1921
Jim and Dot Smead have returned from Switzerland where they visited daughter Nancy and family. Nancy's husband was assigned to Geneva by the Chrysler Corporation, but has now been re-assigned to London.
Doc Fleming hopes that the good Lord will keep him and family in "a state of health sufficient" to enable them to join the class at the Fiftieth.
Harold Printz, who for the past several years has divided his time between New York City and Florida, is now planning to make St. Pete Beach his year-round residence.
Ken Bean, after a lifetime career in secondary education, is now "retired and retreaded" as guidance counselor at the New Hampshire Manpower Training Center in Manchester, N. H.
Jack and Ruth Hubbell report on their most interesting fourteen day "whirl-wind" of the Orient, which included Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong. Jack has written thumb-nail impressions of these spots which are interesting; the friendliness and warmth or the teen-age girls; the hustle and bustle in we cities of Japan, equalled only by the extreme hospitality and courtesy of their people; the deep and abiding interest of the Japanese in their religious institutions. Hong Kong is the most colorful, most modern and swinging-est city in the whole of the Far cast Happy business note from Jack's standpoint was to the effect that Japanese are now buying Simmons beds, and sleeping more and more off the floor. Much to Jack's chagrin and discomfiture he was compelled sleep on the hotel floor one night in Atami. He says "it was the largest bedboard m the world "
Mac Johnson is two-thirds retired from his profession as tax consultant, working only during the four months of the year when the monsoon winds of the Internal Revenue Service blow the hottest. He can now spend more time on golf. He also maintains close contacts with SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), appearing as a panelist on the monthly work-shop meetings of the Washington, D. C., Chapter.
Most of the recent letters coming in from our claśmates-of which there are too few-tell of plans attendance at the Fiftieth. Many have passed up reunions since the 25th, saving their energies and class camaraderie for this one and only event. Reg Miner, the producer and manager of the extravaganza, is bending all efforts to make it the grandest semicentennial celebration ever seen in Hanover. There will also be a post-reunion party at Spaulding Inn in Whitefield that should be the run-social of the century. Bob Burroughs is working on the program.
Leigh Tracy has difficulty dividing his collegiate loyalty between Bates (A.B '20) and Dartmouth (M.C.S. '22). But he and Crete will be with us in June. He reports that they have given up their country home near Bob Burroughs in Canterbury, N. H. and have moved into an apartment in Concord.
During the October home-coming Harland Manchester furnished us with a zerox copy of an article (which appeared in the rail issue of the Technology Review of M.I.T.) written by him after a European visit. It has to do with the efforts of plant scientists in Holland to change the genetics of food- and flower-bearing plants through the use of irradiation of X- and gamma rays which improves the quality and quantity of yields, and helps to keep these products fresh for a longer period of time. When these procedures come into universal use it should revolutionize the entire fresh food market.
After taking in the Yale game in New Haven, Ort and Lois Hicks took off for a five-week safari to Africa, flying via Rio to Johannesburg and Nairobi. We wouldn't be surprised to hear upon his return that Ort had organized a Dartmouth Club of South Africa where there is a score or more of Green Alumni.
Ken Sater has retired from the judge's bench in the Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus, Ohio, after serving almost thirteen years in the municipal and county court system. Previously he had been Chief Counsel for the Public Utilities Commission for eleven years. His first plans after retirement included a nostalgic trip on an ore boat up the Great Lakes—duplicating a trip which he had taken at the age of eight. He also wants to complete a scrap book of memorabilia covering his years of public service. Ken received national recognition when he was involved some years back in a case with the 1.C.C., where an increase in freight rates east of the Mississippi was at stake. Although Ken lost the case, he did manage to stall the verdict for four years, after taking the issue all the way to the Supreme Court.
Dr. Dan Havana ugh, although still in active practice, is gradually reducing the extra-curricular activities connected with his profession. The Kavanaughs are planning to sell their home in Newark, and move to Somerset County so as to be closer to Dan Jr. who lives in that area.
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