1916

Welcome this month to some modest oldtimers. A copy of Bill and Bess Hale's Christmas letter bespeaks the life of contentment they have found or made homeside after living abroad, in China and Bermuda, for so long. It speaks of garden, flowers, and walks with their dog Marge at Scarsdale, of Vermont mountains and lake in summer, of leisurely breakfasts the year around and of friends and family. Their son Edward and Shirley make their home in St. Petersburg; son Richard and Janet and their three small boys are Ithacans; daughter Margaret and John Bascom, with their three teen-agers, live in nearby Chappaqua. A covering note from Bill said that all of them, plus Bill's sister Olive, gathered at Scarsdale just before Christmas. Then came the heavy snow. The Chappaqua youngsters wanted to make the most of their vacation skiing in Vermont. So Bill and Bess went up and opened the Greensboro place for them tor ten days; and one crystal-clear day while the youngsters were skiing on Jay Peak, Bill and Bess rode in a gondola to the top, for a look into Canada.

To our query, Jib Dingwall explained how he happened to be with us only our sophomore and junior years: In the autumn of 1912, he was accepted at Wesleyan, and there was elected president of the Class of 1916 and was pledged DKE, but on his second try, Dartmouth the next year Walking up the hill for the first time, from the old station beyond the covered wooden bridge, he headed for the Deke House. There the welcome was warm and friendly, and his room problem was quickly resolved 1 hat year he roomed with Eric Barbour; the next, with Bill Costello. At the end of his second year in 1915, however, his father's business reverses compelled Jib to leave college for what proved to be a long and distinguished career in New York advertising, capped by the chairmanship of his own executive recruiting firm. "But in those two years,' wrote Jib, "I acquired the well-known Dartmouth spirit and love of country - as attested by ten to twelve years of vacations spent in Norwich; and more concretely, by having a son and three nephews with degrees from Dartmouth, which regretfully I did not." Once a Dartmouth man, always a Dartmouth man, however. Jib was president of the Dartmouth Club of New York 1949-51.

Chan White also was for several years president of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern New York, when he worked and lived in Albany. In 1947 he came to New York City with General Aniline and Film Corporation, as general manager of its Chemical Division until 1950, then as vice-president until he retired in 1962. The card record of his responsibilities is enough to explain why his personal activities were curtailed — but that was our loss too.

Ed Lindman (Box 1371, Lanark Village, Fla. 32323) has made a valiant but as yet unrewarded effort to meet up with PrenticeWinchell. Ed works at his golf on a local course; Marian, with the Police Standards Council in nearby Tallahassee. In June, they are coming north to visit relatives in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

Enjoying good health again, Arthur andMarion Marsden were leaving Lawrence in early April, via stops at Richmond and Charleston, for St. Augustine Beach, Fla., where their daughter Elizabeth and children of Branford, Conn., were flying to join them for the school holidays. Dick and Kay Parkhurst, Dick wrote earlier, had the pleasure of a luncheon visit with the Marsdens, at Lawrence in early March. Later, the Parkhursts and Coltons were planning a visit with Marjory Craver at Perryville.

On returning from their cruise among the Hawaiian Islands, Dan Dinsmoor received and has relayed the sad news that LinusMurphy died on February 22, at his home in Glendale, Calif. All we can be grateful for is that Linus lived to renew, in this past year or two, his old relationships with BALMACAAN and especially with Dan, and his Hanover roommate, Freddy Frederiksen. An In Memoriam notice will appear in that section of this or a later issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

In acknowledging, for the family, the Class' expressions of sympathy, Page Browne Jr. wrote in part: "I met Mr. Parkhurst at the funeral of my father and it was deeply pleasant that 1916 was there."

Esky was reminded to report that he has been down to see Roly and Kathleen a couple of times in recent years at their home m San Clemente, "the same town where President Nixon has his home." Esky himself is feeling fine, he says, perhaps because he now lives according to his doctor's orders: "You may sing in moderation."... But did you know that the phrase "wine women and song" is attributed to Martin Luther? I didn't.

From Cape Cod, Kike Davis says that his shorter driving orbit and no night driving have reduced his contact with classmates to "an occasional visit with Alec Jardine when he is in residence at Sagamore Beach and less frequently now I see the good Roy Brahana at nearby Dennis. In spite of inflation, tight money, and inclement weather, there is little slowdown in our housing boom, and in what we old timers of course bemoan as the despoliation of what was once a true garden spot."

Florida Department: Messages on a picture card of the University Inn Restaurant, DeLand dated March 10 read: "A gorgeous day. Nice to be with wonderful 'D' friends Betty Wilson." "Best wishes. Stop in and see us. Russ and Edith Leavitt." "You'd have liked every minute of our talks about our various retirement avocations, Gay and PaulGoward."

Jim Shanahan and Hugo Gumbart report their thoughtful brief visits with CharlieJones in his nursing home. Address c/o Wesley R. Jones, Box 6672, West Palm Beach, Fla. 33405. "Charlie," wrote Jim, has had a rough time in recent years, but I found him somewhat improved and his spirits were good."

To our inquiry as to what might have become of our big Florida contingent, Hugo reminded us: "You know, we supposedly have nothing to do down here but sun and be lazy, but with a lot of friends within a few miles radius, all trying to see each other before leaving for the north, it's a merry-go- round." Thus, although the Doyles and Gumbarts discovered they were staying for several weeks only two doors apart, conflicting parties deferred their actual meeting until Larry and Rene dropped in just before they took off for home.

As planned, Dave and Marion Shumway and the Burghardts celebrated Roy's eightieth birthday together at Tryon, N. C., by having a "most satisfactory steak dinner" at a local restaurant and then witnessing a performance of "The Wayward Saint" in Tryon's new theater. Roy earlier had shown Dave a list of over 200 books he had read the last year and took the Shumways "to the site of a continuous landslide where the State of North Carolina is attempting to put an expressway along the side of a mountain. ... We have agreed to repeat the performance on Burg's 90th birthday. We've got to stick together because there are very few Dartmouth men down here. Mostly Princeton."

Secretary, Box E, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081

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