1924

Green Valley, Ariz., has drawn another member of the Class for at least part-time residence, namely John Woodbridge. Johnny joins Charlie French, HarryHolmlund, Rus Treadway and WinNazro in that southwestern joy spot. Your editor and wife saw Green Valley for the first time last April. We were immensely impressed with both place and people. Also, to the north in Carefree, near Phoenix, we had a happy get together with Jimmieand Emmy Reid. Other full or part-time residents in the Phoenix area are JeffCarqueville, Walt Larken, and PhilRockford.

In March, Si Simmonds was the honored guest at the annual banquet of the Douglassville (Pa.) Civic Association, in recognition of his 59 years of service in the Boy Scouts of America. In addition to numerous Scout executives and local civic leaders there were present for the occasion Si's wife Rachel, and his sons Don (Dartmouth 1954) and Doug. Si likewise received from his church a distinguished service cross.

Lee ("Speck") and Louise Ramsdell have forsaken Pennsylvania (at least partially) for Nantucket as a retirement home. From this base they sally out from time to time on journeys abroad (most recently to Spain and Portugal). The longest part of each trip, says Lee, is the ferry from the Island to Woodshole. Lee regards his Natucket residence as a sort of "return," inasmuch as his ancestors on both sides landed in Massachusetts in 1630.

Ed Wood remains faithful to his native town. Born in Gloversville, New York, Ed has practiced law there without interruption since his graduation from law school in 1927. He is a partner in, predictably, Wood, Wood & Wood.

Bill Gardner has recently delivered papers in Czechoslovakia and Switzerland. The Prague paper was on cancer treatment and was read at the 7th International Congress on Chemotherapy; while the one in Zurich was entitled "Supportive Treatment during Surgery" and was read before a Conference on the Control of Human Aging. Bill's son Jim is Dartmouth 1974. (Incidentally, Bill seems to be one of our unmeasured number who hasn't yet found time to worry about coeducation in Hanover!)

Vaughn Berry is about to retire to Waynesville, N. C. He and Kathryn will not miss the Wisconsin winters—and taxes. They look forward to enjoying the beauties of the Smoky Mountains, in lieu of the exacting demands of the Milwaukee Housing Authority.

Unconfirmed word has it that FredWood is also living in Waynesville, N. C. Until recently Fred was in the securities business in Miami, Fla.

Bob and Virginia McCollom were in Florida and St. Thomas in March and in Germany in May. They will be visiting their son Bob (Dartmouth 1957) and his wife in Alaska in August, where they will be joined by their daughter Barbara. Their second son Bruce (Dartmouth 1962) was tragically lost to them early in the year.

At this writing the annual meeting in Hanover of Dartmouth Class Officers has just come to an end. Present for 1924 were Ted Nielsen, Phil Van Huyck, ButtsLamson, and Stan Chittick. As temporary secretary your editor had the enjoyment of attending. Among topics discussed was: what should the class notes columns aim at? Only news of classmates? If so should they contain big and little happenings about as many individuals as possible, or should they try to deal in depth with one, two or three persons? Or should the notes be interspersed with items of concern to us as citizens of the world rather than as members of the Class of 1924? Among the older secretaries in attendance the view seems to prevail that other classmates were primarily interested in news about their fellows, including news of children and even grandchildren; and that extraneous information or insights might well be reserved for other channels. Views of readers will be welcome.

Charlie Widmayer, as Editor of the Alumni Magazine, supplied the class secretaries with some surprising data about this vehicle. According to Charlie the Alumni Mag is 98% self-supporting, i.e. it receives only a small subsidy from the College to supplement its income from subscriptions, ads, and invested funds. Its national advertising is way off this year, but this has been offset at least in part by expanded local advertising stemming largely from greatly increased real estate activity in the Hanover area. Charlie likewise imparted the unhappy information that he is to retire in mid 1973. It will be difficult to find a replacement for the Editor of the most successful alumni magazine in the land.

Secretary, Church St. Norwich, Vt. 05055

Class Agent, Box 58, Warwick, N. Y. 10990