1916

Hobie and Aya Baker, Frank and Helene Bobst, Dick and Kay Parkhurst, Parker Hayden, Herb Lord, and Tog Upham were among the throng that attended the gala Boston alumni dinner on February 11, to pay tribute to John Dickey, to welcome Dr. Kemeny to the Wheelock Succession, and to share the Glee Club's great presentation of the Portrait of Dartmouth. We trust that you already have read in the March Newsletter the colorful story of the occasion which Dick Parkhurst thoughtfully asked Tog Upham to write. As retiring secretary of the Association, Stephen Parkhurst '52 handled the dinner arrangements, as his father did in 1924.

Thanks to Dan Dinsmoor, the March Newsletter also ran an updated career sketch of Ben Eastman. At 77 he is now back in Fort Worth, living in the middle of his eleven-acre pecan orchard, and with his two married sons and two married daughters, eleven grandchildren, and one greatgrandson all settled within thirty miles.

Hon. Richard Parkhurst, former transportation executive, is serving now as a member of the distinguished committee sponsoring the election to The Hall of Fame for Great Americans of John Frank Stevens, the famous engineer who designed the Panama Canal and also the organization of the forces for its construction.

Gran reported that on the first Saturday in February, the Beans drove the Fullers over to Durham for luncheon at the restaurant of the New England Center for Continuing Education on the outskirts of the University of New Hampshire campus. When Parker Hayden was in North Hampton the following Saturday, he said Gran and Ruth, both looking hale and hearty, took him to luncheon at the same place — "a beautiful set-up in the pine woods and architecturally quite unusual, serving excellent food, drinks, etc. We drove back via the 'Strawbery Banke' project in Portsmouth, a reconstruction of thirty to forty of the old Portsmouth homes, along the Piscataqua River. Be sure you pronounce that with the accent on only the ca, not as I did."

Freddy Frederiksen from Munich asks. .. "Who, by the way, was our classmate who became a country doctor up north of Hanover? I visited him once in the twenties and found him happy as a lark, telling me about riding out through blizzards in his horsedrawn sleigh to deliver a baby or set a broken leg." Likely Chuck Parsons of Penacook, but Norm Dresser, "J" Gile, ParkerHayden, and Phil Stamatiades also had such experience. Stalwarts all.

The sympathy of the Class this month goes out to the family of Page (Gus) Browne who passed away February 8 at his home in Concord, Mass. The services were held two days later in the Trinitarian Congregational Church there. In spite of a drenching rain and wind storm which made that afternoon one of winter's most inclement, the church was filled to capacity. 1916 was represented by Dick Parkhurst, and by the usual Class flowers. Our In Memoriam notice will appear in that section in this or a later issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Pat Walker Munro kindly acknowledged the Class letter: "Mother always found much pleasure in her continued contacts with my father's Dartmouth classmates, and it is heartwarming to know that the warmth of her spirit lives on in the memory of their friends."

On learning of Page Browne's passing, two of his oldest friends wrote in tribute. RegGough added that his navigation continues poor so he seldom leaves the New York Athletic Club but that his double cataract removals were so successful that he has read 260 books this year. "All ponderous tomes, no doubt." Fletch Andrews added: "I am still working hard handling special cases for the Probate Court, but Feb. 17 Marg and I are taking off for a few weeks at Fort Lauderdale."

Going or already there: Dave and MarionShumway were planning to surprise RoyBurghardt at Tryon, N. C., on his 80th birthday February 28, and then to carry on to Florida where they will look up the Gumbarts and others. The high point of Ray DeVoe's winter "was a 75th birthday party given me December 22 by my children and grandchildren. A real good job. Guests ranged in age from 5 to 94, hence no generation gaps in my celebration of what they described on placards as the ¾ Century Kid. ... When I go back in March I will look up Alec Jardine at Boca Raton." Ralph George spent January in Delray Beach, when Alec was in Nassau, but he did lunch with Jim Shanahan (where's he?) a couple of times as they made up their Rotary attendance. Then Heinie moved over to the West Coast to be in Sarasota Lapierre-Mensel country until April. Bill and RuthMcKenzie at Akron, at last report, couldn't make up their minds whether to fly, drive, or go to Florida at all. Cap Palmer, also in Akron, stoically reports three operations in the last three years but wants it understood that they have only curtailed his golf and his gardening. According to a card picturing the beautiful snow-capped mountains of southern Chile, Hiram and Laura McLellan (at sea Feb. 5) had a good visit with Danand Christine Lindsley before sailing from Los Angeles, were enjoying their 53-day cruise, and were looking forward to the sights of Buenos Aires and Rio. FrankPettengill reports that Charlie Jones is now in a Florida nursing home, better, able to be out-of-doors in a wheel-chair and best reachable in care of his 1920 brother: Wesley R. Jones, Box 6672, West Palm Beach, Fla. 33405. Polly Shedd's Athens apartment house is called White Columns so she noticed our mention of Ralph Mendall's: "Ralph," she writes, "surely has it made: housekeeping, cooking, security and law in hand ... Karl and I have called on Ralph, and also on Ernest Thomas '13 at Middleboro. Through Ernest, Karl early got a job washing dishes at Roberts' Club, and so for four years also ate at 'the best place in town.' "

Secretary, Box E, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081

Class Agent, 50 Rugby Rd. Manhasset, L.I., N.Y. 11030