1919
From the Alumni Records Office (it must be what the editor calls “hard news”) a clipping which states that at a meeting attended by nearly 300 representatives of Baptist churches in Massachusetts HowieCole was elected president of the Baptist Home of Massachusetts. And, right from the horse’s mouth, the announcement that Howie and Doris leave the last week in August for several weeks in England, France, and Switzerland. They wish us to tell all that they regret they cannot make the Fall Get-Together. From Larry McCut-cheon—that he is in Brevard, N. C., where, says he, the scenery is gorgeous but the fishing is not so good as in Canada. And a word from Russ Potter who sends, through Spider, his best regards to everyone in the Class.
Spider also had a note from Bob Stecher (who couldn’t make some meeting) “ ... It was with deepest regret that I had to pass up the meeting this year . . . The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland, it functions in place of the Cuyahoga County Medical Society, at its Annual Meeting Dinner, Friday, plans to give me a Distinguished Membership—its highest award. It is some- thing that is not likely to come my way again so I must be here to receive it. Only 27 Distinguished Memberships have been awarded ever ... so I feel highly honored.”
“For the first time since it was established in 1964, the Henry Johnson Fisher award— the magazine industry’s most prestigious honor—will be presented to two outstanding leaders in the field who have made notable contributions to the advancement of the industry. Selected by the Award Committee as 1970 winners are Mr. Roy E. Larsen, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Time, Inc., and Mr. Maurice R. Robinson, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Scholastic Magazines Inc. . . . Previous recipients were DeWitt Wallace, Founder, Co-Editor and Co-Publisher of Readers Digest, 1964; Henry R. Luce, Editorial Chairman of Time Inc., 1965; Richard E. Berlin, President The Hearst Corp., 1966; Edward Weeks, Former Editor, The Atlantic, 1967; Arnold Gingrich, Pub- lisher, Esquire, 1968; and A. L. Cole, Former General Business Manager, The Readers Digest, 1969 . . .” Congratulations, Mose, on another well-deserved kudos.
Wally Baker writes; “I had a very pleasant time attending the Annual Dart- mouth Dinner in Phoenix, Ariz., with my son, Wallace J. Baker Jr. ’46, and their monthly luncheon shortly thereafter ... I was surprised to learn I was the oldest person there I had never thought of myself as being a member of an older class until this time.” Collie O’Gorman, we under- stand, is building an apartment house with about 100 units in Hollywood, Calif., but plans to winter as usual in Palm Beach, Fla. Jim Stone has been elected to the Board of Advisers of Stonehill College in North Easton, Mass., where Spider Martin is also a member of the Board. And at last Georgeand Marion Rand have arrived in Hanover from Florida. Marion plans to leave soon with her daughter for several weeks in Europe; George stays here to see to it personally that the football team is whipped into shape. Chet Gale announces that he is at long last semi-retired, which means more of the same except (don’t laugh) that he can take off whenever he wishes for a friendly golf match. La difference, it seems to us, is all in his head, as they say.
The Class is saddened by the death of Greif Raible on June 24 (see the “In Memoriam” columns of this or a subsequent issue.) and we all send our sympathy to his lovely wife, Katherine. A great sadness also was the very sudden death of Lisa, wife of George Bingham which was covered so beautifully in Batch’s Smoke Signal. We shall miss her and our sympathies go to George and his children. Chandler Bingham ’47 and Perry.
And in closing, if the editor will permit us a bit of what we are sure he would call “soft news,” Cotty and Kitty Latmon have been, among many places, fishing way up miles and miles above the St. Lawrence River. Here, we are told, a salmon is still a salmon and not, as here in Vermont, full of mercury like a thermometer. We are not one to spread wildly exaggerated fish stories and we’ll say only that there might be a fish or two left up there.
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