1921

John Fitzgibbon has been retired from the E.I. DuPont Co. for five years, and has been living in Westport, Conn., "quietly—but with a foray from time to time." Three years ago he and Margaret made a 'round trip Atlantic crossing by sea to visit son Jack, when he was a captain in the U. S. Army stationed near Frankfurt, Germany. Jack has now retired from active duty and is selling office equipment in the southern New England area. Father John has delight with his Hammond spinet organ, and, as treasurer of the Saugatuck Congregational Church, spends his Sundays counting money. Margaret, in the meantime, has relinquished her teaching job so that she can properly supervise John's activities.

Warren Homer shows up in Hanover at odd times, generally in the rain—the main purpose being to visit his sister and brother-in-law, who up to this summer made their home on Ragged Mountain near Danbury, N. H. Just to belie his age, Warren spent eighteen days during last winter skiing at six different areas in the North Country, and later hiked up into Tuckerman Ravine at Mt. Washington in three different occasions to watch the "stalwart fanatics" spend four hours carrying their skiis up the eight-mile long carriage road, and twelve minutes to hurtle back down the Ravine. Daughter Linda is finishing graduate work at the University of Massachusetts, while her husband goes for a Ph.D. at Harvard.

Jack Hubbell, vice president and director of the Simmons Company, is taking on additional duties as chairman of the board of the Home Furnishings Council, a planning and coordinating organization for the home furnishings industries. The Council is in its third year and is currently planning a national promotion for retail stores through- out the country. Jack, who received an Alumni Award in 1959 and has since served on the Corporations Committee for the Medical School, will continue as vice president of trade, public and government relations for the Simmons Company.

Bill Lies has sent us a complete report of the activities of his family, which begins with those of Dr. William Lies III, a most successful M.D. out of Duke University. Grandson Billy IV was an O.C.S. candidate until a leg injury forced him out of the service, just after he had been designated as Soldier #1 in a class of 1300 at Camp Polk. Granddaughter Karen will graduate next June from the University of Alabama, where she is president of her sorority. Steve is a pre-med student at Emory University, while the only important thing ahead in nine-year old Susan's life is the fact that she is coming to the 1921 Fiftieth Reunion with her grandparents next June.

Werner Janssen, after shuttling back and forth between the East and West Coasts, interspersed with various professional excursions in Europe, would appear to be settling down in Stony Brook, Long Island—a little hamlet near Port Jefferson. He reportedly had to charter a cargo plane to transport cross country several hundred boxes of music which have accumulated over the years—including the original scores of his Dartmouth musical shows of "Oh, Doctor" and "Heave To."

Dick Hart has recently shifted locale from the Windy City to Sarasota, Fla., where he will be living adjacent to the sixth fairway of the Forest Lakes Country Club. He leaves behind a most successful career in big-time banking.

John Woodhouse has brought us up-to-date on his many activities. He is deeply nvolved in the affairs of the University of Delaware. There he is working on an Honors System which Will not only take into consideration a student's high marks, but also the contribution he is able to make to the University and the community. Another major, long-term assignment has to do with collaborating with the University's administration and faculty to set up a College of Marine Studies. In this connection John is the academic representative of the school at the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. This institute has recently reached its 50th anniversary, which occasion was celebrated at the site with the presence of a world-wide representation of scientists.

The Woodhouse family have spent this last summer at Lake Chocorua, in southern New Hampshire, where they have estivated for years. There, John is a trustee of the Chocorua Lake Conservation Foundation, which is striving to preserve the natural environment of the area with a program which it is hoped will be a model for other communities. As to family news, son Robert '5l is a psychiatrist in charge of all out- patients in the Hartford (Conn.) Hospital. Bob's son Peter will soon be heading for undergraduate life on the Hanover plain.

Bob Burroughs, as a member of the Defense Orientation Conference Association, and at the request of the Department of Defense, recently completed a fact-finding tour of Southeast Asia, where military installations were visited. He reports that his group thoroughly approved of the Cambodian venture, that Vietnamization is being successfully carried out, that the South Vietnamese were becoming excellent soldiers, and that the morale of our own men was excellent, and that they were completely loyal to the U. S. objectives.

Dave Seegal has departed from the medical field, and reports that he "basks in the emerital shade, clips the monthly social security coupons, remains mute, tries to look uncommonly wise" and occupies some of his time in versifying. About a quarter of his 1000 Western and Eastern Poems have been published in medical and alumni periodicals.

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