College Staff Members Reach Retirement

J. GORDON CLOUD, Assistant Director of Buildings and Grounds and senior officer in terms of service, completes 45 years with the College when he retires this month.

He came to Dartmouth in 1927 after study at the Vermont State School of Agriculture. He became Assistant Director in 1952.

His primary responsibility has been the upkeep of the 175-acre campus, and he has been the College's tree expert for almost 35 years. In the long campaign against the Dutch Elm disease, he takes pride in the fact that the College elms, through careful attention, are holding up considerably better than most.

Mr. Cloud became tree foreman at a fateful time—on September 1, 1938, only 21 days before the unprecedented hurricane which destroyed literally hundreds of trees on the campus. He and his staff did yeoman service in the following weeks, working nights and weekends to clear the debris and salvage many of the survivors. Second to the hurricane in inflicting damage was the severe ice storm in late 1969, after which 30 major trees required replacement.

For many years Mr. Cloud has scouted the area, mostly open pastureland in Vermont, to find isolated well-formed 1 5- to 20-year-old trees, primarily maples, suitable for the replanting program. Because of their increasing scarcity, two years ago he set up a nursery for the College and stocked it with young native trees which will serve as replacements in the years to come. Following retirement, he will continue with the College in a consulting role, assisting and advising on the tree program.

Mr. and Mrs. Cloud, who live in Norwich, have a son residing in Hyde Park, Vt., and a daughter in Reading, Pa., and four grandchildren.

KATHRYN R. CHAMBERLIN, for eleven years Executive Secretary of the Committee on Graduate Fellowships, is retiring as adviser to seniors and recent alumni on opportunities for assistance with graduate study.

First to hold the post, she has helped graduating seniors win an average of 200 awards each year by keeping them informed of available fellowships, reminding them of deadlines, and advising on applications.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, Mrs. Chamberlin also earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree magna cum laude from Union Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Directly after receiving her degree at Union, she started teaching at the Northfield Seminary in East Northfield, Mass. She taught there and at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., until 1938, taking three years off to complete her doctorate.

From 1938 to 1940 she was Executive Secretary of the student YWCA and Lecturer in Religion at Stanford University, where she met her husband, Waldo Chamberlin, who was then a reference librarian and research associate at Stanford. He retired last year as Dean of Summer Programs and Professor of History at Dartmouth.

Mrs. Chamberlin was very active in community affairs in Manhasset, N.Y,, where the family lived for several years while Mr. Chamberlin was on the faculty of New York University.

The Chamberlins came to Hanover in 1961. Their two sons were graduated from the College, John in 1963 and David in 1971.

PARKER F. SOULE JR. '31, Associate in the Office of Development, retires this year after ten years in the College administration. He had also been with the College in the early '40s, as business manager of the Alumni Magazine and as an associate in the Alumni Fund Office. Earlier he had been associated with the Hanover Gazette and the Hanover Inn before moving to New Mexico on a research assignment for the United States Government.

For most of his career before returning to the College in 1962, Mr. Soule was in the publishing field: with the Boston Herald Traveler soon after graduation, with the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia from 1944 to 1956, and as manager of the Subscription Department of the Farm Journal from 1956 to 1961.

Mr. Soule has served the College and his Class in many areas of alumni affairs in the years away from Hanover as well as in professional capacities. He was a member of the executive committee of the Boston Alumni Association from 1932 to 1935 and president of the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia from 1950 to 1952. He was for many years an assistant class agent and chairman of several interviewing committees. He was first secretary of the newly organized Class Treasurers Association in 1941-42 and is currently a member of the executive committee of the Class of 1931. He is a past president and director of Phi Kappa Psi corporation.

Born in Cambridge, Mass., Mr. Soule prepared for Dartmouth at The New Preparatory School, where he taught and coached for a year after graduating from college.

In 1931's 31-year report, Mr. Soule replied to a question about hobbies: "I read a little, paint a little, and with Helen enjoy the Philadelphia Orchestra and the theater. We don't neglect sports as spectators, either—especially Dartmouth teams."

With the easy substitution of Hopkins Center music for the Philadelphia Orchestra, his compendium of avocations in 1962 reads like a prescription for the ideal Hanover retirement.

Elliott B. Noyes '32 Ends 40 Years with the DC AC

The arrival of Elliot Bradbury Noyes on the Dartmouth campus 44 years ago was marked with the fanfare accorded most Dartmouth freshmen. There was none.

Were it his choice, his departure from Hanover would be equally inconspicuous.

Except for these few words, penned despite consistent admonition by the subject that the space might clearly be put to far better use, the early retirement of Elliot Bradbury Noyes '32 by his choosing has been marked by only the mildest observance.

His association with Dartmouth began in 1928. He arrived from Newburyport, N.H., a middle-distance runner whose ability matured under the eye of Harry Hillman. When he graduated in 1932, Ellie remained at Dartmouth as a member of the physical education staff. In 1936, he became freshman track coach and in 1945 (following three years of Navy) he succeeded Hillman as coach of track and cross country.

He remained a coach until 1969 (in 1951 he accepted duties as assistant director for freshman athletics) and for the past three years has shared his knowledge as business manager for the Athletic Council.

To a request to outline his responsibilities as a coach and athletic administrator, Ellie once responded, "Consistent with the titles." To a similar request for a listing of the numerous honors he has been accorded through the years by the world of track and field, he uttered, "None worth mentioning."

Elliot Noyes has served Dartmouth as a man of letters, carefully choosing his words as a coach to offer with wit (sometimes barbed, always pure) and wisdom the counsel that makes the recollections of his athletes blend completely with the Dartmouth Experience.

Three years ago, when he retired from coaching, Ellie was asked to reflect on that lengthy experience. He said, "My spontaneous, sincere thoughts couldn't possibly be used. Modified, they come out trite, saccharine drivel. I will have to sit this one out."

He did not breed individual champions as a rule but he had his share nonetheless. He prized the challenge of dual competition, once stating, "The efforts that reach ultimates become the solid, emotional memories."

Ellie's retirement closes a chapter, nay, a bridge with a fading era of athletics at Dartmouth. With him go the recollections of years with Harry Hillman, Jeff Tesreau, Tom Dent, Eddie Jeremiah, Dolly Stark, Tom Keane, Pat Kaney and so many other men who have been as much a part of the picture as the fields and buildings that were their home.

His life has been Dartmouth and his reward has been the five children he and Martha have raised in Hanover. By admission, his claim to fame is "a low card number at Howe Library."

To attempt a description of the Noyes-Dartmouth experience would, indeed, lead only to a trite, inadequate result. But those who have been touched by that association are far better for it.

Ellie Noyes, who coached track for 33years, shown during the 1969 season,his last, with Bruce Andrews '72, thecaptain of the freshman track team.

Participants in the Medical School's "Special Medical Program" June 12 were(I to r) Prof. Stuart C. Finch M '42 of Yale; Thomas D. Dublin '32, Bureau ofHealth Manpower Education, Washington; Irving W. Kramer M '33; Dean Carleton B. Chapman; Robert C. Rainie M '42, New Hampshire Division of VocationalRehabilitation; and Frank P. Brooks M '42, Chief of the Gastro-Intestinal Section,Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.