1924

Your editor is indebted to Ted Learnard for the clipping of an excellent editorial from the Wayland (Mass.) Town Crier of which the following are extracts:

"Other towns may have had their bosses but none probably have ever had a man the calibre of Robert M. Morgan, whose retirement as chairman of the Wayland Finance Committee was announced last week. Nor, perhaps, has any town had a man who also made an even greater impact on the metropolitan region in which he lived.

"Mr. Morgan, a native of Minnesota, came to Wayland in 1932 via Dartmouth and the Harvard Business School, and almost immediately enmeshed himself in the affairs of the town. He started out his career in public service as a secretary to the Board of Selectmen and was quickly appointed to the Finance Committee between 1934 and 35.

"In the 37 years since, he was the Finance Committee, he ran the townwake no mistake about it—and he did it without ever once having been elected to public office

"He worked his way up to president of the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, which at one time vitually owned Wayland through mortgages, but many people benefitted from bargain interest rates. Later in his career he was elevated to Chairman of the Board of the bank from which he Presided over the financing of the 'new Boston...

"The town also benefitted greatly in getting the best rates on municipal loans due to Bob Morgan's influence in banking circles. And although he never ran for public office himself, he handpicked many candidates for various offices, both elective and appointive....

"Bob early became a member of the Town Republican Committee and both he and his wife, Toni, were active members of the Vokes Players. Their star rose quickly and during most of their years in Wayland they were the people the social climbers most quickly wanted to know.

"That special tribute will be paid 'Mr. Wayland' and his family in the near future, there's no doubt. There'll never be any way of repaying him, however, for all he has done for his community and the region, except to wish Godspeed and good health in Brookline. .

"The Crier itself will miss this dynamic personality; his straight-from-the-shoulder style; his coolness and often his sense of humor in the tensest of situations. The Crier once suggested Way land should be renamed 'Morgantown.' Short of going to that extreme, maybe the new junior high or something should be named after him."

The name of Red Newell always invokes in this writer visions of sampans, rickshaws, junks and sloe-eyed, tawny skinned creatures clad closely in sarongs. Readers will recall that Red managed for many years the National City Bank branches in Hong Kong and Singapore. Every now and then over nearly a quarter century Red's warm and inviting descriptions of life in those far off places would appear in the. Class Notes or Class newsletter, and those of us who had had about enough of New Hampshire granite or its unromantic equivalent elsewhere would stare, chin in hand, out over a snow clad landscape while we conjured up, with Red's aid, all the mysteries of the Far East. Well, Red is now one of us, having retired to prosaic California—but yet perhaps not wholly one of us, for a part of him must still hear the clang of the Kowloon ferry bell, or the sing-song of coolies at work, or catch the fleeting scent of josh burning in a Buddhist temple. For Red, these are forever.

George Noyes and his wife Lo are now back in Morgan, Vt., where George originated. There, after many years in public and private school teaching (biology), George is serving as Morgan Com- munity House Chairman. George's kid brother Ellie '32, is Business Manager of the Dartmouth Athletic Council and a long-time Hanover resident.

The Alumni Records Office seems to have had no word of Quentin Pan for the past ten years. In 1962 his brother Francis '26 wrote from Hong Kong that Quentin, an expert in the fields of eugenics and genetics, was residing in Mainland China and engaged in research on minority races. Perhaps now that we are speaking to the Chinese Peoples Republic, and they to us, some word may emerge as to Quentin.

Mac Patterson continues his profession as an interior designer in his native city of Rochester, N.Y. Until his retirement from that office he served for ten years as President of the Hayden Company. With him in Rochester is his wife Helen. Their son Ellison has provided them with two grandchildren.

Dick Perry remains active in the Richard Hunt Perry Insurance Agency in Charlestown, N.H., where he and his wife Marion have long resided. Dick has also served as a Municipal Court Justice in Charlestown since 1933.

Dan Pingree, a long time specialist in fire protection engineering, has contributed numerous articles in this field to technical journals. Dan and his wife Elizabeth maintain their home in Andover, Mass. They have four children, three boys and a girl.

Lee Ramsdell is chairman of the Board of Ramsdell, Bright and Nathan Inc., a prominent Philadelphia advertising firm the progenitor of which was founded by Lee in 1948. His eldest son John attended Tuck School, graduating in 1967. Lee is a director of the Greater Philadelphia Better Business Bureau.

Phil Ranney formerly in the banking business in Ohio has had two strokes which have confined him to Oakridge Nursing Home, 26520 Centre Ridge, West Lake, Ohio 44145. Phil has never married.

Word from Chinee and MargaretAllen suggests all goes well with them in Korea. Your editor will welcome their return, still some months away.

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