1910

A letter to Russ Meredith which came too late for him was turned over to your present secretary. It was from John Tobin '42, Clarke's eldest son, with the heading "For Class Notes, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine." Clarke's first grandchild to go to Dartmouth is a girl, Betsy Tobin, a member of the new freshman class. No one will ever know what Clarke would have had to say about that. No one, not even his first-born son, should attempt to say that Clarke might have become an advocate of coeducation for the Hanover scene.

Yet in Clarke's case coeducation would not have seemed like a new idea. After all, Betsy's two older sisters had successfully tried the coed "experiment" at Middlebury, and her brother is starting off this year at the University of Vermont. From the point of view of a girl, the coeducation concept was never seriously in doubt. From the point of view of a boy of today, it seems predominently a more natural scheme of things. So, as a guess, Clarke Tobin might have said something like this: "I was probably as close to Hoppy as anyone in the Class of 1910, and Hoppy never even brought up the possibility of Dartmouth going coed. I might have said something like 'It's great but not for Dartmouth.' Now that I've dropped my granddaughter off at Hanover, I feel different. Take my word for it, as more Dartmouth families have a sister, daughter, or granddaughter at Dartmouth, the last vestiges of resistance to coeducation will disappear."

Speaking of Clarke Tobin, as your secretary was visiting the Meadow Lakes Village Retirement Home in Hightstown, N. J., where a medical colleague resides, when Dutch Irwin '11 came up and greeted me, and presented me with an excellent photograph of our Clarke in his full football regalia. At the same place I met Alice Beal, widow of our Harry Beal.

Ned Loveland, who shared with your secretary some years in the Hanover High School, writes from North Miami, Fla. Following graduation from college he worked in the extension service of the University of Vermont for some years, then bought a farm in Stowe. Illness of his wife made it desireable to move to Florida, first at Fort Myers and, since last March, at North Miami where they are conveniently located near their younger daughter. The older daughter lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Both are happily married and have four children each. Ned says he misses the hills of Vermont and considers Stowe his real home, a town in which he was very happy and could take part in various local enterprises.

Vic Willis took an American Association of Retired Persons-sponsored trip last April and May to Scandinavia, rounding the North Cape to the Russian border. He visited Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen and recommends this trip as well worthwhile. Then, after Labor Day, he drove to the Maritime Provinces which he says have beautiful rugged country and "substantial people." One should go there, says Vic, for "Law and Order." Is it possible that he had been mugged in his hometown of Westfield, N. J.?

Bill Taylor, according to word from Whit Eastman, is a trailer dweller, spending the summer in his trailer at the Jolly Whaler Village, Brewster, Mass., and the winter in another trailer at Briny Breezes Park in Delray Beach, Fla. Bill worked for Whit for 27 years, and this past winter in Florida, Whit saw him several times and says he is still going strong. Another Tenner whom Whit met in Florida was Cheever Comey, and a snapshot which Whit's wife Karen took of the two of them went first to Andy and then on to your secretary who considers it a photograph of pretty young-looking oldsters.

Ken Phelps, who practiced medicine in Minneapolis and is now living in Palo Alto, Calif., recently underwent surgery but is now back in good shape. Whit keeps in close touch with Ken and sends him all the leading news from Minneapolis, as he had three generations as professional clients there and had to move away to retire. Ken writes that he and his wife might be in Minneapolis for the '74 Rotary meeting "but one can't be too sure in these geriatric days."

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