1924

With our regular editor again off to Korea—this time for more months than his substitute likes to recall—the job of "doing" the Class Notes has once more fallen upon this editor pro tem. Fortunately for him the quintennial scrutiny of all alumni by the Alumni Records Office has just taken place in preparation for the publishing of a new issue of the Alumni Directory. As a result there reposes in the local files a veritable gold mine of questionnaires recently completed by a large percentage of the Class of 1924. From these enough can be gleaned to aliment multiple issues of this column. It is best to disclose this source at once lest some whose names appear hereafter, or in subsequent issues, wonder how the devil the information has fallen into the public domain. It is useless to keep the source secret, as is the wont of editors these days, for the only persons likely to be curious are the unwitting suppliers. The questionnaires permit of one unchallengeable generalization: most of the recitals from alumni of our age and over come from those who have declined to retire in practice, even though required to do so on the record. It will come as no surprise to members of 1924 that very few of our classmates have voluntarily elected to live in that vacuum which only the benighted young regard as a proper concomittant of "retirement." So be it!

Vaughn Berry is managing two housing projects for the Milwaukee Housing Authority. This places nearly one thousand families under VG's care.

Howard Bissell continues to conduct his own mortgage banking business in Cleveland under the name of Howard S. Bissell Inc. President of the firm prior to 1969 when he became chairman, Howie, a resident of Shaker Heights, is engaged in numerous services to his community and is also a trustee of Hiram College.

Mike Branch will not need to go south on retirement. A resident of Florida for many years, he has since 1935 been associated with Ist Federal Savings and Loan Association at Lake Worth, and since 1969 has held the office of chairman. He has had time to serve as president of Lake Worth's Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club.

Another past president of his local Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club is Freddie Broad, resident of Canton, Ohio where he is engaged in real estate appraisals.

Ken Bubier, former lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Marine Corps and later with Lockheed Air Craft, is living in Corona del Mar, California. Ken's thirty years in marine aviation included two years in the Antarctic with Admiral Byrd and service in both World War II and Korea.

Arthur Crosman has been made Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at New York University where he has been Professor Biology since 1959.

Butts Crouter maintains an active partnership in an investment banking firm in Philadelphia where he has served as Governor of the Investment Bankers Association and a trustee of the United Fund of Philadelphia.

This is being written as August converts into September, and thus this year's Alumni College in Hanover has just concluded. 1924 represented by four "students": Peteand Alma Wheatley, and George andMarie Trafton.

Pete and Alma continue their residence in Abington, Mass., but in a different house located near their former one. Pete practises law on a somewhat reduced scale. He and Alma are, as usual, immensely interested and well informed on public issues. George and Marie are less frequent visitors to the College. Residing in Baltimore, they have retired from the U. S. Government Service. Both held important research and administrative positions in the Social Security Administration. They retain their active concern with all that goes on in the world. George was briefly on the Dartmouth faculty as an instructor in Economics in 1925 and '26.

Secretary, RICHARD MORIN Church St. Norwich, Vt. 05055

Treasurer, STANLEY F. CHITTICK 111 Ross St., Fitchburg, Mass. 01420