1944

I'm sure you have all read or heard elsewhere of Dartmouth's 200th Birthday Party in Hanover on December 13. Out-of-town '44s who were in town for the eventful and moving weekend included Bette and RogAntaya, Alumni Council representative from Maryland; John Berry, Major Gifts committeeman from Dayton, Ohio; Pat andEzz Hale, Head Class Agent from Rochester, N.Y., and Bea and Bob Rader, Philadelphia Third Century Fund Area Chairman. Ezz, incidentally, reports that on his last round-the-world junket he munched on sauteed octopus in Manila with Tom Kunau, our man with the Bank of America there, and Howie Price, back in the Philippines as head of the Veterans Administration in the Islands.

A few of you were good enough to include yours truly on their Christmas-letter list. The Jack Snobbles report that they have "graduated" from Colorado Rocky Mountain School, after 15 years of toiling there, to a new venture, namely, Colorado Mountain College. Their new home address is 3CO yards across the Crystal River from their old one, and Jack is initiating the kind of faculty-student involvement in outdoor activities whch have been part of the Snobbles' lives since year one - skiing, riding, mountaineering, survival trips, geology, and ecology. "It's pioneering all over again," they say.

Al Howland and wife Dorothy portray themselves as modern Jack Kerouacs, "on the road" since the purchase this past September of a 22-foot Winnebago camper. All they've managed so far with their home-on-wheels is a two-week vacation in Minnesota; a jaunt to a trustees' meeting at Kimball Union Academy; a business weekend in Toronto; Dad's Weekend at Wittenburg; and a Christmas trip to Lake George... all out of home base in Akron.

Dick Ranger works for Autolite in the Los Angeles area, but he and his wife Carol sound more like employees of the California Chamber of Commerce as they extoll life under the sun and around the oranges... skiing and swimming on the same day, ditto pro football and an opera, ditto (almost) a blizzard in the Sierras and 110 degrees in Death Valley. You'd think they'd almost forgotten our crunchy New England winters. ...

I've begun sending out requests to some of you who didn't make the 25-Year Reunion book. Checking in to date: Jim G.Clark, advertising space sales for Sunday Magazine, batching it out of an apartment in N.Y.C. He keeps a boat in Saybrook, Conn., but obviously uses sterner stuff to get, as he did, to Haiti last February; Canary Islands, Morocco, and Spain in June and July, Bermuda over Labor Day and Guadeloupe, French West Indies for Thanksgiving. Wendell Clark is president of Samuel Harris & Company, industrial distributors, living in Northbrook, Ill. There is wife Phyllis and sons Jeffrey, 18, and David 14. Hobbies are golf, skiing and tennis. Rolf de Leuw confirms that he has been in St. Louis with the International Shoe Company since 1953 and is currently attorney; assistant to president, Industrial Relations; and member of Board of Managers.

Cardinal Cushing had a good eye when be named Charlie Regan, ophthalmologist, to a 10-member archdiocesan Board of Education in the Boston area. Starting January 1, Charlie donned academic robes by joining the Harvard Medical School faculty as a professor of ophthalmology at the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is also associate director of Resident Training at the Harvard Medical School.

Howie Pennington, textiles in Lafayette, Calif., is apparently conducting a one-man campaign to keep track of classmates. He reports visits from Lydia and Boog McLoud (manager of food processing equipment), accompanied by a German shepherd and a dachshund, and eager for a report on Reunion; and Dorcas and Bud Park (law in Longmeadow, Mass.) who just happened by in Lafayette en route from Longmeadow to L.A. to S.F. to Vegas to Longmeadow. Howie, Arn Sanders (stockbroker in Lafayette), and Kirk Bassett (store and cannery owner in Belvedere), made up the '44 contingent at Northern California's Third Century Fund kick-off dinner at the University Club in S.F. And then, on-the-road, Howie dined with Buzz Beattie (insurance broker), in the elegant restaurant at the Space Needle in Seattle.

Culled-from-clippings: Claude Shuchter, president and chief executive officer of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co., has been elected president of the Buffalo area Chamber of Commerce. Bob Colwell's daughter, Carol, married last September to Philip D. Cornia, Manhattan '69, an electrical engineer employed by Sikorsky Aircraft "Skycrane" Division in Stratford, Conn. And a nice long newspaper profile on Ben Jones, Monarch Life Insurance president in Springfield, Mass., who has so many other things going that it would take a full column in itself to list them all.

Frank Ames, Dwight Brothers Paper Co. in Chicago, moving about like St. Nick over the holidays — to Boston, Rochester and home via Florida. Our two erstwhile Reunion Chairmen, John Morse and MerleHagen, apparently liked what they saw when they were making plans for the rest of us in the North Country. Merle has resigned from Pepsi-Cola and will be joining Dartmouth around the first of February as a member of the Development staff of the Tucker Foundation. And John, who recently had a heavy intestinal operation, will be foresaking New Jersey for Burlington, Vt., sometime in early summer, still ready to sell anyone an Olivetti Underwood.

That's it. Except: Robert Frost has said: "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." Not so for Dartmouth. No secret her 200th and the joy of celebrating it.

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