1921
Dr. Allen G. Brailey writes us for the first time in years from retirement in Newton Highlands, Mass. He admits his inability to prevent college associations from withering away. He does attend his medical school reunions, and his class just observed its 45th.
Allen submitted to a cataract removal five years ago, and the following year had a retinal detachment. In spite of these troubles he finds his children and grandchildren "of absorbing interest." Daughter Joan is assistant librarian in the Stamford (Conn.) library and has five promising youngsters. Allen Jr. is setting up a good record in medicine and cardiology at the Gunderson Clinic in La Crosse, Wis. He has three excellent young Braileys. The eight grandchildren range in age from 12 to 23 years. As hobbies he reads a lot, likes to grow plants and has joined the volunteer staff of the Arnold Arboretum in which flourishes every tree and shrub which will tolerate the latitude of Boston. At home on his acre of land he cares for a garden, and invites us to sample his tomatoes.
William (Bill) Fowler is still the trail blazer of the class. A year and a half ago he climbed Mt. Cardigan, trying to emulate Sherm Adams '20. The two of them set some sort of an all-time record which has never been broken or tied by hiking from the northern cabin of the Dartmouth Outing Club to Hanover without stopping.
After living alone for 19 months he has remarried. His wife is his first cousin once removed, Virginia Minot Fowler (Smith College '30). His son Dick was best man and the ceremony was performed by Rev. Hollis Manning Bartlett '09. Mrs. Fowler is guardian of her orphaned niece Carol who attends Cushing Academy.
Bill keeps busy with his law practice and as a side-line is bringing out a book which tries to convince the public on the virtues of the Oxford authority of Shakespeare. Bill's son Dick, by the way, works at the Dartmouth Co-op as manager. The store has extended its business to include the space previously occupied by the Rand Furniture store.
Sumner "Gus" Perkins has had a rough time of it recently, being hospitalized with a complete physical breakdown, and then spent some weeks in a convalescent home. He is now at home and is spending his leisure time (of which he has plenty) on his father's stamp collection, which featured mint specimens of U.S. stamps. Herrick and Avalita Brown have been enjoying a trip to Greece with side trips to Delos, Delphi, Corinth, and Mycenae with a cruise to the Greek Islands.
Phil Noyes had a two and a half week flying visit to Russia, attending the Russian ballet in the Bolshoi Theater. Then on to Helsinki where he met up with a lady of about the same age who spoke perfect English (never having been out of the country). She reminded him of his own mother in Kittery, Me.
Mac Johnson is still doing tax work in our nation's capital. He makes a comment on the Watergate case and believes that many people are beginning to sense a degree of over-emphasis. It is an attention getter, almost like a soap opera.
Joe Walker sends along several old photos taken in 1890 and given him by his grandfather, Class of 1891, who was a civil engineer from Newmarket, N.H. One shows a typical student's room containing a parlor stove, a mandolin, a class group picture, a littered study desk, wall-to-wall carpet, and five chairs which would be an antique dealer's dream.
Jack Hubbell, vice president and director of New York's Simmons Company, has once again received an award from a national organization. At a meeting in the Waldorf Astoria he was presented a special citation "for exceptional services rendered to supporting the purposes of the Institute." Not long ago Jack appeared in this space as the winner of an award from the National Association of bedding Manufacturers and chairman of the board of the Home Furnishing Council.
A few of the latest moves of the classmates!
Lawrence (Larry) Nardi has sent in a change of address, not to Vermont but just down the road a piece in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. He and Alice had thought about buying a home near their daughter in Montpelier, Vt., but she decided to move to the Washington, D.C., area instead.
Roland Auger has moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Whether it is permanent we do not know.
Kenrick Bean is now living in Manchester, N.H., having previously lived in Goffstown, N.H.
Fred Benton has changed his residence in Philadelphia to what we assume is an apartment.
Rudi Blesh is eschewing city life by moving to a farm in Gilmantown, N.H.
Cliff Corbet is now in Carmel, Calif., that unusual, artistic city.
Marshall Exnicios has either moved permanently, or maybe only for summer living, to Watch Hill, R.I.
Wally Henshaw has, we are told, moved into year-round residence in Bradenton, Fla.
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