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In mid-January, Dusty and NatalieGriffin of St. Louis left California on a freighter for a four-month vacation in the Orient, including a visit with their youngest son, Ralph '65, who is vice consul in Cebu in the Philippines.
A note from Dick Frame says he and Margaret "spent a lovely vacation with the Prossers at their mountain paradise in Canaan, N.H."
President Jack Kenerson sent word from Norway that we should remind you that it's time to start planning on attending the annual fall reunion over the October 12th holiday weekend when we play Princeton. The Norwich Inn is holding 20 rooms for us, but August 1 is the deadline for you to latch on to one of them. Jack and Fran are on a round-the-world cruise on the SS Sagafjord and were delighted to find that Bill Harris is the lecturer on this cruise.
Jack Heston had a kidney operation several months ago—no malignancy, and is okay now.
Buck Serrell is chairman of the special gifts committee of the 1972 fund drive of the Greenwich (Conn.) chapter of the American Red Cross, with a goal of $147,000. Buck has been a surgeon in Greenwich since 1936. This year he joined the emergency room staff of Greenwich Hospital.
More than 70 company officials, distributors and their employees gave a party recently for Bill Lary to honor him on his retirement from Texaco, Inc., after 43 years and three months. Esther accompanied her husband and two sons, Bill Jr. '56 and wife, and Jock Lary of Chelmsford, Mass. For the past 23 years Bill and family have lived in Sunapee, N. H., and Bill represented his company in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Art and Freda Nightingale returned recently from a two-month tour of Europe. They enjoyed the sea voyage from Ft. Lauderdale to Genoa, then visited France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Monaco. Art retired in 1966 after 30 years practicing medicine on Long Island, N. Y. They live now on Marco Island, Fla. .
The main speaker at the annual banquet of the Phoenixville (Pa.) Old Timers Association was Jack McAvoy, president of the McAvoy Vitrified Brick Co. We're obliged to the reporter for the Phqenixvil Republican for revealing a bit of biograpncal data on our former class president an one of the great ends in Dartmouth history. The reporter said that at the anniversary of Ursinus College, Jack cited as the college's "winningest" fooball coach, having been head coach from 1931-36 with a 20-20-10 record. In those days Ursinus played the Army each year!
Another great end, Fusonie, is still coaching some football and teaching at Pine Crest Academy in Ft. Lauderdale, five years after retiring as director of industrial relations for Collins & Aikman Corp. Last his baseball team got to the state finals After graduation, Al taught at Taft School for 14 years and coached five underfeated football teams there. For the next 24 years he was with Collins & Aikman. Al and Connie spent 38 days in Europe last summer visiting England, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Switzeland Italy. Spain and Portugal. In Madrid they got the red carpet treatment from U. S Ambassador Robert C. Hill '42 whom Al coached and taught at Taft. Al's son Doug '58 is a surgeon in Greenfield, Mass.; Alan, who got his Ph.D. at Catholic University, is with the Government; and Mike works for the late Bob Maclellan's Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co.
Additions to the retired list include Nick Carter of Lucust Valley, N. Y., a vice president of the Irving Trust Co., who started with the bank in 1928, and Bill Carrico of Rockford, Ill., president of Carrico & Wilgus, Inc., a real estate firm he started in 1934.
Charlie Mazzard reports that his older daughter Linda and her husband, Mickey Warburton, have bought and run the Snowbrook Inn at Mt. Snow, West Dover, Vt. open year round. His son, C.T. Jr., has recently been made Director of Food & Beverage at the Statler Hilton in New York City and has a five-months-old son, Christopher. His younger daughter Blakeman is married to John Allen, a Marine flyer, at New River Marine Air Station and has a one-year-old daughter. Blim and Charlie continue to spend winters in Delray Beach and summers in Jaffrey Center, N.H.
John and Peggy Phillips left February 10 for St. Croix for a few weeks. After several weeks in Sarasota, George andMarion Davis returned February 14 to their Vermont farm for some skiing before a brief visit to Harbor Island in the Bahamas. Mary and I have just returned from eight days in Yucatan, with plenty of time to visit the wonderful Mayan ruins in Uxmal and Chichen Itza and enjoy the hospitality of freinds who live in Merida. Before coming home we rested up on the beach of Cozumel for a couple days.
It is with great sadness that we report the deaths of three more classmates: LewBeers, our Class Agent for the past three years, died February 4—Anita requested no flowers but said contributions to the Alumni Fund or American Cancer Society would be appreciated. Allan Downing died December 1 in Tallahassee, Fla., also of cancer. Dick Klinck died January 13 at Lawrence Hospital in New London, Conn., three days after being admitted for artery trouble.
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