1934

Well, and here's hoping the New Year is shaping up a little better for you guys than it is for Spiro Agnew's running-mate, not to mention McCloskey, McCarthy, McGovern, McLindsay, and other hopefuls slogging through New Hampshire slush while wiser, or feebler, men are snug abed.

The old year ended fine, though, for many of us, especially the newlyweds cited here last month. Chick Chickering, who wed Mrs. Winona Glazebrook September 21, reported that "grandchild-total now goes to nine, and a pregnant horse came with the deal. Winona is the widow of a Princeton man, but we are switching her allegiance rapidly." Bob Palmer, who took the former Margaret M. Schloss to wife August 14, is settled now in his old Summit Lane home in Pepper Pike, Ohio—with Peg, of course—after alternating between their respective pads (Peg's house has now been sold, see?). Our third new benedict, Dave Hill of, I believe, El Segundo, Calif., who wed Patricia Clemow of San Marino in March, reported in late October that:

"the resultant state of euphoria, plus Pat's excellent cooking, makes it necessary for us to spend weekends in Corona del Mar working pounds off on the tennis court. In July, after 21 years at Hughes Aircraft Company, I took an early retirement in order to become president of Combustion Sciences in El Segundo, Calif. This is a small development laboratory founded on the inventive genius of another Hughes, Nathaniel, in the field of fluidics and sonic generators. The first products, which use sonic energy to achieve major reductions in automotive emissions while they improve gas mileage and preformance, should be entering the market via a licensee early in 1972. It is stimulating to be helping a tiny enterprise get started and rewarding to be making a positive contribution to our abused ecology."

Other year-end items: Frank Heath, who did a banner job as head agent for '34's 1971 Alumni Fund Campaign, has passed the torch to Al Jacobson for '72; Fred Bath, since 1956 vice-director of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown and a national authority on historical preservation, is resigning, effective June 30, 1972 to devote himself to research (as Senior Research Associate of the organization), editing, and teaching; Gardner Brown, since 1962 president of the First Agricultural National Bank of Berkshire County, Pittsfield, Mass., has been named chairman and chief executive officer of the $110-million institution, largest commercial bank in western Massachusetts.

Now it's grab-bag time, when we dig into the news-haul provided so generously each January by Treasurer "Ed" Brown up Hanover way. Taking it alphabetically, Johnny Anderson reports that he and wife Mary:

have attended six Alumni College sessions, all the way from Cleveland, and this year John sponsored a magic-cap tennis tournament in men's singles. The cap, given to the winner [Jim Biggs '62], was the official one of the U. S. Tennis Club, a 200-member, 15-court club in Cleveland of which John is president. Clevelanders know that "U. S." stands for University School, which over the years has sent many top scholars and athletes to Dartmouth. The "magic" transpires when club members wear their caps in other cities or abroad. Attendants offer to carry their bags, bystanders request autographs, etc., mistaking them for Davis Cup players. "A harmless case of faulty identification," Anderson says. (Say it to J. Clarence Davies, Jr. of the U.S.L.T.A. sometime, Johnny.)

Per contra, Bob Balgrley of West Hartford, Conn., writes "everyone around here just getting older. Had hoped to get to Hanover for the Yale game, but was in Yucatan at that time en route to Guatemala, with Eleanor." But Grove Blood, long time Sud Americano and now a resident of Summit, N. J., "finally made it back to the Plain! Chris and I spent evening last September seeing some of the old and all of the new. It's the first time since graduation [!] and well worth the effort."

Moving right along, Doc Stan Bloomfield of Chapel Hill tells it like it is: "I am lucky to be able to pay this [Class Dues] with my son in his junior year at Dartmouth and my daughter starting the first of two years at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania for her Master's degree." Adds Stan, for the same 8 "I understand Ed Bishop is moving to Chapel Hill soon to join the faculty of the Medical School at the University of North Carolina."

Dick Campen of Chagrin Falls, O. (my second-favorite place-name after Wounded Knee) informs that Art Moebius's "annual peregrinations took him to Austria this year," while a "good part" of Dick's own summer "was spent doing an architectural survey of the lower Maumee Valley including particularly the towns of Maumee and Perrysburg (Toledo satellites)." Doc Herman Chase of Rumford, R.I., has a somewhat more startling story to tell, after a very conservative lead-line: "Am still at Brown University as one of the older professors and am Director of the Institute of Life Sciences. Have two sons: 2½ years and 11 months. Decided not to wait for my three grown-up daughters to provide me with grandchildren."

Sey Dunn reports moving from Columbia, Mo., to Cortland, N. Y., Jake Edwards abandoned Sturbridge, Mass., for Key Biscayne, Fla.

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