1925
The yachting division of the Class was busy during the summer and the one who deservedly received the most attention in the press was Dick Nye whose 48-foot sloop “Carina” out of Greenwich, Conn., was over-all winner of the Newport-to-Bermuda race in June. She covered the 679 miles in just over four days and held an almost four-hour lead on the basis of corrected time.
Dick had won the 1952 race with an earlier “Carina,” a 53-foot yawl. The present one was launched last year when she triumphed in Class B in the trans-Atlantic race from Newport, R. I., to Cork, Ireland.
Bob and Naomi Borwell followed reunion with a cruise along the New England coast. They started with a visit to Pete and Ginnie Haffenreffer in Rhode Island and went as far as Bar Harbor before returning home to Chicago.
Bill and Billee Jenkins combined a sea voyage and a land cruise. Starting from home on Cape Cod in the yawl “Sunda” they progressed to Camden, Me., where Doug and Dorothy Archibald joined them for a beautiful day sail. Following this the Jenkinses drove to the Archibalds’ at China, Me., then to visit Marian and Curt Abel in Greensboro, Vt., and next to visit Larry andDot Leavitt at Lake Sunapee, N. H. Also present at Sunapee were Lou and AdelineKimball who have spent the summer there following reunion in Hanover in June.
An attempted visit to Lyn White at his Bryant and Stratton School in Boston in June led to a chat with wife Bobby who that day appeared to be supervising the move of the institution to new consolidated offices opposite Prudential Center while Whitey had taken off for Maine to help his son with the haying. The story was that he needs the hay to feed the horses at home in Marblehead.
Professor Henry L. Roberts has been named the third holder of the Class of 1925 professorship, according to a summer an- nouncement from Hanover. He has been a member of the college history department for the past three years and is an authority on east central Europe and Russia, such an important area of today’s world. Professor Roberts succeeds Dick Eberhart ’26 who assumed emeritus status, July 1.
Francis Brown, in addition to carrying out his responsibilities as editor of the New York Times Book Review, has found time to do considerable research and has exercised both good taste and good judgment in putting together “A Dartmouth Reader,” published just recently. It presents a great variety of interesting material about the College from its early days to the present.
Another book which has attracted favor- able attention is “Organ Preludes” by JeanEdson which was published last February and reviewed with high praise in the May issue of “Music.”
There are two deaths which we report with sorrow. Jim McAndrews passed on in Adams, Mass., on May 24 of a heart attack. Mrs. K. Philip Coykendall, Phil’s widow, died in New London, N. H., on May 23.
Charlie Moore adds this special note on the Princeton weekend. The Class meeting will be Saturday morning at 10 o’clock; place to be announced on Hanover Inn bulletin board. The Tavern Room at the Inn has been engaged for cocktails and dinner, Friday night; cocktails and lunch, Saturday noon; cocktails and dinner, Saturday after the game. So far more than fifty classmates and wives have signed up. Tickets for the game must be obtained in advance by individuals; as well as overnight room reservations.
Like all new class secretaries this one cannot conclude the first monthly column of notes without asking for the help of all readers in being alert for items of interest to 1925 and expressing thanks for sending them promptly to the above address.
Secretary, China, Maine 04926 Treasurer, _ R.F.D. 2, Box 71, Dover, N. H. 03820
