1931
After 35 years in the advertising business, Dick Holbrook has now established his own agency: "going like a house afire, 26 hours a day, 8 days a week. Ah, yes, but it's fun, too. And pays well." Aptly, Richard enclosed a 1906 card of a house afire.
Shep Wolff: "all's well up here," from which I assume that his recovery continues. Shep sends loads of news tidbits, without which this column simply would strangle. A note from Ralph Charlton: "I have recovered and am back to work part time." A note from Phil and Lib Holden: "We are getting soft and plan to head south to Sanibel, Fla., for a few weeks vacation. Dartmouth-sponsored Eastman land development in Grantham, N. H. has interested Lib and me. We are not committed yet but the idea of being in the Hanover area pulls us in that direction."
From the Valley News: "John W.Cog-swell has joined the staff of volunteer counsellors of the Upper Valley Chapter of SCORE (The Service Corps of Retired Executives which operates in cooperation with the Small Business Administration, under supervision of the new federal agency ACTION)." John is also feeding plenty of source material to this column. He writes: "Charlie Schneider and RedGristede were in Hanover for the Football Award Dinner... I think Charlie is fairly seriously interested in finding a place to live up here. Don and Molly Stoddard stopped in briefly, en route to New Jersey after a skiing vacation... they're both enjoying Don's retirement. Lucy and I went down to Jaffrey this past weekend and had lunch with Ed and Peggy Brummer at their Woodbound Inn. It was the first time we had been there and we fell in love with the place."
Plenty of Thirty-oners are sojourning in Florida: add to the list Roger Williams (Palm Beach), Sher Guernsey (Mt. Dora), Charlie Hill (Boca Grande), ArtSeepe (Ft. Lauderdale). Shep is considering opening a branch office in Florida for in-person collection of dues.
Thad Smith chides Shep: "Aren't you getting a bit clumsy? If I could get back to New Hampshire I'd help you handle all that heavy work."
Parker Pierce made a foray into Franconia this winter for some skiing, but rain turned the surface into ice.
Armchair athletes please note the numbers of our peers who still take to the boards during the winter months. I would say that we are polarizing into two groups as we cross into retirement: the soft group which heads for Florida and the virile group which heads for the ski slopes.
Ray Robinson writes that son Peter '69 will graduate from law school at Georgetown in June and will take bar exams for the city of Washington. Youngest son Harlow will graduate from Yale in June.
Vance Dickerman planned to visit Cliffand Lydia Power in February, says Cliff has not been too well and hopes he is improved by now. Libby and Vance may drive east from California this summer.
Postcards are being received from George Frankel who is enjoying Africa once more—his first time in West Africa.
Swede Nelson discontinued his practice for a while due to his wife's illness. He is presently with the Denver Public Schools, which eliminates night work.
"Am still going to sea—not for the moment because the longshoremen are on strike," writes Kirk Baron, "this is a welcome break in the 24-day voyages to northern Europe. My wife and I each have a nephew at Dartmouth. My son-in-law has both bachelor's and master's degrees from Dartmouth."
From California Rog Donner writes, "Must say there are not very many thirty- oners in the San Diego area. However I talked to Fred Burkhart and Jim Rice during the past Fund campaign."
Jim and Annette Swift took a week's vacation in Jamaica this winter, and still threaten to come to New England this summer. Personally, I'll believe it when I see it, for this threat has become an annual affair!
Sam Groves is named a trustee of the Massachusetts Investors Trust, and a director of the Massachusetts Income Development Fund.
John B. Martin was in the limelight in Washington during the recent White House Conference on Aging.
And so to the postoffice. Please write and state whether you have stayed tough or gone soft.
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