1931
This column is the last one you will receive before the 40th Reunion which gives you time to make up your mind to join us all in Hanover. By the time the June column appears, all plans will have been well set. Please come to the 40th for an unforgettable experience.
Retirement for Ned Pitkin has brought a more relaxed pace, and much less pressure. Muriel and Ned are busy with the New York Association for Brain Injured Children. They flew to Hawaii in December, stopping in California on the way back to visit with their newest grandchild.
The John Camphs had a fabulous business trip to Europe for "Tobacco" (a business publication published by John). They visited their advertisers in London, Hamburg, Venice, Rome, Athens, and Salonica. John plans to continue with the magazine for another couple of years and then represent it in part of the South, working from the home they just have bought in Maryland.
"We are off to Spain and Portugal," writes Ed Studwell to Shep Wolff, "so maybe the dues check will bounce." Shep says it didn't.
Frank McCord, in the process of shucking off the advertising harness, plans to move into his new home on April 1, in West Copake, N. Y.
Although Charlie Babbitt's two daughters have grown up and left home, they still have a son "at home"—a sophomore at Syracuse, majoring in architectural engineering.
Bob Hale scooted in from Arizona to see grandsons No. 3 and No. 4 in Lexington, Mass. He got out of town so fast that none of his classmates could catch up with him.
Semi-retired Parker Pierce hopes to return to Franconia, N. H., possibly teach at Franconia College, or do some consulting in education, fishing, hunting, gardening and skiing.
Another globe-trotter Sam Child, writes: "Last year Jill and I flew around visiting friends in Western Australia, Bangkok, India, Afghanistan, and Switzerland, Our Peace Corps son in Afghanistan gave us a fascinating view there. Our daughter is Pending a year in Argentina on a Rotary Youth Exchange Program, and having a ball. No. 3 son, Ralph, still busy in Hanover."
Trudy and I are going to track JohnnyJohnson down in Stockholm in July, and find out exactly what he is trying to prove. He calls himself "the aged drop-out" and seems pleased that he was recently able to write an exam in Swedish. Johnny sounds more like a drop-in than a drop-out!
Bill Lyons and his wife hope to make the 40th. Bill is edging into the real estate business.
Ralph Maynard took his boys to four football games last fall, watching Dartmouth handle Princeton, Yale, Cornell, and Penn.
Vance Dickerman writes: "Big news from the San Diego area is Cliff Powers' imminent retirement from General Dynamics. He is apprehensive about the leisure, but after five months of it myself I can recommend it heartily."
After a six months' sabbatical with study in London at the British Museum, GeorgePhillips has returned to South Dakota State College where he is one of the pillars of the English department. George apparently did not spend all his time in the Museum, however, but managed to scoop up a little fun for himself, visiting lovely spots on the Continent.
Vance Dickerman continues: "Every time I talk with Fred Burkhardt I discover he's the principal of a bigger school in suburban La Mesa (Calif.) with heavier responsibilities. I suspect he has to hustle to keep ahead of his wife, Vi, who graduated from our State College with practically a straight A average, and is now a teacher at Grassmore College in San Diego."
The Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass., currently in the midst of an expansion fund drive, has placed the chairmanship of the Advance and special Gifts Committee in the capable hands of John Benson. The 107-year-old hospital serves an area with a growing population and is seeking $12- million to meet their needs. John, a guiding force with the Shawmut Association and National Shawmut Bank for years, has long been active in community affairs. A past president of the Alumni Association of Boston and a member of the Board of Overseers of Tuck School, he won a Dartmouth Alumni Award in June 1969.
Art O'Brien plumps for national responsibility for the education of our youth. In the Boston Herald Traveller he writes: "A per capita return must be channelled down through the states to every accredited educating unit ... right through to a doctor's degree."
Report from Atchinson, Kan., says Nelson Greenlund is president of the Commerce Investment Company there, and chairman of the city planning commission.
Bill Wilson, referred by natives of Princeton, N. J., as the dean of Princeton government, is going to take a sabbatical from civic duties. When asked what he took the greatest satisfaction from, he said, "I'm not claiming the credit for it, you understand, but since I came on the Township committee in 1962, the local purpose tax rate has actually decreased, from $1.14 per $100 valuation to $.96, despite inflation and added services. I think I've been involved in a pretty decent operation." Decent, he says? Sounds to this desperate taxpayer like an absolute miracle!
Dick Knight is now vice chairman of the board of directors of Hudson National Bank, Hudson, Mass. Jack Warwick writes he is now advertising director of "The Stock Market Magazine" (37,000 subscribers).
After digesting all this information, my dear reader, you must realize that '31 is still a mighty active bunch, vital, dynamic, fearless and virile. If you have any doubts, join us in Hanover for the 40th.
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