Department of Justice, Immigration, and Naturalization; now, retired, in Piermont, N. H., he is less far away. Chi Phi's (Dick Barnes, Herrick Brown, Bob Elsasser, Doc Fleming, John Sullivan, Ken Sater, Don Sawyer, and Bill Alley) may wonder why Piermont for George and Ruth. Born across the river in Bradford, Vt., where Ray Mallary has his farm, George yearned for his childhood scenes. His hobbies are reading, walking his dog, watching football and baseball on TV, collecting stamps, and working in his shop. Ruth and George are fortunate in having their daughter Faith and their nine-year-old twin grandchildren, Heather and Bruce, live nearby as their father has been with the USAF in the Aleutians. John Gaffield, the son, who was best man at the wedding in 1963 of Richard, the son of Dick and Sue Barnes, and Anne La Pond, is on the Red Cross Staff at Bridgeport, Conn. Interested in salmon fishing and river pollution, George would find much to talk about with Rog Wilde, DickHart, Tom Griffith, and Dana Lamb, ardent fishermen all.

In a letter to the "Valley News" AbeWeld has challenged a Dartmouth Professor of Government, Rep. Laurence I. Radway. Mr. Radway had advocated "passage of an ostensible flat-rate income tax, as the Legislature and Governor have power to do, and in the next breath" Mr. Radway demonstrated "how, without Constitutional amendment, it can be cynically converted into the equivalent of a Progressive Income Tax." Abe calls the letter "shocking" and asserts that such a proposal is "an insolent flouting of Constitution and the law." In a final witty paragraph Abe suggests that after Mr. Radway fails (as fail he must) he then apply his "considerable ingenuity to passing a sales tax ... and then devising ways and means of converting that simple sales tax, somehow, into a class-biased, sock-the-rich Progressive Sales Tax."

After a long and successful career, JackCampbell and his brother Bushrod H. Campbell '15 have sold their business, Campbell and Hall Inc., specializing in the wholesale distribution of books. As far back as 1952, it serviced some 7,000 accounts in all parts of the country, including libraries and retails outfits, employed 150 persons, and did a $2,500,000 business.

Stationed at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, Lieut. Col. Vernon, son of Frank and Florence Rood, flew to the Antarctic last November, and once a month he gets a South Vietnamese assignment.

In his European tour to save that aristocrat of fish, the salmon, Ellis Briggs has been whirling about with British aristocrats and whirled back into the Middle Ages and seated with the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, granted a charter by Edward I in 1272. No fish could be sold in medieval London except by the "Mistery" of Fishmongers, and the duty of the Wardens of the Mistery was to oversee the selling and buying of fish and insure sound quality. On this medieval necessity of life, the Fishmongers had so profitable a monopoly that they were required to furnish three ships for the Royal Navy during the reign of Edward I.

And so Ellis finds his name linked at the present conference trying to agree on a program to save the Atlantic salmon with such persons as H.R.H., the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Windsor, and the Duke of Gloucester. Lord Louis Mountbatten, who opened the two-day session which included two excellent lunches of cold salmon and dry white wines, owns three miles of a salmon river generating in him something more than a casual interest in conservation. In the chair was Sir Edward Chadwyck-Healey, Bt M.C., a member of the Council of The Atlantic Salmon Research Trust Limited, that British organization most influential and active in saving the salmon.

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