1931
Without much ado because of the new policy of reduced space for Class columns, I present the following:
Dave Larrabbee has had to retire from the U. S. Geological Survey because of his third and nearly fatal heart attack this spring. He says the daughters just about gave him up, but he was too onery to die. During his career he contributed 51 geological reports and maps, mapping being his chief love. In January he went on a strenuous kingfishing expedition, garnering with friends on one day 268 fish weighing 1200 pounds and on another day 311 fish weighing 1700. These were not wasted, but sold to packing houses, he states. He admits that maybe the fishing effort was a little too much for him.
From Red Chamberlain: “Ceci and I drove to Hanover by way of Niagara Falls to see son John graduate cum laude and with high distinction in his psychology major. Saw Chuck O’Neill and JoeMerriam . . . son David finished freshman year at University of New Mexico and is on honor roll. Both sons sport fine red beards, a color that is not so strong if I let mine grow. Even my youngest, Mark, who had his last year in high school, has one. So perhaps I don’t need to ‘wonder where the color went.' John has been accepted at Harvard and may go there to graduate school.”
Posted in Stockholm, a letter from JohnnyJohnson enclosed a substantial check to be forwarded to the Alumni Fund. He’s attending Stockholm University, adding same to Upsala, Middlebury, University of Rochester and Dartmouth all in reverse order. He comments: “I got my come- uppance the other day when I tried to get a student-rate plane ticket. I couldn’t convince them that I was under 26!” He expects to get back to ice and cheap gin for a July- August vacation.
Big splash in the Brockton (Mass.) paper about Bob Tonis addressing the local Rotary Club on the problems of being head security officer of Harvard University. Bob stated that, despite all the unrest, his biggest problem is stolen bicycles, adding that most of these, although chained and locked,” are stolen almost directly underneath my office window.” Turning to the “tense situations of last spring” he said even the leaders of the dissident groups have high respect for the “campus cops” and - despite everything helped both to “assist and protect our men,” especially from missile throwers.
Beany Thorn sent a few slides to add to the class collection which will be shown next June. Don’t forget to bring yours, or mail them to me, whichever.
Gay Freeman received the annual award of the Roger Baldwin Foundation, an arm of the American Civil Liberties Union, at a dinner in Chicago attended by 700. He concluded his remarks with; “Keep talking. Quietly if you can. But keep talking. Don’t let us become too absorbed in our quarterly reports. We need to hear—more important we must act upon what you (ACLU) have been telling us.”
Speaking his piece in a letter to the “Portland Press-Herald” (Me.), SpenceMiller said of the Penn Central Railroad bankruptcy; “just as long as railroads are so regulated that they cannot engage in business activities in a manner which good management dictates, then credit will be impaired and insolvency will follow insol- vency.”
The following fathers had sons who graduated in Hanover this June: BobFraser, Ori Hobbs, A 1 McLean, JoeMerriam, Chuck O’Neill, Red Chamber-lain, Jim Lyall, and Om Rosenblum.
Ralph Hunter’s son, Ralph Jr., graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, plans to attend Brown this fall. Morris Heller’s daughter, Donna, received her A.B. at Bryn Mawr, will attend Pennsylvania Law School this fall.
After 39 years of teaching, Mai Pratt retired in June. He had been teacher of mathematics and assistant track coach at Marshfield (Mass.) High School.
George Stevens was appointed Horn Professor by the Texas Tech Board of Regents. Bill Grant, widely known Denver attorney, was named to the board of the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. Sam Groves, former president and chairman of United- Carr Inc., was elected director of the Southworth Machine Cos.
That’s all I know. If you know something, please pass the word along.
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