1938
The first event on the '38 1973-74 calendar was the informal fall reunion, the weekend of the Penn game, October 12-14, which probably will be history by the time you read this.
Then at the other end of the academic calendar is our 35th Reunion. Correspondence with our Reunion Chairman Carl von Pechmann reminds me to remind you that that event, programmed to coincide with the reunions of '39 and '40, will take place June 10, 11, and 12, which is a lovely time to be in Hanover. I believe that we'll all be receiving individual notices later in the fall, but it wouldn't be inappropriate even now to make a note on the page for the last day of your 1973 appointment calendar, to transcribe those dates onto your 1974 calendar when you get it — June 10, 11, and 12, 1974. A favored feature of past reunions, the auction conducted by Whitey Mays, will be held, and Earl Ward, as in Ward's Department Store, Hanover, N.H. 03755, has again agreed to receive and house gifts for it.
Carl asks me also to convey the information to you that a small block of rooms has been reserved at the Hanover Inn for our Class. Carl's letter continues, "Those who wish to stay there, instead of the dormitory we will be assigned, should apply directly to the Inn if they want Inn accommodations. First come, first served. Also the Class should know that dormitory application forms will be distributed about April 15, by the College, and nothing has to be done in advance."
I'm indebted to Bob Naramore '35 for news of Bill Stratton which was included in a letter of some months ago from Bill to Bob. Bill heads The Stratton Company, 61 Coronado Ave., Los Altos, Calif. 94022, selling, as he puts it, "a mixed bag," including marine fuel tanks, a new operating room light which is sold to hospitals, and, in the aero-space field, temperature instrumentation and power supplies. The Strattons have a son, Don, who at time of writing early this year had just received his contract with the Houston Astros. Bill expected that Don would probably be assigned to Houston's Triple-A Denver club. The Dartmouth Indian ball team could have used Don this past season.
A clipping from the Boston Globe, confirmed by one from the Wall Street Journal, reports, "H. P. Hood Inc. has announced the merger of its milk and ice cream operations into a single new dairy division, and has named Edward K. WhiteJr., Wayland, Mass., president of the new unit. White was formerly vice president and general manager of the milk division." Darn good going, Ed! As president, how about instituting a return to reusable glass milk bottles? Sympathizers with our over-littered, over-throw-away, one-way, convenience-packaging-oriented, solid-wasteburdened environment would applaud you.
Mike Sullivan has been honored by receipt of the Harriet M. Bartlett award in ceremonies of the Alumni Association of the Simmons College School of Social Work, Boston, according to a news story in the Nashville Banner. Mike holds an M.S. from Simmons and is assistant chief social worker at the Nashville VA Hospital. This award is presented annually for the outstanding article on medical social work written by a graduate of the school during the previous year.
Your secretary's Post Office box hasn't been unable to accommodate the volume of classmate correspondence during the summer, but I did receive several letters of interest to the Class in general. One was from Wendell Lake. Wendell fives in Marblehead, Mass., but on a trip back from the West Coast some time ago he and Mary called on the Will Thomases and the Stew Whitmans in Phoenix. Wendell reports, and I quote. "It was real. Like old times." More recently he'd seen Ed Grace, "in Boston on business, as VP of his own sign company (the sign company of St. Louis), vigorous as ever. I wonder what he eats for breakfast." Wendell wrote at some length and with deep feeling about Watergate. His conclusion, if I read him a-right, is that in electing Nixon we, or those who voted for him, got what we. or they, asked for.
... At the risk of being accused of me-too-ism." I refer any of you who didn't read it to EvWood's letter printed in the August 17 Pace Setter - a very thoughtful and thought-provoking letter, it seemed to me, maybe because I so heartily agree with Ev.
On the College, as on the National, administration level, as noted at length in previous AlumniMagazine Letters-to-the-Editor columns, not all of us are unqualifiedly enthusiastic about the many changes at Dartmouth. Charlie Hathaway writes, "I'm unhappy; I'm going to make my feelings known; but I don't want to be or even appear to be too impossible." I think a lot of us feel that way to varying degrees in various areas.
Face-to-face communication, as distinct from correspondence, took place here in Damariscotta this past summer between your secretary and BillTroxell, who was traveling through Maine from Pennsylvania; John and Kay Stein; and JohnnyEmerson. John and Kay had just delivered their youngest (the youngest of their six) to camp following his return from a European tour with a Westport, Conn., choir. John is an executive with an air conditioning and air filtering firm. He reports seeing Whitey Mays occasionally. Johnny Emerson's brother. Bill '34, is now retired and a permanent resident of Damariscotta, and John was in town for a weekend visit.
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