1921
As usual the news from the Class is pretty slim. A few retirements, some changes in residency, and travel trips of increasing length in this country and abroad.
Stanley White has furnished us with a very good, impressive history of son Jonathan White '66 who will receive his MBA degree at the University of New Hampshire in June, 1972. At Dartmouth he was a member of the R.O.T.C., and was commissioned in the regular army in Field Artillery. He attended the field artillery officers course and the airborne school. For a year and a half he was stationed at fort Campbell, Ky., with the 101 st Airborne Division, and performed battery level duties. He served in the Republic of Vietnam for a year as artillery forward observer for three months, and as adviser to Vietnamese Regional and Popular Force units for the succeeding nine months. Returning to Stateside duty, he was stationed at the Fort Ord (Cal.) Army Training Center for a year and a half. For the final six months he was battalion operations officer of a battalion of 2000 men being trained in three different schools for five specialties. He received many awards and decorations including the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service, Army Commendation for Valor and for Meritorious Service, and the Republic of Vietnam Medal of Honor Ist Class.—A truly impressive record.
Joseph B. Folger Jr. writes us at length on the coeducational controversy which at long last has been settled. As you may know, he lives year round on the south side of Nantucket Island where he has lived most of his life (except for being born in California, and his years at Dartmouth where he built himself a career teaching the Romance languages). He rusticates in a most leisure fashion, driving three miles daily to the quaint town of Nantucket to the post office and the First National Store. He is undisturbed by the "off-islanders" who leave in droves in the fall like the robins.
Joe's younger son David '63 is following an interesting career. He is teaching geology and oceanography at Middlebury College. He is researching the ancient sea bottom of Vermont's mountains and nearby Lake Champlain which is an ancient estuary of the Atlantic. He is spending January with a month off from classes on an oceanographic ship out of Woods Hole exploring the depths of the coast of West Africa where the ocean depths with their under water mountains exceed the height of the Himalaya Mountains. This subject was well covered in recent National Geographic articles. Joe's older son Allen '51 who lives with his parents, has two daughters, one a senior at Keene State College and the younger a freshman at Bucknell.
Bill and Edith Perry have removed themselves from a long time residency in the Cambridge area to the new condominum in Hanover. We imagine Bill will spend a lot of time at the Davis Rink watching the varsity hockey team perform.
Bill and Teeter Alley took off the first of January on a zig-zag course to the Southwest. Leaving Hanover, they visited their son Tom in Bryn Mawr, Pa., then to Sea Island, Ga., and the Cloisters. Thence to Winter Park, Fla., where they will be hosted by Ken Thomas, but too early to take in the 1921 Florida reunion. Across Florida and along the Gulf they will make a longer stay at the Grand Hotel at Point Clear, where Bill will limber up his golf game—mainly with his putter. Then a longer run to Scottsdale, Ariz., where he will renew acquaintance with RynieRothschild. The whole trip will consume the worst seven weeks of the Hanover winter.
In February Bob and Ros Loeb leave for an extensive tour of the Mediterranean and the Black Seas on the SwedishAmerican cruise ship Gripsholm. They will visit, among other places, the Greek Islands and Turkey, and, on the way, the Island of Trinidad.
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